5th gen Ipod dead.......help...please!

[smudger64]

Hi. Rockboxed my 5th gen Ipod and it worked fine for a few weeks. However my car charger became disconnected and I drained the battery right down. Couldn't get it to respond in anyway. tried the reset procedure, tried leaving it on charge for a couple of days and tried just leaving it for a day. Nothing makes any difference. My pc wouldn't recognised it either. No start up screen, sounds etc nothing.
Thought I'd try changing the battery and when I did the start up screen appeared, loaded rockbox then turned itself off again and is now back to no response! the battery seemed to be very warm for a while but its cooled off again now.
Any ideas?
Your help's greatly appreciated!

[zajacattack]

Try this:
Plug it into the charger and then restart it (turn hold on, then off, then hold menu and select until it boots up).
Report back with results.

[smudger64]

nope tried that! Just gave it another go as well and its still completely dead!

thanks

[dreamlayers]

I don't think the battery is supposed to get very warm very quickly after you turn on the device.  It might be drawing too much current due to a short or something close to a short.

I have in the past jump-started a V2 Archos Jukebox Recorder by providing power in parallel with the battery during the power-up hard drive activity and then letting it charge normally.  You could also provide power instead of the battery, from a supply that gives 3.5-4.2V DC or so.  Then you could measure current draw.  Make sure you get the polarity right.

[smudger64]

I don't think I'll be able to do that as the connector to the motherboard form the battery is a printed ribbon cable that you couldn't connect an external power source to without damaging, plus there's no indication on either the board or battery as to polarity.
thanks though.

[mor]

the same ocurred here, i just waited a couple days(4 - 5) and then it miraculously turned on to say to put on charge.