As we're on question time here...
How long is an iPod battery supposed to last? How many hours should I be able to run my iPod between charges? In four hours I've used over half the battery- is that normal? I thought they used less power than that...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:06, 12 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Don't start me off about bloody I-pod batteries.
*hmpphh*
( girlinthehole, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:09, Reply)

Do tell.
Mine is supposedly brand-new as well. I thought it would last at least eight hours!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:14, Reply)

Generally
batteries in iPods and mobile phones have a sort of 'memory', the best way to overcome the problem is to let it discharge completely, until it's totally dead, and then recharge, and it'll last much longer. Like a Trebor mint.

Summink to do with Nickel-Cadmium or something, I dunno.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:15, Reply)

Mine is
the first of the colour screen ones. iPod photo, it was called. I've had it three years, and it gets used almost exclusively in my car, where it's on charge.

But when I'm using it on an aeroplane, I can still get 8 or so hours from it, provided I'm not firing it up and putting on different songs all the time. If I let it run through an entire album, or stick it on random play, it loads up the buffer and doesn't have to spin up the disk very often.

It was rated at 14 hours life when new, but I don't think it ever managed that.

Edit - don't do as Bert says, as iPods use Lithium ion batteries which don't take kindly to deep discharge, like the NiCads used to need. (sorry Bert!)
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:18, Reply)

@K2k6
Ah, that's ok.

*has learned something*
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:21, Reply)

@al
I hope you paid for all that music, I wouldn't want the poor old Klaxons or Arctic shitewankMonkeys to be put out of pocket. ;)
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:25, Reply)

LIES
That sounds like an awful lot of CDs, mine is roughly around a paltry 300, but I'm picky.

You should pay for each of those individual tracks, if you actually like and want to support the bands that made them.

*semi-frowns*
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:32, Reply)

Is it on shuffle?
Apparently shuffle uses more battery.

Also, turn the backlight down to its shortest time (2 secs I think), and try to turn all the "function" noises off.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:36, Reply)

Okay then...
I've turned down its brightness and killed the sound effects, and turned off the wi-fi, which undoubtedly eats up charge at a furious rate. (It's an iPod Touch, basically an iPhone without the mic and speaker.)

Let's see if that helps. I'll plug the beast back in after the battery is drained and let it charge...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:42, Reply)

when ipod mini
died, it would last about 2 mins before collapsing, even after being on charge all night. by this point, it was very obsolete, but as it was pretty much the last thing my mum had ever bought for me before she died, i wanted to keep it.

so i forked out £75 to have a new battery installed. worked perfectly.

for a week.

then some cunt mugged me in the back of a car in sicily and stole it. they did that motorbike trick, where one swerves in front of the car and the other jumps into the car and robs you blind...

i was so angry i chased him down the road screaming for about half a mile, but as he was on a moped, i did not get far. then my dad bollocked me for being stupid. ah well. my replacement ipod nano does about 8 hours, i think, and i flick around between songs a LOT.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 17:19, Reply)

al
Watch the battery. I've done to mine what swipe presumably did to hers- if you never let the battery run down, and just keep it attached to a charger the whole time, you will kill it.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 17:32, Reply)

Update
Turning off the wi-fi seems to have been the answer, as it now still has most of the charge that was remaining before.

I'll give it the acid test tomorrow by using it all day.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 29 Jul 2008, 21:34, Reply)