Ipod Touch 4g terrible standby battery life?

we should only charge the ipod for a few hours till it is completely charged.leaving it overnight on charging,causes problem to the batery as it gets overcharged which will deplee the battery very fast..it is the same case for mobiles also.

when the battery is very less,and when you charge it,it will in very less time come to 75% charged.when the battery is 100% charged it will deplete very slowly.but if it is 90 or less it deplets very fast.this is a common experience of ipods and it also happens on mobiles.and dont overcharge it by leaving it overnight,it damages the battery and it will deplte very fat even when it is completely charged.

im having the same problem, i charge it fully and then put it in my pocket, take it out 5 hours later, and its 20 percent remaining! Its been doing that for a while now, maybe ill take it in to the apple store and see what they have to say...

Hi, new user, just came to the "light side" about three weeks ago from the awful MS Zune "dark side".

I love my iPod 4 gen, no doubt. However, the battery drain was getting to me. Push notifications is off, all notifications are off for everything, airplane mode is on, screen is dim enough for me to be able to read outside, etc. Typical trouble-shooting to solve the problem, you all know the drill.

But! I just discovered something while surfing for an answer for this question, and what I had to do to try to fix this issue:

1. Click your home button.

2. Once there, double-click the home button

3. Examine what shows up in the row; click the minus sign to turn the apps off.

I had about TEN apps running in the background, sucking the life out of my iPod, and never even knew it.

Hope this helps you! I sent in a "how can we make the iPod better" suggestion saying to have it so that if you hit the home button, all apps turn off. That would be nice.

ya, i tried that, but its still the same:(, thanks anyway

Forgot to mention, my 3rd gen's battery is fine, and its had ios4 since it came out, and i usually have 100s of apps running in the background, and its fine...

Thank you, Solid! After weeks of frustration with the battery life of my iPod Touch 4g, which started after installing iOS 5, I tried your suggestion. Yesterday I reset the network settings and now my iPod barely loses battery on standby. Before, it would drain 50% of the battery overnight. Today, it only drained 10%. Thanks!

Try turning it off when your not using it if it's doing that mine is horrible it's dead it says 50% charged so I plug it out then 15 minutes later warning saying 10% apple really needs to fix this because this is just horrible

just means u need to go to the apple store and ask them for a new battery they will probably end up giving u a new ipod

i have one of the 4th jen ipod updated to ios 5.1 the problem with this one is the bettary percentage run up and down during playing games of videos . listnign to audio is just fine but when ever i play a vedio song it drains 5% with in 3 to 4 min then if i lock the screen the battery go back to the same percentage but the real problem is when the battery is in 30%-40% with in two min of gameplay the battery goes to 10% then after stop playing it raises again. this is really annoing and i cant find out wt is the problem with it

another thing is that then the device showes that it is 100% charged if i plug out the battery imidiatly drain 3%-4% showing 97% of 95% plz help me some one

i too have the same problem that sajibe has

can anybody help me please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have the same problem. I know it's no comparison, but my 1st gen can go on for over a week on standby with wifi on which goes off automatically. My 4th gen with iOS 5.1 can't even last a day even when on standby. However, I noticed that if I turned off wifi before going on standby, the battery drain is reduced drastically. So it has something to do with it not being able to turn wifi off by itself?

And why isn't an Apple rep replying to this thread so that we have an official acknowledgement of the issue instead of us doing all the troubleshooting for them?

I have a really big problem, I leave my ipod touch 4G iOS 5.1 sitting there the whole night, charged the whole day but whenever I wake up it's out of battery already, it didn't happen before, it just started now.

I just got a new ipod touch and on airplane mode it looses 10-20 % battery in around 12 hours on sleep mode .... Is that normal ???

I just bought my new white itouch, 8gb, 4g, last week.

The battery dies incredibly quickly.

It doesn't really lose the charge when it's on hibernate, but it loses it while I'm using it.

I haven't done anything on it besides playing games or browsing the internet so far.

It was fully charged earlier, but I used it a bit.

The main thing I took note of was that I played an app for about 11 minutes, with the backlight on auto adjust, and it went from 80% to 70%. It lost 10% in just 11 minutes.