[CUBE] iPod battery life

[M. Jeffrey Coco]

What about letting it sleep overnight? Does anyone's still hold the 
charge? If I pause, and let it sleep overnight, it'll be pretty much 
dead by morning.

Jeff


On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 08:03 PM, Hal wrote:

> I still have my original 5Gb iPod and use it exclusively with my Cube. 
> I'm still getting around 5 hours of battery life, sometimes more. I 
> don't use it everyday though, maybe 2-3 times per week.
>
> -Hal
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 03:32 PM, Laurie A Duncan wrote:
>
>> My original 5GB iPod gets about 6 hours "normal" use for me. Of course
>> normal use for me is using the dial and the backlight a lot, so I 
>> feel the
>> battery life is about what it should be. When it's cold, however, the
>> battery life drop to about 3 hours, which is also normal with these 
>> units.
>>
>> As for the charging, I mostly charge my iPod with the wall charger, 
>> since I
>> don't add new things to my itunes library all that often, so I don't 
>> need to
>> sync it very often - however, there's never been any difference in 
>> battery
>> life when it's charged from the Cube or from the wall, or from my 
>> iBook for
>> that matter.
>>
>> Laurie
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>> On 2/11/03 6:21 PM, mentholiptus at mac.com typeth:
>>
>>> Does anyone out there have problems with your iPod not holding a 
>>> charge?
>>>
>>> I'm on my 2nd replacement iPod (the first wouldn't hold more than a 2
>>> hr charge at most, the second wouldn't mount on ANY mac I plugged it
>>> into, and I plugged it into many, plus it wouldn't hold a charge).
>>>
>>> Now this one is barely playing for more than 10 minutes to 1 hour 
>>> after
>>> a full charge, and it's driving me nuts...I'm starting to wonder if
>>> it's because it's being used with a Cube, or if it's just a battery
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any stories/suggestions?
>
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