Battey test and timing it?
This may be an obvious answer to some but here goes ...
When testing the battery life, with a looping song, how do you determine exactly how long it lasted? Are you supposed to sit there with a timer, waiting, waiting and waiting for it to die?
There's got to be an easier way, isn't there?
For what it's worth batter life on the Gen 3 Ipods SUCK!!! 8 hours my (insert explative here). I get 3 to 4 tops and I've done just about everything I can do minimize use AND use 128 bit AAC files.
3 hours is horrible. I'm ####ed that I foolishly spent $499 (April) on this thing. Apple knows the batter life sucks but has done nothing to improve it.
Who's willing to bet that the 4th Gen will correct the issue?
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ultravista] at [2007-11-9 15:32:55]
# 1 Re: Battey test and timing it?
Just start it at 12 oclock, then it becomes primary school knowledge :)
4th gen better fix it, and fix it good, otherwise this will be my first and last Apple product ever.
Adam at 2007-11-15 17:04:15 >
# 2 Re: Battey test and timing it?
Sorry if I didn't make myself clear. How do you know when it dies? Are you to watch it from 1-8 hours to catch it failing? With the battery life all over the place, I would hate to sit there waiting for it to die.
# 4 Re: Battey test and timing it?
its not that hard man, even after the last bar goes away you still have at least a good hour left so let it sit. Start the ipod playing 1 song over and over again (with headphones plugged in) no EQ and close to 8 hours come back later. Its fine if you dont have the exact up to minute battery life...at least to me
# 5 Re: Battey test and timing it?
Using a one-song loop isn't a good test - you're not accessing the HDD, just playing back from the buffer.
As I understand it, Apple considers normal use to be playback of a playlist, which does involve periodic HDD access, but without manual intervention (FF/RW/track skipping) - so if you want to test whether your battery is performing as advertised, you should be running through a longer list of songs. Going to Browse > Songs and hitting play would be a more valid way to test.
