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iPod touch iPod Touch battery life gone!!!

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iGrant

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Hey,

I was wondering if anyone else had this happen to them. I bought the upgrade for the iPod Touch 2.0 firmware and since I have installed it the battery life is all but gone now. I use to be able to lock my iPod Touch with the screen off and it would last days, like 3 or 4 and now it only lasts about 8 hours at most!!!

-iGrant
 
iGrant said:
Hey,

I was wondering if anyone else had this happen to them. I bought the upgrade for the iPod Touch 2.0 firmware and since I have installed it the battery life is all but gone now. I use to be able to lock my iPod Touch with the screen off and it would last days, like 3 or 4 and now it only lasts about 8 hours at most!!!

-iGrant
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Do a search for threads BEFORE posting in the future, please :cool:

1. Turn off location services (Settings>General>Location Services)
2. Crank your screen brightness down to around 25%. It will still be plenty bright, and you won't notice the difference after a few minutes.

These seem to be two great ways to increase battery life.
 
dasikes said:
Do a search for threads BEFORE posting in the future, please :cool:

1. Turn off location services (Settings>General>Location Services)
2. Crank your screen brightness down to around 25%. It will still be plenty bright, and you won't notice the difference after a few minutes.

These seem to be two great ways to increase battery life.
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Ok thanks . . . I did search the forums and the only thing I found was the brightness which I should have said I already have set at 25%.

Thanks
iGrant
 
If you're playing games, it will kill the battery life.

If you're leaving apps open before you sleep, it will kill the battery life.

If you're using AIM or Pandora or AOL Radio, it will kill the battery life.
 
also turn off fetch mail if your using push email or if you dont need to check your email every 10 min
 
oh, and when closing apps, if you hold down the home button for some time, it completely shuts the program down. This prevents background processes from piling up.
 
So just going back using the Home button isn't enough to stop apps? In that case, I might have 100 of them running. :)

How can you tell?
 
dasikes said:
oh, and when closing apps, if you hold down the home button for some time, it completely shuts the program down. This prevents background processes from piling up.
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Thanks thats a really good tip, I did not know that at all. Also thanks for the location, that looks like the culprit in killing my iPod Touch!

-iGrant
 
Thank you!

Wow, that must have really killed my battery life. Since getting my ipod, I would try like 10-15 apps, I mean I knew they would save the point where I was before but not like that. Thank you! I'm gonna try some other tips I found too and see about my battery life, cause I thought it was the unit!
 
ouch

The battery seems to be really lame, that is kind of disappointing, I had the 1st generation touch but sold it because the battery life was really bad, and I didn't even really use it that much. Is the 2nd generation battery life really that improved or no? From what this forum is telling me it seems to be a lot worse
 
Wow, great tips; I knew the turn wifi off and turning fetch data off worked but...

The general services thing, and the complete shut down of apps, I did not know, thank you VERY much.
 
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