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iPod battery advice
That iPod battery page that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
haineux linked to in a comment is pretty good.
I've been abusing my old 3rd-gen iPod lately by playing it through my car stereo in the glove compartment without being as considerate as I should of its operating temperature.
It's holding up remarkably well, but I have seen one phenomenon lately that frightens me from time to time. My iPod's always had a fainter-than-normal display, which I compensate for by turning up the contrast setting; but occasionally this has been mysteriously reverting to factory default, which makes me think the display is dying even though it actually isn't. This didn't happen until recently, and I don't know whether it's something to do with the way I've been treating it, or is just one of those things.
These old iPod displays are also themselves sensitive to temperature; they get darker when the iPod is too hot and fainter when it's too cold. But this is a case in which the contrast setting I've saved actually reverts, without any of the other settings being forgotten. I wonder if it's some failsafe in the code to keep the LCD from destroying itself in hot weather, but that's just an idle musing.
haineux linked to in a comment is pretty good.I've been abusing my old 3rd-gen iPod lately by playing it through my car stereo in the glove compartment without being as considerate as I should of its operating temperature.
It's holding up remarkably well, but I have seen one phenomenon lately that frightens me from time to time. My iPod's always had a fainter-than-normal display, which I compensate for by turning up the contrast setting; but occasionally this has been mysteriously reverting to factory default, which makes me think the display is dying even though it actually isn't. This didn't happen until recently, and I don't know whether it's something to do with the way I've been treating it, or is just one of those things.
These old iPod displays are also themselves sensitive to temperature; they get darker when the iPod is too hot and fainter when it's too cold. But this is a case in which the contrast setting I've saved actually reverts, without any of the other settings being forgotten. I wonder if it's some failsafe in the code to keep the LCD from destroying itself in hot weather, but that's just an idle musing.