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Have a Fourth Generation iPod? Is it dead? The first ones shipped almost a year and a half ago, so chances are it might be. Sad iPod, faint clicking noise? Turns out, the problem may not be with the hard drive after all.
This is getting a little out of hand over at Digg and Slashdot. Please read carefully. I do not advocate throwing, dropping, or hitting your iPod; the solution has nothing to do with brute force. You might recall my little bit of fun with my 4th Gen iPod and its fun little trip off my balcony to test out the iFrogz case. For those too lazy to click the link, the gist is that my iPod was already dead from Ye Old Click O’ Death, so I decided to give the iFrogz a rigorous drop test… twice, from three floors up. What I hadn’t counted on was that the darned thing would start working again following the drops. Come again? Three story drop and it fixed it? You read it here, and you heard it right. To be fair, it now only works for about an hour before the click of death returns, and the iPod must be reset to work again. But that’s progress, eh? So I got to thinking about what could possibly have been wrong, such that it would have failed, but a drop would have fixed it. I came up with two possible scenarios. One, I couldn’t really test, investigate, or otherwise do anything about; perhaps some dust was stuck to one of the heads? After all, the heads on a hard drive float so close to the platters, a mere spec of dust would throw a massive wrench into the works. The other possibility is a cable problem. Being a data recovery specialist type person, I’ve seen my share of hard drives exhibit the click-o-death that were simply mis-jumpered or using substandard or damaged cables. What if this were the same kind of issue? I disassembled1 my iPod and re-seated both ends of the hard drive cable. After doing so, my iPod no longer exhibits click-of-death or Sad iPod anymore. The connector is pretty solid on the hard drive side of the cable, but the iPod side is a ZIF-style connector. It’s taped down fairly well, and sandwiched between the main board and hard drive such that I can’t see it loosening easily. Re-seating it, though, did the trick. 1 I’m not providing any pictures or take aparts detailing how to do this. Plenty of people have already done this. Google is your friend.
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This was the best thing i’ve read in a long time. My 4G has been “dead” for almost 6 months! I pried the case open and reseated the cable and it loaded music like nothing was wrong. If it happens again i may try some electrical tape to keep the cable from wiggling some.
Oh, and on my 4G the motherboard end of the hdd cable isn’t detachable. I pulled as hard as i was willing to without risking breaking something, but no go. But whatever it was its working again! Thanks for the inspiration and the tip!
the board end of the cable does come off. You have to pull it pretty hard and perfectly parallel to the board, and it pops out fairly suddenly. I think I’m about to break it every time… but it goes right back in, and all is good.
glad it worked for you!
Excellent article
I found putting the ribbon cable round a pencil made it easier to make the pull parallel to the circuit board and remove the cable.
Now the difficult bit.
How do I ‘open’ the circuit board connector to re-insert the cable. What’s the best way to do this?
Any help and suggestions gratefully received.
PM
www.information-about-nlp.com
You don’t open it, you just slide it back in the way it came out.
Adam,
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my query. I did try that but seemed to be getting no where. The open question was prompted by the original post’s reference to Ziff connectors and my experience of repairing my Wallstreet powerbook.
Will retire to the garden in the sun and redouble my efforts.
Again thank you for your support.
Petermuir
Wow! easy to do when you know how. All done. Thanks again Adam.
Actually there is a black or brown bar that lifts up and the cable will slide right in/out. Another trick is to give the ipod a good rap against a hard surface, say from 2-3 inches above the surface, sometimes that will unstick a drive.
My 6GB iPod Mini isn’t dead, but it does do something very annoying. Occasionally it will spontaneously reboot itself while I’m listening to something, usually a podcast. It’ll complain the battery is low even if it’s just recently been charged.
It started doing this a few months ago when I was at job that let us play music the entire shift. I can usually go 8-9 hours without needing to recharge.
