30 GB Battery LIfe when REcording

I get about 2 hours of battery life on a fully charged 30GB iPod when recording using iTalk. Is this the best anyone else is getting? What are alternatives for recording lectures with greater battery life?

thanks for your quick reaction.
i ll try to figure it out with your references. it is clear, i am not the quite listener, i like to flip from
one song to the other and i would accept some reduction
in the battery performance, but not to a third or fourth of the announced life. what disturbs me even more is that the recording time is not an hour plus 9 minute as i wrote, this was just the duration indicated on the file in reality it was only 35 minutes. does anybody have experiences with this recording features. if that's all i must say it is a complete flop, i paid some 90 $ for it. by the way, i am a real fan of the ipod, a very nice thing, i just think that my battery needs a change (it's only 7 month of age)
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Battery life while recording

I would like to buy a creative mp3 player but i need to record conventions transmited by fm frequency. I need at least 8 hours of battery life to record a hole day.
I also work out, so i need a leight mp3 player.
Does the "Zen V Plus" or the "Zen neeon 2" suit my recording needs?
Can anyone help me?
thank you

From the manual, hope it helps:
Recording Voice Memos
You can record voice memos using an optional iPod-compatible microphone (available for purchase at www.apple.com/ipodstore). You can store voice memos on your iPod and load them on your computer. You can set iPod to record at Mono quality (22 kHz, mono) to save space, or Stereo quality (44.1 kHz, stereo) for a better sound.
To record a voice memo:
1 Connect a microphone to the Dock connector port on your iPod.
2 Set Quality to Mono or Stereo.
3 To begin recording, choose Record.
4 Hold the microphone a few inches from your mouth and speak. To pause recording, select Pause.
5 When you finish, select Stop and Save. Your saved recording is listed by date and time.

My iPhone 3Gs has frozen and I can't do anything except turn it off by hard boot. When I plug it in, I have the apple icon and that is all. It was at 43 percent battery life when it happened and my Twitter app was giving me problems. Thoughts?

My iPhone 3Gs has frozen and I can't do anything except turn it off by hard boot. When I plug it in, I have the apple icon and that is all. It was at 43 percent battery life when it happened and my Twitter app was giving me problems. Thoughts?

Put it in recovery mode and restore it as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808.

My iPhone 5 was in 50% battery life when it just turned off and it won't turn on and when i plug it to my computer itunes wont recognize it and i cant turn it on

My iPhone 5 was in 50% battery life when it just turned off and it won't turn on and when i plug it to my computer itunes wont recognize it and i cant turn it on

try a reset

HT204368 I have a motorola H17 bluetoothit is paired to iphone 4s. the icon is shows that it is connected. when making a call i tap the speaker icon and the bluetooth icon is not there. The motorola H17 tells me i am connected and the battery life when

I have a motorola H17 bluetooth it is paired to iphone 4s. The icon shows that it is connected. When making a call i tap the speaker icon and the bluetooth icon is not there. The motorola H17 tells me i am connected and the battery life when turned on. Any advice? Thank you in advance

here is an interesting thing: take the iphone and set lock screen to never. Now make an email with siri--be sure to activate her with call button. get to the body and get some text in there. then just stop talking. LOCK SCREEN APPEARS!!!!!! and of course you draft is gone.
There does seem to be a work around for some--maybe all these issues. Don't use the call button--use the buttons on the phone.
Siri seems to behave properly with scenerio above---sans call button. She does not go to lock.

Decreased battery life when Wi-Fi is OFF

Hey everyone...
I recently noticed that my MacBook Air late 2011 model running OS X 10.8.2 had a problem with the battery life when not connected to Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi was OFF. I noticed this recently when I was abroad and the hotel I was at had problems with it's internet connection, I booted up my MBA at 70% charge to finish this article I had to write and after 45 minutes or so my MacBook notifies me of low battery power. This never happens when I am connected to the internet.
Other than that, after upgrading to Mountain Lion I started having slow boot up and shutdown times on my MBA
Is there a problem with my configuration or hardware maybe or is this normal? (Both battery and slow shutdown and boot up times)

Not really a solution for my problem - wicd deamon starts automatic at boot, and I don't wan change this.

Power Manager Setting To Preserve Battery Life When Using A Docking Station

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X220 which is about 19 months old. When at work, the computer is in a Lenovo docking station. At the end of the day, it is removed and any further evening use is typically on the battery.
Yesterday, the battery symbol in the tray at the bottom of the screen displayed a red X on it and indicated that there was an "error". I presume from this that that battery is dead and needs to be replaced. I am surprised by the comparatively short life of this battery.
I was thinking that perhaps the use of the powered docking station played some role in shortening the battery's life. For example, it may have repeatedly overcharged the battery.
Is there a Power Manager setting that will reduce the likelihood that the battery is being overcharged while in the docking station? In the future, is it feasible to simply remove the battery before inserting it into the docking station so that this won't continue to occur?
Thank you.
(I did a search of the community's knowledgebase, but didn't find anything on point.)

