How To Stop Ipod Touch Battery Draining!

A short while back when i first got my Ipod Touch 8G the battery life on it was amazing, it would charge to 100% then would retain power on standby mode for days on end. With all the battery draining features on such as notifications, screen brightness and location services the battery would still have a decent few days life.

Over the past few months i noticed that the battery was starting to deplete while in standby mode more than ever before. I could charge the Ipod Touch then put on standby mode and carry on with my day, only to go to use my Ipod Touch and realise that the battery was dead.

At first i believed that the battery was faulty or broken, but after doing a bit of reading found that there were a few apps out that can help Ipod Touch battery's return to their 100% charge capability. After a short search on the app store I found a brilliant little battery app which featured in my Top 5 Essential Apps post, Battery Doctor Pro . After following all the steps in the app i was hopeful that this would fix the battery, the app did indeed fix the battery's charge capacity but the battery was still getting severely drained when in standby mode.

I then tried the following steps which online battery saving tips had suggested so i began the process of elimination:

 Notifications i turned off because when in standby mode this service remains very much activated and using the wifi to check your applications for notifications. Especially if you have allot of apps on your Ipod Touch all of which deliver some form of notification that is why i thought this was the battery draining culprit. 
 After testing turning this service off did not make much of a difference to the battery life as it was still being drained.

 The second option i tried was the back light brightness, as you can see in the picture, i proceeded to turn auto-brightness off and lowered the brightness level as low as i could while still being able to see the screen properly. Like as before this did not have much effect on the battery, as it was still being drained and getting quite puzzling. i decided to leave this setting as it is until i finished all the options i wanted to try.

Location Services i turned off because if you have social apps that use location services it is being used when in standby mode when near an active wifi point. This gave as much change in battery status as the previous two options gave, so i was very puzzled as too what the culprit could be.













 After a few days of testing i finally worked out what was causing this draining, it is all down to the wifi. Whether using the wifi or not it is still activated in the settings and when ever an active access point is found the Ipod Touch begins to try to connect and if successful will start to communicate with it. All the while you may have it on standby and not being used it is still using valuable battery time. 

So i tested the theory:

  On day one i charged the Ipod Touch to full charge and left the wifi on while on standby. The next day after being left on standby for the previous night it was completely dead, i was hoping to of got a screenshot before the battery was dead to show it at its depleted stage but to no avail.
  On day three i Fully charged the battery again but this time i activated the Airplane mode which when active stops your Ipod Touch from using its wifi. The next day after being left on standby with airplane mode active the battery was full, it looked as though it had not lost any battery life at all.






This is where to find Airplane mode for those who don't know where it is:

  When the airplane mode is turned off as you can see the wifi is active and connected to my home router.

When airplane mode is activated it automatically turns off the wifi and in doing so saves a very significant amount of  battery life.


















Conclusion: 

If you are having trouble with your Ipod Touch battery life being drained the best bit of advice i can offer is when not in use and in your pocket turn on airplane mode and believe me you will see the difference.  Hope this blog helped you enjoy using your Ipod touch again as it did for me, thanks for your time and interest in my blog.


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