Your battery goes bad naturally just from regular use. It has
a lifetime of about a year to a year and a half, or about 500 full-charge cycles.
After that, it starts to show its age.
The most common sign that your battery is ready to be replaced is that it
doesn??™t hold a charge for as long as it once did. You find yourself plugging in
your iPod more regularly, and the battery seems to get depleted more quickly.
Another sure sign is that the low-battery warning appears constantly on your
iPod??™s liquid crystal display (LCD). Whether you get an icon or a warning
screen depends on your model of iPod. See Chapter 2 for details.
You might also find that your iPod works fine when you plug it into a charger,
but that it dies immediately when you attempt to run it from the battery. In this
case, your battery isn??™t just dying; it??™s dead. Time for a replacement.
Replace the Battery in Your iPod
Table 4-1 shows the required tools and the difficulty level for replacing the battery
in an iPod. We talk about the iPod mini and the iPod nano in subsequent sections
in this chapter.
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