Random flashing screens when battery is low.

i bought my girlfriend an ipod nano (white 4GB) for Christmas last year. This Christmas the battery life started to degenerate to almost zero. As the battery life would go down the ipod would begin to flash random screens, such as the apple screen, the sad face, the low battery, the exclamation mark with file, the do not disconnect, and the charging screen. Then when connected to the computer the screens begin to slow down, and then it will return to normal as the ipod begins to get a charge until they completely stop when the ipod is fully charged. I think I just need to get the battery replaced but I don’t want to spend the money if there is something very major wrong with the ipod and I just need to buy a new one. Any advice would be great.

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