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Apple iPod Update Increases Battery Life
hhoor writes "Apple has released iPod Software 1.2.6. According to Apple, 'After updating the iPod, customers can expect at least 10 days of standby battery life on a full charge.' So maybe now it's really time to buy one."
Was an occasional bug in the battery monitor a deal breaker keeping you from an ipod? You must be very demanding in other aspects of your life. ;-)
Downloaded, about to take the plunge. The Changelog is minimialist;
Changes since 1.2:
Version 1.2.6 has improved battery management, providing the following updates:
* Increased playback time on scroll-wheel iPods
* Longer stand-by time for all iPods
Looks like it is a definite must for owners of the lower capacity pods.
I see in other places that it does not implement the cursed EEC mandated volume lowering, so don;t let that hold you back.
~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
I updated my 10 GB Mac iPod, and the updating process went smoothly. I have had no problems with the update. So go ahead and update. You should however always make backups if you want to be sure.
I demand the Cone of Silence!
I work for compusa and the 5gb ipod is DO1 status in our database, meaning it was discontinued... You wont be seeing it any time soon... 10gb ipod is the new 5gb..
All the previous iPod updates have come through Software Update. I'm guessing it won't appear for a couple hours/days, like most every other update. They appear on the website for the die-hards and trickle into Software Update for the rest of the world too busy to check the iPod homepage everyday.
aaargh will you people stop spreading the urban myth of a dual processor iPod.
The 'second processor' is not a second processor. in fact it's not a processor at all, it's simply a logic array that happens to be made by the same manufacturer as the real CPU.
repeat after me
"apple do not sell ipods to make clusters from"
No, you and everyone else blamed the clock, as it was the only apparant change to the iPod firmware that seemed like it might have introduced a drain on the battery.
However, if this update works, it blows that theory out of the water. The knowledgebase article for this says that the problem was that the iPod was incorrectly interpreting the battery charge. It seems that the 1.2 firmware was not allowing the iPod to use all of the battery capacity, and was shutting down when there was still plenty of life left. There is no way anyone outside of Apple could have figured this out, so the clock got blamed.
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The internet is the greatest source of biased information in the history of mankind.
I use an iBook with OS X, and a Linux machine.
Recently I acquired a iee1394 PCI card, and used the conversion tool from iPod-on-Linux to transform it into a FAT32 iPod, and gtkpod to manage songs on it.
The conversion tool installed firmware 1.2.1, but this last iPod upgrade wanted to reformat my iPod. So now I had a 1.2.6 iPod, but HFS+ instead of FAT32.
Never to lose courage, I copied the 'Firmware' file from inside the upgrader's directory on the Mac to the PC, over the 1.2.1 firmware used in the conversion tool. Run the conversion tool again, and now I have a 1.2.6 FAT32 iPod, and I'm filling it up again using gtkpod.
dakkar - mobilis in mobile
Hold down the Play button.
Anyone who whines about being modded down should be.
I wrote some of the documentation for the PP5002C and PP5003 chips used in the iPod when I worked for Portal Player last year.
In fact, the chip IS a dual ARM7 core with supporting I/O logic. So it is you, in fact, who is mistaken.
Every piece of hardware (computer, automobile, etc.) ever created has stories like this attached to it.
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