64gb touch battery meter jumping all around

Question

i had just bought a 64bg touch and had noticed that the battery fill bar was jumping all over the place during my first drain. i would be at 65% and then down to 30%, up to 75% and then down to red status at 15%. it did that for a couple weeks until i brought it into apple.
anyway, i downloaded a bunch of battery apps (one of which i use on my iphone) and the exact percentage jumps around all the time and then during an off/on process will change and then during a hard reset will change (even though all i'm doing is turning it off and not using it).
so i took it into apple and they replaced it, but my new touch is doing the exact same thing. also i've done the battery calibration by draining it a couple times and restored the software.
neither my iphone, my wifes iphone, nor the other 4 models we've owned of previous generations have done anything like this. do all touches do this? just the 64gb ones? seems strange since i got it off amazon and the replacement came from an apple store in virgina.
anyone have any insight or information about this?

Answer 1

I am having the same problem with an iPhone 3Gs since I bought the **** thing back in June at its arrival in stores. It's been doing this since I've got it and has had every software upgrade possible. I did every type of reset and even restored it as a brand new phone downloading an entirely new firmware with no back up from apple and trying it that way. Apple says they did some kind of reset that resets the way the phone reads battery level, Sure enough, the minute I got home it was back to its old ways. It would be fully charged in less than 2 hours time from a dead battery. Yet would need to be charged 4 times through out the day with moderate use on the lowest brightness setting, no 3g internet, no wifi, no blue tooth, no push notifications, and was even put in airplane mode when I new I wasn't expecting a call.
I'm now on 3.1.3 which has supposedly fixed battery reporting issues (********) but in reality, all the update was put there for was to patch a hole made by the dev team.
for example, right now my phone reads 33%, at 5:06 PM, the phone was left in airplane mode all day because i've been at work where I have no service, and came off of a full charge at 9 o clock AM.
If i turn the phone off and on, The battery says 13%, i get a < 20% battery notice, dismiss it and the minute I press a button or unlock it jumps back to the 33%. If i keep doing this and the phone starts with less than 10% battery even though it will jump to 30% shortly after, the phone doesn't give me enough time to press a button before it shuts off and tells me to connect it to a charging source. The minute I do so, it takes about 10 minutes to come on, and the minute it does, boom back at 30%. It's like i'm missing a 30% gap in battery power.
I had the first iphone back in the day when it was first released and apple had nothing but the best customer service, bring it in, no questions asked you walked out with a new iphone, so of course I came back for seconds when the 3Gs came out, well let me tell you a lot has changed.
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