iPod Touch 2G won't charge after battery was replaced?

Hello Every One I also made this mistake by accident but instead of completly prying of one connect i pried off both of them i can upload a picture of damage if needed, how can i fix this?

This also happened to me just the other day and now the iPod won't charge. Maybe an idea going forwards is rather than un-soldering the old battery is to maybe cut it just before the solder point with a pair of scissors. Then solder the new battery over the top. At least this way you don't end up tempering with the original solder points?

At this point the options are desoldering the fragmented ribbon cable and replacing the battery (which contains a new cable) or buy a new ipod touch. There is an excellent battery replacement repair guide on this site located at iPod Touch 2nd Generation Battery Replacement. Although the sharpness of your eyes may not be the greatest many specific step-by-step instructions are available with high quality photo's. Perhaps someone with some soldering experience could assist you. Just a thought do you live near the Washington== Heading text == DC area?

Hello, I was doing a search and did exactly the same thing as what the poster of this question did. I realize this question is about a year old but checking to see if the original poster did get it fixed or if he took it to someone to get fixed, but what did that person do about getting a new solder point elsewhere on the board? Maybe use one of the tiny circular test points as George Mathew suggested, and if so, which one?

And just a side comment, I examined the middle connection of that battery cable and it just seems like that one is soldered differently from the other two (on either side of it), as the ones on the side easily came off with the same amount of heat applied to the middle one and the middle seems to have its contact point above the circuit board because when I examined the old battery terminal, there was no residual solder or what looks like a foil contact on the bottom like the other two connections on the sides had. Sounds like an Apple manufacturing process designed into it so do-it-yourselfers cannot do as what we attempted ;)

I too had this same issue. I found that even with my soldering iron set high(over 700 degree's F) I could not really melt the solder from the factory. At best it became a little pliable. I got one exterior connection free, but like the others mentioned, the middle pad pull completely off even taking a little of the board underneath with it. I tried jumper a small wire from the ribbon cable to the small round pad in front of the damaged area but was not able to make a good connection so it will not charge. I liked the conductive silver paint idea. The local Radio Shack had a Circuit Writer pen. I used it to fill in the damaged area up to the round pad in front of it.

Once dry I soldered the the outside pads and then barely heated the center pad to get a little liquid solder touching the silver ink. I have solid connections on all 3 pads now and the unit charges.

How do I thin the flex pads on the battery?

Can you please upload a pic, I did the same thing. I have changed a battery before but never had this problem