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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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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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...
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
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.
http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/
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?
surely many other HD based players use the same, or similar Lithium Ion batteries?
what's the word on THEIR charges/lifespan?
my iPod is ok.. since Aug/2002
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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:
Updated: 09|09|02
Originally posted by BostonIrish220
Someobe forwarded this link to me:
http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/
GOOD VIDEO. That's actually good.