iPeng support thread

[sveander]

It works. As I wrote above, you have to DOUBLE TAP. This works.

3. For Lyrics you either need lyrics in your music's tags or you need to install the "Song Lyrics" plugin for Squeezebox Server (see http://penguinlovesmusic.de/twitter-discuss-it-all/)

Thank you. You was of course right.

I'm happy

[2eleven]

Wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Either after the recent 4.2.x iOS update or one of the recent iPeng updates (I have 1.2.10 right now) which happened all around the same time, iPeng has started sucking my battery dry when left idle. I've double checked that "prevent sleep mode" and "preserve connection" are both off. I have an iphone 3G S with iOS 4.2.1. If I queue up some music and set the phone down (now playing screen and ipeng is the foreground app), when I come back to the phone in a couple of hours, the phone is warm to the touch and the battery is almost dead (or completely dead if left long enough). Has anyone else experienced this?

This is definitely new behavior for me, but since I updated the phone to iOS 4.2.1 and iPeng to 1.2.10 around the same time, I can't be sure which update changed the behavior. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling iPeng with no luck...

Thanks,

John

[Bryan Jan]

Wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Either after the recent 4.2.x iOS update or one of the recent iPeng updates (I have 1.2.10 right now) which happened all around the same time, iPeng has started sucking my battery dry when left idle. I've double checked that "prevent sleep mode" and "preserve connection" are both off. I have an iphone 3G S with iOS 4.2.1. If I queue up some music and set the phone down (now playing screen and ipeng is the foreground app), when I come back to the phone in a couple of hours, the phone is warm to the touch and the battery is almost dead (or completely dead if left long enough). Has anyone else experienced this?

John

I experienced similar, every night I used to turn off the wifi connection in the iPad and leave the iPeng alone (just leave it running at the background), the battery level will remain the same the next night when I listen to music again.

However, since the current update, I'm sure after the 1.2.10 if I don't shut down iPeng at the background the battery will still dry out. I found these for two consecutive days after I recharged the iPad during the music session, the battery level dropped to 20% after one night if I didn't shut down iPeng even though I turned off the wifi connection.

I am sure there are no other apps running in my iPad. I thought it was something else until 2eleven mentioned this.

[AnotherTribe]

Yeah, looks like the last iPeng update has reintroduced the battery draining issue which was fixed a couple of updates back.

[pippin]

Please check whether the battery sucking really gets better if you quit iPeng.
I'm having similar issues with 4.2.1 whether or not iPeng is running as long as push notifications are on. Looks a bit like once some App enables WiFi (by having it's "WiFi App" attribute set) WiFi is not being shut down properly when notifications are on.

I leave iPeng running all the time and don't have issues with probably one exception I'm currently investigating into: is iPeng is still downloading cache data (albums/artists/genres or other menu lists, not artwork) and is sent to the background it _may_ stay active, not yet sure. I've had two incidents where I suspect it kept running.

[2eleven]

So far, for me, this has only happened to me with iPeng running, and only when it is left as the foreground app. That is not to say that it doesn't happen in other situations or when iPeng isn't running - just that I haven't experienced the problem yet in other situations.

I will try disabling push notifications and see if the behavior changes.

John

[Bryan Jan]

I don't think the Notification is on, but have to double check tonight.

[2eleven]

I can confirm that having notifications turned off has no effect. The battery drains rapidly if iPeng is left running in the foreground. I am 99.99% sure this is iPeng related, as it only happens when iPeng is running. It may be indirectly related to a change in iOS 4.2.1, but if iPeng is killed, the battery drain does not occur (for me).

John

[AnotherTribe]

Same results with my testing. IPeng is once again draining the iPod Touch overnight. Without iPeng running no battery draining occurs.

[pippin]

Hm. Will check again but I have iPeng permanently running on various devices now and the battery is stable.
Did you restart it after setting the "keep connection" setting was on?
Does it not happen when iPeng is in the background?