iPod battery crying for help

hassan i sabbah

These days my iPod gives me a colossal 90 minutes of playback, getting me to my place of work and back on my bicycle with a couple of tunes for change. Wha'gwaan?



I've got 1.1 on it and I'm not playing anything longer then about 10 minutes, and I've always been pretty good about waiting for it to discharge... I've had it for about seven months. Early adoptin'.



Anyone else got a lame Pod? Best solution?



*******CACK iPOD UPDATE!!!******



This morning, my Pod got me from my home in London's Trendy Notting Hill to the Euston Road / Tottenham Court Road intersection, a journey of some 25 minutes in light drizzle on my bicycle. And then died. I've called the Apple Store who told me it's covered by the one year warranty and are sending me a box to send it back to them... so if a whole generation of Pods are about to unwind en masse, Apple had better get the lithium-ion batteries stockpiled.



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majormatt

Odd.



I am not an iPod owner, but the battery situation is drained. I think I heard if you prematurely recharge your battery is can cause usage to drop, so you'd have to let is completely go dead then recharge. However, you said you have done this...hmm

macasaurus

Looks like your iPod is becomming what many iPod users feared, a dud. Once that battery life shortens to nothing you are stuck with a 400 dollar paperweight. Unless of course you give it back to apple to repair which costs like 150-200 bucks :-/

hassan i sabbah

[quote]Originally posted by Macasaurus:

<strong>Looks like your iPod is becomming what many iPod users feared, a dud. Once that battery life shortens to nothing you are stuck with a 400 dollar paperweight. Unless of course you give it back to apple to repair which costs like 150-200 bucks :-/</strong><hr></blockquote>



£75 - £100 to keep my £300 Pod simply doing its thing? Do you know that for a fact?



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ghost_user_name

ebay





mika.



PS. Never ever buy a 1st generation product from Apple.

hassan i sabbah

oops... should've been an edit



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majormatt

cant you open em and put a new battery in?

jambo

[quote]Originally posted by FellowshipChurch iBook:

<strong>

Any good news out there? hehehe or is this the nature of Mac</strong><hr></blockquote>



I have good news. I work for a University where we have hundreds of Macs and hundreds of Windows PCs. For every one problem we have with the Macs we will have around the region of 40 more serious problems with the PCs.



You just seem to have been unlucky.



J :cool:

squash

I just got a 10gb ipod last week. I had read of random problems, ranging from battery to lcd screen rainbowing. I decided at that point to buy it at Comp USA and pay 30 extra dollars for a 2 year warranty.



Sorry to hear of your issues with yours. maybe ck on this site for some help.



<a href="http://www.ipodlounge.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.ipodlounge.com/</a>;

ijerry

A buddy of mine had the same problem and he did a reset of the ipod and re-installed everything on it. After that he ran it until all of the battery ran out and then recharged it full again. Amazingly it worked normal again. You may also have to try these things in a different order, but this is the first and usually the best way to fix pretty much any problems with the ipod. Good luck.

paul

I have had my iPod for just as long (recived it on the day they were released, same deal with my Rev. A iMac ) and i ahve no problems with the batt life, recently on a trip up to boston (orentation) I listened the whole way up, intermitently when i was @ BC and the whole way down, the trip was about 3 hrs each way... My batt works fine... I DID bring the charger, but i didnt use it at all...



seems to be its an isolated incident ::hopes he didnt just jinx himself::



-Paul



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frawgz

[quote]Originally posted by FellowshipChurch iBook:

<strong>Wow I hope my new iPod 10 giger does not develop that issue...



That would make for yet another issue on my list with Mac.



Not funny to charge an arm and a leg and then have the princess turn into a frog...



Any good news out there? hehehe or is this the nature of Mac</strong><hr></blockquote>



Warning: Nitpick Ahead.

"Mac" is not an entity, but a computer. So you either have issues with Macs, or issues with the Mac.



And don't worry, iPods are not Macs.

