iPod Touch 4th Gen Battery Issue

I just bought a 4th gen ipod touch and noticed that battery drains really fast compared to my old one.

I "optimized y settings" according to apple instrucions, still, I have to charge the battery every day!

The ipod is not even being that much. Should I return it?

Also having the draining problem. I only wall charge it. But from fully charged, even if I don't use it at all and then pick it up even ten hours later, it's dead. WiFi could be an issue - roaming will drain a battery.

I have had the issue with the screen suddenly turning black and the ipod not turning on at all. It had a full charge when it died and I was just using a game on it. I have NOT had the problem with the battery draining fast or anything, just this turning off and not turning back on problem. I have the 32gb 4G and have had it for about 1yr. I checked other forums and the "fix" I've found that works so far is to reset it while its plugged into my computer. To reset, hold down the menu button and the lock button at the same time for like 5-10 seconds. It turned right back on for me! Hope that helps others!

Well, I have recently had that problem, but I fixed it by moving it to another computer with a different cord. I don't know if it was my old cord or the usb slot, but it worked! Try that if you are still having issues with it being blank or not charging. BTW thank you guys for this discussion! I have now revived my Ipod Touch 4 gen.

Turn down brightness, catch emails less often, turn off notifications, turn off wi-fi. These should help alot.

I'm having the same problems. I bought my iPod Touch 4th Generation Yesterday, and I'm already encountering issues. I tried turning off the Location thing, and that helped a little. I turned off all background apps, and turned the brightness down, and the battery life is still poor. Is there anywhere I can go to get it replaced? I found a place to buy new batteries, and it came with the pry tool. Does changing the battery help? I've heard that you're supposed to get a new battery immediately, so, does anybody think this will help?

my problem with my ipod is that if i play a game for 50 minutes it said 20 procent left

after 10 minutes i look back at my ipod and it said 32 procent left and then i listend to some music and after 10 minutes i watched again and it said 46 procent left :s

(Voice over for percentage)

(Without recharging it)

(Air plane mode on )

Does anyone has this problem 2 ?

Do i need to replace it because i once did and got my original iPod back :s with the same problems :s

I never had to "turn down brightness, catch emails less often, turn off notifications, turn off wi-fi" on our 2 older ipods. The batteries still hold charge for a long time.

There shouldn't be any reason to resort to any of the above "solutions" on the product that claims to be superior.

I've got a similar problem. My iPod touch 4G used to have these problems occasionally -- where you would fully charge it and it would drain when on standby mode within 1.5 hours -- but then the next day it would work perfectly, with Location Services, Wi-Fi, many background apps and full brightness.

Now, these problems are appearing more often, my iPod now drains within an hour after being fully charged, even when on standby mode with everything switched off. I think that it's ridiculous, because I've had 2 iPod touches before (older generations), and they would never have these problems, and back then I wouldn't even turn off Wi-Fi if I wasn't using it.

The strange thing is, that if I'm using it, it seems to have longer battery life (I can listen up to 2 or 3 hours of music, and still have battery life left)

The thing is, I'm not really willing to pay $300 again on a new iPod, since this one is only 10 months old... So I don't know what to do.

I have a week-old iPod Touch 4th generation 32 GB, Model MC544LL. It replaced another iPod Touch 4G that was slightly damaged and exchanged. I brought it home from the Apple store, synced it to my iTunes file, and downloaded the available new software, iOS 4.3.5. After charging the battery that evening, I disconnected it and made sure everything was turned off. To my surprise, in the morning, the battery was fully discharged. It was so low I couldn't even turn it on until after it had been connected and charging for about 5-8 minutes. I decided to embark on a test to document this behavior before contacting Apple.

Test day 1. The fully charged Touch 4G was left in standby with nothing on that should have caused battery drain. WiFi, Location Services, Notifications, and all apps were turned off. I turned on the unit and checked the battery charge remaining on an hourly basis, then turned everything back off again. I even charted it on graph paper. The battery went from 100% to 16% in only 8-1/2 hours, with a fairly steady rate of decline.

Test day 2, I used the same configuration., full standby mode. The battery went from 100% to 20% in 9 hours and by 10 hours was too low to even turn on. Again, the rate of decline was fairly constant.

Test day 3. I decided to try something different. I figured I'd go all out to see what would happen to the battery life if I actually used my Touch. I kept music playing the whole time, WiFi was turned on. The following programs were running in the background and used actively periodically during the test (Mail, Calendar, Contacts, RSS feedds, Weather, Evernote, Toodledo). To my surprise, I received a very different result than I expected. I charted the battery charge remaining on an hourly basis over a 15 hour period. The rate of decline was fairly constant. At the end of 15 hours of active use, the batter life remaining measured 40%.

The only thing I can conclude from this is a software issue, perhaps with the new version of iOS, since I did not have that difficulty on my other iPod Touch 4g (same model) using an earlier version of iOS 4. How else can you explain a battery discharge rate when in full standby that is more than double the rate when actively operating many programs (test day 3).

I plan to contact the Apple Store again, but doubt I'll find much satisfaction even after talking to one of the geniuses. If it really is just a software issue, it seems like Apple should be all over this trying to get it fixed. Release a new version, get all users to download, and then lots of happy, satisfied users. In the meantime...

For the sake of full disclosure, I am posting what I hope will be the final chapter to my iPod Touch (4th genereration, 32 GB) battery life story. After running those first three days of testing, I decided to give Apple Support one more try. I used the Express Lane feature and was very pleased with the response time. After explaining the situation to the representative, we determined the best approach was to isolate if the problem was a hardware or a software issue. To do that we restored the unit to factory settings, wiping out all other stored data. I then left it plugged in until fully charged. Then I disconnected it and made sure everything was turned off. To my surprise, in the morning, the battery still registered as fully charged. At the 24 hour mark, it still had nearly a full charge. Amazing. I contacted Apple Care one more time. After providing a recap and the results of the day 4 test, we decided to restore the apps from iTunes and the data from my online sources without using the automatic backup. The theory was that the little software gremlin was still probably contained in that backup data. The day 5 test, now that all the apps and data had been manually restored, was to see if the fully charged unit, turned off and in the standby mode, would maintain the same battery performance as on day 4. Thankfully it did! My iPod Touch 4th generation is finally working like you would expect. It was a slow and very frustrating process to resolve all the problems I experienced. However, at this point, it seems to be up and running. Hopefully others will be equally successful in ultimately resolving battery life issues.

I had and did something very similar: I erased all data & settings from my iPod (from the Settings app) and I saw the battery life was back to normal again. The next day, I connected it to iTunes and I chose to configure the iPod as a back up -- so I copied all apps and music back on to my iPod -- and that worked. My iPod now has a normal battery life again.

So to everybody else: try restoring your iPod or erasing all data and settings, and then sync it to iTunes again; it might solve your issue 🙂

If you don't turn off your ipod completly, it will waste your battery power. If you don't turn off your ipod touch, your ipod touch is still running(on). I recommend you to turn off your ipod.

I had the same problem, but if you double tap the home button, apps will pop up at the bottom that are currently running. To shut them off, simply press and hold on one and then you can exit them all off! I hope this is helpful for you all!

OK, I had the same complaint and looked for an answer. To save the battery from depletion when you're not using your iPod, do this

Go to settings / airplane Mode / Turn it on

This turns off all wifi, Bluetooth and location services all at once. This is to prevent the iPod from interfeering with airplane's gadgets.

This is quick and shuts it all off. You won't recieve any call though or email either.

Hope this helps