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Terrible battery life on the iPod 5G.
soap:
--- Quote from: Toxikator on January 18, 2007, 06:22:30 PM ---6.5 actual playing hours encompasses more than the average use in a 12 hour day for me.
Is there anyone who actually uses their iPod for that long? I mean, the only way I can figure is you're on the bus for 3 and a half hours a day or something; at home or at the office (or in your car) I would assume you're using an adapter of some kind.
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My "office" is outdoors. I work 10 hour days. I use my iPod 90% of the time I am working. My 60GB 5th gen has rarely died on me. Normally it only dies when I get crazy about creating/changing playlists.
Yotto:
--- Quote from: Toxikator on January 18, 2007, 06:22:30 PM ---6.5 actual playing hours encompasses more than the average use in a 12 hour day for me.
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I frequently get below 25% on my battery. Maybe twice a week or so. When I'm at work, my ipod is on almost the entire time, listening to music. When I'm asleep, it's playing until I wake up for the nightly pee. When I'm not at work or sleeping, it's almost always strapped to my arm, and more likely than not playing. The only exception is when I'm using my ears for something like television, talking to people, or doing my show.
While at work on in bed, I have easy access to a computer to plug the ipod in. When I'm not, it's on battery the whole time. Generally, there's always less than 6 hours between times when I can plug in, but on off days I find myself budgeting fairly frequently. If I could get 10 hours, I'd likely not ever have this problem.
Not that I'm complaining. Were it not for Rockbox, I'd not use the iPod at all because I can't stand iTunes.
PHK Brasil:
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Mine is an iPod 5G 60gb 64MB buffer, Hardware EQ + Crossfeed ON
Rockbox spends several time filling buffer while music is playing = About 50 seconds
If I pause music, then buffer is filled fast = About 15 seconds
I allways play full albums. So, I think is a good idea when start to play a playlist, imediatelly to press PAUSE when the WPS screen appears. Wait till the HD stops, and then press PLAY.
I use Repeat OFF. Then I only start another playlist, after the current album ends.
Of course, when HD spins in the middle of an album, then the buffer is filled while music is playing.
I really don't know if this PAUSE process saves significant battery power, but... It's "overwhelming" to feel the HD vibrating and fighting against CPU while filling buffer in PLAY.
Could anybody say?
Thanks.
Sorry about my english.
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Toxikator:
--- Quote from: Llorean on January 18, 2007, 06:28:20 PM ---Your logic is "You should pay money if a device isn't living up to what it should be able to do."
There's no denying that battery life on iPods sucks in Rockbox, but it will get better eventually. It may just be a long way off.
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My logic is more "if your battery is dying then you should get a bigger battery."
either that or get to work on the source code.
Be real, will this thread make the battery life better? It's not like someone's gonna go "You're getting bad battery life?! ...shit, here it is, 'HoursOfBatteryLifetoDrainForNoReason=3'. Let's just change that..."
;)
tembich:
i can't stand how it could be??
why some of RockBoxers have long battery life and some (like me and author of topic) find their iPods dead in the middle of the day?
i listen my 5G in middle volume, 320kbps, EQ on and Technics 1211dj.
it never played longer than 4 hours..
may be there are some hiden featers which are supposed to be on/off?
2Llorean:
i could not find PortalPlayer documentation.
i guess that if one cant find it in Russia - its really TOP secret )
... waitng for better times for buttery )
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