The data is in flash, low batteries won't corrupt it. Running a lithium
battery down that low very often is definitely hard on it, though, I
wouldn't make a habit of it unless I really wanted to buy a new device
before I had to.
On 3/24/2013 22:02, Lauren Simmons wrote:
When first reading the details of this iPod Touch 5th gen battery
charge thread this past Thursday/Friday, I set out to try to reproduce
these findings.
I charged my iPod Touch 5th gen to 100%. I then let the battery drain
by turning up the brightness to 100% as well as letting digit eyes
scan for 1 hour intervals as well as doing the same with Light
detector.
I found that at 20% I will get a warning about low battery.
At about 12% my iPod Touch will lose speech and shut off. It will not
completely power down, but it will simulate a shut down as if I tapped
the sleep/power button on top of unit.
I then used the lightning connector cable to charge the device until
the speech came back on by itself at about 21 or 22% battery life.
Once again I unplugged the USB lightning cable to run the iPod Touch
on battery, and at 20% I again received a warning of low battery.
At about 12% to 14% the iPod Touch shut itself off once again.
Once the unit automatically shut itself off, I charged up to 22% about
3 times, so I think, despite the posted comments from Apple techs, it
appears as though the iPod Touch 5th gen might have been engineered to
present a warning at 20% and shut off at 12% battery life as those of
us on this list with the iPod Touch 5th gen are all experiencing the
same thing.
I'm not at all alarmed by this. Should I be? I'm assuming a shutdown
at 12% of battery life is probably good in that it will protect the
integrity of the data on the iPod Touch. Letting the battery drain
significantly may result in data corruption, so I'd rather be safe
than sorry.
LS
On 3/22/13, Deisel1016 <[email protected]> wrote:
Richard you have no idea how glad I am that you've responded. Ok so if u
could I'd like to converse a little more via email and maybe even a phone
call and the reason being is that I need to know if I should just live with
it or try to get another replacement which might end up with worse issues
than the 12 percent shut down but. Same as you I sent mine to apple care and
they sent it back with a "couldn't reproduce issue" which is saying that
there's nothing wrong with it,which I know to be false. Right now as we
speak I have some crash reports going out to the engineers since this is my
fourth replacement(5th gen 64gb black) and I should have an answer,the
senior advisor says, by today which is Friday. I will keep u posted with any
info or progress as I feel for you since it's the exact same issue as mine.
Maybe it's more widespread as u say but people just don't let they're device
get down so low. I think I may be lucky as other people have reported
they're device working well for a month and then the battery just starts
draining like crazy. I don't have that problem. Same as you my device seems
to have excellent battery life unless I'm walking with it out in the cold or
playing infinity blade 2(which is very graphic and memory intense) and its
better than my old 4th gen. Even when its battery drains from game play it
will go right back up when i close the game and wait a minute. Same as cold
weather too. Soon as I get back into the warm house the percentage
stabilizes. So Richard please tell me-How long have you had your newest
replacement? It looks to me you've had it for a few months and so far the
only issue is the battery still dies at 12 percent? I ask only so I can
figure my next step. If your device is running smooth otherwise than I too
can live with the issue. It's not good to drain these lithium ion batteries
very low anyway so I've been telling myself its actually a system bug that
is helping me rather than hurting the device,haha! Oh the things I've told
myself to try and live with these device bugs. As I said I'm expectting an
email from the senior advisor who sent my crash reports out to the engineers
and he said it will explain why it's doing this. I plan to share what I
learn right away. Sorry for the long message I'm just excited to finally
find someone with my exact issue. Hope to hear from you soon.
DEREK C
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