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iPod Video Battery Poll

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DanManners:
Alright. Basically, in advance, I know there are threads that are similar to this, but nothing QUITE like this. Wondering, how many of you iPawders (Yes, iPawd) have your battery worth crap, using a custom build or not? Personally, I know that I'm having battery problems so bad that I don't get more then about 3-4 hours per charge (Charge = 15 hours or so for me). So ya, vote on how long your battery lasts on a single charge. Thanks people. I'm slowly learning code from my Computer Science teacher, Josh Block. And hopefully, I can eventually release patches that will allow longer battery life by not spinning the hard drive as much, or something. I have a dream that one day, rockbox will be able to run as efficiantly as the normal iPod firmware runs. Yes, it's radical, I know  :o

-Dan

Llorean:
The forum categories are fairly strict. This was NOT an installation related concern.

soap:
There is a wiki page for ipod runtimes, and knowing how long your ipod lasts in RockBox is next to worthless w/o knowing how long your ipod lasts in the stock firmware.  How do you determine if your patched build is to blame or if your battery is dying w/o the baseline of a stock firmware test?
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodRuntime

mnhnhyouh:
And the 30 and 60 Gb versions have different battery life anyway, so you need to be able to seperate those....

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soap:
The difference in battery life is entirely due to the fact that the 60GB unit has 64MB of RAM, whereas the 30 GB one has 32MB of RAM.
So, in an unpatched RockBox enviroment there should be no difference.


Speaking of which, if someone has a working 64MB patched recent CVS I'd like a copy to add to my collection of runtime tests.

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