"Charged".... yet battery bar shows only 1?

try doing a soft reset (menu + play). Mine only went up to 3/4, now it goes all the way.

My brothers iPod is doing the same thing and when he tries to reset it it shows a different battery level every time. It is charged but never shows that it is fully charged.

Mine too.
After it's fully charged the battery icon will be 2/3rds full.
I then let it sit for a while (hour or so) and when I turn it back on the battery meter is usually then full. It seems to take a long time for the meter to properly update itself.

I've found that after using my iPod over the weekend, and hence removing and re-inserting it into the dock, the charge meter seems to have sorted itself out.

And I think it's fairly safe to assume that if the iPod says it's charged, it will be (despite the meter reading otherwise).

I used my iPod for about an hour, and the meter went down by about 20%. Which I've found is about usual. (oh, the days of better battery life are sorely awaited..)

Giles.

Same here! I recharged it today after dunning it down to almost zero, and when i pulled it out of the dock it said it was TOTALLY empty. Then i watched as it slowly started filling up right before my eyes. Reset it and now it is up to 3/4 full. I'm relieved that it is (probably) firmware but a bit dissapointed. especially with the "ok to disco" problem

I'm having the same problem.

Except I left my iPod to charge last night and this morning I put it in my bag and when I went to play it in the afternoon it was dead?

Forget it, I need to revert back to 2.0.1 Do you have to restore in order to do that?

I installed iTunes with 2.0.1 and I couldn't get it to work. It would recognize the iPod but it was showing that it only had 4GB capacity and if I transferred songs over they never showed up on the iPod.

I deleted iTunes, havn't tried now that I've updated to 2.1.0.

I only got 5.75 hours of playtime off a full charge... seems a lil shady.

Jay

I am getting this same problem.

menu + play = a soft reset?

I guess this only offers a temporary solution?

Does a soft reset wipe my ipod?

Originally posted by Diversion
If you're referring to the MENU+PLAY button reset method, no it won't wipe everything off.

Jay

Ok, I shall give that a try...

Will this fix the problem in the long term? Or do i have to soft reset after every charge in order to show Full Battery on the indicator?

Thanks for your help

I find the new Ipod 2.1 software more accurately reflects rechargable battery behavior. Not that this is good or right, just more accurate.

For instance, charging a lithium battery to 100% should say 100% in the display and last give or take 8 hours. But after an hour of usage, it might say half full/empty. This would be normal since the typical rechargeable battery plateaus for a while around the 66% point for the duration of the charge (6 hours or so) and then rapidlly dies out.

The software takes readings during load and stress and then averages it out, which is why you may see it rise during usage, or a dip right after removing it from the charger.

Once rechargeables reach that plateau its difficult to accurately detect the amount of time left. An example would be when the disk drive does a seek, the battery software would measure the dip in voltage and do an "Assumption" of whats left. But then it may rise as the song gets cached and no disk activity happens.

You should cold boot the ipod (Menu + Play) every once in a while to clear out memory bugs and reset counters.

The Lithium battery should also be amune to "Battery Memory" :rolleyes: but I find running the ipod down to near minimum and then fully charging it with the charger also works good to condition the battery. But I don't recommend doing this too often.

I wouldn't be surprized if Apple rewrites the battery software again, and turns down the sampling rate, so the battery doesn't fluctuate so much. Seems like a lot of people are freaked over this.

-Rich

Whoa, just did a soft reset to my 3G and the battery meter went down from 2/3 to 1/3 full??!!
I think i'm gonna regress to 2.0.1 for the time being.

Originally posted by blue_maffu_202
Why? Is this not good for the battery?

The battery is good for 500 or so full discharges/recharges (that is what I have read on this board) so if you don't completely discharge it is better for the battery.