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iPod touch Battery draining badly overnight on TWO 4th Gens
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What's the point? Apps in the multitasking bar aren't actually running (for the most part, but I won't get any more technical than that).
Another 2nd gen user here with the same battery drainage problems, and no multi-tasking to blame. I thought I was just playing Angry Birds too much, since that drains the battery faster than normal, but when I went from 100% (charged overnight) to the 20% warning in about 14 hours, with only ~2 hours of music and ~25 minutes of Angry Birds, I knew something was wrong. With iPhone OS 3.x, the battery would have only been down perhaps 1/3 (with 2/3 left).
I've disabled Notifications to see if that helps (fetch was already off for Mail). I hope that does the trick, as I don't really need them, and I don't want to have to turn on and off Airplane mode all the time.
I'm also going to send feedback to apple using their iPod touch feedback form. I suggest others do the same, politely and clearly explaining the problem even if you've come up with a workaround.
I had the same problem with my 1G Touch back when I went from iOS v1 to v2. It would drain a fully charged battery overnight. Took it to the Genius Bar and they replaced it 3 times. Finally, my 4th one worked as it should and is still holding a charge overnight today. The 4G Touch I picked up 2 weeks ago doesn't have battery issues either. I leave wifi on 24/7 and maybe use 5% battery overnight.
Moral: complain to Apple, make them replace it if you are having problems, eventually you should get a good one.
Moral: complain to Apple, make them replace it if you are having problems, eventually you should get a good one.
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why the hell do you people not plug your iPod in every night?
why the hell do you people not plug your iPod in every night?
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by the way last night I unplugged my touch from the charger at 11pm, went to work, listened to 4 hours of music, played games, took pics and video and I still had about 75% battery remaining. Full brightness, wifi on, location services on. How can I get 5 hours usage out of it, lose 25% of battery while some of you guys lose 30% overnight?
by the way last night I unplugged my touch from the charger at 11pm, went to work, listened to 4 hours of music, played games, took pics and video and I still had about 75% battery remaining. Full brightness, wifi on, location services on. How can I get 5 hours usage out of it, lose 25% of battery while some of you guys lose 30% overnight?
Unless it's Skype. Which will rape your battery if left on overnight. If that app can do it, certainly some others could have the ability to do the same, or at least drain it to a lesser degree.
Because some of us have never needed to charge it nightly, in a year and a half of prior use, unless we were making exceptionally heavy use of it.
Yeah, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong here.
It is possible for a problem to show up in some units and not others. And it's not about it losing around 30% overnight, it's more like 60%+. Fortunately turning off notifications solved the problem for me. Maybe you don't have them on?
Heat of the Night...
I share the problem. Turned off and reset everything three times. No luck. Here's my take: I put my iPod under the pillow. It heats up. A lot! Melted my screen protector. So I am rigging up a netted sleeve to dump it in at night. Let you know.
I share the problem. Turned off and reset everything three times. No luck. Here's my take: I put my iPod under the pillow. It heats up. A lot! Melted my screen protector. So I am rigging up a netted sleeve to dump it in at night. Let you know.
I have had no issues with my battery life on my 4G iPod at all. I can take video, watch the videos, upload them to YouTube, play games, listen to music, with the Wi-Fi on, and still have over 50& battery life remaining. Now I haven't left it on overnight, and I don't think I will. I prefer turning things off, such as iPods and phones.
But I did have a major battery issue with my 3 Gen iPod after upgrading to 4.1 software. I would only get 2 hours of battery life AT BEST!. Even with the Wi-Fi off, push off, and game center off I still had battery woes. So I returned my 3 Gen (which I a bought a week before the 4G came out) and upgraded to the 4G. A like I said, no battery issues at all.
I could be some units that are affected and some aren't which sounds stupid, but it could very well be true.
I do have Game Center disabled as well as Push Notifications, so that may save battery life quite a bit.
I hope you can get you issues fixed.
But I did have a major battery issue with my 3 Gen iPod after upgrading to 4.1 software. I would only get 2 hours of battery life AT BEST!. Even with the Wi-Fi off, push off, and game center off I still had battery woes. So I returned my 3 Gen (which I a bought a week before the 4G came out) and upgraded to the 4G. A like I said, no battery issues at all.
