Very important about 2.1 firmware

[TheBearman]

Questtion for those having the issues, did you do a full restore, or did you just update. Also have any of you calibrated the battery?

I did a full restore. Not to sound stupid (to late!) how does one calibrate the battery?

I know mine died it a few hours not just the 20% warning. That warning came up and within 15 minutes it simply shutdown.

 

[thestaton]

Is this for real? Has Apple just completely given up on any product testing? I wish I could just revert my iPhone back to the early days of 2.0. They are just managing to make it worse.

 

[deimos256]

I think they got some fresh college graduates handling this

 

[Anuba]

I did a full restore. Not to sound stupid (to late!) how does one calibrate the battery?

Basically you just let the battery drain completely. It should be so low on power that it won't even attempt to start. Then you just recharge as normal.

Most people keep recharging all the time and never let the indicator go below 50%. This is perfectly normal (and good for the battery), but the problem is that the indicator doesn't know where rock bottom is, so you have to show it every once in a while. If you don't, the battery indicator is wild guessing.

Is this for real? Has Apple just completely given up on any product testing? I wish I could just revert my iPhone back to the early days of 2.0. They are just managing to make it worse.

The fact that 8 out of millions of iPod Touch users have had battery issues with 2.1 isn't the be-all end-all verdict on 2.1... it might as well be an anomaly.

 

[sibruk]

I think they got some fresh college graduates handling this

No, more likely being sub-contracted out to some company in India, and only overseen by Apple staff.

There has been some pretty shoddy coding coming out of Apple lately. Leopard, iPhone, MobileMe... They need to get a grip on QC.