Re: [NTLK] [very-OT] - Increasing MP3 Player Battery Life! - Was: Mac Tablet

OK. First...if you use an Archos or even an older iPod, you need to know about RockBox. Spend some time at www.rockbox.org and play around with the opensource OS for these (and other) popular mp3 players.
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  http://www.uwe-freese.de/hardware-projekte/rockbox/8mb_ram_en.html
   
  I cannot stress enough......this is NOT an easy mod...it took me several nights with a 10X magnifying goggles on my head and lots of cussing...but it works and I have no complaints (except I don't use my archos much anymore...)
   
  I don't have any pictures of my specific mod because first, I don't think I I could do better than this guy...and second, it was such a difficult mod to perform, I didn't have much time for the camera...
  Ed
  web/gadget guru
  Download Newton packages directly onto your Newton: http://newton.tek-ed.com
  
Sonny Hung <sonnyhung@gmail.com> wrote:
  On 1/10/07, Ed Kummel wrote:
>
> iPods and other MP3 players work because they are able to mitigate any
> perception of lag through an elaborate caching system.
> The player will spin up the HD just enough to read the next several blocks
> of information, then cache that data in volatile memory which is
> exponentially faster than the HD for playing back the data. Once the cache
> is exhausted, the HD spins up again and the cache is populated with data.
> You can significantly increase your player's battery life by increasing the
> amount of volatile memory in your device. I was able to increase the battery
> life from 10 hours to almost 15 hours by doubling the amount of memory in my
> Archos JukeBox...

Hey Ed,

NOW where have you been *hiding all this type of info at?!?!* Huh!!!
It's something I would love to do to my MP2100 () Wouldn't you?
But since we're a bit in the dark on how this can be accomplished with our
Newts why don't you share with us (at least with me) how you accomplished
this on your Archos JukeBox.

I've got two of those older models which was a 4GB and 6GB. The 4GB was
purchased rather frugally off CraigsList while the 6GB was given to me by a
co-worker after he was given it by his cousin for FREE after it died -
neither of them could get the 6GB working but little ole me being a MacGyver
type of guy tinkered with it incessantly and got it up and running and found
out to my surprise that this unit's storage was upped to a 60GB HD to
boot... what a bonus that was... NOW please share with us the details of how
you upgraded the Memory (I do of course assume this it the System Ram for
the Archos JukeBox - Not the HD storage by the details of your post)... I do
hope you have some photos to go along with your recounting about the
upgrade! ;-)

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Sonny Hung
the Hung Family
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