Q: Can the iPod 6th Gen. be completely turned off ?

You can hold all three buttons until the apple logo comes up and then click the lock button to select standby.
Click the lock button to turn the ipod on again..
Hope this helps..

Yes, I know you can do this. I've yet to need to do this. But any way you push the buttons it is still using the battery to maintain the clock and status.

I second HKM's observation. If you pause a song, there seems to be no way to take it off pause, which consumes power, unless you go to the radio application and pause it. Then, there is no more pause or play icon showing on the home screen and the unit can truly go into sleep mode, instead of pause mode. Awkward, but it seems to work.

anome wrote:
If you pause a song, there seems to be no way to take it off pause, which consumes power,

Where on earth did you get that idea? For every iPod every made, pause is the same thing as stop. What really consumes power on such a device is the screen. If the Nano is paused, radio turned off and the screen darkened, power drain for anything other than maintaing the clock is negligible. This has been the case for the two previous generations of Nano as well. I have no idea why people are getting all het up about it now.

I am sorry, I did not express myself clearly. Multiple clicks is not my concern, safety is.

The few moments it takes to look down at the screen to pause the song playing is a few moments that the user is not watching the road. Distracted drivers are a leading cause of accidents. I could not live if myself if I ran over a child because I was looking at the touch screen on my music device.

I took my Nano refund and put it towards an iTouch. I am very happy with my new iTouch it is a great device.

I will use my old 5th Gen. Nano for driving an exercise for as long as it lasts, and the iTouch for everything else.

i have a question regarding the usb charger that apple offers for 30 bucks.... my blackberry charger looks very very similar to this, including all the specs except the amps output. the amp output for the blackberry charger is actually less that the apple one. Can I use this blackberry charger for my nano without risking battery damage? is this a stupid question? am i overlooking something obvious here? i think i can use it but just wanted to be sure. thnx

Hello and welcome to the forums.

As your question is not related to this thread, you'll probably get more and better answers if you start one of your own with a properly descriptive subject line. It's also considered more polite.

If you need help starting your own thread, look at this link:

http://discussions.apple.com/ann.jspa?annID=650

Best of luck.

Pause is stop, but not off. Since the song resumes play at the point where it was paused when you touch "Now Playing", memory (DRAM) is continually being refreshed, which consumes power. I am suggesting a way to take it off standby, which does not keep the RAM powered up. Try it and notice that the pause symbol disappears and the song you paused at does not resume; instead, a different random song plays when you touch "Now Playing". In my experience, pausing radio after pausing a song is decreasing battery drain while the iPod is not in use.

Another simpler way to take the iPod out of pause mode is to hold the volume down and sleep/wake buttons simultaneously for a few seconds until the Apple logo appears. When you touch the sleep/wake button, the pause symbol is gone, indicating that the RAM is not being refreshed.

So what method have you come up with to stop the clock, which would take as much or more power as holding an index point? And It will release the now playing index point in 12 hours when it goes into deep sleep, so you aren't saving too much power.

Given that my Nano, which in left in Pause almost two months ago, still has better than half a charge, why would I need to fuss with it?

Naughty, naughty, one full charge cycle per month. Your battery will thank you for it.

But I know what you are saying.

deggie wrote:
Naughty, naughty, one full charge cycle per month. Your battery will thank you for it.

Yeah, I know that's what Apple says. I've never bothered. I figure I'll have bought a new model long before the battery wears out if past history is anything to go on!

Know the feeling, I had to write a program for reminders to cycle my various iPods. I do try to prune once in a while by selling old ones or giving them to struggling students/families, but I always end up with too many. One stands out, for some reason I just can't let go of the 2nd Generation Product Red Nano. I guess I liked the flatness and the simplified clock.

I don't have this problem at all. It's not just music that can keep the nano on, but the stopwatch, timer, and pedometer. You probably don't have these on but if you do, that's why. iPods can be very weird though.