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sansa clip zip low battery life
mike rowcosm:
Everything works great on my new rockboxed sansa 8gb clip zip with 64 gb sd card, except i'm only getting around 5-6 hours max battery life. I made sure it was fully charged, always power off when not in use, and don't have the equalizer on. I checked some other options such as crossfeed and crossfade (which supposedly diminish battery life) and these were also set to off. For sound settings, the bass is set to 10db, and treble is at 4db, and replay gain is set to 'track gain when shuffling'. There's about 45 gb worth of music altogether on the player.
Before I installed rockbox the battery life on the player was normal (actually noticeably better than my other identical clip zip which is two years old). So i'm wondering if there's any settings i'm unaware of which would optimize battery life, or whether the battery drain is due to the 64 gb card being used on this player (which normally supports a max 32 gb card with sansa firmware). Thanks
saratoga:
Could be a bad sd card. Try a battery bench without the card.
mike rowcosm:
thanks--i'll try that. I'm wondering if the card was properly formatted, as I used the quick format feature for fat32 from this site:http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
mike rowcosm:
ok so I took out the sd card and ran the player today and the results were the same. One thing i'm wondering is whether the battery life was affected by me selecting the 'themes' option from the menu below when I initially installed rockbox
saratoga:
No, nothing you select in the installer will have any impact.
What was the battery life? What is it in the sandisk firmware?
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