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Terrible battery life on the iPod 5G.
saratoga:
lithium batteries die pretty quick. If you've had the thing for a year or so, you'll get a lot less charge. Fortunately, replacements are really cheap on ebay, so I swap mine every so often.
Toxikator:
I didn't realize the 5G even came apart?
saratoga:
--- Quote from: Toxikator on January 21, 2007, 11:31:08 AM ---I didn't realize the 5G even came apart?
--- End quote ---
Replacement batteries come with little plastic tools you slide into the joint to pop it open. Then you unplug the existing battery, and plug in the new one. It took me 15 minutes the first time since I was afraid of breaking it, but once you see how its put together you can do it very easily.
Check youtube or google if you want to see videos of it.
Cabbalistic:
I have had a 5G 30GB Ipod video for nearly a year now and my main quibble with the Apple firmware has to do with the pathetic equalizer options. I discovered Rockbox yesterday night and installed it after reading positive reviews. I loved all the extras it had to offer and was fiddling with the settings when I realized the battery was nearly out. Granted that it was only half charged to begin with but it would have given at least another 4-6 hours of playback on the original firmware; I only got about three quarters of an hour with Rockbox. What's more, after I restarted my Ipod with the original software, without recharging the battery, the indicator jumped to a quarter charged green bar from the nearly empty signal of the red bar....
I suppose I'll let the Rockbox stay put and use it only occasionally..
Toxikator:
Some new "experimental" iPod builds for the 5G attempt to utilize both cores of its processor, presumably lowering power consumption considerably...
EDIT: That's actually a diff. patch, the ARM memory optimization patches; but that, too, is not yet in the SVN...(?)
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