My ipod has a short battery life from charging too long.

My ipod has a short battery life from charging too long. What can i do about it?

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What to do with an iPod touch with short battery life

The 64GB iPod touch that I bought this January runs out of juice fairly quickly. Even though Apple has a one year warranty for low battery life, my guess is that Apple won't replace the batteries for free. Apple will only replace batteries if the juice lasts a significantly shorter time than it initially did. If it does last significantly shorter than it originally did, that must be proof of heavy usage on the users part rather than malfunction by the manufacturer, hence Apple is not responsible.
For people who get it replaced by Apple: how do you or Apple find out that the battery level is low enough for a free replacement? If the battery level was low enough for a replacement, how did you get Apple to replace it for free?
On the chance that I'm not able to replace it for free, can I use my old iPod touch to get a discount on iPhones?

And what was the outcome of the test? Fast battery drain could be the result of a number of issues besides diminshed battery capacity. The test on the Apple site makes no mention of putting the device in Airplane mode, turning off push, notifications, locations services, etc. It just says to quit open applications. Does that also mean removing them from the "multitasking bar"?I'm not sure this test, as described, really gives an accurate assessment of battery health.

My ipod battery doesnt stay charge too long

My ipod battery stay for 2 hours max and i dont know whats going on it supposed to stay over 14 hours. pls help me.

thanks for your help a friend told me that no ipod can stay longer than that but im returning it because apple tell that an ipod can stay up to 14 hours but i think they said that to make money and im not really happy with that. For the half price even better i can get a mp3 player that is 1 gb too but stays longer and its easy to use

Why is my iPod running slow, uses nearly 600MB of space that I'm not using, and have short battery life?

I have owned an iPod touch for about a month now and I having some problems with it. On occasion, my iPod is running very slowly, even when I keep my multitasking bar empty, the native apps such as the App Store, Music, Videos, etc. lag a lot whenever i try to access content. This was not the case for me when I was running iOS 4, in which my iPod ran extremely fast and had great battery life. I most of the time keep my wireless turned off (to be specific, i turn on airplane mode approx 3/4 of the time) along with my brightness turned all the way down. Any suggestions?
I also have another concern with my storage space. I have an 8GB 4th Generation, and whenever I plug it into iTunes, I notice nearly 700MB of space that I am not using on my iPod, I have gone through all of the data and calculated that the 700MB of space that iTunes classifies as "other", i am not using this storage space. Is there anything that I can do about this or do I have to erase everything and restore to get rid of this?
Thank you for taking the time to read my question, and if you can, please answer.
Thanks.

- iOS 5 does slow the iPOd. Periodically powering off and then back on helps since it free up memory that apps do ot release. The iPod only has 256 MB of memeor and low memory slows the iPod.
- iOS 5 also increases battery drain. I leave mine in airplane mode when not using wifi or BT. Also see:
iPod: How to extend battery life
- An other of about 1/2 GB is normal and expected. to get it down you need to restore your iPod. Sometimes restoring from backup works but sometimes a restore to factory defaults/new iPod is required.

Has anyone encountered drastic shorter battery life both on iphone 5 and ipad since updating to iOS 6.1.2? How can this problem be solved?

Dear all,
I am new to this community even though I have been a Apple user for years, so please forgive me if this question is not in the right section.
Has anyone encountered drastic shorter battery life both on iphone 5 and ipad since updating to iOS 6.1.2? I've always been happy with these two products until the update - now the battery life is considerably shorter which is extremely frustrating.
How can this problem be solved? Is there any way to go back to the previous version?
Thanks for your help.

If you update using iTunes the phone is first wiped clean, then the new OS is installed, and finally the backup is restored. After this finishes if you sync your music should be restored. Music is not in the backup, because it is already on your computer and duplicating it would use up a lot of hard disk space.
An OTA update just patches what has changed; it does not disturb content.

When I got a new iPhone5, I experienced short battery life, and system sofware issues were not the cause. The camera also takes a blury picture regardless of lighting and I have the black one. Has anyone else experienced similar problems?

When I got a new iPhone5, I experienced short battery life, and system sofware issues were not the cause. The camera also takes a blury picture regardless of lighting and I have the black one. Has anyone else experienced similar problems?

What makes you so sure it isn't software?
The camera can be focused by take the point of focus on the touch screen.
If it is new as you said, it should be under warranty. Make a Genius Bar appointment or contact Apple with a repair request.

Has anyone noticed a big drop in battery life from the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 4s?

In the 36 hours that I've had the iPhone 4s, the battery life is much worse than the iPhone 4. I'd like to hear if anyone else has experienced this as well.

iOS5 has removed the option to turn off just the 3G and have only 2G/Edge and WiFi. I used to do that routinely because I got much more reliable cell coverage in hilly San Francisco and it extended battery life between charges significantly. I only turned on 3G if I wanted to use the web while I was away from wifi or while on a call. The fact they removed this choice seems to have caught both Apple and AT&T staff by total surprise.
This is a problem in the UK as well as in the US and it isn't not carrier specific. It seems to be part of the iOS 5. I most certainly had it with my iPhone 4 and with iOS 4xx.
While the phone will revert to 2G if it thinks it needs to, that isn't good enough. I can't go a whole day (even half a day!) even on mostly standby. I've taken to turning off WiFi when I'm away from it because I can't turn off the 3G. I realize Siri won't work on 2G and maybe that is what has driven it-Apple's special, incredible new feature but if my phone has a dead battery it won't matter anyway.
Spread the news. Complain. We need to get this option back!

