N800 Battery Test: 5 hours running Media Player
 

Ran "Road to Ruin" audio clip on Media player (in a loop) to see how long a full charge battery would last. Results were 5 hours. I had the screen turn off and low volume with headset that came with N800. Bluetooth and wlan were off.

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Ouch... that's bad. I could get around 16 hours of mp3 playback out of the 770 that way.

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Yes that is not good. I was wondering has anyone ran a test with better results?

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You must admit though, tht is not really a functional real world test.

I mean, who in their right mind would actually be listening to an audio track non-stop for 5-16 hrs?

AnAnd.- was internet connection inadvertently on during this time?
y point is that for all actual intensive purposes, I have noticed that my N800 lasts just as long as my 770 while doind just about the same things for the same amount of time....notwithstanding the processor speed improvements.

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I can easily imagine myself listening to music/podcasts/audio books and whatnot on a long plane ride for that long. In fact, I plan on taking my n800 on the plane ride to Puerto Vallarta from Seattle this Monday. A 3x diminution in battery life compared to a previous model is a big deal. A lot of people have discussed how with up to 8 GB of storage (and more on the way with presumed SDHC support) and the side mounted stereo out plug, the n800 has excellent possibilities to replace your DAP/iPod entirely in your gadget bag. Now with these revelations about battery life, the future of the n800 as a multimedia device isn't looking quite as bright...

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Oh, btw, my iRiver H320 is still the best mp3 player I have used to date. Amongst other things, with the Rockbox firmware and a Newertech 2200mah battery, I get greater than 30 hours of playback time in RW playback scenarios. Thats with a hard drive based player, btw. The n800 doesn't have to deal with power sucking hard drives, so what is its excuse?

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What would you consider a real world test?

No one that I know of would listen to a track for 5-16 hrs.... this was a TEST.

Like I said in the first post wlan was off bluetooth was off.

Could you please run this test and post your results so we have some data for comparison, thank you.

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From zdnet:
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/...9285509,00.htm

Sound weard that your n800 does 5 hours without screen, and here 5 hours with screen...

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1) It's not a dedicated MP3 player,
2) it doesn't have a 2200 mAh battery

That's why I also play mp3s on my H340, not on my 770...

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[QUOTE=Swatje;30855]From zdnet:

http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/...9285509,00.htm

Sound weard that your n800 does 5 hours without screen, and here 5 hours with screen...[/QUOTE Yes my time seems to be on the low end of perfomace. But their times are also low, oh well N800 needs to be near an power outlet. :)

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Was it an MP3 file that you played, and if so, what was the bitrate? If I'm not mistaken, most DAP'S have better battery life when using 128k or lower MP3 files.

Also, was the audio file stored on one of the SD cards, or was it internal?

I'm just trying to think of the different things that might have caused this poor battery life...

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man, if I could get more than two hours continous play off my two year old ipod I'd be happy.

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Why not, I do. I've got a pillow speaker that I use with my 770 to fall asleep to music. Never really tried it with the unit running off of power, never though it would last the night, but evidently the 770 probably could from what I'm seeing in this post.

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It is a x-mp3 320k 4MB file that Nokia had installed with the media player.

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ok I apologize for being coarse, ignorant, and rude....

Admittedly, I am less concerned with battery life
because I have an extra charged battery in my wallet at all times,
and a solar battery charger that trickles enough into my N800 so that it maintains charge under use without draw on the batter for an extra 3 hours (not quite enough juice to actually fully charge though)....

I have a car charger for Mapper, and a brick charger both at home and at work...
I have these means because the 770 / N800 really don't hold a charge THAT long.

I don't use my Nokia as a phone, and I don't really use it as a portable mp3 player for more than an hour or so.
I use it as a portable computer- an internet tablet...

I am curious about how the N800's battery life compares to the 770, though I probably don't have the patience or sincere curiosity enough to run my baby down to the ground doing a repetitive task that I otherwise have no need to accomplish.

With that, I will butt out of this thread!

cheers

dcarter

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Tried playing a random playlist with 128-192kbit mp3 and aac files. Got around 10 hours of playback. Probably with an mp3-only playlist the battery would have lasted even longer.

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This sounds about right to me...I think that 320k MP3 was what led to the decreased battery life for heavyt. I wouldn't have guessed the difference would be that much, though...

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10 hours of playback sounds much better than my 5 hours, maybe it was the 320kbit file that was used for my test. Thanks zuti for your data.