[Slater]

51 usd on tomtop with coupon

HXFXDU60

$51?! That's crazy cheap! The lowest I've EVER seen it previously was like $73-74 at Gearbest once.

 

[Igor Ruzaev]

Yeah, real steal, hope someone use it.

 

[chickenmoon]

Yeah, real steal, hope someone use it.

Thanks for the tip, I just ordered one and got it for less than £40 with the additional 300 points for signing up! I already have a X10 but at that price I couldn't resist getting this one too.

 

[rikk009]

TOMTOP is the worst site I have ever made a purchase from. They lay trap by huge discounts only to not deliver and your money will be stuck with them for a month. Same happened with me when they were selling Xduoo X10 for $110 when rest of the world had it for $150. Save yourself a headache.

 

[chickenmoon]

TOMTOP is the worst site I have ever made a purchase from. They lay trap by huge discounts only to not deliver and your money will be stuck with them for a month. Same happened with me when they were selling Xduoo X10 for $110 when rest of the world had it for $150. Save yourself a headache.

Lol, well, we'll see how this ends up, I'll be sure to keep you informed....

 

[ambchang]

Additional stuff to report. So I ran through one charge. Previously my max playing time on one charge is a little over 8 hours. After the rockbox update I got 11:30 or so.

I play mostly ALAC on random, library has about 15,000 songs.

 

[Slater]

Lol, well, we'll see how this ends up, I'll be sure to keep you informed....

Yeah, keep us posted.

I've ordered tons of from TomTop before via ebay and never had a single problem. Not sure why their own web store would be the exact opposite. Seems they would just just be shooting themselves in the foot. That would be like Newegg screwing everyone when ordering via the newegg.com website, but when you order from Newegg via Amazon or ebay they are top notch. Doesn't make any sense. But then again, a lot of shady stuff happens with Chinese ecommerce in general, so I guess it wouldn't be a total shock.

 

[Slater]

Additional stuff to report. So I ran through one charge. Previously my max playing time on one charge is a little over 8 hours. After the rockbox update I got 11:30 or so.

I play mostly ALAC on random, library has about 15,000 songs.

Shut the front door, that's a big change (40% improvement)! I too get a little over 8 hours.

Are you sure the screen brightness didn't get reset to a lower setting with the update?

 

[ambchang]

I didn't adjust the screen brightness previously so it shouldn't be an issue. I will keep playing it a few rounds and see if this holds.

 

[Slater]

I didn't adjust the screen brightness previously so it shouldn't be an issue. I will keep playing it a few rounds and see if this holds.

No, I'm saying that perhaps it was reset in the update. For example, if you previously had brightness on 8 before the update, and the update set it to 6 (which you may not even notice). Because every update comes with a config.cfg file (which stores just about every setting in Rockbox). I have experienced this myself - my theme/WPS has magically changed in the past from doing an update.

I'm sure the new RB base code accounts for (some of) the changes, but a 40% improvement in battery life is almost too large to believe. It's possible that some portion of that battery life improvement indirectly came from somewhere else (hence my idea with the brightness change).

It really doesn't matter in the long run - I'm just curious (can't help it I've been in IT my whole life and am used to being required to get to the bottom of and explain anomalies/drastic changes like this).

 

[HiFiChris]

@slaterlovesspam

Let me see... In my review of the xDuoo X3, I performed a battery test under almost labratory conditions (RockBox, CD format FLAC 16 bit/44.1 kHz file in endless repeat, Superlux HD668B, volume set to -53, occasionally unlocking the screen and navigating through the menus). Guess what? The result was 11 hours and 55 minutes of playback.

When I take the X3 out for hiking and walking, reaching somewhat more than 11 hours is no problem either.

So yeah, the battery life seems to be indeed better with RockBox as firmware. No big surprise though, since other players' battery lives already benefited from a RockBox install in the past, and the software/firmware and its efficiency have a quite noticeable effect on any battery-driven device in general, and given how far developed and efficient RockBox is, it doesn't surprise me much.

 

[Slater]

@slaterlovesspam

Let me see... In my review of the xDuoo X3, I performed a battery test under almost labratory conditions (RockBox, CD format FLAC 16 bit/44.1 kHz file in endless repeat, Superlux HD668B, volume set to -53, occasionally unlocking the screen and navigating through the menus). Guess what? The result was 11 hours and 55 minutes of playback.

When I take the X3 out for hiking and walking, reaching somewhat more than 11 hours is no problem either.

So yeah, the battery life seems to be indeed better with RockBox as firmware. No big surprise though, since other players' battery lives already benefited from a RockBox install in the past, and the software/firmware and its efficiency have a quite noticeable effect on any battery-driven device in general, and given how far developed and efficient RockBox is, it doesn't surprise me much.

Definitely. I can usually easily get 10 hours myself. I was more commenting on the update to the LATEST version of Rockbox. That's what ambchang said increased his battery life from 8 hours before the update to 11:30 after the update. Since he was already running Rockbox before, it seems either something was really wrong before or something is really right now.

 

[HiFiChris]

Gotcha. Could've been a quite old RockBox build where the battery capacity was set too low in the settings which probably forced an automated shutdown when that value was reached although there was still more than enough capacity left for more than three hours. That's how I would explain it.

 

[Slater]

Gotcha. Could've been a quite old RockBox build where the battery capacity was set too low in the settings which probably forced an automated shutdown when that value was reached although there was still more than enough capacity left for more than three hours. That's how I would explain it.

True, very likely.

 

[129207]

51 usd on tomtop with coupon

HXFXDU60

I just used this coupon and picked one up. Let's see what happens. Thanks! Or if it turns out to be a scam; Why did you do this to me??