From: Rob Powell <rob_at_rinty.plus.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:14:01 +0100

Hi simon and others. Clearly from other postings, the batts aren't empty,
so it appears that the software is giving a false reading. Like (I think
Ian), I've had the issue of it rebooting into iriver firmware after the RB
firmware is dead. However mine does the boot into iriver firmware without
me doing anything to make that happen. Additionally when the unit's plugged
into the mains, it doesn't work at all. I don't think there'd be a memory
effect, as it's not a nicad or nimh battery.

Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On
Behalf Of Simon Eigeldinger
Sent: 12 April 2006 18:53
To: 'Rockbox'
Subject: RE: battery life on H300

Hi,

On 12 Apr 2006 at 13:04, Rob Powell wrote:

> Hi all, I'm having the same problem with the battery life of my 2
> H340's as Ian. I get about 1.5 hours at the most of life playing music, a
bit longer
> playing audio books.

Oh that's not good. On the sheet of the player it is said that the battery
holds 16 hours.
But is the battery real empty? When it is not it can have problems when you
load it always only half full and use only also the half part of it. So it
couldn't completely empty you get maybe the memory effect.

> . The problem is of course, that without rockbox, I can't use my
> player as I don't use the screen.

Same will be here.

> Could the developers possibly add an option to disable the battery
> monitoring function until that problem's fixed?

Would be good cause I will go away in about one and a half week and I need a
working player :-). OK I can put the old Archos with me too but then I have
two players. One for recording stuff and one for listening to files.
And for the batteries its not very healthy when they don't get correctly
charged.

Simon
Received on 2006-04-13