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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: Archos Battery Voltage issue? - IT'S ROCKBOX!?RE: Archos Battery Voltage issue? - IT'S ROCKBOX!?
From: Michael O'Quinn <michael_at_oquinn.info>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 22:16:32 -0700 (PDT) On Wed, 7 May 2003, Alan C wrote: > Ok so before I point fingers... :) and before I go out tomorrow and get the > seperate charger, I decided to do more experimenting with the unit. I had it > fully charged from this earlier evening. I charged it this time outside of > rockbox using the original firmware (figured maybe this would give me a full > charge?). I decided to recreate the problem by draining the batteries down > to 50% - I copied files on and off, played some tetris, and what not. I got > the battery down to about 52% battery power. The problem started up again. > After some cursing at the machine, I downloaded the latest firmware for my > recorder from the archos site, used rolo, and logged into the original > Archos OS. I played an album for half and hour, and the "50% battery > problem" was gone! The Archos firmware battery power meter is about 1/3 > full. In the half hour of flawless play, it skipped once (probably due to > the crappy Archos firmware.). > After a half an hour of joy, I booted back into Rockbox. This time, the > battery counter in Rockbox said 22%. I tried to play a song, and all I got > was some hard drive clicks and a flashing 22% (meaning I have low battery > right?) and the same problem I reported earlier. > Got the drive to stop clicking (drained a lot of battery trying to get back > into RockBox and restarting several times), used rolo again to get back into > the Archos OS, things were good for a while, but from all the prior on and > off, the battery got drained to where I couldn't play with it anymore. So, > tomorrow during work I'll give it the ultimate test to see if in fact it is > an issue of rockbox not working the batteries correctly with my model of the > Jukebox Recorder 20 - JBR20101. I'm going to charge it tonight, play it all > day tomorrow in the Archos OS, and see if I get the same problem. If I > don't, and get a full 8-10 hours out of it... we'll take it from there I > guess. I'll post the test results tomorrow evening. Otherwise, I'm shipping > it back to Archos. > > Am I the only one with this problem? > -AC > Even if RockBox is more sensitive to the problem, it still sounds like something I would return to Archos. Also, just to be clear, when I mentioned a different charger, I was talking about removing the batteries and physically inserting them into another charger, not just replacing the wall-wart with a new one. Just thought I ought'a be clear on that... Michael Received on 2003-05-07 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |