How To Extend the Life Of Your iPod Battery

  • December 10, 2007
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Battery life can be as fragile—and end as unexpectedly—as real life.

Here’s how to help your iPod battery live long and prosper.

You Will Need

  • iPod
  • iTunes
How To Extend the Life Of Your iPod Battery: Slide hold switch

Step 1: Slide hold switch

When listening to music, slide the hold switch to On. This disables power to your iPod’s controls, saving battery life.

How To Extend the Life Of Your iPod Battery: Disable equalizer

Step 2: Disable equalizer

Disable the equalizer. Go to “Settings,” then “EQ,” and choose “Off.” The equalizer optimizes sound quality, but it also drains your battery.

How To Extend the Life Of Your iPod Battery: Turn off backlight

Step 3: Turn off backlight

Turn off the backlight. Go to “Menu,” “Settings,” “Backlight Time,” and select “Off.”

How To Extend the Life Of Your iPod Battery: Create playlists

Step 4: Create playlists

Create playlists in iTunes and listen to them on your iPod. That way you won’t waste precious battery power manually selecting the songs you like.

You can create a playlist on the fly right on your iPod. Choose a song title and hold down the center button until the title flashes—it’s just been added to your On-The-Go playlist.

How To Extend the Life Of Your iPod Battery: Put iPod to sleep

Step 5: Put iPod to sleep

Put your iPod to sleep when you’re not using it. Just hold the “Play” button until the screen turns off.

The idea for the battery grew out of Count Luigi Galvani’s experiments on frog legs in the late 1700s.

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Comments (7)

iJason

Another tip to save battery life that the video didn't mention is to make sure that ";Sound Check"; is turned off. This feature makes it so all your songs are about the same volume, but it also using quite a bit of battery life.

over 3 years ago by iJason

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davidfg4

If you set equalizers on specific songs in iTunes, setting the equalizer on the iPod to off will use those settings. Set it to flat to disable the equalizer altogether.

over 3 years ago by davidfg4

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anthonyaybar

this kind of helped me. saved me about 6 minutes of battery life.

over 3 years ago by anthonyaybar

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gigafide

I'm digging those hoppin' dance moves!

over 4 years ago by gigafide

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barbdwar

This was really useful.

over 4 years ago by barbdwar

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HeyHeyHohm

Can do a video on syncing the most current podcast on you Ipod. Also go over the disk space. It is always a issue when syncing.

over 3 years ago by HeyHeyHohm

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reiddy

Want Top Tips to Care Your iPod Battery you can refer to this link : http://www.topsreviews.com/resource/top-tips-to-care-your-ipod-battery.html

over 2 years ago by reiddy

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