BATTERY PROBLEMS?(focused on muvo2 fm but applies to a

Question

Hi i purchased a muvo2 fm around christmas time. its really cool and i love it but theres only one problem. the battery. i got told to give it a 24hour charge for the first time to 'break in' the battery. and that worked well i got about 9 hours out of the battery but i had the sound up loud so i couldve probly got or 2 hours out of it. so neway im charging the muvo2 for around 2 hours and im averaging probly 3 or 4 hours max from the battery and this sucks cos im charging it every day!!.
if any has any ideas or has the same problem with a solution any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.s.-urgent reply please!!
thanks,
BrendanMessage Edited by brendan23 on 03-05-2005 06:06 AMMessage Edited by brendan23 on 03-07-2005 0:30 AM

Answer 1

Unless you're driving MASSIVE headphones, I doubt that headphone volume has much effect on battery usage (and you'll be limited to how much you can dri've large or high impedance headphones anyway, without an extra amplifier).
The issue really is using the disk dri've, and perhaps using some of the EAX functions (the Smart Volume Management function has a dramatic effect on some players).
Creative benchmark the battery using a quite reasonable setup of 4 minute 28 kbit/s playing continuously. Others have benchmarked other players and they pretty much match Creative's test results. So there's nothing wrong per se with Creative's figures. Again though it HUGELY depends on how you use the player.
Connecting the player to the adapter for 2 hours won't help, but won't hurt the player. The player will fully charge in 4 hours from the wall adapter, and then the charging circuit will switch off. So only 4 of that 2 hours will it be charging, maximum.
For tips on battery charging see the relevant section of my Nomad Primer.
Ultimately if you are worried about the battery life: fully charge the player, queue up some 28 kbit/s MP3 files, turn off?EAX,?and leave it playing without touching the player. See how long it lasts.