[ rockbox-Bugs-862495 ] Strange Battery Behavior

Bugs item #862495, was opened at 2003-12-18 12:06
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Strange Battery Behavior

Initial Comment:
At my job, I use my Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 
connected with the USB plug to listen to MP3's with 
Winamp.  I have it plugged in to AC also.  In the evening 
I like to listen to the Archos in the car on the way 
home.  I upgraded to 2.1 of the Rockbox firmware and 
was reading through the manual and found the section 
on batteries.  I decided that since most of the time, I 
use the Archos plugged in that I should use the deep-
discharge option and shut off the trickle-charger.  This 
worked great until the archos just shut off from low 
batteries.  I've come to find out, that it was not 
charging.  I switched deep-discharge off and trickle 
charge back on and now everyother day, I have to just 
leave it charging all day to get the battery back up.  It 
doesn't seem to charge when it is connected via USB.

I left it charging overnight last night and used it as 
normal starting at 8:30 this morning.  I wanted to check 
on the battery at 13:30 and so I unplugged the ac 
adapter.  It showed empty for at least 20 min (empty).  
It is now blinking at me that it is out of batteries, but is 
still playing just fine.  

I unplugged it and it says that I have 4% in just 5 hours, 
with the ac plugged in.

Version 2.1 

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-12-19 07:39

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Update - I've been just plugging it in to turn it on at work (so 
that it just uses the Rom image (Archos 1.26) and the 
problem went away, so I think that the Rockbox firmware 
doesn't handle charging in USB mode correctly.

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