Hi,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that battery of your Lenovo ThinkPad X220 had undergone wear and tear and has to be replaced.
Capacity of a battery declines as the battery ages, with the number of charge cycles and time at high temperature. Under average usage patterns your battery maintains approximately 70% of its power capacity after the first year of operation.
Most laptops today use lithium Ion (Li-ion) batteries. Overcharging Li-ion batteries is not a problem and does not affect the battery life span. These batteries have an internal circuit to stop the charging process at full charge. This is why the Li-ion batteries are more expensive. The only way for the Li-ion battery to overcharge is if the charging system malfunctions, and then the battery will heat up while in the charger. Older laptops use Nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cd) and Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) batteries. They require more maintenance than Lithium Ion batteries. They must be fully discharged and then fully recharged so that they don't lose battery life.
Refer this document to see the tips on how to increase the battery life.
Hope this provided enough clarity for your query!
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Mithun.
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IPod Nano Battery Life when using Nike+

I saw this on the support site:
How much does using the Nike + iPod system affect my iPod nano battery playback time? The receiver draws very little power from the iPod nano. The overall impact on the iPod nano battery playback time is less than 5 percent.
However, I've owned my Nike+ kit for a couple of weeks now and I went from fully charged to almost empty on my battery after only 3 1-hour exercise sessions! That seems pretty insane given how much battery life the 2G nano is supposed to have. Any thoughts?
iPod Nano (2G) with Nike+ kit Other OS

Are you leaving the backlight on during your workouts? If so, that's probably the culprit.
Also, do you get "normal" battery life (12-20 hours of playback, depending on EQ settings, backlight, etc.) when you're using your nano simply to play music (and not using the Nike kit)?

New MBP 2.6Ghz, can not keep battery life when shut down

Hi
Just got my MBP 2.6Ghz, 2Gb Ram yesterday (waited more than 4 weeks on it), and already i got a problem..
After getting the MBP, i charged the battery to 100% (magsafe was green, and OS X said 100%), i had to shut down for the night (removed the power, and packed the mbp in my second skin), after 7 hours i turnd on my MBP and the battery life is now 86%, i recharde the battery to 100% and shut it down again and went to work.. after 10 hours work i turn on my MBP and the battery life i now 70%..
Why i my new MBP loosing battery when it i shut down (it is not on sleep, but shut down from the finder menu)
already checked my firmware and battery version:
Battery: v 1.3
Bootrom: v. MBP31.0070.B05
SMC: v. 1.16f10
all updates from the software update is installed

I think you did the process wrong. Try follow this:
1) Plug in the power adapter and fully charge your PowerBook's battery until the light ring or LED on the power adapter plug changes to green and the onscreen meter in the menu bar indicates that the battery is fully charged.
2) Allow the battery to rest in the fully charged state for at least two hours. You may use your computer during this time as long as the adapter is plugged in.
3) Disconnect the power adapter with the computer still on and start running the computer off battery power. You may use your computer during this time. When your battery gets low, you will see the low battery warning dialog on the screen.
4) Continue to keep your computer on until it goes to sleep. Save all your work and close all applications when the battery gets very low, before the computer goes to sleep.
5) Turn off the computer or allow it to sleep for five hours or more.
6) Connect the power adapter and leave it connected until the battery is fully charged again

IPhone 3G TERRIBLE battery life when push is ON, great when push is OFF.

Hey all,
So I've set up Nuevasync to keep my Google calendar synced over-the-air with my phone (it uses the exchange protocol so its a Push service).
I've been having absolutely horrible battery life ever since I got this phone but 2.1 made it even WORSE for me.
So I thought I'd try turning everything off to try to isolate what's causing the battery problem.
Solution? I turned off push and set fetch to manual. My phone has been in standby for 9 hours and has played music for 2 hours, and I still have about 90% battery remaining.
Perfect! Except..... why is push eating so much battery? If I turn it on, I can only get about 8 hours standby with a couple hours of usage before it needs a charge.

So how does RIM get push to go for days on a BlackBerry???
Push on a blackberry is a totally different animal than Push on an iPhone.
Basically Blackberry push can be thought of as an SMS that goes straight to your mail, addressbook, or calendar, and wakes up that application to do what ever is necessary (like connect and download the mail or whatever). (Its not REALLY an sms, but it works like that. I think Blackberry sends something like 5 bytes to the phone over the regular gsm network.)
They have this patented. And it requires a special network and special servers to support it.
Apple iPhone push uses a Microsoft technique, where the phone opens a TCP/IP connection to a server. If the server has some news for the phone, (calendar or mail) it sends it down that connection. If nothing comes across the wire for 12 minutes (or maybe 15, I forget the details) the connection closes.
Either of these two events trigger the phone to wake up and handle the event.
So the radio can never be totally off, it has to check the status of that connection every few seconds. Thats where your battery goes.
A rational approach would be to just use a special formatted SMS that the phone intercepts, but I think that Apple and Microsoft are worried about stepping on Blackberry's patents.

