Zen Stone Plus Battery Life Test -Summ

Battery Life/ Playtime: Up to 9.5 hours for continuous audio playback
Battery Type: Rechargeable Li-Ion Polymer (Embedded)
*CREATIVE specifications.
I had tested on my zen stone plus battery life... I used uni'versal travel adapter for zen micro to fully charged my zen stone before began my test... I let it continuous audio playback till all battery drained
Detail :
* 30 Song, ~80 song is rock/techno, ~50 song is pop
* Bit Rate: 28-320 kbps
* Audio sample rate: 44kHz
* Bass Boost On
* EQ set to rock
* Continuous audio playback - No skipping Tracks
* Volume - 3/40
* No headphone plugged -(Because of this battery life might vary, whether u use high powered
headphone or not)
* No radio, stopwatch, microphone used
* Firmware .03.0
* Player's date and time - Off
* Idle Shutdown - 0s
* Contrast - 40%
* Waked up the player from idle few time ( To check my player condition)
* Result : 8.8 hrs ( 8 hr 4 min 2++ sec) for the above condition.
First 3 hrs - Full bar
Next 4 hrs - Left 2 bar
Next hrs - Left bar
Next 40 min - Battery drained (Player shut down by itself)
**Estimated * as i said i check my player condition few time
P.s. If i missed out anything, Please tell Me.
Thank !Message Edited by hippon2 on 0-8-200707:34 PM
Message Edited by hippon2 on 0-8-200707:36 PM

ok, I will tkae that under consideration. Now I have another battery issue, after fully charging the MP3 player I noticed that the battery life drain rather quickly while it is off. I lost 9% of it's charge from taking it off the charger at midnight and then plugging it into the usb port of my computer the next morning at 10:00am. The clock is turned off so it should not be doing anything for those 0 hours.

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