should you allways keep your lithum battery on you ipod charging or not?

Answer 1

You're probably thinking of NiCad batteries, which would see dramatically reduced charge length if you constantly topped them off. This is because NiCads have a memory effect where consistent partial charges condition them to only provide a partial charge later on.

Lithium Ion batteries do not suffer from memory effect (neither do NiMH batteries). They wouldn't be used in laptop computers if they did. In fact, their biggest drawback, which is almost never publicly mentioned by the industry, is that they begin to corrode internally from the moment they're manufactured. This corrosion will eventually render the battery useless, but is largely unaffected by frequency or duration of charging. The next biggest drawback is that they tend to explode if you bring them to what is known as a deep discharge, where you basically suck every last bit of power out of them. This is why Li-Ion devices will monitor the charge level and shut down when they reach a safe threshold. When your iPod shuts down due to low power, it will still be using a faint charge to maintain stuff like the clock function. It doesn't need to be plugged in that instant, but if you let a drained iPod sit around for a few weeks at this point, the battery will pass the unsafe threshold and a circuit in the battery should then trip to prevent the battery from being able to take any charge at all. So, you can top it off as desired, and when it's drained so low that it shuts off, it's best to make sure that you get it hooked up to recharge within 24 hours.

Now, if you want to maintain optimum battery life, here are some helpful steps that you can take:

1. If you haven't done so, install iTunes 7 and the appropriate matching firmware for your iPod.

2. With the new firmware installed, you can now set the intensity of your backlight. Turn it down as low as you can and still have it be bright enough to easily recognize text and images.

3. Set your backlight timer to 2 seconds.

4. Periodically clean all the files off your iPod and reload them, so your iPod doesn't have to chase a series of file fragments every time it needs to play one song.

Answer 2

no stupid it wont run out itll be fantastic plus apple tells you its ok so you might bypass away it your charger if no longer in use I even have the nano 8gb yet yeah your completely fantastic however the battery can in user-friendly terms do one among those great style of costs thats while it startsactn wacky then you definately ought to get it serviced yet once you hav a batterys plus the place you reside basically take it there particularly of paying an ridiculous volume of money to get your ipod a sparkling battery

Answer 3

As with any lithium battery you should never let it fully drain and you should also never let it sit on it's charger all the time. Doing so will shorten battery life. But keeping it well charged shouldn't harm it .