New ipod 802.11n 2.4GHz and power saving?

M

MaxBurn

[H]ard|Gawd
Joined
Nov 14, 2004
Messages
1,107
Leaving the wireless turned on on my ipod easily drains the battery in under a day. I was rather annoyed that they never enabled the 802.11n that the 3rd gen has as I understand that it is supposed to eat less power with the higher frequencies. Now I see that they released this thing and it is 802.11n 2.4GHz only so I guess that isn't going to help save power at all?

I guess the only improvement in this area is the different backlight and bigger battery?
 
More efficient CPU is the big change. Just go look at iphone 4 vs 3gs battery comparisons at anandtech.
 
Good tip but I went in and looked and fetch is set to manual meaning only when I open mail or hit the refresh button will it check for new mail. Push is turned on, though under advanced that account is set for fetch.

Any other battery hog ideas like that?
 
Are you on iOS 4? When I left notifications on, my battery dies within the day because iOS 4 changes some of the networking behavior and pretty much keeps the wifi awake and prevents the ipod from really sleeping at all.

Before iOS 4, I could leave the ipod alone for a week and it'd still have battery life. With iOS4 and notifications on, I am lucky to have it last half a day without use. Once I disable notifications, battery life returns to pretty much what I got in 3.1.2
 
Yes I am 4.0 (8A293). On notifications that's the thing, I leave wireless on so I can get ebuddy messenger notifications. Keeps me from having a computer on all the time.

Basically what I have done is resorted to jailbreak and sbsettings so I can really quickly bump the wireless on/off so I can check in here and there, annoying and yes it lasts about 8 hours then dies without much use.
 
Yeah, the notifications/wifi behavior in 4.0 really eats through battery. Coupled with the weird volume issue where songs play at half volume whenever I skip songs, I might just go back to 3.1.2.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top