Ipod not charging

[Furyous]

My 4g 60GB is playing up, and Im beginning to think its had the fault for a while.

The OEM battery died many moons ago and I replaced it with one from Ipod doctor.

This never really seemed to hold a charge particularly well, but I put it down to cheapy goods really.

Anyway, that has since died and I have just fitted a new battery from Maplins.
This has lasted about 2 days before dying and not responding to charge.

If I plug the mains charger into it, it all fires up perfectly and shows as charged, but when I unplug the mains lead it dies immediatly.

Is it repairable, if so by whom ? I dont really want to send it to Apple as the back was engraved as a 40th present and Ive heard Apple dont always use the original back.This may be bull of course.

[Furyous]

bump

[Jinx]

Long shot but have you opened and closed the case? For some reason this performs a nice hard reset on my 4g ipod when it's refusing to respond (unhappy ipod face) and all is well again.

[Furyous]

Case was opened to replace battery.
I don't have the sad face, it justa shuts down as thoughthe battery was flat

[Dupont666]

Sounds like sir has no connections to the battery to charge it, it works fine off main power, but the connection between chargable battery and charger is broken/kinked/snapped?

Open it up and see if all the wires are there?

[Furyous]

There's only 2 wiresto connect and the new battery lasted a few days before going flat, which would suggest to me that thee may be a problem elsewhere.