Gigabeat Battery upgrade recharging and stuff

[coacharnold]

Hi ..

I recently upgraded my gigabeat battery to a ipod4 1400mAh battery.   I'm pretty happy with the amount of play time I get.  I'm also running the CF card mod ... so everything is nice and smooth.

my problem is this ...... I have a custom compiled version of rockbox running so I can put 1400mAh into the battery settings.  The battery gauge and the battery info percentage NEVER change.

yesterday after using it for over a week it finaly ran out of power. But it totally DIED ... it didn't even say "Low Power -Rockbox Shutting down"

now I recharged it all night .... and the "power-off" red recharge logo .... is still red ......  when I power it up it says I'm at 100%


Is this something I just have to live with? that the gigabeat hardware is juts confused?  or is this connected to me setting the battery settings to 1400mAh?

Do I need to compile something else into the patch?

What experience does everyone else have with the battery upgrade?



T

[Serenity]

Sounds like the Gigabeat isn't getting any information from the iPod battery.  Maybe they're wired differently?

[coacharnold]

yeah .... there's no third wire on the gigabeat...

[wodz]

The third wire is for thermistor, not critical. How did you modify rockbox exactly?

[coacharnold]

I changed the power settings in the setup file .... so that I can choose the mAh settings I want.

In any event ... I switched back to the stock battery and those settings don't work ... I had to install rockbox from the installer ... now I can see the battery level with the stock battery.

any thoughts on the upgrade?