'Please Wait. Very Low Battery.'

Donnajay, did you wait 5 to 10 minutes before you plugged in the new battery? This worked for me, I waited 10 minutes to be sure the hard drive reset and then plugged in the new battery. The ipod came on as normal when I started it. I then plugged it into my computer for over 4 hours to charge the new battery.

Mike

I have an 80 GB iPod video that needs a new battery and while looking for one I found 2 models, first is 850mAh and the other one is 950mAh.

Which one would you guys recommend?

njhwang,

Thank you so much. After reading through several pages of this forum, and trying the reset, unplug, select and play buttons, your suggestion of pressing select and play while at the low battery screen rather than reseting and then pressing select and play seems to have worked for me. I'm in disk mode, plugged up to an A/C adapter. Here's hoping that it gets and keeps a charge.

hello, i used a different usb port and my same ipod acutually booted quicker than the prior port, i had i tunes on and it did not read the ipod connected on the first port but did on the second, i then put my ipod in disk mode, holding the center and play/pause at the same time, i did that soon as the apple appeared, now i tunes read my ipod connected which allowed me to restore my ipod, and it works fine again

Hi! pain of the arse and frustrating Ipod .... but simply ...
What i did i press enter button and menu button, then after the apple logo press enter button and play button .... then the ipod will be on disk mode ...

FIXED
Hardware: White 5G iPod Video

Here's my experience: When connected to the computer only got "Very Low Battery" message, no exclamation icon and the apple logo would never show. Doing a reset would go straight back to the "Very Low Battery".

When I connected it to AC power, it would come on and look as if it was charging. I could play songs and all that jazz.

AS SOON as it was off power though, within 10-15 seconds, if not immediately it would die. Pressing any buttons or combinations at this point didnt do crap.

*THE FIX*
Fed up and about to throw my ipod in the lake behind my apt, I decided to take the case off. All I did was lift up the brown connector holding the battery ribbon to the main board, took the ribbon out, put it back in and then pushed the brown connector back down. Once I snapped the case back, VOILA, it FREAKING WORKED! Apple logo came on, I hooked it up to the computer and now its charging.

NOTE: Be careful removing the case. I kind of ripped it apart the first time and broke the ribbon for the headphone jack. Now I have to replace that (only $3.50 on Amazon).

Okay, so I have been 2 months trying to get it off very low battery and the apple screen, well today I got it past there to the "Disc Mode" now what????

I have been reading all morning about the "very low battery" and finally got it to here, now I am lost again, but progress is always good.

Please HELP!!!

If someone got something ? let us know ...
thanks 🙂

Something that I forgot to mention, is that I have it plugged into a wall charger and it is sitting in disc mode, saying ok to disconnect and seems to be charging.

Unplugged it from the wall, and tried USB Port and said "Please wait, very low battery". Unplugged from computer and plugged back into wall and was able to get it back into disc mode, charging, ok to disconnect.

I have 2 ipod's and the other one I was able to connect through my usb cord into my usb port and sync this morning so not the cord or the port, just something with the ipod.

Thanks

Want to share my experience, have a 80GB Video iPod and it had the "Please Wait. Very Low Battery" message with spinning wheel for a very long time.

I would read these forums a little, try again, then leave it for a while. Also, note that my iPod would come up and function if it was plugged into the wall, but as soon as I unplugged it, it would die. When I plugged into my computer it would not show up in iTunes and would have the message I described above. As noted in earlier posts, it doesn't have enough juice to get passed this stage. That is why doing the resets seems to work. But keep reading as just doing the resets did not seem to work for me until I had done some combo of all the stuff listed below.

What ended up working for me was doing the reset of holding the "select" button and "menu" together. I hold hold it for 3-4 seconds, it would kind of flash, then come right back up. I would release and do it again. When it finally worked I had done it probably thirty (30) times AND I thought it hadn't worked, so I gave up and 45 secs. or so later the magical apple came up. I had tried all this before, BUT also read the next paragraph. (I had tried many times doing the resets as just described before where I reset 30 plus times, without doing the things listed below and it didn't work, that is why I place some importance on changing your battery/power cord settings, unplug all other USB stuff, try all USB ports)

Anyway, over the past 6 months I have had to get a new battery for my Powerbook G4 and a new power cord. AND, I also tweaked the performance settings under system preferences and "energy saver" to give the highest energy output or best performance or whatever it says AND i dimmed my screen to almost all the way off.

Now, I have no idea what combination of stuff helped it to to finally work, but I would try all this stuff if you are desperate. Good Luck.

I replaced the case on my battered old worn gen5 video ipod.
The result was a wont charge error.
I tried everything here to no avail.

I replaced the cable between the hard drive and the board,,
Problem solved...