Horrible battery life with brand new iPod touch 2G

There is definitely something going on with the battery life on my 2G. I just got a 32GB iPod touch 2G on Wednesday to replace my 32GB iPod touch 1G and the battery life is atrocious.
I charged it up fully and Fetch/Location Services is disabled. Backlight was set to auto and WiFi was on. I browsed the net for about an hour (no music playing), watched a 6-minute YouTube video, and played five minutes of X-Plane.
The 20% battery message came up after about an hour and a half of total on time from a fully charged battery. My 1G would have been above 70% at that point.
Then last night with a fully charged battery, I read a few posts on Apple Insider, played some Solitaire, then put the device to sleep, and awoke this morning to find the battery at 20% with a warning message. I always have WiFi on.
Now I am using my 2G no different than my old 1G -- I have the exact same usage patterns including WiFi usage, yet battery life is much, MUCH worse. What's going on?

Fully charge the iPod a few times, then use it until it goes out of battery. Do this 7-8 times, then check the battery life again - new batteries do this often in the beginning.

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Hello lilmink,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Try connecting it to your PC in *Recovery Mode* as described in this Apple support document.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808
B-rock

I want to save battery life on the new iPod touch 5th Generation, but I cannot find any solutions on the web? Has anyone got any solutions that I could use to extend the battery life?

If you have any solutions, please leave some under this discussion.
Thank you :-)

I'd say this article does a good job with that.
Apple - Batteries - iPod

My brand-new iPod touch (5th Gen) battery takes a very long time to fully charge, even while not in use. Why is this and what should I do?

Just recently bought a brand-new iPod touch, 5th generation. To be exact, got it two days ago, this past Saturday, on 12/13/2014. Initially, when I first turned it on, it had a fully charge and I didn't need to charge it. I also didn't see anything in the very small and limited start-up guide you receive with it to charge it for a certain amount of time before use, or to use it until the battery dies, then charge all the way, like a lot of electronic devices have you do when you first purchase them.
So I was assuming I didn't need to do anything like that. First question, should I have charged it for a period of time before use? Should I have used it until the battery died, then plugged it in and charged it fully before use? Or is none of this necessary initially and iPod batteries are good to go from the start?
Please excuse me if this is an obvious question, as this is my first ever iPod. Anyways,like I said, nothing in the "instructions" said anything about that, so I didn't do it, I just used it until it got below 20% battery left, then I plugged it in.
Now for the battery itself, it takes literally a day or so to fully charge, even while not in use. Even if I use it for a while, turn off the iPod to make sure it shuts off all background data and apps, and then plug it in to charge, it still charges extremely slowly. I've never seen a device take this long to charge. As for the battery life itself, I'd say at full charge it lasts about 4-5 hrs, maybe 6, and then I have to charge it again. Meanwhile it takes around 24 hours, without me using it, to fully charge. If I use it while its charging, the battery decreases faster than it charges, and eventually I'll get the typical "20% battery remaining" message pop up.
I know it is charging, as the lightning symbol is next to the battery symbol. Specifically, right now, I plugged it in about 1 hr 30 minutes ago, and it has barely gone up. Also, whenever I press the home button to check the battery, I can see it jump down from about 50% to somewhere around 25%-30%. What is that about?
This is really frustrating, and I'm seriously contemplating either taking it back and trying my luck with a different iPod, or just taking it back and getting my money back. Any help and clarification on this matter would be greatly appreciated, and I'll answer any questions I can to shed more light on this.

It will take longer to charge the 5G's battery than either the 3G or 4G's battery.
Not Charge
- See:
iPod touch: Hardware troubleshooting
iPhone and iPod touch: Charging the battery
- Try another cable. The cable for 5G iPod (lightning connector) seems to be more prone to failure than the older cable.
- If a 5G iPod
Iphone 5 lightning port charging problem - SOLUTION!
- Try another charging source like a computer's USB port
- Inspect the dock connector on the iPod for bent or missing contacts, foreign material, corroded contacts, broken, missing or cracked plastic.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Hello, I have a big batterylife problem with my brand new iPod touch 4Gen 8GB white. Please help...

Hello, I have a big batterylife problem with my brand new iPod touch 4Gen 8GB white. Please help?

What battery life are you getting? Is it short when you are using the iPod? When it is sleeping?

The app store on my brand new ipod touch offers me majority apps that cannot be used on my software. how do i find apps that will work with 6.1.5? this is frustrating, especially when purchased brand new.

the app store on my brand new ipod touch offers me majority apps that cannot be used on my software. how do i find apps that will work with 6.1.5? this is frustrating, especially when purchased brand new for christmas.

See the following to purchase earlier, compatible version for iOS 6
App Store: Downloading Older Versions of Apps on iOS - Apple Club

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my daughter has a brand new ipod touch - latest one - she started to input a passcode then didn't finish the process then turned off ipod. she turned it back on and it is asking for a passcode - she doesn't remember what she typed. Ipod is now disabled for one hour. Can we override the disable. How do we reset passcode when we don't klnow the original. It has never been synced to Itunes. I am completely lost.

