Well i was at the gym the other day my battery went dead so a day later plugged it into my computer and nothing happened. The computer didnt pick up thats its attached. So i went to my truck plugged it in and nothing. Im guessing my ipod is junk any one else have this problem?

 

Did you sweat on it? Get water on it? Drop it? Sit on it?

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Even if you didn't... what were you doing at the time it decided to have cardiac arrest?

 

Check the apple website, they give troubleshooting advice there for ipods

 

lock, then unlock the top thingy.

then press and hold, at the same time, the middle button and the top button. this should reset it. hope this works for ya

 

Manual, i was benching when it happened and the music quit i thought i shut it off my mistake but when i looked at it had the apple symbol on the screen so i thought it was dead.

Mclovin, i tired to reset it like 24294873487 times but it doesn't do anything.



I also tried a friends cable thought myn went bad but no luck.

 

Hmm... interesting.

Did it go out while you were in the middle of benching? Or did it stop as soon as you touched the weights?

 

This should work...

Charge your ipod overnight. Then take your ipod and place it next to your keys on a flat, smooth, hard surface, your table or the sidewalk or just about anything will work. Next find a hammer just in case, generally the larger the better. Try your reset. Then if it doesn't work, start by dropping your ipod from increasing heights until it starts working. I suggest starting at 3 inches, then 6, then 12 etc. If that doesn't work, use the hammer viciously. Then use the keys to drive your happy self to the store and buy a zune or some other mp3 player that isn't completely overhyped and over priced.

Good luck.

 

well i think its junk i was it holding the apple logo came on then disappeared.

 

Should have bought a Zune.

 

Well it turned on but will only stay on if its on hold but as soon as i take it off of hold it shuts off. Wow i hate ipods

 

How long have you have it?

 

Ive had it for a year and a month. Checked to see if it was still under warranty but nope.

 

My wife did this to hers when it locked up. she dropped it from about 3inches onto the table 3 times and somehow it fixed itself. Still working today and she did that about a year ago. I give it a try.... what do you have to lose?

 

Don't drop it, that's the improper way to jolt the drive arms...


Basically if you take the iPod and start to lightly hit the edge of the table with the side (long side) of the iPod, hit the table harder if it doesn't work at first or if you think you're hitting it pretty hard already, then switch to the other long side, it will bump the Hard Drive read/write arms back into place. Sometimes they can get bumped out of the swivel tracks.

 

Mine did that a couple of times, like it was completely dead. I left it hooked to my computer overnight and it seemed to fix it. (Mine also didn't notice it when I first plugged it in)

I had it Direct Connected to my Alpine IVA-W200 so it shouldn't have been draining the battery, but it did a couple of times.