No, I haven't! To be honest, I've never even encountered any major problem with aroldan's builds...

Cool, thanks.

rockbox-ipod6g-de7a753M-121026.zip

I've been using the daily builds without any issues so far. The ipod was meant to be Rockboxed...

I think I'll drop the latest aroldan build in tonight and give it a whirl...

Rolling tubes, rolling op-amps, and now rolling daily and aroldan builds...

 

 

i too am using aroldan's latest build - 121026....i was surprised that you get such good batt life as i only get approximately 18 hours...using flac, no EQ, using amo via LOD...

I got 32 hours by running the battery_bench plugin, i.e. constant playback (looping over a couple dozen files) without turning on the screen much. Real world usage (with more screen use and more switching/buffering content) would probably show a lower figure (though I'm not sure by how much).

Also, lossyFLAC is going to use slightly less battery than straight up FLAC, because of the 50% smaller filesizes (less HDD activity). Aside from that, FLAC is one of the (if not THE) fastest (battery efficient) decoder on Rockbox.
Edited by skamp - 11/14/12 at 10:41pm

 

Well, I used mine last night for another hour (or a bit more), and when I turned it off, the battery was still above 20%... 

Hoping dual-boot might be sorted soon. :P

I recently got the iPod 6.5G 120GB and wanted to rockbox it but after finding out that its not dual-bootable I've gone off the idea slightly.

so my friend bought a new ipod classic, abd i wonder what mAh i should put it on..?

 

Do you mean the setting or a new custom battery?  Unless you're installing a new battery I would not change the battery setting.  It will make the runtime remaining estimation inaccurate.  

 

Really? I always wondered about that... That might explain why I get wildly varying readings on my battery levels.

 

So what IS the default setting? I think I may have played around with it to see what it did and might have confused my player of what my battery is capable of.

 

To be clear, I do not doubt that the new builds charge - but apparently not in proper in charge mode. With a theme that shows the full Rockbox battery icon (like Cabbie Classic), the battery icon should show a flashing lightning bolt during charging and then revert to a (non-flashing) plug when charging is finished. (The battery percentage should then also read 100%). That tells you that the charging protocol is working properly. The new build did not do that on my Classic.

 

120802 rocks. I have not found any flaws whatsoever so I am happy to stick with it.

Edited by cooperpwc - 11/18/12 at 9:42am

I was wondering if I was supposed to change to a higher setting, since (maybe) the newer Classics have a higher battery capacity. Guess I'll leave it at default then, many thanks for the headsup.

@cooperpwr

I also noticed the battery icon not changing, but didn't pay too much attention to it.. just as long as the battery was charging I wouldn't mind, hehe. Though, I'll probably revert back to 120802 tomorrow and check it.

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