Replacement battery - no male plug

I bought a replacement battery for a 160 GB iPod Classic off eBay, but there is no male plug attached to the leads of the battery cable. It's just the bare leads. Is this normal? How do you attach the battery cable to the plug to fit it in the battery port otherwise? I can't find anything online about this. It seems like I'm missing a piece. Are you supposed to harvest the male plug from the old battery? Very confusing. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris

Second battery received from OWC. Same behaviour.
Technician says that the customer service person was wrong to say that the 3rd party battery would not give a warning.
Bottom line, they tell me it's like running my car with a fuel gauge that doesn't give accurate info, but still sends fuel to the engine.
Battery has 4.5 plus hours running time, but gives the red light warning in battery icon with one hour left - and shuts down with no warning when there is 14 minutes (4%) left (these are the 2nd battery's numbers)
Battery obviously does not talk to my iBook, though it runs fine, so far. (In about this Mac, under Battery it showed these numbers after the first charge:
Full Charge Capacity 4400
Remaining Capacity 4335
Amperage-860
Voltage 16085
Cycle Count 0
OWC says they don't understand the Amperage number...
What to do?
Everyone at OWC seems to agree that the battery can't harm the iBook and it certainly has a good run time. If I hadn't been looking often at the battery icon it might never had been apparent that it went red so early, though the shut down without warning is a problem, but I can work around this...
Mrs H

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Hi to All,
Like a lot of you I had problems with my battery. I noticed earlier this year my MBP would power-off when there was still lots of battery charge left. It gradually got worse and worse. A few months ago I noticed whenever I pulled the power cord out it would switch off and recently I can only use it when it's plugged in.
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Hmm... Newer Technologies' reseller list includes OWC/esales but they
are not the same; one is a reseller and the other is a manufacturer. A
few product names at OWC are not seen anywhere else unless you look
real hard, but Newer Tech and NuPower can be bought direct from Newer
Technologies online; and a reseller could contact them to carry their stuff.
In any event, if just the plastic is mal-formed, and the section not fitting up
is just a layer of white plastic, that'd be comparatively easy to change. If
nothing else, Apple should have a shorter waiting list on replacement cells
now the recall numbers have been going out to customers. I got mine after
about a two month wait; and after all that waiting, I've gotten over the need
to use a portable computer. It just sits there and I have to hassle with it;
to keep it charged up and up to date. With winter here, I don't carry it while
travelling anywhere, it'd freeze too easily over the distances I have to go!
Did Newer Tech offer to refund monies and take back these odd batteries?
Have you contacted other battery sales sources for comparative products?
The quality and support plus warranty (and fit, finish, compatibility)
are all important details.
Some cheap replacements could be dangerous and not suited for use in
the iBook or PowerBook they are intended to replace. I see some at
places like amazon afiliate stores, and wonder what they really are inside.

I got a replacement battery, reset the SMC, and my computer will still turn off unexpectedly.

Early 2011 15" Macbook Pro, 2ghz iz, C0*****F8V.
My original battery wore down to the point where it would not be recognized as available and the computer couldn't power on without shutting down in a few minutes. I ordered a replacement battery, certified Apple genuine, but after 3 days it reached about half charge and the computer died, not turning back on without the adapter. When it did reboot the battery was at 0% and not charging, and the computer was incredibly slow and laggy.
I refunded and returned this battery and got a new one. I've had it installed about 2 days and the computer will still turn off if not plugged in at about 80-85%. I have reset my SMC multiple times and my PRAM as well. coconutBattery says nothing is wrong with the battery.
What can I do? I'm a freelance video editor and this is basically calling me out sick from work for a week now.
Thanks!
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FinchDrive wrote:
I just finished running the AHT and an extended test. Hardware error pointing to the battery on both:
4xxx/40000005: "Battery"
and 4xxx/4/40000005: ◊òä "Battery"
upon the extended test.
Do these codes refer strictly to the battery, or to possibly other components that interact with it?
I can not give you a definitive answer to that. The 'x's' which I have marked should be letters. If so, could you provide them and that may give us a clue:
If that is actually what was generated by the AHT, then I am a bit surprised.
At any rate, the bottom line is that the MBP does not like your battery even though the output information that you provided does not indicate anything adverse. An Apple battery should correct your problem, I would think, but there is an alternative that I came across yesterday that you might consider. OWC. a Mac oriented vendor, is now selling replacement batteries for MBPs.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/BAP15MBU78W/
Based on the reputation of the company, I personally would be willing to try their non-Apple branded replacement. I have dealt with them a fair amount, so my statement is from experience. Note that is has a 1 year guarantee as do the Apple batteries. ( I will need a replacement for my 2010 MBP and I will probably purchase it from them)
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I don't have phone, but the TV says I need to replace battery backup for phone?!?!?!

Hello,
For three years, we've had Verizon Fios Internet and TV. We've never had a phone.
Today, the contraption Verizon plugged in the wall (sadly, I'm not really sure what it is, and had forgotten it existed until today as it's tucked behind some furniture) started beeping and the replace battery indicator light is on. Furthermore, when I turn on TV, I am greeted with this message:
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(2) Since I have only internet and TV, can I safely go without replacing this battery?
(3) If the answer to #2 is yes, then how do I get the thing in the wall to stop beeping every 30 minutes?
Thank you in advance to any responses.

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I don't know how frequently my unit beeps, but I don't normally hear it because it is in my garage. I don't know if it has a pattern to when it beeps; but when I'm in the garage, I sometimes hear a single loud beep for about 1 second.
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For about a year now I've been using my Macbook Pro without a battery because it became warped and was making the trackpad unusable (sits right above the battery so the cursor would fly across the screen or get locked into one of the corners or act as if I was clicking continuously). Everything works fine if I don't have the battery in and just have it plugged into the wall.
Went to my oh-so-helpful Apple Store recently (am I the only one who never gets good service there?) and the told me they "don't do batteries anymore" and that I would have to buy it online. I'm not too keen on buying a 150 dollar battery that already didn't last me a single year of use without some kind of idea of whether I'll be able to put a new battery in and not have the same problems. Looking at my current battery, it's definately warped but I'm not sure whether that caused some sort of warping on the Macbook itself (at which point a new battery would do nothing for me).
Has anyone experienced this problem and successfully replaced the battery afterwards? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank you, -d

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I have a G72 Notebook and I just recently bought a replacement battery that is not working properly.
I think that the laptop is just not able to communicate with the battery to find out how much power it has left.
I'm pretty sure that the battery is taking charge just fine (although the icon says, "plugged in, not charging" because I used it for a couple hours today and it never changed from "41%".
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