IPod Touch 1G (1st Generation) Battery Issue
Hello. I realize there has been a ton of conversation about battery life on the Touch - so much so that it makes it difficult to search through in the Forum. So here is my battery problem. Recently, I updated to the latest 3.1.3 firmware on my wife's iPod Touch. The other day I noticed that the iPod's battery only lasted about 4 or 5 hours and all we were doing was listening to music (through the headphone port). It had a full charge when we started and we just queued up a large playlist (NOT Pandora or anything streaming) and let it play. We did, however, have wifi on. Originally, I thought it was the battery going bad and started to look into replacement. First though, I ran some tests. Here they are in chronological order:
1. - Fully charged iPod, all apps installed, and wifi OFF. I played videos from the iPod for 5.5 hours straight (with auto dimming turned on). Pretty impressive. Must not be a bad battery.
2. - Fully charged iPod, deleted all non-Apple apps, and wifi ON. There were 2 email accounts and a Google calendar account set to fetch, but push was turned on in the main settings. After leaving sit (in sleep mode) for 2 hours, the battery was at 97%. Still pretty good.
3. - Fully charged iPod, wifi ON, with the following apps installed - Remote, Pandora, Facebook, Mobile Air Mouse Pro, Last.fm, Paper Toss (free version), Evernote, Google (apps), and Accura Precision Battery Monitoring. These are probably my most essential apps and most (if not all) are from large companies with a wide user base (assumed more reliable). I left it sit over night (in sleep mode) for 10 hours and had 60% battery life left in the morning. Something is draining the battery here.
So, it appears to have something to do with wifi and/or my apps. My understanding is that the iPod Touch is supposed to power down wifi while in sleep mode. Is this correct? Could it be a bug with the new firmware? I feel like this is a recent phenomenon with the iPod (don't remember ever having such poor battery life). I would just turn wifi off when not in use, but to me that seems like an unnecessary hassle. I mean, isn't wifi one of the main points of having an iPod Touch? Is anyone else having this issue with the latest firmware and similar apps installed? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
I got my 32 gb 1st gen ipod touch in 2007. It has been used non stop since then, in january 2010 I started to notice that the battery was not lasting as it should (19 hours). in 2008 the battery still lasted for 29 hours of non tsop music (no wifi of course).
I got the battery replaced and the battery is behaving as it should (29 hours of non stop music playback).
as the other poster commented. if you use wifi continuously, this will die quicker. The same with games, since the hardware in the 1st gen is not as efficient as in the later generations.
i would say first disable wifi and test just continuous music playback and see if you get the advertised 22 hours of battery life. if you do nto get that then it is time for a new battery...
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