Is the battery life in my 4G iPod touch depreciating?
I have a question regarding my 4th gen iPod touch. I bought it on Sept. 22, 2012, so it's about 3/4 of a year old. I usually browse the web, watch YouTube videos, play graphics-intensive games like Infinity Blade and GTA Vice City, and I often have it in my dock so I could listen to music. I had it in the dock pretty much all day over the last four days listening to music, and I took it out a few times each day to check Facebook and engage in some hardcore gaming sessions. (I use my iPod touch like how a PSP or PS Vita would be used.) While writing this question, I had the screen at minimum brightness (I'm in bed) and the battery has gone down about 7% since starting this question.
I do follow the full cycle charge, however I often end up doing it more like 6 times a month insted of once.
Is this okay or is my iPod touch's battery life starting to become horrible?
matthewfrommb wrote:
And I thought that shallow charging cycles were bad for the battery. (I heard that keeping the battery constantly at 90-100% is bad for it.)
Nope, not the case at all with Lithium batteries. Frequent partial dischage and charge cycles will not harm them, nor will leaving it fully charged and using it plugged in (it has built in overcharge protection circuitry).
As lllaass mentions, it is the older technologies that had issues with recharge memory effects and so forth - NiCAD and NiMH batteries - but Apple dropped those technologies over a decade ago.
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