My battery life between charges on my ipad 1 has plummeted to about 2 hours. The guy at the genius bar suggested it might be an app (unfortunately I didn't have the device with me). Does anyone know of apps that cause heavy drains on power? Thanks!

The battery life between charges on my iPad has plummeted to about 2 hours. The guy at the genius bar said the charge should last about 10 hours and suggested it might be an app (unfortunately I didn't have the device with me and the nearest Apple Store to me is 2 hours away). Does anyone know of apps that cause heavy drains on power? It also does not charge when it is plugged into my MacBook while I am using the iPad but it does when I am not using the iPad. I mostly use the iPad to read e-mails, play Team Lava games, read books through iBooks or Kobo and the ABC Player. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Restore is about the only option left, short reinstalling the whole thing as new.
Before you restore, go to I tunes and turn off automatic sync. Then plug the machine in. Upload any photos that you have taken with the pad into I photos, or where ever you keep your pictures. Then, in I tunes, transfer any purchases.
If any apps or purchased music get lost in the process, you can download them again for free.
You do not want to make a backup of what you have on the pad now. If you do, when you restore, you will simply recreate the same problem.
What you want to do is restore from a prior backup. Do that.
Then run the system status app and see what the CPU numbers look like. If they are ok, then you can start to re add apps until the problem shows up.
If this does not do it, then the last step is to set the pad up as new. Check the numbers, then add the apps and settings back one by one. While it is likely to be an app, it may be a setting somewhere.

The cause of the whine, heating and short battery life.

It seems like we've discovered how we could fix the whine, heating and the short battery life.
If you take a look at /var/log/System.log
You will find this line:
localhost configd[37]: com.apple.SystemConfiguration.DynamicPowerStep load failed
Yes, that's right. Intel SpeedStep is not implemented in Mac OS X.
It seems like Apple wanted to implement it, either the engineer in charge of it was screwed up or apple was hurrying to get macbook pro released...
This also explains why Macbook pro has a higher battery life, runs cooler without whine on a properly configured Windows XP (with updated intel drivers and microsoft hotfix). On Windows XP, when the system is Idle, CPU is throttled to 1GHz.
So we have two options:
1. Get Apple to implement it correctly - but so far it doesnt seem like apple is really concerned about this issue. Or rather, they don't seem to care.
2. Implement it ourselves - A guy called Cryptonome was trying to implement the proper power management for MacBook Pros on Mac OS X to solve these "CPU whine", heating and battery life problems, and he did have some fruitful results, but it seems like he's currently too busy or something to finish the implementation.
Unfortunately I am not a genius so I cannot implement anything like this... anyone?
What do you guys think?

That's exactly what I am doing : expecting a solution from Apple. And you know what, Apple today released a new system update for the keyboard. This update is for all the MacTels including MacBook Pro. And guess the next thing... This update fix a power draw in the MacBook USB... Great... Oh, no, in fact not so great because this bug is THE bug that allows to stop the whine (through Mirror, etc)...
Is there anyone in Apple that tests fixes before to release them ? Do those engineers working on the whine fix have given a look to that patch ? I really hope that Apple is doing something, but releasing this Keyboard patch for MBP now can mean 3 things (IMHO) :
- the whine patch is on the final steps and will be released soon, so killing the workarounds for the whine is not a problem,
- or Apple has a partial (or even none) knowledge about this problem, and they should hire better engineers, because many people made a lot of discovers about this whine, not beeing engineers,
- or Apple definitly doesn't care about this whine problem, and they will loose myself as a customer (and probably others).
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Short battery life

hello
I have arch with gnome on my Toshiba laptop and i have very short battery life.
it ends after about 40min.
it seems to be problem in the system because when i open the computer it told me it have about 2hours and i put it on friend's laptop with vista and it told me i have 92% and 1:10hours left so i think there is(are) any or some process(es) that waste power and so short the battery life.
how can i manage the power consumption and by that to maximize battery life?
10x anyway
ariel

For starters, dim your display backlight. Set the system up to make it happen automatically. Have the shut the backlight off after more than a few minutes of inactivity.
Throttle your processor(s). Set up cpufreq and configure it to use an aggressive governor while operating on batteries. On laptops, you should also enable a governor such as "On demand" to help keep the system cool even when running on AC.
Don't do things that draw power. Try not to use the optical drive. If you want to watch movies, rip them to the hard disk while on AC, watch them from disk while on batteries, and delete them when you are done.
Look into the power management of your hard drive. You might look at allowing it to spin down when inactive, but I find this to not work real well under Linux. They tend to spin up and down a lot, negating the power savings.
See if you can shut things down. Wireless transmitters use a fair amount of power. So do the receivers while they are doing correlation (trying to synchronize to the chipping a spread spectrum channel). If you are not using wireless, shut it off. Look into whether your laptop can shut off other systems it is not using.
Minimize USB devices. They draw power from the system -- especially ipods and cellphones which charge their batteries from their host.
Laptop manufacturers spend a great amount of effort customizing certain operating systems from the American Pacific Northwest to maximize the battery performance of their systems. It can be expected that Linux require a little effort to optimize for power management as well.

