iPod touch So iOS6 has rendered my 4th gen iPod touch useless...

[Rocks.]

In terms of battery life, anyway.

So last night, I had the Do Not Disturb feature on and an alarm clock. The iPod was fully charged at midnight when I went to bed. I woke up at 8am. The iPod was already low battery... with only 8 hours on standby. I didn't use the iPod for anything today at all, so it was on standby all day. I picked it up again at 3pm, updated an app, opened up Maps and then the battery died.

If it can only last 15 hours on standby, imagine how long it'll last if I'm playing games on it, or actually using it for something...

 

[urban.spaceman]

So last night, I had the Do Not Disturb feature on and an alarm clock. The iPod was fully charged at midnight when I went to bed. I woke up at 8am. The iPod was already low battery... with only 8 hours on standby. I didn't use the iPod for anything today at all, so it was on standby all day. I picked it up again at 3pm, updated an app, opened up Maps and then the battery died.

If it can only last a little over 12 hours on standby, imagine how long it'll last if I'm playing games on it, or actually using it for something...

i left mine with the exact same circumstances and I haven't had a single problem.

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

Is it jailbroken? Do you have any running apps in the multitasking tray?

 

[Rocks.]

No, it's not jailbroken.

I've been making it a habit to delete apps from the multitasking tray when my iPod starts getting laggy. I only had about 7 apps running when the battery died.

I guess the thing about it being useless was exaggerated. It still works (sometimes it gets laggy), it's just the battery life has been reduced dramatically. I haven't experimented playing games yet, but I doubt it will last even an hour playing continuously.

And btw, I've had this iPod for 2 years (got it the day it came out!)

 

[Xeblade]

Weird, my battery lasts for a day and a half, it's a year old. I also used to have it jailbroken till I updated to iOS6.

 

[bigloudbang]

Must be your device. Mine is 2 years old, was jailbroken and now updated on iOS 6 and still runs OK.

 

[dchao]

Try factory restore your iPod touch. Sometime it will solve a power issue like this.

 

[Moocher]

Try factory restore your iPod touch. Sometime it will solve a power issue like this.

I did this - reset to factory settings. What a pain! My battery still goes down faster, even with only three apps "on." It may depend on whether we have something like notifications on - maybe one feature uses more battery on 6 than it did on 5?

I also can't use the App Store app. It crashes every time, no matter whether or not anything else is running. Even restarting doesn't help. I'd like to go back to 5 but don't know how.

Moocher

 

[NathanA]

I'd like to go back to 5 but don't know how.

You can't. Apple blocks iOS downgrades.

-- Nathan

 

[Thetonyk123]

I also can't use the App Store app. It crashes every time, no matter whether or not anything else is running. Even restarting doesn't help. I'd like to go back to 5 but don't know how.

Moocher

Yeah the App Store crashed on my iPod touch 4 to