i havent charged mine since i bought it yesterday morning and battery is still good. i did make sure to close all the apps that showed when i double clicked the home button.
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iPod touch Battery draining badly overnight on TWO 4th Gens
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So here's an interesting observation..
Had about 30+ apps in my app-drawer... including Skype.. bluetooth turned on.. Wifi turned on.... iPod has been on and running in this state for about 24 hours now.. lost about 10% life.
I don't quite get whats going on here.. maybe the battery needs calibration/conditioning.. but things are looking better after my 3rd charge now.
Had about 30+ apps in my app-drawer... including Skype.. bluetooth turned on.. Wifi turned on.... iPod has been on and running in this state for about 24 hours now.. lost about 10% life.
I don't quite get whats going on here.. maybe the battery needs calibration/conditioning.. but things are looking better after my 3rd charge now.
Well, just checked my iPod this morning and the battery still drained overnight. Got the 20% warning again this morning when I turned it on. When I checked it last night before I went to bed it had a 60% charge. Not good.
Not sure what else to try. Hope there's a fix soon...
My iPod (3rd Generation) was running fine until the iOS 4.0 update (I got the iPod at firmware version 3.1.2). Ever since the 4.0 update, I've been having major issues with the battery draining. However, it seems to get much better if I turn Wi-Fi off. When I left Wi-Fi on overnight, the battery saw major draining (50%+). When I left it on overnight with Wi-Fi off, the battery barely drained at all.
When I read this and similar posts, I have to think you and others have something running in the background that is keeping the wifi on when it's sleeping. Doubleclick your home button and start killing apps one at a time to find the culprit. Apps like Skype now act like this. Non-push IM apps that multitask probably do it too. If your wifi is always on - it will eat your battery.
My Update!
Hey guys, I was having the same problems on the 2 first days I had my ipt4. Now it seems I don't have it anymore.
What I'm doing differently: I'm quitting all the Apps manually in the drawer after I'm done with them.
Leaving the wifi ON was not killing my battery life, leaving a bunch of stuff open in the drawer was.
Hey guys, I was having the same problems on the 2 first days I had my ipt4. Now it seems I don't have it anymore.
What I'm doing differently: I'm quitting all the Apps manually in the drawer after I'm done with them.
Leaving the wifi ON was not killing my battery life, leaving a bunch of stuff open in the drawer was.
Well; no. If you previously had changed this on a jb firmware (eg. 4.0) and backed up with iTunes, the setting will be retained when restoring the backup. Even to a later sw version.
Of course, this doesn't help with people who only have the 4th gen as 4.1 is the earliest it will run (?), although you could modify an earlier gen of touch and restore the backup from that...
I meant third gen touch, not 3G / 3GS
But yes, it could be a bug unique to the 4th, or it could be a hardware problem unique to the 4th. Or it could affect all 4.1 devices.
So you are saying we SHOULD have that option available, just might be left out with the new 4.1OS specifically on the iPod Touch? Kind of annoying I have to dl an app just to check my battery percentage :S
another question whats the normal charge time for the iPod? BTW I don't think my battery gets drained like this, I left Wifi and Skype and MSN on, although I've only gone through one charge cycle.
Haha!
Apple: "We figured out a way to do multitasking RIGHT, in a way that is very power-efficient and doesn't kill your battery, unlike our competitors who will go nameless (hint: they rhyme with "Windows Mobile" and "Android")! That's why we arrogantly refused to give our customers what they have wanted all along until we figured this out!"
Apple customers: "You can't be serious."
On a more serious note, if you use mostly the same apps day-to-day, it might be interesting to try only closing ONE app before you put the device to "sleep" at night, and try to close a different single app every night while leaving the others "running." ...just to see if it is a specific app that is causing the majority of your battery drain. Then maybe we can take the app developer(s) to task after we figure out which app(s) is/are chewing up the battery.
-- Nathan
EDIT: I see Warbitrary already suggested a similar course of action earlier. My bad. Also, I was unaware that the 3rd and 4th-gen Touches still do not have battery percentage as an option...huh.
... if you use mostly the same apps day-to-day, it might be interesting to try only closing ONE app before you put the device to "sleep" at night, and try to close a different single app every night while leaving the others "running." ...just to see if it is a specific app that is causing the majority of your battery drain. Then maybe we can take the app developer(s) to task after we figure out which app(s) is/are chewing up the battery.
I understand, I even think it's a valid point, a little tedious, but valid. The problem is: Two people can use the same App but they can have different settings. (i.e.: Push Notification ON or OFF, Automatic or Manual). That by itself will give us different results from one user to another.
I downloaded 2 battery apps in my ipt4 BatGod and Battery Go!
Both give me a % of the battery.
same mine charges awfully fast too. I posted in another thread and someone mentioned it may be due to the fact it is my first charge. Was it your first charge too?
Let the battery go all the way down to 0% and then recharge, make it a couple of times to calibrate it.
I know that in normal circumstances nobody can afford to let it drain completely and then recharge, but that's the only way to get the most juice out and accurate reading out of it.
It really depends on the usage, type of apps, if you have you're Push settings set to automatic or manual, if you close your apps after putting them in the drawer, etc...
Mine right now has been up for 45 hours on a single charge and I still have 35% of battery left. Wifi is ON all this time but I'm not a heavy user and I close everything manually in the drawer. Brightness is set to 50% and all Push notifications are either turned off or set to manual. The only exception set to automatic is the Text Free app.
In casual conversation with a seasoned Apple Genius I was told that he resolves iPhone 4 battery complaints by closing sometimes '30 apps in the dock' and doesn't understand why people don't think of this themselves.
I had major problems with Skype in the drawer. I could watch the battery draining after my call ended.
I had major problems with Skype in the drawer. I could watch the battery draining after my call ended.
Just to update - the problem seems to have been solved. I turned the iPod completely off and let it rest for about 5 minutes before turning it back on. Went through yesterday and last night with no power drain. Woots!
Again, 2nd gen Touch, no multitasking...
i have come to the conclusion my battery is a dud , it charges in less than an hour and drains quickly, problem is best buy did not give me a receipt so i hope they take it back. other than the battery i think t is great . the speaker could be better but i can deal with that
This is possible. When you don't have any apps open that would use the wifi and you have it in sleep mode most of the time.
Fixed for me
I've been seeing the same problem as most others here with my brand new iPod Touch 4G. (iPod dies overnight when wifi is on...but loses nearly nothing with airplane mode on/wifi off). On a few suggestions (including Apple support), I restored the ipod to it's factory defaults. Along with that, I reset the wifi settings, and opted NOT to restore from the backup, and have not yet sync'd any apps. I'm not sure what combination of those events are required, but I was able to run it last night with wifi, and the drain was negligible. This is the first time that's happened.
My intent is to sync a few apps at a time and see if any cause problems. I had previously killed all apps before going to bed, so I don't really expect a problem with the apps, although there could be a buggy one, I suppose.
Hope this info helps someone.
I've been seeing the same problem as most others here with my brand new iPod Touch 4G. (iPod dies overnight when wifi is on...but loses nearly nothing with airplane mode on/wifi off). On a few suggestions (including Apple support), I restored the ipod to it's factory defaults. Along with that, I reset the wifi settings, and opted NOT to restore from the backup, and have not yet sync'd any apps. I'm not sure what combination of those events are required, but I was able to run it last night with wifi, and the drain was negligible. This is the first time that's happened.
My intent is to sync a few apps at a time and see if any cause problems. I had previously killed all apps before going to bed, so I don't really expect a problem with the apps, although there could be a buggy one, I suppose.
Hope this info helps someone.