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A Complete Guide to Restore or Recover Your iDevice (if You Forget Your Passcode)
If you need to restore your device or ff you cannot remember the passcode, then you will need to restore your device using the computer with which you last synced it. This allows you to reset your passcode and re-sync the data from the device (or restore from a backup). If you restore on a different computer that was never synced with the device, you will be able to unlock the device for use and remove the passcode, but your data will not be present. Refer to Updating and restoring iPhone, iPad and iPod touch software.
Try restoring the iOS device if backing up and erasing all content and settings doesn't resolve the issue. Using iTunes to restore iOS devices is part of standard isolation troubleshooting. Restoring your device will delete all data and content, including songs, videos, contacts, photos, and calendar information, and will restore all settings to their factory condition.
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I have a brand new Ipod touch G4 with sound only in one earbud. I have tried different types of headphones, but get the same result. If I jiggle the connector pin, I can get sound on both earbuds, but only on one side when the connector pin is push all the way in.
I have an older Ipod g4 without this problem
any suggestions?

Try on your ipod going to Settings-General-Accessibility. Scroll down into Hearing and see that Mono Audio is off. Maybe that's the problem.

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I have just received a brand new ipod touch 5th gen 64 gb from amazon. After reading the instructions i tried to power it on but nothing happened.
It was suggested on here to try the recovery start but again, nothing happened.
I then plugged the device in to a wall socket charger to see if the battery is flat,but the apple logo comes on for about 15 seconds then goes off again. If I hold down the home button while the apple logo is off, after a while the ipod goes into recovery start up, but as soon as i unplug it from the wall socket adaptor it turns off.
It will not do anything plugged into the usb soccket of my laptop.
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Try:
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- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
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- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try on another computer
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I have a brand new iPod Touch (8GB) that will not work using DHCP. No matter what I do (reset router, reset ipod) the DHCP still doesn't work. I can manually setup an IP/Gateway/netmask/etc. and it works but I really need the DHCP to work if at all possible. I'm using a Linksys WRT54G. I was able to use an old Linksys wireless router and the touch gets an IP, etc. with no problems but I can not get my Touch to work with the WRT54G. Any ideas?

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I have sent my iPod back for servicing because it is cracked, with some dispute with Apple I have managed to get a brand new iPod Touch. Just wondering if anyone has had this problem how long did it take from "Replacement Product Pending" to get bck to UK

I have sent my iPod back for servicing because it is cracked, with some dispute with Apple I have managed to get a brand new iPod Touch. Just wondering if anyone has had this problem how long did it take from "Replacement Product Pending" to get back to the UK

Not really. Is say "pending"
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Adjective
Awaiting decision or settlement.
Preposition
Until (something) happens or takes place: "they were released on bail pending an appeal".
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adjective.
pendent - undecided - unsettled - outstanding - pendant
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during - until - till - to

Brand new Ipod touch 5th generation won't charge.

Hi! So i just got my brand new ipod touch 5th generation in the mail. I went to turn it on but there was no power, so then i plugged it in to charge, but now every time i try to turn it on, the red battery charge symbol shows up, and its been charging for an hour now. I have used many apple products before and they usually dont take that long to charge. Does anyone know what the problem is?
PLEASE HELP!
thanks.

Not Charge
- See:
iPod touch: Hardware troubleshooting
- Try another cable. Some 5G iPods were shipped with Lightning cable that were either initially defective or failed after short use.
- Try another charging source
- Inspect the dock connector on the iPod for bent or missing contacts, foreign material, corroded contacts, broken, missing or cracked plastic.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
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Brand new iPod touch restarts itself all the time

Hello, my dad just came home from Japan, with a brand new iPod touch.
I managed to register it in iTunes, but when i updated the firmware i got an error message. I tried again and i think that i succeed. Then i started to sync music and the rest of the stuff. The syncing stopped after a minute, and when i tried to navigate on my iPod i realised that the touch screen didn't respond. So after several attempts, i made a hard reset.
But now, the iPod touch restarts itself. The Apple logo comes up, and then the screen turns off in a dramatical way, and then the Apple logo comes up again. If i hard reset my device again, the process continous.
I sometimes the iPod shows the "charge battery" screen, and then I can charge the battery. BUT after 5 minutes, the iPod touch starts restarting itself again. :S
Does anyone have a solution to this? Extremely strange.

I suspect you have a hardware problem. Probably a non-functioning battery (over or under) and causing a hardware reset. Bring it to an Apple Store for replacement.
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Got a white screen on my brand new iPod touch. Any ideas how to fix it?

Got a brand new iPod touch last night & as soon as I turned it on I got a white screen. It connected to iTunes fine & I did try to restore it with no luck. Any sugggestions would be appreciated!

- Try:
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- If still problem that indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.

HELP!! My Brand New iPod Touch 4th Generation is not Keeping Charge

On June,28th I bought myself a brand new ipod touch at The Source and it was keeping charge just fine till I charged it the second time. Last night I charged it for 4 and 1/2 hours last night and used it that night for about an hour or two then after I went to bed shutting it off fully and got up the next morning the stupid thing was completley drained it has been getting a lower and lower charge so I consistently have to have it plugged in. Anyone got any soutions for my problem if not I'm bringing it back for a refund.

See here for different ways to conserve your iPod's battery life.
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