7th generation ipod nano battery life? Please help.

My battery life on my brand new ipod nano is dismal, not even 10 hours. Is there a fix for this or should I just return it? I have tried every test suggested and nothing is making it better. I do NOT use bluetooth with device.

According to testing done by iLounge, battery life is significantly reduced when Bluetooth is turned on. I had the same problem. If you turn it off and only turn it on when needed, you should get much better battery life.

Brad.

Do the reset and calibration. Press and hold home and on/off button until the apple logo appears. Then calibrate by fully charging it, then drain it fully, and try to fully charge it again. It will improve the battery life of your ipod nano.

I'm having this issue with the battery display its not showing me the full 100 %. just after i unpluged it from the charger. looks like only 97 percent. too bad it doesnt really show the numeric charge. i had this for 2 days only since i bought it. ill try this hard reset from bongzki_02. and try to run it down over night by playing non stop music and see tomorrow morning. anybody know the same issue?

The new ipod nano held its original charge for a long time. To start using the device, it is advisable to drain it completely and charge again. And do the reset as well. I had same issue with this device when I first had them, but after doing so, the charge extends longer and closer to what it is designed for.

I get about 5 0r 6 hours before it says to connect it to charge after a full 3 plus hours charging it? I change songs frequently but that doesn't give it reason to die so darn fast. If I can't get any better life out of this I will have to sell it on ebay because this problem really is bad when they say its about 30 hours of life!

I guess i neglected to say that I did all tests from letting it completely die to letting it sit for 22 hours without touching it (who uses ipods without touching them for 30 hours?) and it died just after 22 hours. 3 times now it said connect to charge after 5 to 6 hours but one of the times i let it play without touching it after it said to charge and it went for another 5 hours then died? Any other hints or tricks or is this battery really garbage like others are saying!? If apple don't do a fix for this they will be getting hundreds of these ipods back because of the deception on battery life!

Maybe you have probably done this already but have you done reset and/or restore. The reason why same step is recommended because, like you, I had this problem when I got my ipod nano. And after doing these steps, the battery life increased significantly. Cheers!

I got 2 hours on average on my first Nano - I exchanged it and this one's not much better. ONly used it for an hour and it's already half used :-( Really really disappointed and the help people aren't much help when you telephone.

I got my new Nano 7 home and charged it for 3 hours till fully charged.

I hit play and left it on to see what battery life would be....5 hours it was epty!!

I took it to a local Apple store they hooked it to a lap top to test it and it showed

That the battery was drawing to much power,I got the new one home did a 3 hour charge and right now at 18 hours it reads half empty.

I think apple has identified and corrected the battery issue..Cheers to apple.

Trust me I now got 33 hours on a single charge playing music

continuous.

I think there was a problem with earlier models and Aple has fixed it.

Dont cry about it and go to an Apple store and nget it checked!

bongzki_02 wrote:

Do the reset and calibration. Press and hold home and on/off button until the apple logo appears. Then calibrate by fully charging it, then drain it fully, and try to fully charge it again. It will improve the battery life of your ipod nano.

Hi, I'm not getting very good battery life out of my recently purchase ipod nano 7th gen. I always use the bluetooth since that's a big part of why I bought it and I seem to only get about 4-4.5hrs out of it after a full charge. I was hoping to get at lease 6hrs with the bluetooth. So, is the above method the best way to try and extend battery life? Also, does it delete all the content on the device? Thx

Why not try it first and see what will happen, and then try to figure out other way of improving the battery life. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4453155?answerId=20336175022#20336175022