'Please Wait. Very Low Battery.'

Okay so Ime having this problem with my 30bg 5g. and it seems none of the answers here have worked. It says that dreaded ''PLease wait very low battery''
ive fixed alot of things before so i bought this ipod for $20 from my friend and i really need it to work.

ive tried plugging it in a resetting, but it just goes back to the same Low battery please wait screen..PLEASE I NEED HELP... anything that has worked for someone else? there is no warranty and genius bar said to take it to a repair shop, but i dont know of any...thanks for any helpful answers...all answers are heplful.

ok, listen up. Eveything that eveyone is saying about how to bring it back to life!! Is completely true, however. Persistence is key. If you keep doing it, it will eventually work! Mine has! Thanks to whomever thought of this! You sir are a genius and should be working for apple! Apple support very disappointed in you!! REMEMBER KEEP AT IT!! IT WILL WORK! It's April 29, 2010 and I finally got mine to work after reading this post!

Hi all.
I wonder if you guys can help me. Obviously my 80gb ipod classic is having the same issue. My first ipod died after five years of service, so I didn't take it too dramatic. However this is a refurbished one which I had only for four months, so you can imagine the frustration when this happened yet again!
It shows me a sad mac and advises to go to the ipo support page. Tried all the steps following:
1. restart, when apple sign comes on, restart again several times
2. when sign Please wait,very low battery comes up, uplugged from charger & pressed select & play buttons simultaneously - had to hold them for fairly long time till I managed to get to the disc mode
3. when in disc mode, i either got DO NOT DISCONNECT or OK TO DISCONNECT, either way both signs showed as charging my ipod
4. after appr. a minute, the charge has stopped - when it was on pc, it beeped, showed black ipod screen & whole process started again, when on ac charger, all the same without the beep
5. tried disconnecting before the beep & put on different charger but appr. after ten mins of charging it started all over again
6. tried to open the ipod, disconnected the cables from battery, clean the thing inside out, no burn marks are visible, put it all together after app. 10 mins but no change.. tried again and now put it together after about 30 mins rest
7. restarted, got to disc mode, put on ac charger, charged it for about 10 mins and then changed to DO NOT DISCONNECT.. stopped charging and giving me now the sad mac again.

I wonder if anyone knows why it won't continue charging. I ordered a new battery from ebay for a fiver, always handy to have anyways but doubt it's the root cause. New hd are available refurbished for about 40 quid, however don't want to get one until someone finds out whether it's the hd, mother board or something else? Please let me know if you found a solution, been ****** about this now five hours and read every single post and tried every single step, and can't get this thing to continue charging.

Thanks in advance!

ONE MORE 'RANDOM' SOLUTION

Changing broken screen ( 60gb,5G) I got myself in similar adventure like most of the people in this forum. Seeing usual sings and warnings (pls wait..vey low battery..etc. I tried charging from ipod player box starting in disk mode. it charged successfully - but still showing warning 'go to (this) apple site'.
Then I opened ipod and reconnect hard drive , which could be probable cure
for anybody who opened ipod for battery removal-replacement and wasn't careful enough.
It worked.

I just want to say this worked for me, and thanks!

I had a 5th gen video ipod that was cycling between the monochrome apple logo and a blank screen when trying to charge it on the wall adapter, and getting the dreaded Very Low Battery message when plugged into a computer.

I tried various combinations of resetting, charging, banging it on a table, etc, none of which worked.

What did work was:
1. Plug into computer (actually worked on both PC and Mac) via USB cable.
2. Hold play and main button simultaneously for a good 10-15 seconds. Computer popped up an "allow attached device to go into disk mode" message and offered (in the case of the PC) to format it. I dismissed this message and let it sit on the charger for a while. (iPod reads "do not disconnect" message" at this time).
3. Once charged, the ipod still didn't work. I restored the software (which wipes out the ipod).
4. At that point it allowed me to set it up, sync music, etc. as if it were a brand new ipod.
5. I let it charge for several hours, to be sure.
6. It's now working fine.

I was this close to giving it to goodwill -- so thanks forum folks!

i have same problem but mine i get a 'Please Wait. Low Battery.' then a 'exclamation point with a sad ipod' show then goes to the 'apple logo' then goes to 'Please Wait. Low Battery.' again repeat itself over and over please help me..

What worked for me was to open up the ipod, make sure the contacts were all clean (mine had gotten wet and there was some rust and corrosion on the contacts) Put it all back together and it did the same blinking with low battery notification. I plugged it into my ipod doc and BANG! It worked! I suspect I may need a new battery, but no big deal I will take care of that...

THANK YOU FOR THE HELP! This ipod had been sitting in a drawer for 2 years destined for the junk pile.

Brian.
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I ordered a new battery from Amazon for my 30g ipod 5th gen video. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BDU6IU/ref=oss_product . Then I took the old battery out and waited 10 minutes just to be sure it reset everything. I then plugged in the new battery and it worked great. It takes a brave person to do this and you need to make sure your warranty has expired as mine had. You might even want to watch a tutorial on youtube on how to properly open your ipod. I then plugged the ipod up to my computer to charge the new battery and let it charge for over 4 hours as suggested. It works great now!!!!.

Mike

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

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!!!

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