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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: iPod Battery LifeRE: iPod Battery Life
From: Mark Fiorucci <mfiorucci_at_lsce-inc.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:20:14 -0500
Oh I blame apple. And of course they wouldn't release the info. It sucks tho because it's hard to justify using Rockbox when I'm going to lose 1/2 of my battery life.
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desowin wrote:
The problem here is that there is no available documentation for the important parts of the Ipod. This means that the developers are to a large degree in the blind about how to operate the chips. The result is that some parts of the Ipod are most likely in an "awake" state, consuming power, when they really should be turned off and the developers practically no idea how to turn them off. Finding out these details by reverse-engineering the Apple firmware is a hard and very time-consuming job and not something a lot of the developers are very keen on doing.
So you can really only blame Apple and PortalPlayer for using and producing chips with no documentation.
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