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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Sucky BatteriesRe: Sucky Batteries
From: Lucas <facted_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:34:15 -0500 I too had pretty bad battery life when I first started using rockbox. I realized that for me I think the problem was that my max songs in a directory and in the playlist was set way too high and eating up my buffer use. You might want to try setting those settings to a lower value. "Christof Schablinski" <mail2_at_schablinski.de> wrote in message news:4005084E.5010607_at_schablinski.de... > Alan MacDonald wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've read the battery faq, and I guess I'm gonna have to replace the > > stock batteries that came with my JBR20. I'm only getting about 1.5 > > hours of playtime out of them, nowhere near the 6-8 hours I should be > > getting. > > > > I've deep discharged and recharged fully a few times in the hope that it > > might improve, but no joy. > > Hi, > > I had a playtime problem with my JBR20 v1 also, which turned out to be a JBR problem (to my mind). > After a year of using my JBR, the playtime started to degrade constantly. After a while I realized > that the JBR shut itself off although the battery indicator didn't show empty batteries. > > I thought it was a battery problem. So I put in the second set of batteries that were shipped with > my JBR and that I haven't used so far. But this didn't solve the problem. Then, I bought a separate > NiMH-battery charger. This didn't solve the problem either. Then, I bought a new set of NiMH > batteries and charged them with my charger. The problem still didn't vanish. > Finally my JBR broke down (No more sign of life pressing the ON-button). After repair the playtime > was OK again. > > Christof > > > > > _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-02-26 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |