Poll: How long does your battery last?

[GoingNow]

I would be interested in the following information as well

1. What size player do you have?
2. What size battery?
3. What firmware are you running?
4. What sort of music files are you playing?
5. Are you using a Rockbox Theme?
6. At what volume setting did you run this test?

[GoingNow]

Originally Posted by GoingNow

I would be interested in the following information as well

1. What size player do you have? H115
2. What size battery? 2200
3. What firmware are you running? Rockbox
4. What sort of music files are you playing? Ogg Vorbis
5. Are you using a Rockbox Theme? Marquee
6. At what volume setting did you run this test? 24

I thought 8:55 was a little short for a new 2200 battery, and I was worried about the battery as it appeared to have suffered a few knocks on the way here.

[jumbuck]

You might want to include a volume setting to use when performing the test, as far as I remember a volume setting of 20 was used for the factory test.

[GoingNow]

I decided to do some (random) testing. Rather than change one thing at a time, and run tests on my battery life (which would take at least 13 hours for each test) I changed everything and ran one test.

The point of this was twofold. I wanted to know if my new battery was OK, after it arrived rather worse for wear and I wanted to know if I could do anything to improve my battery's life.

So I copied an album encoded 192 bit mp3 to my player, then bypassed rockbox and booted into the original firmware. Set it playing that one album on repeat and after 10:15 the battery indicator still showed about 1/3 remaining.

I aborted this test, as I now estimate I will get somewhere about 14 hours total.

So to recap:

Playing ogg vorbis files at Q6 in rockbox with a very busy WPS - nearly 9 hours playing time.
Playing mp3 files at 192 bit with iRiver firmware 14 hours playing time.

I rather like the sound I'm getting from the ogg vorbis encoding, and the theme I am using is nice to look at, so it's likely that I will have to endure (only) 8 or 9 hours between recharges. Not such a great burden.

[DreamTactix291]

Originally Posted by GoingNow

I would be interested in the following information as well

1. What size player do you have? H160 (formerly H140)
2. What size battery? Original 1300mAh
3. What firmware are you running? Rockbox's most current builds
4. What sort of music files are you playing? MP3 and Vorbis mix
5. Are you using a Rockbox Theme? A personally modified version of an old theme called ChromeVis
6. At what volume settng did you run this test? -25dB

I did a test pretty recently and got around 15 hours. Can't remember the exact time. I'm surprised too as the unit is fairly old.

[stuffedspacedog]

1. What size player do you have? H140 80Gb
2. What size battery? 2200mah
3. What firmware are you running? Rockbox Custom Build (my own)
4. What sort of music files are you playing? MPC Q7, Ogg Q7, MP3
5. Are you using a Rockbox Theme? Yes (my own)
6. At what volume setting did you run this test? zero (optical out)

[jumbuck]

I just finished a test on my h120 (got it from ebay as a backup and its like brand new , I dont think ts hardly been used , only had 3 albums on it).

What size player do you have? H120
What size battery? 1300 mAh
What firmware are you running? 1.33E
What sort of music files are you playing? mp3@160k (playng the same 15 song album with repeat directory turned on)
Are you using a Rockbox Theme? Not on this player(yet)
At what volume setting did you run this test? 20 with the standard ear plugs

I got 15.5hrs from it.

[hrvatski]

• What size player do you have? - H140.
• What size battery? - Standard.
• What firmware are you running? - Vanilla v1.66
• What sort of music files are you playing? Mostly 128k WMA, but also some VBR MP3 and Ogg Vorbis.
• Are you using a Rockbox Theme? n/a
• At what volume setting did you run this test? Using the standard settings, between 9 and 14 depending on the song. Using in-ear buds, it rarely needs to go above 15 and I don't think I've *ever* had to turn it above 20.

(edit) It might be helpful if I actually answered the question... I got just short of 12 hours. (Like, about eleven hours 50 minutes or something). I wasn't timing exactly, but I was out for just over twelve hours, and it gave up about ten minutes' walk from home. I was browsing quite a bit between albums, and had it on shuffle for a while.

[BRA1NS]

14 hours approx... 40 gig player with rockbox, mostly playing mp3s

[Dunno]

iRiver H140
27hrs
2200mah Cameron Sino replacement
Rockbox
LAME 3.90.3 --aps