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I purchased one on Black Friday. I have had trouble with my battery too.Alright everybodyy,
I got an iPod Touch recently and after using it for about two weeks, i am completely disgusted with the battery life. I might have to bring it to the nearest Apple Store and see if i received a defective one.. But honestly i only get about 4 hours of battery life on a full charge with the brightness down near about 25%.
i just wanted to see if other people were having the same issue as me...
Thanks guys..
Upon googling, I've learned to turn off features on my ipod touch. If these tips don't help I am going to return it to the store. Seems odd that my blackberry keeps an excellent battery life with all features left on and the touch can not.
It all depends on what you are doing with your iPod touch. If you are using Applications more and more your battery life will go down the hill. I recommend stop using a lot of applications and when you don't need it, turn off wifi. I turned off Location Services, and push email.
This is the second time this thread was resurrected by Forum Necromancers, and the third time I read it as a new thread! Let it die!
I have played around with a 2nd Gen iPod Touch with wifi enabled apps and I was still able to get about seven hours of battery life. If you get any less on a new iPod Touch, it's more than likely defective.
I have played around with a 2nd Gen iPod Touch with wifi enabled apps and I was still able to get about seven hours of battery life. If you get any less on a new iPod Touch, it's more than likely defective.
Get an itouch battery extender
How about get an itouch battery extender? I bought one battery extender called imp500 from imaxpower.com and it is pretty nice. Anyone own one like this? Thanks
How about get an itouch battery extender? I bought one battery extender called imp500 from imaxpower.com and it is pretty nice. Anyone own one like this? Thanks
iPod
I got an 8 gb iPod Touch 3g for Christmas, and I think the battery may be a bit screwy. Today it was at 30% and I turned wifi on and it jumped to 50%. Then I played some games on airplane mode it went to 20% then I wentnon safari with wifi and it's at 40% now. Any ideas? :/
I got an 8 gb iPod Touch 3g for Christmas, and I think the battery may be a bit screwy. Today it was at 30% and I turned wifi on and it jumped to 50%. Then I played some games on airplane mode it went to 20% then I wentnon safari with wifi and it's at 40% now. Any ideas? :/
The battery life isnt excellent when using WiFi or applications. Which isn't good considering those two thongs are the iPod Touches main selling points. But had the best battery life when it comes to music and Audio podcasts. (36 hours). But for the people including myself who have the newest devices jailbroken, we have tethered jailbreaks. Meaning we can't turn our devices off completely without having to completely re-jailbreak
WAdams: Have you done a full charge yet? Charge it for 12 hours, discharge it completely, and then charge it back up. This will calibrate the battery so that it doesn't jump around like that.
I have the same problem since I bought my Ipod back in September (64g). It goes up and down without having recharged it. It was drained out a few times since I have it and still does this. As a example, I am leaving work to go home and it shows 25% (battery app), I walk to get the bus while listening to music and get in the bus and while the music is still playing I see that it went back up to 55% (which should be more in line with the use of the previous days since the last complete charge).
Ihad 5 battery app at some point and they always were showing the same % at the same time and they matched the indicator bar on the home page. One app shows the history of the different times I opened the app (showing the level up and down since the last full charge)
Now I wonder if it`s just an indicator issue (software) and not an actual battery issue, i.e. if I were to listen to music continously, I could still get 30h of music even if the indicator could go up or down.
Perhaps, today's minor software update fixes, as somewhat mentionned, this exact issue I am seeing (and therefore not an actual battery issue)
I'm sure it's a software issue, I highly doubt it's a hardware issue. Batteries can be hard to read sometimes. Let us know if the update fixes it!
OS4 update kills battery
I know this is an old post, but before I updated to os4, I was getting 8-10 hours of life. after just updating to os4, I put the touch to sleep and 3 hours later it was dead. I didn't touch it nor did I mess with it. I just put it to sleep like I did before and now I don't get the battery I use to. I have turned off Push/Fetch and turned off the Ask to join network. I have read that kills the battery. I left the wifi on all the time before and I hate having to switch to airport mode (since i didn't have to do that before). What else can be killing the battery?
I know this is an old post, but before I updated to os4, I was getting 8-10 hours of life. after just updating to os4, I put the touch to sleep and 3 hours later it was dead. I didn't touch it nor did I mess with it. I just put it to sleep like I did before and now I don't get the battery I use to. I have turned off Push/Fetch and turned off the Ask to join network. I have read that kills the battery. I left the wifi on all the time before and I hate having to switch to airport mode (since i didn't have to do that before). What else can be killing the battery?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2474499&tstart=0
A lengthy thread on Apple Discussions about it and Apple is aware of the issue.
Officially acknowledged, potential fix found
Thanks to NY Times columnist David Pogue inquiring about this on my behalf to his Apple rep, Apple assigned someone from their corporate executive support office to help me with this. It meant things got DONE. Apple Engineering had me install a battery use tracker on my iTouch over several days, and they analyzed it to find out what the issue was.
They suspected that the main culprit was the oudated firmware on my wireless router. When I updated the firmware, the problem DISAPPEARED and my iTouch is back to having the long battery life it always had.
Take a look at your router's firmware and make sure to update it and see if it helps. This was the recommendation from Apple Engineering directly!
Thanks to NY Times columnist David Pogue inquiring about this on my behalf to his Apple rep, Apple assigned someone from their corporate executive support office to help me with this. It meant things got DONE. Apple Engineering had me install a battery use tracker on my iTouch over several days, and they analyzed it to find out what the issue was.
They suspected that the main culprit was the oudated firmware on my wireless router. When I updated the firmware, the problem DISAPPEARED and my iTouch is back to having the long battery life it always had.
Take a look at your router's firmware and make sure to update it and see if it helps. This was the recommendation from Apple Engineering directly!
I sent mine back to Apple after a week of owning it. It drained the battery too quick without doing anything. After receiving the replacement unit, it now works great. I was able to jail break the replacement and download ipod touch music for it and everything. I now am a fan.
Can you explain what you mean by Jail break? How can you see what type of music they offer at the link you provided above?
Last about half a day nowadays (a year old or a bit less). Could do with more; bought a portable battery. It's also slow. It appears something's not right - too many apps or something.