iPod touch Battery Life?

[TechDudeGeorge]

What is a normal battery Life for the iPod Touch 4th generation? Mine seems to drop very quickly.

Watching short YouTube clips or even a quick game seem to drop the metre dramatically.

Apple insists there is nothing wrong with the battery, so would you say it's normal to drop quickly?

 

[yayitsezekiel]

What's the normal for Battery Life in the iPod Touch 4G? I had mine since Christmas and it's been fine .. But I just noticed the battery drops way too quickly.

Watching about 50 minutes of YouTube drops it to 80% .. Playing Tiny Wings dropped it further. But then I upgraded to 4.3.3 and tried again on a full charge, very light usage (as in on the springboard for 1 minute and tried one app for about 20 seconds) made it go to 90% quickly.

Then it jumped to 80% from 5 minutes of Tweetdeck. Over night with Low Brightness, Airplane made it went from 80% to 77%.

Now yesterday, played about 2 minutes of i3D, appstore for 30 seconds and that was about it. Before I went to bed it was 59% already... Is this normal? If this was heavy usage it'd be dead before a few hours.

I took it to Apple twice, first time in the Apple store they said it was fine. Then it continued so I send it in, and they took 3 weeks. Send it back scratched, but nothing done to it at all. No refurb or no battery, or even a note. So is this normal, as if so it pretty much sucks.

in your settings menu, is auto-brightness set to off? if it's on that's a major battery sucker

 

[TechDudeGeorge]

in your settings menu, is auto-brightness set to off? if it's on that's a major battery sucker

Yep, this a list of what I've tried but no help :/

* Update to 4.3.3 (It was the same before and on 4.2.1
* Brightness on lowest setting and Auto-Brightness Off
* Ping off
* Nofications and Location Services off
* FaceTime off

 

[TechDudeGeorge]

Anyone? I need some tips as my battery life sucks, it dropped 20% from 5 minutes of Tweetdeck

 

[MicroByte]

Sorry, wish could help. Sounds like you've dine everything right. Do you also clear your multitasking tray our as well? You also aren't the only one. I've noticed ever since around 4.2 - 4.3 that my battery life has been horrible as well. 20 minutes of Angry Birds and I'm down to around 75%!

 

[ender land]

I haven't upgraded recently at all (still at 4.2 I think) but get a lot of battery life - easily several days.

Although, I use mine almost exclusively as a music device and so I have airplane mode on most of the time.

 

[TechDudeGeorge]

I mean, I watched two 22 minute YouTube videos, started with a full all-night charge. It's on lowest brightness and went to 88%. That's freaking appaling, if I had it at a brightness I could actually see it'd go well below that. Apple say it's freaking fine when it's horrid!

 

[alust2013]

I mean, I watched two 22 minute YouTube videos, started with a full all-night charge. It's on lowest brightness and went to 88%. That's freaking appaling, if I had it at a brightness I could actually see it'd go well below that. Apple say it's freaking fine when it's horrid!

That sounds pretty normal. Apple rates it for 7 hours of video, and since youtube streams video, it uses a little bit more power, so 44 minutes and 12% sounds about right.

 

[Mlrollin91]

That sounds pretty normal. Apple rates it for 7 hours of video, and since youtube streams video, it uses a little bit more power, so 44 minutes and 12% sounds about right.

Agreed. Being rated for 7 hours of video playback of stored video, and the OP is getting about 6 hours of Youtube Video, that seems to be a pretty strong battery IMO.

OP: Apple rates all of their iPhone/iPod Touch batteries at a minimum of 5 hours of usage. Anything above that, Apple considers normal/good battery life usage. So it seems that you are getting that 5 hour minimum of usage, therefore your battery is good.