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Rockbox VS Apple FW Battery Life

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radink:
Hey all,

Has anyone done a comparison on the battery life with the ipods using Rockbox compared to the Apple FW? I have the 4G greyscale, and using rockbox, the battery seems not to last as long, so I'm just curious.

Llorean:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodRuntime

radink:
Wow, so according to apple it should last about 12 hours (which is not accurate). That would mean I get 1/2 the battery life using rockbox. Just out of curiosity, why is that? I also saw settings for the battery, should I not touch those settings?

Llorean:
It's because Rockbox is *far* from being fully optimized on the iPod yet. As well there's a lot of unknown stuff relating to hardware which means certain chips could be using more power than necessary because we aren't disabling them when not in use, or initializing them properly (a recent example of something like that happening was the USB on the Go hardware on the H300, which when properly handled nearly doubled battery time).

radink:
Cool thanks Llorean. It still out weighs having to use iTunes.

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