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My 5.5 gen IPod always thinks that it’s being charged, which means it will never let me turn the screen off. This kills my battery life. Why does it do this?
Check the status of the iPod battery using Mac, Install Coconut Battery to do this. https://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutb… Plus the iPod into a USB port on your Mac, the use Coconut and click on the iOS icon in the top row. Here’s what it looks like using my iPhone
Corn On The Cob if it did this before you changed the battery as well, try a new cable. Also clean the dock connector with some isopropyl alcohol and some compressed air. Check for bend, broken or corroded pins (use a magnifying source for that). If none of that changes anything you may have to remove the back from our iPod and check the battery connector. That is the weakest point on the iPod. It does have the tendency of easily breaking of the board. Remember that it is the gas gauge connection from your battery to the logic board that will tell your iPod what it is doing.
