Restoring The Original Flash Rom Contents; Optimising Battery Runtime; Display Backlight; Anti-Skip Buffer - Archos Jukebox 5000 Manual

Chapter 11. Advanced Topics
4. Play the file rockbox.ucl, or preferably rombox.ucl, and follow the instructions.
The plugin handling this is rockbox_flash, a viewer plugin.

11.5.5. Restoring the Original Flash ROM Contents

In case you ever want to restore the original flash contents, you will need the backup
file. The procedure is very similar to initial flashing, with the following differences:
1. Check that you do not have any firmware_*.bin files in your player's root.
2. Select Plugins
down the filename it displays in the first screen, then exit the plugin.
3. Connect USB, and copy the flash ROM backup file to the root of your player.
Only use the backup file from that very box, otherwise you're asking for trouble!
Rename the file so that it matches the name requested by the firmware_flash
plugin. Safely disconnect USB.
Now follow the instructions given for initial flashing, starting with step 3.

11.6. Optimising battery runtime

Rockbox offers a lot of settings that have high impact on the battery runtime of your
player. The largest power savings can be achieved through disabling unneeded hardware
components – for some of those there are settings available. The following provides a
short overview of the most relevant settings and rules of thumb.

11.6.1. Display backlight

The active backlight consumes a lot of power. Therefore choose a setting that disables
the backlight after timeout (for setting Backlight see section
have the backlight enabled all the time.
11.6.2. Anti-Skip Buffer
Having a large anti-skip buffer tends to use more power, and may reduce your battery
life. It is recommended to always use the lowest possible setting that allows correct and
continuous playback (see section

11.6.3. Audio format and bitrate

Your target uses a hard disk which consumes a large amount of power while spinning –
up to several hundred mA. The less often the hard disk needs to spin up for buffering
and the shorter the buffering duration is, the lower is the power consumption. Therefore
the bitrate of the audio files does have an impact on the battery runtime as well. Lower
bitrate audio files will result in longer battery runtime.
The Rockbox manual
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