Why does my iPod 5 have a battery percentage indicator?

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Why does my iPod 5 have a battery percentage indicator?

I have an iPod touch 5th generation that I bought in December 2012, and as long as I can remember, it has always had the battery percentage next to the battery icon. I was recently looking for online for a way to turn off this percentage, and I came across a lot of people asking how they could turn on the battery percentage on the iPod 5g. This really confused me because I have always had the battery percentage, while many people with the same iPod 5th generation are saying that they can't turn it on. Also, I can;t find a way to turn off the battery percentage, it's not under usage like on the iPhones. Why can my iPod display battery percentage while others can't?

iPod touch (5th generation), iOS 7.0.3

Posted on Nov 11, 2013 4:50 PM

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lllaass

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Nov 11, 2013 4:57 PM in response to lortega14

Did you purchase it new from Apple?

You can reverse this:

Add Battery Percentage to iPod Touch 5th Generation on IOS 6+ without Jailbreaking

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lortega14 Author

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Nov 11, 2013 4:59 PM in response to lllaass

I bought it new from Walmart, not Apple. Do you think that's why it has the battery percentage?

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lortega14 Author

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Nov 11, 2013 5:58 PM in response to lortega14

bump

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stedman1

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Nov 11, 2013 6:03 PM in response to lortega14

There is no, nor has there ever been, a native battery percentage indicator on the iPod Touch.

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lortega14 Author

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Nov 11, 2013 6:09 PM in response to stedman1

Well my iPod has one, and I never jailbroke it, used any thrid party apps or anything like that, so I don't know what to tell you. It came out of the box with ios6 and a battery percentage indicator and its been like that ever since, even after upgrading to ios7.

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stedman1

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Nov 11, 2013 6:11 PM in response to lortega14

I'm not certain why you would see it, but apparently now you iPod is working as designed, with no battery percentage indicator.

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lortega14 Author

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Nov 11, 2013 6:13 PM in response to stedman1

What makes you say that? It still has the battery percentage indicator, I haven't done what llasss suggested. I was waiting to see if anyone had a different solution. So you've never seen another ipod 5 with a native battery percentage indicator?

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Nov 11, 2013 6:25 PM in response to lortega14

No it should not have the battery percentage indicator because this is not available for the iPod.

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lortega14 Author

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Nov 11, 2013 6:26 PM in response to ios decipher

Well then why does mine have it? That is how I bought my iPod.

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lllaass

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Nov 12, 2013 6:11 AM in response to lortega14

Maybe Walmart installed it. It can be dones. In any event, I would not be concerned ti the iPod work OK.

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Answer 11

Jan 16, 2014 6:06 PM in response to lortega14

Your iPod has a battery percent indacator because simply in the encoding on the software (almost like binary on a computer) has a line in there that states "Battery Percent Indacator <true>" When normally it would say <false>. With the mass manufacturing of apple products they run off of the same software except for Macs. Since they run off of the same software all the coding is just changed around to display this and that so it makes an iPod or iPhone, an advantage to apple products having the same software is that you could change the binary on your iPod to make it like an iPhone because all it is, is switched around to make it "different." Pretty much since they are mass manufactured the system accidently applied <true> for under the binary statement "Battery Percent Indacator" instead of <false>. Small system mix up but thats all it is. Sorry for the techy terms I do some computer work here and there. Im dumb to IT's but Smart to people that don't know anything about software. Heres a simple way of saying WHY you have battery %. It was a manufactoror mixup and you accidently got battery percent. Thats all 🙂.

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