I could be some units that are affected and some aren't which sounds stupid, but it could very well be true.
I do have Game Center disabled as well as Push Notifications, so that may save battery life quite a bit.
I hope you can get you issues fixed.
Battery Draining
I have the same problem. Until the last IOS upgrade, all was well. Now the battery will go from 100% to 10% in less than 24 hours, while asleep.
I noticed that my firewall is blocking packets from my touch to an apple server (17.149.x.x) on TCP port 5223. These events happen every 5 minutes, day or nite, and while asleep. I have all push settings and notifications turned off and I am not 'logged in' to game center (I was, but logging out didnt stop the problem). The event happens 10 times each 5 minutes, then seems to sleep for 5 minutes to try again.
It isnt trying to register, or anything, I dont think, because I have been away from home for the past week using a wifi point that had no filters and had the problem there.
I posted a bug report to the apple site, we'll see what the result is. I've tried turning off everything I can find but the outbound requests still are being sent over my network.
I have the same problem. Until the last IOS upgrade, all was well. Now the battery will go from 100% to 10% in less than 24 hours, while asleep.
I noticed that my firewall is blocking packets from my touch to an apple server (17.149.x.x) on TCP port 5223. These events happen every 5 minutes, day or nite, and while asleep. I have all push settings and notifications turned off and I am not 'logged in' to game center (I was, but logging out didnt stop the problem). The event happens 10 times each 5 minutes, then seems to sleep for 5 minutes to try again.
It isnt trying to register, or anything, I dont think, because I have been away from home for the past week using a wifi point that had no filters and had the problem there.
I posted a bug report to the apple site, we'll see what the result is. I've tried turning off everything I can find but the outbound requests still are being sent over my network.
Same's been happening here with the iPod Touch I bought my girlfriend for her birthday. We went to an Apple Store to have it swapped out and since you can't check "usage" on the touch, their diagnostic software isn't compatible with the new iPod Touches yet... seems kinda stupid to me.
They made a "note" on her file and said some back if we keep having the issue.
What a joke. $400 bucks wasted when I could of just paid of ETF on her current cell phone AND bought her an iPhone 4 for around the same price.
They made a "note" on her file and said some back if we keep having the issue.
What a joke. $400 bucks wasted when I could of just paid of ETF on her current cell phone AND bought her an iPhone 4 for around the same price.
Airplane shuts off all wireless communications. That includes Wifi, and Bluetooth. When you're on an airplane, they always ask you to "kindly power off all your wireless devices" because the wireless transmissions can interfere with their equipment. Airplane mode allows you to keep your device on but disable all the wireless communication features of your device.
So with Airplane Mode on, you will not receive any notifications of any sort, because the Wifi is disabled.
Terminate apps
Besides turning off wifi, quit any apps you are not using. Here's how:
You can terminate a suspended app manually. That's what happens if you double-press Home to enter the fast app switching interface, tap and hold on one of the four icons there to go into "shaky mode," and then tap the red delete button on any of the four icons. (If the app isn't running at all, of course, then you're just removing it from the list of recently used apps.)
Source: http://db.tidbits.com/article/11378
Besides turning off wifi, quit any apps you are not using. Here's how:
You can terminate a suspended app manually. That's what happens if you double-press Home to enter the fast app switching interface, tap and hold on one of the four icons there to go into "shaky mode," and then tap the red delete button on any of the four icons. (If the app isn't running at all, of course, then you're just removing it from the list of recently used apps.)
Source: http://db.tidbits.com/article/11378
I had been experiencing the same dramatic battery drain on my 64GB iPod Touch 4G. The only "cure" seemed to be to put it into Airplane mode. I tried disabling push email, location services, notifications, etc... anything that could potentially access the network. No change... it still drained dramatically.
Since some have reported that they didn't experience this issue, I decided that I would wipe it out and start from scratch. But before attempting that, I did a reset of the device... simultaneously holding the home key and sleep/wake key for 10 seconds. The system rebooted and I left wifi on for 12 hours.
The result: There has been no battery drain. Previously, that 12 hours with wifi on would have virtually completely drained the battery.
So it appears that under 4.1 (I didn't notice it under 4.0) one (or more) of those network settings changes doesn't take affect until the device is rebooted.
