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Ipod battery
RHerms716
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So I've had my ipod mini for a long while now, and the battery is pretty much dead. It usually only lasts about an hour tops now. I was looking into the replacement batteries today, and was wondering if anyone had any experience with them. In my looking earlier, I saw prices ranging from $15 to $50 or so for the various replacement batteries, but I'm not sure what I should be trusting. Anyone have any input on where I should look to get one or how much I should expect to pay for it?
Or is it just a better idea to get a new mp3 player? Thanks!
Or is it just a better idea to get a new mp3 player? Thanks!
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I have a brand new nano. I am totally ignorant in the ways of iPod. Is it best if I use it until it's basically dead, and then charge it until it's totally full, without interruption? Does it matter if it's carrying a large portion of it's charge when I plug it in? If it's part drained already and I plug it in for 10-15 mins for a sync, am I hurting my eventual battery life?
tl;dr - best practices for not fucking my battery life?
iPods use Lithium Ion batteries, which don't suffer battery memory. So you can charge it however you like and it shouldn't affect it's total life.
Lithium Ions do wear our faster, though. They have so many 'cycles' of charges before they begin to slowly deteriorate. If you take a fully charged iPod and run the battery to 60%, charge it to full (So, 40% charged), then run it to 20%, charge it halfway (So another 30%), that adds up to 70% of a cycle. The booklet that came with my Touch says the batteries are good for around 200 cycles before they start to deteriorate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion#Advantages
With a kit they give you a full color guide, the battery, and a tool that wont mess up your ipod when your opening. It seemed like a fairly professional outfit.
Can I ask where you got yours from?
It was a tad stressful getting the thing open, because I didn't want to break my ipod. Take your time, read the directions, don't rush it. On mine there's a very delicate ribbon cable that mustn't be snapped. I don't know about the new ones. When you put it back together, take your time as well, you shouldn't have to force it. Give it a nice long charge to start with.
Keep in mind, other forumers have had less luck opening their ipods.
This is sad
Good luck
EDIT: Mine is a 2nd gen BTW, not a 3rd.
mine is starting to get really funky about how long it lasts.
each charge it seemingly decides a period of between 1 and 4 hours at random.
GO NOW.