Ipod Consistently asking to restore

I have had my Ipod for a year and two months. Ever since day one my Ipod has at most held 5 hours of battery charge. The second time I went to charge the Ipod I got the 'go to apple/support message. After restoring my Ipod numorous times, I still get the 'Use Itunes to restore' message every time I turn the Ipod on. I can turn the Ipod off immediately after getting this message and then turn it back on and it works fine, except that it has medium charge. I don't want to pay the $150 dollars to fix a defective product. Any Ideas anybody? I have tried restoring with Itunes, restoring manually with mycomputer, restoring default settings, charging on other computers (including Mac Book pro), and doing base OS non-data startups. All of these leave me with the same error message and issue.

No i'm keeping it on the same computer. I haven't restored it yet, i know it sounds lazy but its a bit of a hassle as I update my ipod manually so it would take a fair hour to drag all the songs back onto it.
If nobody has had any similar problems and found out how to solve it, then I may have to try restoreif it gets worse.

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Welcome to the discussions,
are you using the same iTunes account? If no, did you authorize iTunes with his account info again before you connected his phone?
To keep your accounts separate on one PC, create a new windows user, log in, disable autosync in iTunes, set up the second account and back up manually by right clicking on the device in the device list and choosing "backup". This will save data, pictures taken with the phone and settings to itunes. See what's included in this backup here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Transfer your purchases the same way to copy all apps and bought media from the Store to your computer. Music, unless bought in iTunes and transferred with your purchases, is not part of the backup. But you can share music between different accounts on one computer: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203
Set up at least one contact and event on your computer to be able the merge your calendars and contacts after your phone got wiped during the first sync.
The rest of the data can be restored from the backup you made.
Restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

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Thanks to all members for sharing in. In my case finally, I got a brand new replacement from Apple through their Authorised Service Provider,A-1 Infotech, Mumbai. Since in India, Apple does not have a widespread presence,the service and support I got was amazing.
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"The iPod could not be restored.An unknown error has occurred (1418)" Help!

Hope someone can please help me.
iTunes is asking me to restore my iPod, but an error occurs each time. This is the chain of events.
1) I connected my iPod to iTunes and it asked if I wanted to update iPod software. I clicked yes.
2) The iPod then changed from a colour screen to a monochrome screen.
3) I then had problems with my USB Connection/Driver which I have now resolved.
4) My iPod asked me to connect to iTunes and restore.
5) I connect to iTunes and the following message appears
"iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes" So I clicked the restore button.
6) The restore progresses until the following message appears
"The iPod 'iPod' could not be restored. An unknown error has occurred. (1418).
Basically I have read everything I could get my hands on to try and solve but nothing seems to work.
Really looking forward to some solution.
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Have you had a chance to look at this troubleshooting page? It may be of some help: Error 1415, 1417, 1418, or 1428 when restoring or updating an iPod in iTunes 7 or later

IPod touch troubleshooting with restoring.

The other day my iPod stopped working. I went to turn it on the screen flashed white several times and I ended up with it asking me to connect it to iTunes. I connected it to iTunes and it said that my iPod could not be restored (40) I've done all of the troubleshooting Apple recommends and it still didn't restore itself. Now I'm getting error code 20 and 40 back and forth. Can someone please help me it's only three years old. In addition my iPod will connect to my iTunes, but it will not show up in my computer drivers as it normally would should it be connected. I've tried uninstalling the Apple drivers and such disabling my security and so on but it still won't work. If anyone knows anything or has some hint on how to fix this thing it would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

The link at the end says:
Error 23, 28, 29, 40, 1002, 1011, 1012, 1014, 1611: These errors may indicate a hardware issue with your device. Follow the steps in this article and also attempt to restore while connected with a known-good 30-pin Dock Connector cable, computer, and network to isolate this issue to the device. If the MAC address is missing or the IMEI is the default value (00 499901 064000 0), this can also confirm a hardware issue.
From:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275

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