Keeps rebooting every minute - drains battery

[mmazzotta99]

Hello

I have a 1tb ipod and I am running rockbox on it. I noticed that when I look at the battery life throughout the day when I am not using it, the battery is decreasing even when I am not using it. I have read the manual and put it on 1 minute idle poweroff so that it would shut down after 1 minute of not using it, but now it seems to reboot every 1 minute. What am I doing wrong? Does Rockbox just drain the battery inherently?

Thanks

[saratoga]

What do you mean by reboot?  The player turns itself back on?

[mmazzotta99]

Yes it says "shutting down" and then the apple logo comes up then the rockbox logo comes up and then it is back at the menu screen. Then 1 minute later it says "shutting down" and starts that whole process again, over and over

Any thoughts.
The only items I switched were

Idle Poweroff - I swtiched from "off" to "4 minutes"
and
Accessory Power Supply - I turned to "off"

[saratoga]

Yes it says "shutting down" and then the apple logo comes up then the rockbox logo comes up and then it is back at the menu screen. Then 1 minute later it says "shutting down" and starts that whole process again, over and over

Is it plugged into something that is turning it back on?  Usually once the ipods are off the only thing that can turn it on are the buttons or the power pins on the dock connector. 

[mmazzotta99]

No it is not plugged in to anyhting, however I selected 'off' in the  'Idle Poweroff' from '4 mins' that seems to stop the issue of it shutting down and turning back on. I will keep an eye on it to see if it starts to lose battery life when it is not being used.

Thanks for your help and any future thoughts or advice

[saratoga]

No it is not plugged in to anyhting, however I selected 'off' in the  'Idle Poweroff' from '4 mins' that seems to stop the issue of it shutting down and turning back on.

I don't think that is going to make any difference. 

[mmazzotta99]

It did stop the issue of turning off and on again over and over again, however I am monintoring the battery life and it seems to be going down without it even being used (no music playing or any headphones or cables plugged into it)

Do ipods with Rockbox have battery draining issues inherent to their design?

Thanks again

[saratoga]

Do ipods with Rockbox have battery draining issues inherent to their design?

No, the device uses no power at all when off (thats how the hardware works, nothing to do with rockbox). 

[mmazzotta99]

Ok,

Well mine keeps draining although I am not using it and nothing plugged into it. Do you think it is a hardware or a software issue?

Thanks again

[saratoga]

Well mine keeps draining although I am not using it and nothing plugged into it. Do you think it is a hardware or a software issue?

If its off no software is running, so its not a software issue...

Edit:  Might also be worth checking that the battery is actually draining and not just that its old and the battery gauge has become inaccurate.

[mmazzotta99]

I just went into the 'Start Sleep Timer (0:05)' and when it reached 5 minutes it said 'shutting down' and then it went to the apple logo, then to the rockbox logo, then to the menu screen.

It seems that everytime the ipod goes into sleep mode, it shuts down and then is prompted to start up again with out being touched. There is no headphones of cables attached to it.

Any thoughts on this?

It seems like the ipod is always on and can not sleep so it is draining the battery. And when I set the rockbox to either 'idle poweroff' for 1 minute or if I 'Start Sleep Timer (0:05)' it shuts down the ipod and restarts it again without any touch.

What to do?

[saratoga]

Does powering off the player manually work?

[mmazzotta99]

How do you do that? That is what I want to happen, but it always just seems like the ipod is on. With a factory ipod, when you touch the click wheel it takes some time for the ipod to come on, but with this 1tb ipod with rockbox installed the ipod can be sitting for hours and if you touch the click wheel it responds immediately like it has always been on

Thanks for your time on this

[saratoga]

Check the manual for buttons. 

If you can't get it to power off at all, maybe you have the hardware problem described in this thread:  http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=19666.0

[mmazzotta99]

I see the thread said it could be a hardware or a software issue.

If it is a software issue, could it be as easy as - when I loaded music files onto the ipod I noticed that there was files on the ipod that seemed to be associated with Rockbox, however when I loaded music onto the ipod those files got deleted or lost. Dose the ipod need certain files to be on the ipod that can be accidentally lost or erased that could cause this problem?