iPod 18 Month Battery life: Myth or Not?

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  • Reply 21 of 40
    applenut

    God



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  • Reply 22 of 40
    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by applenut

    I don't know what the effects of partial charges have on it though



    1000 charges is from empty to full. partial charges do reduce battery life, even on lithium ion




    Didn't I hear that any partial charge counts as one for Li-ions? That's why Apple notebooks don't start charging the battery until like 90%. Of course, I could be wrong...
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  • Reply 23 of 40
    Quote:

    Originally posted by bawmon

    Didn't I hear that any partial charge counts as one for Li-ions? That's why Apple notebooks don't start charging the battery until like 90%. Of course, I could be wrong...



    If so, that's a big lame, I leave my pod, on the dock, plugged into the wall, all the time, but occasionally pick it up use it for a while, then it goes back there.



    it will be my boombox once I get some speakers for it, but I'll still be taking it out, at anyrate, that's a lot of flippant charging...hrm



    stupid lithium
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  • Reply 24 of 40
    I've got a 10 gig first generation iPod that I've had since April 2002 (19 months) and it's working fine. Battery life seems to be about the same or a little less than when new. I can usually get 2 days worth of listening before I have to charge it.



    My usage habits are as follows:

    Listen at work with many pauses during the day. Sync it once or twice a week after I've gottem some new stuff to load to it (Your Mac Life show). I have to manage what I sync since I've got more than 10 gb of stuff. Charge it when it runs out of juice or has been on 1 using the wall adapter without listening to it usually over night.
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  • Reply 25 of 40
    Someobe forwarded this link to me:



    http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/
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  • Reply 26 of 40
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BostonIrish220

    Someobe forwarded this link to me:



    http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/




    Was it the same guy who posted it 9 posts above? \
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  • Reply 27 of 40
    What about OTHER mp3 players?



    surely many other HD based players use the same, or similar Lithium Ion batteries?



    what's the word on THEIR charges/lifespan?
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  • Reply 28 of 40
    I heard about that video this morning.... strange.



    my iPod is ok.. since Aug/2002
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  • Reply 29 of 40
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah

    Absolutely not a myth.



    My first iPod couldn't hold a charge for more than 20 minutes when I sent it back for a replacement; this was inside a year. A bit of research at the time revealed it to be a very common thing; there was all sorts of iPod voodoo designed to make things better but short of a battery replacement there was nothing you can do.



    I don't know whether or not this has been solved now, but I do know that you can buy replacement iPod batteries online and now Apple'll charge you an exorbitant amount of money to fix it for you, so someone's still got the problem.






    wrong. it was a matter of firmware and how nothing to do with the ipod itself. once the firmware was fixed, the battery life shot up to 10 hrs instead of 10 minutes. apparently you have absolutely no experience in ipods since the initial 6 months the ipod was available.
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  • Reply 30 of 40
    Quote:

    Originally posted by musical73

    http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/



    Douche bag. Does anyone else think that this guy should have gotten a job and not wasted his money on spray paint...maybe he should have used the money to save up for a new battery, or a different MP3/CD player. I hope he gets arrested for vandilizm, or his girlfriend paints "HE ONLY LASTS 30 SECONDS!" in huge letters on his house. What a retard. He acts like a 6 year old who doesn't get his way. He needs a life.
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  • Reply 31 of 40
    ericgericg Posts: 135member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by DMBand0026

    Douche bag. Does anyone else think that this guy should have gotten a job and not wasted his money on spray paint...maybe he should have used the money to save up for a new battery, or a different MP3/CD player. I hope he gets arrested for vandilizm, or his girlfriend paints "HE ONLY LASTS 30 SECONDS!" in huge letters on his house. What a retard. He acts like a 6 year old who doesn't get his way. He needs a life.



    Found another link about the two brothers



    http://www.billpalmer.net/com000047.html
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  • Reply 32 of 40
    Quote:

    Originally posted by _ alliance _

    wrong. it was a matter of firmware and how nothing to do with the ipod itself. once the firmware was fixed, the battery life shot up to 10 hrs instead of 10 minutes. apparently you have absolutely no experience in ipods since the initial 6 months the ipod was available.



    Weeell... no. My (second) iPod died in December last year (from an unrelated cycling in the rain catastrophe) so I owned an iPod for more than a year. I had to send the first one back in the summer of 2002, though, because of the battery.



    Maybe this was before people realised that the problem was firmware and not hardware, but I distinctly remember talk at the time that Apple might even be facing hordes of pissed-off iPod owners within a couple of years.



    I started a thread about my iPod woes a year and a half ago. I'll go and look for it shortly.



    Edit:



    Here it is. June 2002: a thread about my iPod Looking at it now I'm pleased it was firmware. Hey, Alliance: you're actually in this thread. Glad to see you got things fixed. Have you still got the same Pod? If you have, how's it working today?



    And here's the day my second iPod died. Ai me. An old thread about dead things.
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  • Reply 33 of 40
    d/p should have been an edit
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  • Reply 34 of 40
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    Uhh, from what I saw in the video the guy didn't "vandalize" anything. If you arrest him for vandalism, then all those companies plastering posters over every square foot of available plywood should get a nice hefty fine too.
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  • Reply 35 of 40
    So does anybody know if this info is right, out of date, inaccurate or just plain wrong.



    http://www.ipodlounge.com/faqs_more.php?id=103_0_10_0_C



    It seems to contradict some of the things said above about battery life and usage.
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  • Reply 36 of 40
    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by crazychester

    So does anybody know if this info is right, out of date, inaccurate or just plain wrong.



    http://www.ipodlounge.com/faqs_more.php?id=103_0_10_0_C



    It seems to contradict some of the things said above about battery life and usage.




    I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but they have this tag on that page:
    Quote:

    Updated: 09|09|02



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  • Reply 37 of 40
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BostonIrish220

    Someobe forwarded this link to me:



    http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/




    GOOD VIDEO. That's actually good.
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  • Reply 38 of 40
    Do companies pay to plaster construction sites with ads or is just some random individual(s) doing it for them? I find it hard to believe that Apple, especially their legal department, would allow people to go around plastering private property with ads.
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  • Reply 39 of 40
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Myth. Maybe my 5gig battery isn't 10 hours anymore but it's a few hours for sure, and that's with the backlight and changing songs a lot etc. What a jerk to make up lies like this.
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  • Reply 40 of 40
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    Myth. My iPod still stands the test of time..
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