Again, I'm not handy enough to fix this because I have read it's extremely difficult to do and I don't want to replace it myself. What do you mean it will be a cost effective fix?
Frustrated...don't know what to do. How was no one else incurred this problem before?
Also, that first video is wrong. At the beginning when he explained tools you would need, he never said anything about a "soldering" tool for heat or something? But then in the video, he starts heating something when he finds where the battery is. Again, I don't feel comfortable enough doing this on my own because I don't know how to "solder" something.
Wish there was a way I could just ship this to someone to do it for me and pay them for shipping etc. at a much cheaper rate
Don't want to really pay $80-$100 if the Apple store could even do it which I'm sure they wouldn't for this old of an iPod anyways...
EDIT: So trying to contact Apple now and wanting to do an online chat but they aren't giving me that as an option? The only option allowed is to talk on the phone...so irritating? There is no way to chat about this online with them?
SECOND EDIT: Just got off the phone with Apple. She wasn't much help on troubleshooting and just said I could take it into a store if I wanted. She said if it is the battery, it would be roughly $80-$100 to replace and she couldn't even tell me for sure if they would even have a replacement battery in stock if I went to my local store...I called again and spoke to a different gentleman. He actually took more time with me and called my local Apple stores (I have 2 close by) and he confirmed with me that because my iPod Nano is so old it is referred to as vintage and they couldn't even fix the hardware for it. He said the same rule applies for sending it in...they wouldn't be able to fix it if it was sent in because it's vintage. He said for this iPod Nano the only state that is able to repair it in store would be the state of California. So that rules out my local Apple stores on being able to fix it. He gave me two other stores that he said are Apple Authorized Service Providers that might be able to fix it. He said if they can't, then I am out of options and would only be able to go through a 3rd party at that point or there would be no other options. I'm about to call these two local Apple Authorized Service Provider stores that he said might be able to help...
THIRD EDIT: I just called the two local Apple Authorized Service Providers that the Apple customer service rep gave me on the phone. Both of these stores said they also could not fix mine because it is vintage. One of the stores reps though gave me two third party stores named iHospital and uBreakiFix to see if maybe they would work on them. I'm running out of ideas now that apparently no one will fix this outdated of an iPod!! Will call these two third party stores and see what they say now...