To recharge or not to recharge that is the question
A quick question is there any way to stop my iPod recharging whilst syncing with my computer?
Current set-up
Dell 4550 with Adaptec 4300 Firewire card
I don't always have the luxury of being able to leave it to fully recharge after syncing some music.
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Anubis] at [2007-11-9 12:12:55]
# 1 Re: To recharge or not to recharge that is the question
Are you concerned with partial charging and discharging of the battery? To my understanding, the lithium ion battery in the iPod does not require or prefer full discharge followed by full charge unlike the old NiCad rechargeables.
anolin at 2007-11-15 17:06:44 >
# 2 Re: To recharge or not to recharge that is the question
The deal is this....
I decide to fully charge my battery using the wall socket. Then, say that same day, I load some new songs onto my iPod. In doing so my iPod starts to re-charge again.
This then seems to reset the amount of power that is held in my battery and so a couple of days later, after only playing for a couple of hours, the battery is needing to be charged again.
If I don't do any syncing then the battery will last me about a week.
So is there any way of stopping my powered firewire card powering my iPod when syncing?
I used to have a laptop and the the firewire card was un-powered and I always got about a weeks worth of play-time.
Now that I have a powered firewire card this has gone out of the window.
Anubis at 2007-11-15 17:07:44 >
# 3 Re: To recharge or not to recharge that is the question
I must say, this problems sounds very strange to me.
# 4 Re: To recharge or not to recharge that is the question
According to Adam, the battery charging meter is most likely just a timer. So if you unplug the iPod and then plug it back in only after a bit of use, it will still want to take a long time to charge. Basically, the battery cannot be overcharged, so you shouldn't be worried.
# 5 Re: To recharge or not to recharge that is the question
If you really wanted to keep it from charging, i suppose you could use a pinout to find which pins are the power and ground and either 1. open your chord and cut those chords 2. somehow cover the 2 pins in the connector so the pod doesn't make a circuit w/ the power and ground.
http://www.networktechinc.com/technote.html the pinout for IEEE is at the bottum right. If you don't want to look, it's the top and bottum far left pins when the cable is 'pointing' to the right.
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