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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: iPod Battery LifeRe: iPod Battery Life
From: mat <mat_at_lessermatters.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:21:16 +0000 Oh, that's not good...I hope my missis doesn't find out this. Thankfully, It's unlikely. But now I feel guilty...maybe I should change it back? Peter C. Gravelle wrote: > My Nano's 8-9 hour (14+ hour is spec-ed by Apple) battery life agrees. > Not as bad a drop off as the HD-based players (by percentage), but > still, not good. > > On 12/15/06, mat holton <mat_at_lessermatters.co.uk> wrote: >> Is this true for the nano as well? >> >> Mark Fiorucci wrote: >> > 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. >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se >> [mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Jonas H >> > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:09 PM >> > To: Rockbox >> > Subject: Re: iPod Battery Life >> > >> > desowin wrote: >> > >> >> It's sad but rockbox isn't optimised for battery usage on iPod (it >> >> gets about half battery life comparitively to original firmware), >> >> while on some other targets it beats original firmware with >> battery life. >> >> >> > >> > 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. >> > >> > -- >> > Jonas H >> > rasher(at)rasher(dot)dk >> > >> > -- >> > No virus found in this incoming message. >> > Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.19/587 - Release Date: >> 12/14/2006 7:28 PM >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > > Received on 2006-12-20 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |