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Rockbox: testers needed for iPod 4G (Color, Photo) battery life improvements
One of the Rockbox developers, Buschel, has made great strides over the past month in battery life improvements for Rockbox on PortalPlayer-based players, which include iPods. His improvements have been particularly successful for the iPod Video, because he owns that platform himself and has also had the help of others (including myself) to test his changes. His improvements have not yet been incorporated into the official Rockbox builds, but I expect that they will be any day now.
Buschel has hit a bit of a roadblock with respect to doing the same sort of testing for the iPod Color/Photo because he does not own an iPod Color or Photo and has had difficulty locating testers. There are 11 separate builds that Buschel is trying to test. If you are a Rockbox user with one of these players and willing to do some testing, please visit this thread on the Rockbox forums and follow the links to the download page for the test builds. Buschel is looking for the following information with respect to each of the 11 builds:
- does it start?
- does it play audio?
- does it start, but does not update LCD?
An ipod video 5th generation with longer battery life??!! Are you serious!
I am strongly considering selling my ipod 30gb video. Almost completed the deal!
can you let us know when this build will be available?
Hope you find volunteer for the 4th gen!
regards
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Cowon D2, U3. X5 for it's line-out.
Atrio M8,Sony MDR 7509HD,HD 580,
Little-Dot MKIII, Go-Vibe V7
Ogg for listening
Want to listen with: Mapletree amp
Want to listen to: Audio Technica ATH-AD2K, Denon 2K, Darth Beyer V3-O, Beyerdynamic DT250/80
he's talking of extended battery life from old rockbox to new rockbox. it is, as far as i know, still an overall lower battery life than you would have with your ipod video in norm.
he's talking of extended battery life from old rockbox to new rockbox. it is, as far as i know, still an overall lower battery life than you would have with your ipod video in norm.
Any significative improvement over the current 7 hours with Rockbox would make me consider keeping the ipod!
regards,
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Cowon D2, U3. X5 for it's line-out.
Atrio M8,Sony MDR 7509HD,HD 580,
Little-Dot MKIII, Go-Vibe V7
Ogg for listening
Want to listen with: Mapletree amp
Want to listen to: Audio Technica ATH-AD2K, Denon 2K, Darth Beyer V3-O, Beyerdynamic DT250/80
The testing builds are available now through the link that I provided in the original post. I got close to 16 hours with my 60 GB iPod video under testing conditions (which basically involves starting playback and letting it run. The runtime would obviously be less under real-life conditions where one is browsing files, using the backlight, etc.)
I suspect these changes will be incorporated into the official builds very soon. My guess is that they will be committed within a matter of days if the decision is made to commit the changes for the iPod Video before testing is complete on some of the other platforms, longer otherwise. As always, though, it's impossible to make any firm predictions, since people develop Rockbox in their spare time.
Rockbox: testers needed for iPod 4G (Color, Photo) battery life improvements
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