COLOR iPod charging problem and resetting...

I have a 3 week old 20GB iPod color display, i have 2 other older ones, never had any problems... now I plug in the color iPod to the supplied USB charging cord and it appears to be charging and when i remove it from the computer it shows a full battery. After 30-60 minutes of playing the screen goes to the APPLE, flashes a bit, then the low battery icon appears and the thing is dead. If I hit reset, it stops the APPLE from flashing, but it's still dead. This has happened twice in 2 days... Anyone else have any charging problems? Can I plug this into my Firewire charging cord for my 3rd gen iPod to test the cord?

As long as your Firewire cable has a dock connector that fits your iPod it should work on it. Make sure that your iPod is plugged into the charger for 4 hours or until the iPod screen displays "Battery Charged" and shows a solid green battery, not a flashing one.
I've been having a similar problem to yours lately. Mine worked perfectly up until about 2 weeks ago. My battery drains itself completely within a few hours of unplugging it after being fully charged, so tomorrow I'm going to send my iPod into Apple to be replaced. So if you're sure that your iPod has been plugged in long enough to fully charge and you are still having this issue, you should call up AppleCare or go to the iPod Service Website to get your iPod replaced: http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod/
Quite a lot of people with one-month-old 20GB color iPods have been having these same kinds of problems with charging. I'm beginning to believe that a bad batch of 20GB iPods was manufactured in July. Hope I helped.

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Sorry if I just couldn't find this on the forum, but...
For the last 6 months, getting worse all the time, my iPod regularly stops in the middle of playing (I hear a small pop in the headphones) and goes dead. After a few minutes, I can press the touch wheel and get the menu; the battery indicator shows that I have no power and then starts slowly filling up. Sometimes I can play the iPod again for about 45 minutes (this happens during my workout), sometimes I can get a full hour and part of the next day's workout, and sometimes it dies right away. When the iPod dies, the date and time reset -- it's like the iPod thinks I've done the manual reset.
This happens when my battery is full or partly full -- I've started leaving the iPod charging whenever I don't use it. I don't get the no battery sign, just the indicator looks empty. And, after its sudden death it never fills back up more than halfway, even if I've had it fully charged and it's been playing for less than 3 minutes.
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Greetings,
There is a little problem with my Ipad2 battery I believe. It takes me a few hours to charge it up to about 18%. And it keeps rebooting itself constantly every 2 a 3 minutes. As you can see, this is actually really annoying, because.. Well.. I can't really take it anywhere!
Now, I tried a few things already, so I'm not bothering you guys with a silly question:
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Well I have this rather odd problem that I cannot seem to find or fix myself. I bought a few iPod charger cables from eBay the other day (5 of them) as I didn't have that many spare around the house. When I first used the cables, they worked find untill today. They just do not want to charge my iPod no matter what I do. Now to make sure it's not a problem with my iPod's charging ability, I used one of the cables that came out of the box...and it worked. I've tried different USB ports, power points and about 4 different wall chargers and still, the cables didn't work.
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Hi to all...
I have now 3 days a iPod mini, and I love it...
But the next thing is happenend to me, I wanted to charge the battery but the battery icon said fully loaded (lightning + fully loaded battery) something like this: [||||] and normal is it: [|| ] and you know how it goes...
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