5th Gen always thinks it's charging

Howdy folks.
I have a 30gb black 5th gen video iPod. Whenever I disconnect it from my computer (which I am doing correctly), the little battery icon on the iPod will switch to the non charging icon. Great. However, 30 seconds later, it switches back to the charging icon. The iPod won't go to sleep like this, and it just burns through the battery until it gets to the "very low battery error".
It's a pain. Anybody have a fix for this?
Message was edited by: AndrewGurn

have you tried a restore? seems to be the #1 solution posted for everything iPod, but sounds worth a try in this case. report back if it doesn't fix the problem.

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