Gigabeat F replacement battery

[Mad Cow]

23:44 on the my latest bench. No doubt these batteries are better. I checked on it every once in a while and it felt like it would just keep going on forever.

EDIT: Could you also add mine if I upload it here? I don't have a wiki account and I'm kinda busy right now.

EDIT2: I used both VBR and CRB MP3s on an F40, volume at -27, with svn build r14964M-071005 (self-compiled build though) Take the .txt out of the filename and unzip it.

[jac0b]

yeah post it.

The zip was corrupt just email it to me

[soap]

Could some detail as to the why and how of bending out the front cover be added to the wiki please?

[jac0b]

you might have to bend the front cover because the battery is thicker than the normal gigabeat battery.

[Mad Cow]

Email sent, also, I didn't have to bend the front cover at all.

You should also add a link to that wiki page from the gigabeat page, to make it easier to find.

Just a quick question: did you good batteries come in the package shown in you how-to? Because that's the same package as my bad one came in.

[jac0b]

MadCow,

Posted

[Mad Cow]

Thanks.

[jac0b]

Yep that is the package they came in.

Updated the GigabeatFXPort page

[scharkalvin]

A thought....  If you could find a 5mm thick hard disk (like the one in the F41) and put it in the F40 you would have 3mm of space between the battery and the back case.  That might be enough room for a much larger battery, maybe even a 3500ma/h unit.  Assuming you could snake the battery cable around the circuit board to the other side.

[Mad Cow]

I've though about that too. You could easily fit 2 batteries behind a thinner hard disk, but it would be hard to connect them to the terminal. The pins on the battery connector on the PCB don't reach the hard drive said, and it would be hard to bring them to the other side, not not impossible. The PCB has 4 places that you could fit the wires through with some PCB trimming. You can see them clearly in this picture :http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/viewfile/Main/GigabeatInfo?rev=1.1;filename=2.jpg (the 2 cutout parts on the bottom)

[jac0b]

Very interesting, but how much heavier would the player be?
It would be nice if you could fit a iPod 1st gen battery in the player they go up to 2200mah.

[AlexP]

jac0b and madcow:

On the battery run time wiki page, could you swap the date formats you have used to year-month-day please?  As you may know in Europe we use day-month-year not month-day-year as in the US, and so what you have put is confusing.  To me it looks like one was done in September and one in May.  I know you have just done them in October and therefore must have used US format, but in the future it will be confusing.

I haven't done it myself just to make doubly sure I'm not being stupid (but I'm pretty sure they are the ones you have just done

Cheers

Edit:  I've gone ahead and changed it.

[markun]

ordered my battery today

edit: ok, I just received the battery! My Gigabeat is charging and it all seems to be working fine.

I didn't remove the plastic but removed the wires from the connectors and switched them around. The wires of the new battery are a bit thin so I hope they don't get loose inside my player..

Because the touchpad didn't work I also had to bend the case a little. Might have to do it a bit more as the top and bottom of the cross are not equally sensitive anymore.

[dolph002]

https://www.ipods99.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=TOSHGIGBTXL

ordered this battery on monday, got it on saturday. it fit perfectly in my F10. im charging now, but it at least turned on..

[scharkalvin]

Another thought.  I'm going to replace the HD in my F10 with a CF card using an adapter.  If the combo is smaller than the original HD there might be enough room left to stuff a battery in the remaining space.  Wonder if you can connect two Li batteries in parallel?