iPod Mini 2G Dramatic difference in battery life

[iPodVT]

I manually installed the above ipod6g-exp2 version (f042880bb4-240423) on my MC293LL/A Classic but it freezes on the boot splash screen.

Now I have used Rockbox Utility to replace the ipod6g-exp2 version (f042880bb4-240423) with 446496c221-240423 on the Classic and so far all seems good.  It does take the iPod about 20 seconds on the "Shutting down..." screen before it actually powers down, but I assume that's to be expected due to the more careful power-related protocols that went into yesterday's dev build.

[denkly]

Hello! Any good news on power management for Mini?

[iPodVT]

This morning I updated my iPod mini 2nd Gen (256GB Samsung Pro Plus in an iFlash SD-CF adapter) to the current dev build (afba86f0f7-240603) and synced some new music.  When I initialized the DB inorder to rebuild it from scratch the iPod crashed.  So I rebooted and again tried to rebuild the DB and it crashed again.  So then I reverted to my backup of the dev build that had previously been installed (9d3b012ac0-240513) and was able to successfully rebuild the DB.

[iPodVT]

This morning I updated my iPod mini 2nd Gen (256GB Samsung Pro Plus in an iFlash SD-CF adapter) to the current dev build (afba86f0f7-240603) and synced some new music.  When I initialized the DB inorder to rebuild it from scratch the iPod crashed.  So I rebooted and again tried to rebuild the DB and it crashed again.  So then I reverted to my backup of the dev build that had previously been installed (9d3b012ac0-240513) and was able to successfully rebuild the DB.

I reinstalled my saved installation of the crashing dev build in order to try it again and get a photo of the screen if it crashes again.  The iPod booted to the following screen:

Database is not ready
Update Now

SELECT = Yes (03)
Any Other = No

and there it froze and wouldn't respond to any button presses other than the Menu/Select button combo to reboot.

So I rebooted back into the Apple firmware, copied a healthy set of the .tcd database files into the crashing build's .rockbox directory and then rebooted back into Rockbox.  This time I got the above "Database is not ready..." screen and the timer played out and put me in the Main Menu screen.  So once again I tried to initialize the database and the iPod crashed and I took a photo of the crash screen - see attached.