Ipod Touch 5g-Battery Issue

Fetching the mail tends to drain battery life but it shouldn't be that bad.? May be a defect in the hardware. I had an iPod 5G and had some hardware problems like the camera wouldn't work at all. Took it to apple got a new one at no charge.

That is really weird cause I can use mine constantly all day and when I get home I'm at about 40%

I think so it is a hardware defect, replace it before it is too late.

Hi! I got my iPod touch last wednesday, and it worked very well. At night I plugged it to the iMac to synchronize and updated the iOS 6.0.1. The next day (yesterday) at morning, I checked the weather and blocked the iPod. When I was going to leave for school, I grabbed the iPod and noticed it was hot in the back. Well, the iPod refused to answer to the button commands. I connected back to the iMac but did not respond.

It's an iPod touch 5th Generation (Product RED) I bought it online in the Apple Store one week ago. It was in use less than 24 hours. I called to the Support Service and they gave me an e-mail to send the product for repair.

Greetings from México.

I'm having this same problem!! My brand new 5th gen ipod touch came in the mail a week ago and it was doing perfectly fine until that new software update, after that my battery started losing power at a rapid rate and my ipod started heating up. I remember one night I charged it to 100% and then I turned it off completely before I went to sleep. When I turned it on the next morning the power was at 75%. I read other people's response to your problem and one of them mentioned that they were having this problem with their 5th ipod touch (PRODUCT RED) My itouch is a Product Red version as well. I'm beginning to suspect this might be a common defect amongst the Product Red itouchs. Do you have a product red itouch as well? I am planning on returning it to apple.

I have a Product Red ipod touch 5th gen as well! I'm having similar problems: battery dying super fast, ipod malfunctions and heating up.

I feel like i have the same problem but im not sure. My ipod touch cannot last a whole day with use whatsoever. It usually lasts 5 hours with use (tweeting, email, browsing, listening to music e.t.). Is this normal or did i get a defected battery? Someone please reply!

I feel like there is definitely something wrong with the battery. I ended up contacting apple and shipping back the device for a full refund.

My brand new iPod 5g's battery can't seem to hold a charge either. Pretty troubling. Not sure what to do. Hate to return if but if the batttery is defective its useless...

I just got my PRODUCT RED ipod and the same thing is happening to me as well. I have always had the new OS so I couldnt tell you if that affects it.

well look like most of the product reds are doing that my freind got one for her birthday and three days later she was telling me that it was over heating and losing battery life faster then normal it's the case of the product red disease!!!!!

Sorry to burst your RED bubble 😉 but i got myself the silver one.

This is the first iOS device (2 Touch's + 2 iPads) which arrived with the battery fully discharged (so much for setting it up w/o iTunes 😮.

Connecting it to my Mac Pro it took around 40 minutes for iTunes to finally recognize it. Charged it overnight, disconnected and left it on my desk as i had things to do. About 4 hours later, batt. indicator was already down to half.

Did a Restore, then plugged it to a USB wall charger. Overnight again, disconnected, and did the loop a song bought from the iTunes store. Within 6 hours it was dead as a doorknob. This puppy is going back.

I won't be happy though if I get a recoditioned one as a replacement seeing that i bought this one new just last week.