_ alliance _

i have the same thing happen. if i just let it charge til its full, then it wont last more than 20 minutes. but a trick i use is when it says its full, unplug it, and plug back in. it charges fer another hour or so. keep doing that, and the more u keep pluggin in, the longer it lasts. still, i cant get more than 2 hours or so. im gonna wait til i have an opportunity to take it to an apple store around here (which is difficult, considering how much jobs hates texas, so im gonna have to drive to dallas). im not really worried. itl be fixed soon enuff...

mandricard

I HAD this problem but I fixed it.



I was running 1.1.



I downloaded the 1.1 updater again.



I ran it.



I hit "restore to factory defaults."



Then I synced it up again with iTunes.



And Voila. No more problem. <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" />



No idea why.



It may have something to do with the fact that I used it as a mounting FireWire Disk for a while, but now I am no longer doing that, and it keeps going and going and going......





Hope this helps!



Mandricard

AppleOutsider

zo

[quote]Originally posted by MajorMatt:

<strong>Odd.



I am not an iPod owner, but the battery situation is drained. I think I heard if you prematurely recharge your battery is can cause usage to drop, so you'd have to let is completely go dead then recharge. However, you said you have done this...hmm</strong><hr></blockquote>



You are thinking of Ni-cad and Ni-Mh batteries and the such. The beauty of Li-ion is that it does not have 'memory' problems. So you can charge it at any point and dont need to necessarily wait till it dies. Its also much lighter and stores much more power. The onlyy setback is that they aregenerally more expensive.

_ alliance _

[quote]Originally posted by Mandricard:

<strong>I HAD this problem but I fixed it.



I was running 1.1.



I downloaded the 1.1 updater again.



I ran it.



I hit "restore to factory defaults."



Then I synced it up again with iTunes.



And Voila. No more problem. <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" />



No idea why.



It may have something to do with the fact that I used it as a mounting FireWire Disk for a while, but now I am no longer doing that, and it keeps going and going and going......





Hope this helps!



Mandricard

AppleOutsider</strong><hr></blockquote>



well i tried that today, and so far so good. goin on 2.5 hours w/out a hiccup. lets see if its back to normal...

im very optimistic so far. :cool:

_ alliance _

[quote]Originally posted by _ alliance _:

<strong>



well i tried that today, and so far so good. goin on 2.5 hours w/out a hiccup. lets see if its back to normal...

im very optimistic so far. :cool: </strong><hr></blockquote>



ok, made it longer than i have in 2 months at just over 4 hours. but still...not up to par...

oh well...

mandricard

The iPod used to have troubles with songs that were longer than 20 minutes or so.



Are you playng lots of them?



Also, try keeping the eq off, and see if that affects things.



Lastly, let it run out, and charge the thing overnight.



See if that helps.



Mandricard

AppleOutsider

hassan i sabbah

[quote]Originally posted by Mandricard:

<strong>The iPod used to have troubles with songs that were longer than 20 minutes or so.



Are you playng lots of them?



Also, try keeping the eq off, and see if that affects things.



Lastly, let it run out, and charge the thing overnight.



See if that helps.



Mandricard

AppleOutsider</strong><hr></blockquote>



You haven't actually read my original post, have you? Naughty!

_ alliance _

[quote]Originally posted by Mandricard:

<strong>The iPod used to have troubles with songs that were longer than 20 minutes or so.



Are you playng lots of them?



Also, try keeping the eq off, and see if that affects things.



Lastly, let it run out, and charge the thing overnight.



See if that helps.



Mandricard

AppleOutsider</strong><hr></blockquote>



oh dont worry. ive done my research. ive had this puppy since the beginning, and have read up on it alot. i know all the tricks, but have yet to try the more drastic ones, like opening it up and resetting the battery. and songs over 20 minutes havent been a problems since the 1.1 release (but no, i only have a couple of those on here). ive charged it overnight after letting it discharge completely. ive let the battery run out and then recharge after 24 hours of letting it sit idle.

thats alright. ill just drive to dallas and exchange it.

hassan i sabbah

Oops, I thought he was talking to me.



Mon mal.



(My bad.)



Forgive please.