Hello Laura. It's nice to have yet another person with this issue. I mean to say that it stinks that it having it also,but refreshing to know that enough people are havering it to let me know that Apples engineering department will have to come up with a solution sooner rather than later. If it was only myself with the 12-15% battery shutdown issue than Apple wouldn't be too quick to fix the problem and who could blame them? The fact is however that a senior Advisor has left me an email and voicemail stating that Apples engineers are aware of the issue and are currently investigating the problem. I believe this to be true as this current advisor has been very up front with me. This is my 4th IPod touch 5th generation that is shutting down at exactly 12% so I am beyond frustrated but the device works awesome so far otherwise so I'm actually looking at it the same way as you are in that I know you generally do not want lithium ion batteries to drain completely and so I'm being optimistic instead of worrying about it anymore. I choose to start,and continue enjoying this darn thing and so long as the battery issue at hand doesn't manifest into something worse down the road than I can live with my Itouch helping me save the integrity of my battery capacity. Thanks Apple. Lol. But seriously I (we) did pay a lot of money for these devices and we should have a flawless experience if not then one close to it. Thank you Lauren for sharing your experience. I suspect that its affecting more users than I can find through the forums but maybe they're either just "living with it" as I have chosen or they actually have no clue that its happening since they probably don't let it get that low in the first place. Either way I'm enjoying this cool toy whilst checking my inbox here and there for some direction in the matter. If anyone else is having this issue I'd like to hear from you as well
On Sunday, March 24, 2013, 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] <javascript:;>> 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. 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