Chittagong
Gold Member
Marconelly said:
My gf wasn't shipped with one
PSP battery life = FUCKING FIVE HOURS. Is this acceptable?
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My gf wasn't shipped with one
Amir0x said:
I think what Ami's saying here - and I tend to agree - is that judging the PSP's battery life just based on the performance of one game is a little short-sighted. As long as it remains (basically) true that different games drain the system in their own, special way, it is right to ask how the thing hold up with different games played at varying intervals. That will give a true, "real world" performance average that we can all be happy (or unhappy) about. So all of you lucky dogs, start swapping games in and out. Play RR for 30 minutes; pop in Hot Shots. Maybe watch the UMD demo disk after about an hour. Wrap it up with random bits of Lumines and whatever else you'd like. Adjust the volume a little, pause it when you take a pee break.
Etc.
Here's IGN's account then, for starters:
http://psp.ign.com/articles/572/572563p1.html (bottom of article)
http://psp.ign.com/articles/572/572563p1.html (bottom of article)
BuckRobotron
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This is why my Lynx was always plugged in.
JackFrost2012
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Marconelly said:
the screen also autodims after a minute of no input
Foreign Jackass
Member
Well, turns out the PSP battery is the longest-lasting part in the system.
Take that, Nintendo fans!
Take that, Nintendo fans!
WiFi is the one feature I haven't got the mA rating for yet (didn't really test it), but in order for RR to get 2hours with WiFi on, the function would have to gobble up 450+mA (which would be the equivalent of the entire rest of the system in that case).Kaching said:
Now - I know WiFi is power hungry, but it these things typically ate 450+mA the PocketPC PDAs with WiFi would run for like an hour or less on their typical battery.
"It's okay, though, because the PSP goes into sleep mode when the battery dies, allowing you to continue play exactly where you left off, once you've gotten more power to your system."
http://psp.ign.com/articles/572/572563p1.html
Oh, that's good news .... maybe the battery life wont hurt it too much after all.
http://psp.ign.com/articles/572/572563p1.html
Oh, that's good news .... maybe the battery life wont hurt it too much after all.
will the battery die faster if we recharge it more often?
coz the normal rechargable AA batteries I buy say they can be recharged 1000 times... I assume that only means performance will be lower after recharging 1000 times instead of being completely un-reusable tho...
so will battery life be shorter after we recharge it a lot of times?
coz the normal rechargable AA batteries I buy say they can be recharged 1000 times... I assume that only means performance will be lower after recharging 1000 times instead of being completely un-reusable tho...
so will battery life be shorter after we recharge it a lot of times?
radioheadrule83
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pkasho said:
Yeah, as is the case with most rechargable things. The amount of charges before life deprecation could be higher/lower with the PSP. I'm gonna edge towards 500 charges for your typical Li-Ion style batteries tho. Either way, the difference in power you get out, is negligable for a very long time.
It's a shame the battery is affected so much by new factors... I mean a game that pushes the hardware a lot, or reads the disc a lot, or uses WiFi. We've not had these variable lifetimes on a handheld before...
But I think it does enough for most people.
Traumahound
Member
Amir0x said:
And change the batteries really quick.
Traumahound said:
No you don't have to do that. You can wait a long time if you want. When the battery dies the PSP goes into the standby mode and the place you were at in the game you were playing goes into the RAM temporarily. Then, at your leisure, simply take a replacement battery and place it in or charge the PSP directly.
boredJonathan
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Amir0x said:
Seriously? That rocks.. almost makes reading all these threads worth it to find out little tidbits like this.
Die Squirrel Die
Member
I still want that wristmounted battery pack to be released eventually. Not so much for playing (90 mins to 2hrs on the train a day I think I can handle the standard battery) but so I can run around pretending it's my space communicator.
Well, sleep mode with the battery in good state probably draws a few milliamps to keep the ram live.
Sleep mode with the battery removed would probably ue a capacitor to keep the ram hot for acouple of minues.
Remember, the on/off/sleep mode is a software switch, so the difference between the PSP's On and Off isn't as night and day as with a hard switch. ie: when you hold the power button, you dont cut power to it, just tell it to turn itself off and basically go in sleep mode without that fancy little sleep mode resuming thing
Sleep mode with the battery removed would probably ue a capacitor to keep the ram hot for acouple of minues.
Remember, the on/off/sleep mode is a software switch, so the difference between the PSP's On and Off isn't as night and day as with a hard switch. ie: when you hold the power button, you dont cut power to it, just tell it to turn itself off and basically go in sleep mode without that fancy little sleep mode resuming thing
Traumahound
Member
Amir0x said:
If that's true, I stand corrected. Also, it's pretty slick.
tahrikmili
Member
It's good to hear that the battery life is not 90 minutes.
In other news, people who argued 90 minutes should be enough are either total tools or people who would buy a PSP even if it only play game and watch stuff..
In other news, people who argued 90 minutes should be enough are either total tools or people who would buy a PSP even if it only play game and watch stuff..
He wont even need an extra one: if he's commuting for 4 hours an playing the whole time with headphones (who'd use the speakers on a commute!?), on a 5~ish hour battery, he's got enough for the entire trip.
come home and play it wired and let it charge overnight.
rinse, repeat.
come home and play it wired and let it charge overnight.
rinse, repeat.
tahrikmili
Member
And reading how something with such computing power and multimedia capabilities as the PSP can last 5 hours on batteries, here's a rather offtopic rant:
WHY DO DIGI-CAMS RUN OUT OF BATTERIES SO FAST?!?!?!
WHY DO DIGI-CAMS RUN OUT OF BATTERIES SO FAST?!?!?!
depends on the batteries and the digicm. some are battery hogs. I think I remember reading Kocera cams in particular... while other will take upwards of 400 shots on a set of batteries.
Good batteries of course. when you're talking digicam, it has to be high power NiMH and nothing else. under 2100 mAh you're just wasting your time.
Good batteries of course. when you're talking digicam, it has to be high power NiMH and nothing else. under 2100 mAh you're just wasting your time.
Extra battery?! *sigh* That's so 1989! This is 2004. The damn thing should be powered off the warmth of my hands alone!
Some semesters I end up with empty spots in my schedule where I have to wait any where from an hour to two hours for my next classes to begin. If I tried to do any gaming then on the same battery, that would really muck things up.
I often forget to water plants, feed fish, etc. -- BUT that's not the point.
LIKE I said above, it's 2004. If electric shavers can clean themselves and the Roomba vaccum knows how to return to it's docking station to recharge itself, my PSP should be able to do the same thing! >=T
GameCentral, the teletext games pages in the UK have just reported the 90 minutes quote, saying its for games like Ridge Racers (puzzle games get more apparantly).
They used to be great when Tony Mott and Mr. Biffo were on, but they've gone downhill rapidly since the new managment took over.
They used to be great when Tony Mott and Mr. Biffo were on, but they've gone downhill rapidly since the new managment took over.