Ipod Battery help?

Question

I just got my Ipod from Best Buy last thursday. When I started using it, it was already charged and I used it. It seems like in no time the battery was almost drained. Heres an example. I charged my ipod to almost complete, but to where the battery meter was full, and then I used it some and turned it off holding down pause/play. When I turned it on later to battery was like 1/8 gone after only playing a few songs for a few minutes. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You need to completely charge the iPod. It will take a few hours but after the first charge the battery will last for around 18-20 hours depending on what iPod you have. Every charge after that takes a shorter amount of time.

I have an iPod nano 2nd gen which has I believe a 20 hour battery life and mine lasts longer than that ocasionally. I only have to charge it once every few days and its good for all day listening.

Answer 2

Li-Ion batteries don't reach full capacity until you've fully charged and fully discharged them a couple of times. Mostly charging them isn't quite going to cut it.

However, with a new iPod, that's probably not your only problem. First of all, what is the backlight set to do? Does it stay on all the time, or for more than a couple of seconds after you use the controls? If so, that's a huge problem right there. Running the backlight drains a lot of power, and if you're not actively looking at it that power is wasted. Go into the Settings menu and pull up the Backlight Timer entry. Set it to 2 seconds so you'll be able to read the text while operating the controls, but so that it won't keep the light on much longer. Next, pull up the Brightness entry, and use the scroll function to set it as low as you're comfortable with. This will further reduce the amount of power that you're using when you do need it on. Finally, you should try to limit the volume of playback. In addition to being bad for your hearing (especially with earbuds over external headphones), running the volume really high will suck the battery dry in a matter of hours. I can get probably 12-16 hours of normal playback on my 5G iPod Video, but if I play it at full volume (which I've done when using battery-powered speakers), it's dead in about 3-4 hours max.

One other thing that will help out in the future is to make sure you completely empty your iPod's drive every few months or so and reload everything from scratch. The reason for this is that as you add and remove songs, and generate playback data, your iPod's drive will become quite fragmented. Individual songs will be split up into multiple chunks, and your iPod will waste power chasing down each new chunk instead of being able to read the entire file in one straight pass. Reloading everything will regroup any fragmented song tracks, and prevent your iPod from wasting power on the seek process, particularly if it's a model that uses a regular hard-drive.

Answer 3

when i got mine it was the same. and its still the same what i do is just dont push buttons a lot, that way the battery will drain. i just listen to the music.