My battery health has gone down. I'm playing MC3 which drains a lot of battery, then I charge, drain again. This happens from 1-4 times a day! I want to improve it, but I don't know how and I don't want to quit playing MC3. I also don't know how good my battery health is, how can I check that and how can I improve it?
i think that we as gamers probably all share the same problem because games make the cpu&gpu work extra hard and that takes the toll on the ol' batt, but other than all the obvious suggestions for conserving battery life by turning off features, i guess there is not much to do. you could do what i did and that is i bought a battery case, a long time ago, which almost doubles my battery life and that helps a lot and spaces out the recharges. also you can keep an external battery at reach those will also give you more juice. i would not recommand the solar panels because they require a lot of time to recharge and also they must be put in direct sunlight to do any good.
Thanks, but I have no idea what is battery case or solar panel stuff you're talking off... Could you send a link to some product page?
You could jailbreak your device and remove some unnecessary launch daemons. It might only make a tiny difference, but a device running less stuff is probably going to save more energy than a device running more stuff. http://www.ifans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=364957
@Werebite870 No battery case for iPod Touch 4G... @SkyMuffin Yeah I guess I could go to jailbreakme.com on my device or whatever it is. But are there any other helpful tweaks you could share with me? And does it hurt my device in any way?
All the batteries have a certain number of times that they can charge, be drained, and charged before they start not being able to hold the full charge. For the iPods I think they are around 400 times... now, what comprises a full discharge and charge is something different. The macs actually let you access how many full charge cycles that the battery has gone through, and the estimate for the macs is about 1000 or 1100 charges. What I do for really intensive game days is to hook the device up to the wall electricity, so you are not running off the battery. For many the cables are too short, but you can easily find a USB extension cable and then you only have to contend with a wire sticking out the end of the device. For times that I am gaming for hours (like a Fri or Sat night) - there is no battery drain, and the charge / discharge is minimal due to the device essentially just running off wall power. For more casual sessions you can do what you are doing now. The battery packs mentioned above are great. I got a bunch of energizer packs for the 3G about a year ago - they are still going strong...
actually the type of batteries found inside idevices don't lose THAT much from their original maxiumum capacity. an old iphone battery has, at worst, about 80% capacity from the initial capacity. i'm sorry that i can't bring the source of this data because i don't remember what it is - but i do remember that it was a legitimate source.
Yeah, I remember that too, although I thought that there was a general consensus when the battery lost more than 80% capacity it was time to think about replacing it. Can't remember though. But they do have a finite number of full recharges before they start losing. And playing intensive through a wall source makes sense to me rather than charge/ discharge - especially if one is cycling 4 times / day. That can't be good for long term battery health. May not be too bad, but ...... ????
If the lithium ion battery inside an iPod Touch is anything of the sort like a laptop's lithium ion battery, it's not a good idea to leave the iPod plugged in longer than it is off the cable. Charge and discharge makes the device remain dependent on the battery, while cabling every time you use the device can make the device become dependent on the power it receives via USB or AC, allowing the battery to become weak with disuse. Kinda like how a muscle goes through atrophy if not used for an extended period of time.
i actually tend to disagree with yous. the battery on my old iphone 2G has seen maybe hundred of cycles without noticeable weakening. my really old ipaq has seen maybe a thousand cycles and also, no weakening at all. my laptop computer on the other hand - like the majority of laptop - just lost so much of its original capacity that is now not possible to use it anymore: it has roughly 30% of the original maximum capacity. also, my old nokia 3510i battery also became so old that it full charged lasted for less than 20 minutes of talk time. so to conclude: don't think we need to worry much about the battery of our idevices losing too much of its maximum capacity.
