iPod touch My ipod touch 1st gen still has great battery life. How long do batteries last ?

[sebastian...]

As in the title, how many years can a lithium battery last ?

I remembered I had some great music on my ipod touch 16 GB, still running ios 1, but with jailbreak, so it also has some cool software on it (for the time). It's still in very good condition, and I tried to charge it, only to see it staying for hours and hours at 2% with the power plugged in. Then I tried to charge it while being powered off, and when I turned it back on, it was fully charged. And the charge lasts a lot of hours and maybe more than a day in standby.
Reading on internet I was under the impression batteries last about 3 years in a device like this, but I bought this ipod touch new, a few months after release, so I'm guessing in 2007 ? And it still has a working battery.

The only thing strange is I keep trying to drag my finger down to get to the notification drop down to control the brightness, or use touch gestures, or double click the home button to go to the first page, and none of that exists in the ios 1 world

 

[mightyjabba]

Honestly, they can last a surprisingly long time, but they can also go bad within 2-3 years in certain circumstances. It's hard to say. I have a number of devices that are many years old that still work quite well, even if the absolute run time is probably quite a bit less than when they were new. But my iPhone X's battery was essentially shot after 3 years.

 

[sebastian...]

So you're saying I don't have some kind of magic battery, and things like that happen more often.. Because all I hear on internet is just things like: "my battery is almost dead after 3 years" . So I was expecting a battery after 14 years to be really dead.

And I said my ipod touch last at least a day in standby, but it's now going on two days and the battery is at 74%. Plus I listened music for a few hours at least.
The old ios 1 doesn't have a percent battery indicator, but I have an app installed, as you can see in the pic.

 

[mightyjabba]

The battery in my original iPod from 2001 still works to some degree, so there's not really any set amount of time. It depends on how they are used (how much and under what conditions) as well as how good the battery was to begin with.

 

[QCassidy352]

The battery in my iPhone 2G (2007) works fine also... dunno if it would last two days on standby, but I can use it for a while with no appreciable drain. Pretty cool for a 14 year old device!

 

[retta283]

The battery in my iPhone 3G manufactured around September 2008 still acts like it's brand new. I can get get weeks and weeks of standby life, I accidentally forgot to turn it off around 2 years ago and came back to it months later and was still on. About a month ago, I turned it on for the first time in over a year and it still had about 25% charge in it.

It's really hit or miss with batteries, they are extremely unpredictable.

 

[sebastian...]

Months of standby battery ? I'm not sure even a new product would last that long. For an ipad maybe. Or probably. But for a phone ?
Maybe you were being ironic ?

 

[retta283]

Months of standby battery ? I'm not sure even a new product would last that long. For an ipad maybe. Or probably. But for a phone ?
Maybe you were being ironic ?

No, it is quite true. Thinking back on it it was about a month maybe a bit less but it certainly did last. Keep in mind that unlike 99% of modern devices, this phone is not connected to Wifi, cellular, bluetooth, or anything else. So it's practically static when in storage.

 

[mightyjabba]

Yeah the iPod will turn all the way off after a while, so it’s not so much “standby” time as the time it takes for the battery to naturally discharge.

 

[sebastian...]

No, it is quite true. Thinking back on it it was about a month maybe a bit less but it certainly did last. Keep in mind that unlike 99% of modern devices, this phone is not connected to Wifi, cellular, bluetooth, or anything else. So it's practically static when in storage.

In that case, I guess it would be possible. And as it was said here, it seems batteries can differ as in "luck of the draw" or something.

My ipod touch still has 59% charge since I started the thread, but I kept it turned off the last 2 days, when not in use, and it was turned on only to listen to some songs, so the screen was also off when in use.
But I still think it's strange, especially since the battery seems to have developed some kind of a defect, so it's not even in a good unbroken condition. The defect is that it refuses to charge, unless the ipod is completely off. A few years ago it was not like that.

My ipod also doesn't have Bluetooth, and I keep the wifi turned off.
And I find it strange how it doesnt have bluetooth. Because old dumb phones had bluetooth, and this device compared to a dumb phone, looks way more modern. Why not bluetooth ?
Damn I can't use my Bluetooth headphones.

 

[bella2v]

As in the title, how many years can a lithium battery last ?

I remembered I had some great music on my ipod touch 16 GB, still running ios 1, but with jailbreak, so it also has some cool software on it (for the time). It's still in very good condition, and I tried to charge it, only to see it staying for hours and hours at 2% with the power plugged in. Then I tried to charge it while being powered off, and when I turned it back on, it was fully charged. And the charge lasts a lot of hours and maybe more than a day in standby.
Reading on internet I was under the impression batteries last about 3 years in a device like this, but I bought this ipod touch new, a few months after release, so I'm guessing in 2007 ? And it still has a working battery.

The only thing strange is I keep trying to drag my finger down to get to the notification drop down to control the brightness, or use touch gestures, or double click the home button to go to the first page, and none of that exists in the ios 1 world

I have the 6th Gen and use it daily for weather, some email and some messaging. It is still going strong but I wish they would come out with a newer one with a new chip. Thinking of getting the last madel with the A10 as I fear Apple may stop supporting the older one. I take this with me on every trip and it works great on hotel wifi where I make calls via Line2. I have the iPhone, but actually prefer the iTouch for quick checks and quick replies. It is faster than the iPhone.