iPod help needed

[bobcat]

Originally Posted by Null

yes, the same HD related and battery related issues will hit any related products.

honestly to help the battery keep its charge longer, you can use it and not charge it till its completely drained, then give it a full charge, that cycle keeps it at higher capacity longer.

however doing that jusnt isnt really realistic because unless you let it drain each night then charge it fully for the next day it just doenst happen much.

I heard that if you completely drain the battery overnight, it still ain't good. Sporatically using it until it depletes is the best way to go, but then again I'm not sure I just heard this.

[Null]

it doesnt matter how it drains. what the thing is with rechargable batteries, is they have almost a memory of sorts, thats why whenever you get something like that they always ask you to charge competely before use, if you charge half way use, charge half way and use, over and over, its possible that half way will be the full charge you get outta that battery.

so whats best for the battery is to be completely drained then recharged fully. going from empty to full. it wouldnt know the diffference if you drained it in 3 days or drained it in 1.

[Canyarion]

That's how I killed my Nokia battery. For 2 years, I always drained it 100% and then charged it 100%. But then I started charging it when it wasn't really 'empty' yet, that's when the misery started. Now it can stay on stand-by for perhaps a week, but I can't make calls longer than a couple of minutes. If I'm lucky.

[DarrenMcLeod]

Alright, I was busy and kept putting off posting this.

Anyways, I reformatted my iPod, but you can't get rid of the update, or at least you can't as far as I could tell. Any way to completely remove the update and go back to a previous one? or anything similar? I still have the old update on my computer, but I can't do anything with it, because the system thinks that my iPod is better with it's newer software. It isn't!

Any solutions?

[Null]

hrm.. which way did you reformat?

whenever i've had the ipod or a friends ipod reset, he needed to get all the updates all over again.

[DarrenMcLeod]

Originally Posted by Null

hrm.. which way did you reformat?

whenever i've had the ipod or a friends ipod reset, he needed to get all the updates all over again.

Using iPod updater. I clicked the Reset to Factory Settings option on there.

[Null]

hmm, i'll look up the options, maybe i've just formated the drive before.

im positive i had to update it again after however i reset it tho. infact when i did it i woulda liked a way to keep it the same version. heh.