Ipod Touch 3rd generation battery life

I couldn't find an answer to support this question, so I'm putting up a new post. I recently got the new ipod touch 3rd generation (32gb) a few weeks ago. I got the customization so it shipped directly from China. I seem to be having a problem with horrendous battery life and I don't know if it is a bad one or not. I have the BT always turned off and wi-fi most of the time, but I find that my battery drains from fully charged very quickly, especially if I access wifi. My ipod can drop 50% battery life in 20-30 minutes just "surfing" for apps or accessing a safari link from, for example, the kindle app or nytimes app. I am aware that some apps use more power than others, but I'm finding this life thing horrendous. I have the screen set pretty dim, only use the email function "on access" (no 'push' enabled), no auto-sync for nytimes, etc. I don't know what to do as this was as customized engraving iPod and I feel like everyone I know has fine battery life. Any help much appreciated. We have an Apple Store here in town but can they check it out for me? It has the 3.1.2 version software. Thanks!

You can check out this thread for possibly useful info.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2474499&tstart=90

Possible work-around for v3.0 short battery life

First: be aware there's a difference between "Push" (which is for some email account types & some MobileMe features) and "Push Notifications" (which is for apps). They are controlled in separate Settings screens.
Short story:
If you've upgraded to v3.0, usually have Wifi ON, and experiencing short battery life, and if you can live without Push Notifications (at least until Apple finds a better solution), TRY TURNING "Push Notifications" OFF.
Alternatively, if you can live without Wifi but need Push Notifications, try turning Wifi off & let the data travel via 3G.
Long story:
First I ran alternate days with Wifi ON, then Wifi OFF, and noticed with Wifi OFF my battery life was nowhere near as short (I could get through a day), but with Wifi ON, I can barely get through half a day. This is very different to v2.21, and in my setup the only significant difference was Push Notifications being ON.
Then today I've been running continuous pings from my Mac to my iPhone, with various combinations of Push on/off, Push Notifications on/off, email accounts on push / fetch / manual, and discovered there's a huge difference in how often Wifi gets turned on when Push Notifications is enabled.
With Push Notifications ON, while your iPhone 3G (and probably 3GS) is asleep, Wifi will be turned on for 15-20seconds every 1 to 2 minutes!
This is in stark contrast to Push Notifications OFF, but Push (for email, MobileMe, etc) ON, where Wifi is on only as often as your email account settings dictate.
This explains a lot, I think. With Wifi OFF, data goes through the 2G/3G radio, which is inherently ON all the time (for phone functionality), so the incremental 'cost' (to battery life) of Push Notifications is comparatively small.
But with Wifi enabled, data is instead sent via Wifi. The incremental cost (to battery life) is dramatically higher having to turn on the Wifi radio, find the WLAN, get an IP from DHCP, then exchange data with various Internet servers, when it happens every couple of minutes!
Though I'm not really sure what Apple can do about this situation. They appear to be turning Wifi on frequently to give the illusion of true (ie timely) push notifications. I think this situation runs parallel to those who found, with v2.x, that enabling Push on email accounts & Wifi enabled had similar major negative impact on battery life. Except now heaps more people want the Push Notification feature. Interesting conundrum...

The main thing that helped me with the short battery life was lowering the brightness. My 3G was so bright I could'nt sleep at night.

My MacBook Pro is really hot and the fan is on constantly. It didn't use to do this, does anyone know why this is happening? I have a very short battery life, so I have to keep it plugged in probably more than I should.

My MacBook Pro is really hot and the fan is on constantly. It didn't use to do this, does anyone know why this is happening? I have a very short battery life, so I have to keep it plugged in probably more than I should.

Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time, then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.

Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing shorter battery life for their iphon4 since the update to ios5?

Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing shorter battery life for their iphon4 since the update to ios5?

Yes, I just switched from the 3GS to the 4S and My battery life is a lot shorter! wasn't sure if it is because it was trying to reload all my music or not

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Short Battery Life and Very Slow Data on 4S,
anyone else noticing the slow speed of data on this phone?

Yes, I measure my slow data on Sprint in kpbs, not Mpbs. Like standard is download maybe 250kpbs, upload 100kpbs (that's 0.25 Mbps and 0.1 Mbps). On the same tower my buddy who has an AT&T iPhone 4 shows 2.5Mbps download and 1.5Mbps upload (that's 2500kbps and 1500kpbs), a LOT faster. Sprint has not been much help.

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