Sometimes it’ll do this several times in a row, and often at the very same place in the recording. It doesn’t tend to do this so much with music MP3s/AACs, just podcasts. The only thing I can think of is that the podcasts fill the buffer memory and perhaps there’s a problem with the RAM? Or maybe it keeps the hard drive spinning and makes the OS think the battery is too low?
Usually after a reset, it’ll read low on the battery, but it’ll play fine for a few hours at least (if I can get it to play the podcast I was listening to.)
I’ve tried reseting it manually, and even formatting it and reinstalling the latest iPod software.
Any ideas?
I had an issue on my 4G where it would occasionally reboot. I tracked it down to a few songs that it always did it on. It seems that they were somehow corrupted. I took those off, re-ripped the ones I could, and it stopped doing it.
We took Slashdot.
We took Digg.
Now, in the logs, I see: Fark
It may get a little slow. Have patience.
I had a 15gb which appeared to have bad blocks (would crap out copying stuff over at around 4gb), and I repartitioned it with a 5gb firmware partition to skip over the bad blocks. A 9gb iPod worked for some time, but then started crapping out. Replaced w/ 20gb and no dice, returned it, next 20gb didn’t work either — and I accidentally pulled out the HD cable from the board.
Long story short (ok, well, not really), it was a pain to get the Ziff connector back in, but once I did finally get it, my 20gb and 15gb worked fine. (Well, abridged version — I actually had to do a lot of diskmode, format, restore dancing to finally get the iPod to reset and suddenly it worked.)
Anyway, two fixes from this site — the large firware partition from yr “partitioning the ipod” article (tho seemingly unnecessary for me, it might help someone else), and reseating the HD cable from this article.
Thanks! Now I have a backup 15gb drive for when the 20gb craps out.
http://www.macgeekery.com/hacks/hardware/fix_your_dead_ipod_for_free
This trick works thank you.
My IPOD has been dead for over a year and a half.
I have a 30 gb Ipod, and I put thge 4 number to keep my brother from getting into it. Today I went to turn the ipod on and it would not recoginize my password. How do I get my ipod to work.
I know this in late in response to start of forum but… the ZIF socket is opened by carefully lifting the black portion of the socket. If you pivot it upward from the opposite side from the cable the cable comes out ans installs quite easily
Yes! Thanks for that tip. It made things much easier.
i have been messing around with my 1GB ipod nano using a software name rockbox now to it looks damange because i change the firmware i accidentally put on a iriver bootloader on it and now the apple logo will not come of no matter what i do i tried to reset it by pressing the menus and the select button plz help me plzplzplz plz and thanks in advance
I washed and dried my ipod and now it only works if it is connected to the charger. How can fix that?
Check the battery connection, maybe it shook loose. If thats no help, then change the battery.
I can not see this article. Why is that?
Thanks
Eva
I couldn’t see the article either. Have you tried copying and pasting the whole blank article into MSWord. I managed to read it from there.
Check your browser settings.
Please help. I’ve had my iPod less than a week, I bought it off someone who wanted to downgrade to a Nano… it’s in top condition, could almost pass as new!! The other day it turned itself off twice and I swear yesterday it might have even turned itself on (altho that could have been me, not too sure). Anyway yesterday the battery was low so I went to charge it last night and it doesn’t work!! I then connected it to my computer who doesn’t even register it as there!! The screen does nothing, not sound comes from the headphones!!! I’ve tried the reset thing but nothing is working. I’m almost sure the people in the Apple shop won’t help and I’m leaving for France for a few months next week and I won’t be able to get anything sorted while I’m there.
( please help!!!!!!!!
Is there any advice you can give (bear in mind I’m not a computer geek and I won’t understand any of the technical language you use). I don’t have a receipt or anything, and I can’t afford to buy a new one
Please help! my iPod 60GB scroll button doesn’t work. i’ve tried the basics of trying to fix it. when i opened up my iPOD for the forth time, i noticed that near the cooper wire for the scroll button has been rusted. i must have got the thing wet or something. is there a way that i can get it fixed. or is my iPOD screwed??
