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Hi all, I recently purchased a used 20 gb, 4G Ipod on ebay, it had a replacement battery installed, but the seller said it needed to be charged before use.
I tried everything to get it to charge with a USB 2.0 connection (the same cable and computer that charges my Ipod mini 2nd gen just fine) but no luck. I tried a DC car charger as well to no avail. The Ipod shows no icons at all and the PC doesn't recognize it, I tried resetting it as well but no good.
I talked with the seller and he told me neither the USB nor the DC charger had enough power to charge a completely drained battery. He suggested an AC Wall charger instead, which unfortunatly I don't have.
My question then, would an AC wall charger likely work better at charging a completely drained battery? I'm probably going to try and get one to try at least, if not just buy one, but I'd like some idea of the chances that he's right about needing it to charge the Ipod.
Thanks for any assistance
Ipod 4G Windows XP

Sounds like you got ripped off.

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