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ipod battery life time
Llorean:
Rockbox on iPod is not "released" which is why it's not available in the releases.
It is supported, as in "we provide technical support" but that's it. As I've told people many times on here, you should consider yourself "testers" more than "users" at this point in the software's lifetime.
Nate!:
Just to bring light to are dark subject ... everyone should just buy Gigabeats. (F series that is, seems the X series has other issues.) ;D
DanManners:
Just wanna say that using http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=8740.0 EvilG's Build (which is unsupported) On my ipod that has never gotten more than LITERALLY maybe 3 hours on anything, normal firmware or ROCKbox, is now getting OVER 12 HOURS of continuous music playback!! I had it running from almost 11am yesterday until 1:30am this morning. It's pretty kicka$$. I'd look into it, and it has a lot more features than the normal builds, and it's extremely stable.
-Dan
markun:
--- Quote from: DanManners on April 02, 2007, 11:21:26 AM ---Just wanna say that using http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=8740.0 EvilG's Build (which is unsupported) On my ipod that has never gotten more than LITERALLY maybe 3 hours on anything, normal firmware or ROCKbox, is now getting OVER 12 HOURS of continuous music playback!! I had it running from almost 11am yesterday until 1:30am this morning. It's pretty kicka$$. I'd look into it, and it has a lot more features than the normal builds, and it's extremely stable.
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Maybe you can find out which patch improves the runtime so much so that this can be fixed in svn?
saratoga:
--- Quote from: Toni on March 30, 2007, 04:41:33 AM ---I did some current measurements for the Sansa.
Deactivating:
- the lcd-device (when backlight off)
- the ata-controller (if no read/write in progress)
Simply setting/resetting the correspondent bits in the DEV_EN register did the job.
I could reduce the current from 55mA to 41mA during mp3 playback.
The cpu frequency affects by ~1mA/4MHz.
Sleeping both cop and cpu seems to have no effect.
I don't know, wether these values can be simply applied to the ipods.
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Are your changes suitable for inclusion into SVN? Because it sounds like thats a pretty big step forward. Much farther then any of the PP targets have come since the ports began, at least with respect to battery life.
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