Surprised that I haven't seen this covered more on here, so I thought I'd mention it and see what you folks are experiencing. Since updating to iOS 4, the battery life on my iPod touch 3rd gen has taken such a bad hit that it affects my ability to use it. This issue has gotten mentioned on Tom's Guide (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iPod-Touch-Battery-iOS4-Multitasking,news-7325.html) and there's a lengthy (19 pages as of this writing) thread on the Apple Support forums (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2474499&start=0&tstart=0)
What are you all experiencing? What's worked, what hasn't? I've tried a bunch of things posted in the Apple support thread--disabling Push, turning off WiFi, trying a Microsoft Exchange fix--and while I've gotten back to the point where I can go a whole day without charging the thing, it doesn't have much left over at the end and it's still not lasting nearly as long as it should.
In my case, it appears that it does okay when it's on standby, but even slight use (listening to music, browsing the web, etc) burns through the battery verrry quickly. Today, I went through 15% of my battery typing up a draft of half an email--WITHOUT a WiFi connection even! I have a six hour flight on Thursday, and whereas before I could listen to music and watch videos here and there for the whole drive, wait in the terminal, and flight, and arrive with plenty of power to spare, this time I'm worried about having any power left when I get on the plane.
I am extremely frustrated that Apple released an upgrade that was supposed to improve the user's experience with this product (that I used to love) but which has instead rendered it very difficult to use at all. When I upgraded, I immediately noticed that the iPod doesn't interface with my car dock (where it gets 90% of its use) as smoothly, but I was prepared to live with that. However, the fact that we need to baby these thing just to get 10 hours of sporadic use out of them is absurd. Checking my email every so often and listening to music regularly should not require all these little adjustments and conditions and caveats. I spent $400 on this thing so I could USE IT, not so I could pamper it to 10 hours of battery life. Apple of course left no (legal) downgrade path for anyone who wasn't satisfied--so those of us who played by the rules and DIDN'T jailbreak are the ones who lose out.
I suppose that getting an officially sanctioned downgrade path is too much to ask for, but Apple had better at the very least address this issue with a software update in the coming weeks. If not, I will be selling my once-awesome iPod, because, since receiving this "upgrade" my iPod is no longer the device that I paid for.
Again, what have you noticed about your battery life since the upgrade? Better? Worse? Did you solve it? How? Where do we go from here?
What are you all experiencing? What's worked, what hasn't? I've tried a bunch of things posted in the Apple support thread--disabling Push, turning off WiFi, trying a Microsoft Exchange fix--and while I've gotten back to the point where I can go a whole day without charging the thing, it doesn't have much left over at the end and it's still not lasting nearly as long as it should.
In my case, it appears that it does okay when it's on standby, but even slight use (listening to music, browsing the web, etc) burns through the battery verrry quickly. Today, I went through 15% of my battery typing up a draft of half an email--WITHOUT a WiFi connection even! I have a six hour flight on Thursday, and whereas before I could listen to music and watch videos here and there for the whole drive, wait in the terminal, and flight, and arrive with plenty of power to spare, this time I'm worried about having any power left when I get on the plane.
I am extremely frustrated that Apple released an upgrade that was supposed to improve the user's experience with this product (that I used to love) but which has instead rendered it very difficult to use at all. When I upgraded, I immediately noticed that the iPod doesn't interface with my car dock (where it gets 90% of its use) as smoothly, but I was prepared to live with that. However, the fact that we need to baby these thing just to get 10 hours of sporadic use out of them is absurd. Checking my email every so often and listening to music regularly should not require all these little adjustments and conditions and caveats. I spent $400 on this thing so I could USE IT, not so I could pamper it to 10 hours of battery life. Apple of course left no (legal) downgrade path for anyone who wasn't satisfied--so those of us who played by the rules and DIDN'T jailbreak are the ones who lose out.
I suppose that getting an officially sanctioned downgrade path is too much to ask for, but Apple had better at the very least address this issue with a software update in the coming weeks. If not, I will be selling my once-awesome iPod, because, since receiving this "upgrade" my iPod is no longer the device that I paid for.
Again, what have you noticed about your battery life since the upgrade? Better? Worse? Did you solve it? How? Where do we go from here?