Weird Click Wheel battery problem!

alexmaccoll · alexmaccoll #1 (**permalink**)

04-09-2006, 04:30 PM

Hi I have a black and white clickwheel 20GB ipod, which until now has worked fine.
Yesterday I put an album on it after it had charged fully, transferred from the windows PC via USB2, and this ate HALF the battery. Then when i played one song, it ate the battery fully. I then charged it for 4 hours, played one song, and the battery was gone. I phoned apple, they said to determine if its the battery, i should play a random song on repeat. I've done this and its still going after 7 hours! Yet when i play this song on the new album, it drains this sucker.
Any ideas?!
Alex

Shadowfax · Shadowfax #2 (**permalink**)

04-14-2006, 10:55 AM

I would buy a new battery for it, Newertech make the best ones.

Aptmunich · Aptmunich #3 (**permalink**)

04-14-2006, 11:10 AM

I suggest restoring it to factory settings with the iPod software updater and put everything back on again.

Also make sure you have the latest firmware for your iPod.
www.apple.com/ipod

dimagex20 · dimagex20 #4 (**permalink**)

04-17-2006, 06:51 PM

If an iPod update and all that doesn't work, than I would suggest you to get another battery. Plus a new battery now a days would boost your life by 2x if you were to get a new one off the internet and put it in your self.

dimagex20 #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 03, 2006 Posts: 202 Mac Specs: iMac Intel Core Duo 17" A Little Piece Of Heaven	04-17-2006, 06:51 PM If an iPod update and all that doesn't work, than I would suggest you to get another battery. Plus a new battery now a days would boost your life by 2x if you were to get a new one off the internet and put it in your self. It's all good.
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alexmaccoll #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 27, 2005 Location: Maidenhead, UK Posts: 423 Mac Specs: 20" intel iMac, 15" MBP, 3 X 13.3" MB (family etc), G4 tower, 12" G4 PowerBook, iBook G4, 20" iMacG5	04-09-2006, 04:30 PM Hi I have a black and white clickwheel 20GB ipod, which until now has worked fine. Yesterday I put an album on it after it had charged fully, transferred from the windows PC via USB2, and this ate HALF the battery. Then when i played one song, it ate the battery fully. I then charged it for 4 hours, played one song, and the battery was gone. I phoned apple, they said to determine if its the battery, i should play a random song on repeat. I've done this and its still going after 7 hours! Yet when i play this song on the new album, it drains this sucker. Any ideas?! Alex
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Shadowfax #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 01, 2005 Location: London Posts: 52 Mac Specs: iMac G5 20'' 2.0GHz 2gb Ram 400gb HDD	04-14-2006, 10:55 AM I would buy a new battery for it, Newertech make the best ones.
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