[IPOD] Battary Drain when off.

[Boogiman]

Hey ppl,

Got an Ipod for about 2 month now and i love it. But i got a problem. When i turn the Ipod off (press and hold the play button) and 2 days later turn it on again, the Ipod starts to act all weird.

I know it's standard that you see the Apple logo if you don't use it for about 2 days. Don't know why bit it is.

The problem is that it drains my battery. It was half full when i turned it off, and 2 days later, when i turned the Ipod back on, the battery is just about drained.

wtf......

Seems like the Ipod is not completly turned of or something...

Edited April 28, 2005 by Boogiman

[HawkMan]

"BattEry"

and all batteries drain even when off. the iPod probably has some idle functions as well.

[Boogiman]

Is it me, or is it just lame. When I turn the damn thing off, my intentions are that i want to turn it off, and not in stand-by modes. Now i have to recharge it even if i don't use the damn thing..

[Boogiman]

Does anyone know a way arround the Standby with a hack or something so that i can turn my Ipod completly off?

[Jesse Carlton]

ipod doesn't turn off unless the battery is dead.

it uses some battery to keep the memory, and to poll for button presses. Also if you have the alarm set, it'll never go into deep sleep, and will drain the battery.

the battery meter in the top right is not accurate by any means, the only way to really know if the battery is dead is it'll tell you to plug it in, otherwise you're fine.

[BoundToEarth]

Mine does that too but if I mess around with it for awhile, like when I'm listening to music the battery meter goes back to normal.

[Callaway]

Mine does that too but if I mess around with it for awhile, like when I'm listening to music the battery meter goes back to normal.

585842412[/snapback]

Same here. I'll charge it, know it's full. Start to play, see it drop down to about 1/4 left, then a few minutes later it's full. :wacko:

[chmsant]

Mine does that too but if I mess around with it for awhile, like when I'm listening to music the battery meter goes back to normal.

585842412[/snapback]

Same here.  I'll charge it, know it's full.  Start to play, see it drop down to about 1/4 left, then a few minutes later it's full.  :wacko:

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Considered completely normal!! Documented here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61475

[Jesse Carlton]

Considered completely normal!!  Documented here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61475

585842574[/snapback]

that's what I said above.

[+StevoFC MVC]

yeah my ipod battery drains itself like a bitch. but my ibook battery doesn't lose any charge at all even after a week or 2 of it not being plugged in.

[MiG-]

turning off a device will drain power, its part of the shutdown process that it needs more power, this is the most visible with mobile phones, but with the ipod the player will shut down, and draining battery power, when u fully boot it up, its like powering up an laptop, u drain a lot of power, and this still applys for the ipod. just use ure ipod more often

[chmsant]

that's what I said above.

585842601[/snapback]

no you said....

ipod doesn't turn off unless the battery is dead.

it uses some battery to keep the memory, and to poll for button presses.  Also if you have the alarm set, it'll never go into deep sleep, and will drain the battery.

the battery meter in the top right is not accurate by any means, the only way to really know if the battery is dead is it'll tell you to plug it in, otherwise you're fine.

585842382[/snapback]

which has nothing to do with the 2 statements I responded to about the battery meter refreshing once the HD spins up...

Considered completely normal!!  Documented here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61475

585842574[/snapback]

So in a sense, yes the info you stated was contained in the article I referenced, but you said nothing about what I was responding to.

[Boogiman]

Thx guys, Helpes allot....

I'll just have to dail with it... :s

[Shetland]

Boogiman, this is common with 95% of portables these days, even my PDA does this, its because:

A) it needs to do background tasks like waiting for button presses

B) it needs to store stuff in the non-perminant-memory, like the time/date

[Jesse Carlton]

no you said....

which has nothing to do with the 2 statements I responded to about the battery meter refreshing once the HD spins up...

So in a sense, yes the info you stated was contained in the article I referenced, but you said nothing about what I was responding to.

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I wrote: the battery meter in the top right is not accurate by any means

the article you referenced: iPod's battery indicator is approximate

how are they not the same?

[Enrickey]

What happens is that Apple decided that having the iPod drain batteries while it being off was worth it so that they can have that instant-on feature. The reason that the iPod is able to turn on right away is because it doesn't actually turn off, what it does is it turns off the screen, the hard drive, but it still keeps information in the memory, still polls the buttons to see if you press it. After two days or so, it decided that it has been wasting enough battery so it does a cold shutdown where nothing is running, that is when it has to display the Apple logo, because everything is being loaded into memory again.

[Boogiman]

Ya, but isn't it beter for the battery time to just shutdown completly?

[Shetland]

yes, but then you wouldnt be able to do anything with it until it boot's from cold.

people would rather have the ability to press a button and it works instantly than wait a while for it to get going.

[Enrickey]

My Rio Karma actually does a cold boot every time, not just go into sleep mode. It takes 6.28 seconds from pressing the power button until it is actually playing music. I dont know about you, but that is fast enough for me, all in all, I find this instant on capability not worth the battery trade off.

[Callaway]

Considered completely normal!!  Documented here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61475

585842574[/snapback]

nice article, thanks.

[jumungo4]

Try resetting it or restoring the factory settings.

Details on apples website.

http://www.apple.com/

[Boogiman]

thx ppl for the help. :)

[Xtreme $niper]

The ipod is never really off so its always gonna drain battery. All the time.

On the other hand, my iriver, which turns completely off, has been not used for more than a few weeks now and I just checked, it has full battery. :)