Hi, I am thinking of getting an IPOD TOUCH and I am wondering if this issue was ever resolved?
Thanks, Tim On 3/25/13, Chris Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > The electronics keep the batteries from being killed immediately by > discharging them too far. I doubt they do anything to make the > batteries last through more cycles, a company will advertise how long > the battery will run on a charge, but the number of charge cycles isn't > advertised much. Since companies are in the business of selling you new > stuff when their old stuff stops working, they may not have your > interest at heart. From all I've read, the shallower the discharge of a > Lithium battery, the longer it will last. Deep discharge should be > avoided. If my iphones ever shut down at 12% I've not noticed it, I've > never let one get that low. > > > > On 3/25/2013 11:50, Christopher Chaltain wrote: >> Modern LI batteries have electronics in them to keep the charge from >> getting so low as to cause permanent damage. There's no problem with >> running a LI battery down that low. The only exception would be if >> you'll not be charging the battery for a while, such as days or weeks. >> LI batteries will continue to lose their charge even if they aren't >> being used, so if you run your battery all the way down and then don't >> charge it for a while, you could cause some permanent damage that the >> electronics is there to prevent. For this reason, always charge up a >> device with a LI battery before storing it away for any length of time. >> Also, since there's no harm in charging a LI battery, there's no reason >> not to charge it up whenever it's convenient. >> >> On 03/25/2013 09:34 AM, Chris Hill wrote: >>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>>> Google >>>>> Group. >>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups >>>>> "VIPhone" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>> send an >>>>> email to [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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