I don't know if this will help anyone else, but if you are still experiencing the battery drain issue, make the necessary changes to any network/connection settings, save them, and then reboot the device.
Since some have reported that they didn't experience this issue, I decided that I would wipe it out and start from scratch. But before attempting that, I did a reset of the device... simultaneously holding the home key and sleep/wake key for 10 seconds. The system rebooted and I left wifi on for 12 hours.
The result: There has been no battery drain. Previously, that 12 hours with wifi on would have virtually completely drained the battery.
So it appears that under 4.1 (I didn't notice it under 4.0) one (or more) of those network settings changes doesn't take affect until the device is rebooted.
I don't know if this will help anyone else, but if you are still experiencing the battery drain issue, make the necessary changes to any network/connection settings, save them, and then reboot the device.
Had the first iPod Touch I bought replaced by Apple on Saturday for this battery issue.
I sync'd it on itunes as a "new" device, charged it to full that first day, and let it drain all the way back down. I charged the iPod to full before I left for work today (around noon), killed all apps in the multitasking bar, no push on, fetch on an hour, and wifi still on and I come back just now to the battery at the 20% or lower mark.
I'm going to try charging it to full right now and having airplane mode on tonight and see if it happens again. I bought this for her thinking she'd love it and it's completely useless. She barely uses the thing all day and she goes to play Angry Birds at night, and the thing is dead.
I hope Apple addresses the issue soon.
I sync'd it on itunes as a "new" device, charged it to full that first day, and let it drain all the way back down. I charged the iPod to full before I left for work today (around noon), killed all apps in the multitasking bar, no push on, fetch on an hour, and wifi still on and I come back just now to the battery at the 20% or lower mark.
I'm going to try charging it to full right now and having airplane mode on tonight and see if it happens again. I bought this for her thinking she'd love it and it's completely useless. She barely uses the thing all day and she goes to play Angry Birds at night, and the thing is dead.
I hope Apple addresses the issue soon.
Sorry, I really don't mean to sound rude, I'm just curious...
Why aren't you keeping it on the charger or keeping it turned off while you sleep?
Why aren't you keeping it on the charger or keeping it turned off while you sleep?
LeighAnna Jones said:
Because it shouldn't be necessary. iPod touches have historically had great battery life. The battery drain under some conditions on 4.1 is not normal.
True! Skype stays connected on wifi while the device is in sleep mode.
If you've launched lots of programs since using Skype it's a bit cumbersome to shut it down. Launch > Close > Open Task Bar > Hold Icon > Close. A "close all" button would be so much simpler.
Well I just restored the iPod Touch 4G as a new device, charged it to "full" in airplane mode and now I'm going to see if the device drains like it has been overnight.
And for most people like myself, I kill all the apps on the multitasking bar quite frequently and none are left on over night so it has to be something else draining the battery. We have skype installed on our iOS devices but never use it so that's not the issue on this end.
We'll see what I find out in the morning with it in airplane mode.
And for most people like myself, I kill all the apps on the multitasking bar quite frequently and none are left on over night so it has to be something else draining the battery. We have skype installed on our iOS devices but never use it so that's not the issue on this end.
We'll see what I find out in the morning with it in airplane mode.
After a good night sleep and an iPod Touch 4G in airplane mode, the battery didn't drain a bit.
Still though, for a device that uses wifi as it's only means for connecting to the internet, this is still a huge issue.
Looks like I'll be heading to the Apple Store for a 3rd replacement.
Still though, for a device that uses wifi as it's only means for connecting to the internet, this is still a huge issue.
Looks like I'll be heading to the Apple Store for a 3rd replacement.
Skype just received an update!
Could anyone of you test, if the battery still drains that bad? I can't right now, because my iPod beeing replaced for a new one (had light leaks)
Could anyone of you test, if the battery still drains that bad? I can't right now, because my iPod beeing replaced for a new one (had light leaks)
It's not a hardware issue. It is related to iOS 4.1 under certain conditions. Try some of the suggestions in this thread before replacing it... you might be replacing it with one that has other issues (like light-leaking).After a good night sleep and an iPod Touch 4G in airplane mode, the battery didn't drain a bit.
Still though, for a device that uses wifi as it's only means for connecting to the internet, this is still a huge issue.
Looks like I'll be heading to the Apple Store for a 3rd replacement.