Battery life when tethering on CA-126

The CA-126 charging/USB cable looks handy for tethering my mobile to my PC without completely killing the battery. However the current provided by USB is still quite a bit less than that given by the real charger. So by my reckoning, the battery will last for about 6 hours of continuous 3G usage on the cable instead of 3 hours without. Anyone got a CA-126 (or the regular USB charging cable) and an Nseries device and tried this?
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Not sure how you calculated those figures, but a USB port can supply up to 500mA, which is enough to operate the phone as a modem and have enough juice left over to trickle-charge the battery at the same time. In other words, while using a CA-126 cable, you shouldn't be flattening the battery at all.
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Will Windows 7 via Bootcamp decrease the battery life or speed when running OSX?

I know that when Windows 7 is running my battery life will decrease dramatically, but I am curious is I need to worry about battery life when running OSX, or even the speed of my notebook.
Kyle

No need to worry, Bootcamp is a separate bootable partition and OS X isn't even running, the two operating systems have nothing to do with each other.
Now if you run Windows in OS X using virtual machine software, it's very much possible the extra CPU load could shorten the battery life as your running two operating systems at once and virtual machine software in addition to other software running.
However it's much safer, easier and more convenient than the hassles of Bootcamp and handling malware infections there, as OS X is always in control of the hardware.
Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?

NB500 battery life

Hey there guys, I recently purchased a new NB500 netbook after doing some research. Good price and good little unit.
The only issue seems to be battery life. I've read constantly about how netbooks have rgeat battery life and supposedly the NB500 is no exception. However, after setting it up and getting updates etc, I unplugged it to see how it would go without power.
Surprisingly, at best I could get 3 hours on Eco mode. On Balanced, it was just under 2 hours. I could literally watch it tick down from 100% just on the desktop without running any heavy processes at all, let alone browing the internet or working.
And that's what kind of bugs me. On all kinds of tests and reviews, they do full screen full brightness video playing tests and get like 5+ hours, but for me just sitting there on minimum brightness running absolutely nothing, I can maybe get three hours?
Is there something I'm missing for this battery, because that's a major reason why I bought the machine. Any help would be great!

I bought a NB520 a week ago, and also have concerns about the battery. Battery life is claimed to be 10 hours+. Now I haven't fully tested yet, but my guess is that it's less than half that.
However, more serious is the following issue. I fully charged the battery, and then left the computer in Hibernate for 24 hours (i.e. using zero power). I was surprised to find only 10% battery life when I switched back on 24 hours later.
It's also done this another time when on Standby, apparantly using battery life almost same as if computer was being used.
Neil
p.s. I also have other problem that I bought this netbook partly cos it had 3g sim slot, and I thought I could ditch my bulky usb stick & just put sim card inside computer. Two salesmen at john lewis thought I could do that too.... now it seems the 3g sim slot is just an empty blank space.
So there's a few issues to sort out with toshiba, or I still have option of returning for refund and buying another model

My iPhone is about 6 months old now and I would say I don't use it that much. Yet for the last month or so the battery life has been going down and today after having charged it to 100% this morning, it was at 5% at 4 pm this aft. help!!

my iPhone is about 6 months old now and I would say I don't use it that much. Yet for the last month or so the battery life has been going down and today after having charged it to 100% this morning, it was at 5% at 4 pm this aft. help!!

Ok Fellas, let me give you a clue: Games, particularly those that make heavy use of graphics and sound are notoriously power hungry. In fact, when I was in the Navy many years ago, the folks working on the NTDS (Navy Tactical Data System) computers used a version of Space Invaders to load test the AN/UYK-43 computers.
I have also noticed that all of my laptops (I have a brand new Toshiba dual core, an older Toshiba single core, plus 2 Dell dual core machines) have significantly shorter battery life when I play Company of Heroes than when I am just reading e-mail or surfing the 'Net. I have also noticed the same behavior when I play games on my 4th gen Touch and my iPhone 4.
The fact is, iOS 5 did make some major improvements as well as adding some nice functionality like iMessage, wireless synch, and such, but the down side is that depending on how you use the device battery life can be shorter that what you may have experienced with pervious versions of iOS. Its just the nature of the beast...
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Location services and battery life

I see this from the Apple site regarding reducing power consumption:
"Minimize use of location services: Applications that actively use location services such as Maps may reduce battery life. To disable location services, go to Settings > General > Location Services or use location services only when needed."
http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html
I can read this advice two ways:
1. Turn off Location Services in the Settings when not using Location Services. As long as Location Services is turned on in Settings, you are using more of the battery.
or
2. I can leave Location Services on in the Settings without reducing battery life. It is only when I use an application that uses Location Services that battery life is reduced.
Which is it?

Either one. When you see the white/purple arrow on the top, an application you are using has enabled Location Services for itself. While the app is running in either the foreground or background, LS continues to run until the app is either closed or has been force closed through the multitask bar.
LS only uses battery life when it either picks the GPS or the cellular towers to continuously ping your location. But the LS doesn't use as much power as believed. It's actually a combination of things such as GPS and Internet and Music or GPS, Internet and Camera.
Most people keep the LS running as it does little harm to battery life. Some turn it off or turn off certain apps to protect their privacy as they are broadcasting on a social network their approximate location such as LOOPT to friends that you are in a restaurant.

30 GB Battery LIfe when REcording

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