Is this normal battery life for x51v?

[sfrazee]

I have seen the review on this site of the mugen batteries, and they show getting 3 hours and 4 mins of video at full brightness, full volume (processor set to auto)with the standard 1100 battery that comes with the x51v...

I just tested my x51v: I first turned all the v50mix sliders all the way down. then had a music video play continuously at full volume and brightness... I got about 2 hours and 5 minutes before it completely died...

Do you think my battery is defective? Either that or maybe they were playing a less processor intensive video? (I was playing a wmv 320x240 with a 720 bitrate using tcpmp)... I got the axim about a week ago and have fully charged and discharged it several time already.

[Frenchy]

Your time is fine. The video may have benn playing with more colors, refresh rate, and more processor speed as you said. Try music, screen off and compare your results to the review chart

Well, with the 1100 mAh battery (if I'm reading your post right), you're going to get runtimes of not more than 150 minutes (2.5 hours) at best given what you're doing. Those Mugen reviews compare the 1800, 2200, and 3300mAh against the stock battery... and THOSE are the ones getting the 3+ hour runtimes, IIRC. Not the stock Axim 1100mAh battery.

[sfrazee]

Well, with the 1100 mAh battery (if I'm reading your post right), you're going to get runtimes of not more than 150 minutes (2.5 hours) at best given what you're doing. Those Mugen reviews compare the 1800, 2200, and 3300mAh against the stock battery... and THOSE are the ones getting the 3+ hour runtimes, IIRC. Not the stock Axim 1100mAh battery.

If you read the actual review of the mugen 3300 it has timing for the "stock" 1100 also. For the stock 1100 they state the runtime at 3hr 4mins- Video at full brightness, full volume, and proc. set to auto.

I'd have to say that's debatable - I've run my Axim x51v with the same settings you mentioned, and 2.5 hours was the best I could do as well. I still suspect they either got a really good battery, a video which wasn't very stressful on the GPU, or something else that extended the battery life (maybe few Today plugins running?)

[Mokubai]

The video does make a lot of difference to battery life, I have a couple of films that TCPMP will happily play and the processor will go down to 208Mhz and a couple of other films that play with the processor at 512Mhz. This would mean that the battery would last longer on the first set of videos and it may be that it is one of these videos that they are using....

it depends on what video you are running too
also, it will be affected by the age of your battery
2.5h of vid with max vol and brightness, i say its pretty good
when i use my x50v with wifi & BT with min brightness, i get less then 1h

[lukas12p]

hi
i always convert films to divX with biterate below 300kbps (video+audio) and res. 320x240. for me it's ok. i set backlight to minimum and processor to AUTO. then when i'm watching this video proc is set to 104MHz and i can watch it for 6h on 1100mAh battery. :)