This worked perfectly on my old 2004 40GB HP+ipod which had been out of commission for months. Thanks!!!!!!
my ipod is 4 gb and it is dead not showing connected also not
i bought a 4 gen 20 gb ipod online one year and 3 weeks ago. in tha year i had to send my ipod into be fixed 3 times, the fourth time i was one week late and they wanted 100$ TO FIX IT. every time i had the same problem i would get the sad face or the file icon and the ipod wouldnt load. one time i thought i got lucky and i was able to get it to disc mode so as to restore but a week later it totally pooped out. after reading your page i decided to take it apart, it disconnected every thing that i could find, reconnected and wham oh! it works. the probablem i think was were the hard drive plugs into the board, the connection is held down by tape and had worked out, i was able to recover 6gb of movies, and iphoto back up, and of course i have my pieace of sh%t ipod back. are all ipods this way? or did i just get the lemons?
any way cheers!
michael
i have two ipods and one is showing a wall plug signal and the other is showing the battery with exclamation mark.
yeah…I was updating this ipod a mini….was told to disconnect from computer…and it then showed the wall charger…well plugged the charger into the wall…STILL shows the wall charger icon….
Is it the battery, the hardrive, or motherboard????
Here’s a little more… If you didn’t figure out how to open the flat cable connectors before you pulled the cable out, and now your cable fits even more loosely than before (not a good thing… and a likely result if you yanked the cable out without opening the connector) there is a fix for that too. You can carefully apply a piece of tape (I used Scotch brand “Magic” tape to fix the ones my teenager pulled apart) on the back of the cable (the connectors only make contact on one side, make SURE you put the tape on the other…)trim it and feed it back in. Now when you close the connector, it will close firmly and, for that one, you shouldn’t have to worry about it going bad again.
I suspect that the original problem was incorrectly spec’d cable thickness in the first place as the clamp force appears too light for this style of connector. From the limited exposure I’ve had, the problem appears much more common on the apple/hp versions than on the non-hp (i.e. pure apple) 4th gen iPods.
After repairing and de-flacking both my teenagers 4th gen iPods (both of which never worked reliably and had been sent back for warranty repair several time before being abandoned as junk by my kids (and after one hand be completely dissected) which, needless to say, really pissed me off as they were expensive Christmas presents. I decided I liked the 4th gen so much that I bought one for myself off of Craig’s list. They are damn nice once you fix the cable problem…
And even more…. At least with the two apple/hp 4th gen iPods my teenagers have (now working) they don’t charge correctly through the USB cable (and, yes, they are connected to high-power USB2 ports and different USB cables have been tried including a new one…) However, they will APPEAR to be charging when they are not. When connected to USB and pretending to charge, when the battery gets low you can get wrong (and dangerous) error messages (like: your hard drive needs to be reformatted, would you like to proceed?) from iTunes. The fix was easy, charge at night with a wall charger, remember to lock-out the keyboard during the day so it’s only on when you want it to be and you no longer have to worry about it. We used to think we had bad batteries, but, in fact, ours will play all day on the previous nights plug-in-the-wall charge. The last bit we did to up reliability (which, admittedly, is more urban legend based than experimentally based) is that we NEVER sync with a low battery. If the battery is low, we wall-charge first and then sync. Happy listening!
My ipod video shows a sad face. How can I fix it. I opened it up now I can’t get it to power up. Anyway to fix or sen to be fixed? I don’t have warranty anymore.
My ipod stopped working in mid-song. Then it would not shut off, then the battery finally died and now when I’m charging it the screen shows the apple icon, then the icon for the apple.com/support/ipod then the battery with line through it icon and just keeps repeating and it won’t turn back on no matter how long I charge it. Do you know how to fix it?
Todd
When experiencing booting/hard disk problems with your iPod, use your mac/pc to do a low level disk format of the iPod hard drive. Here’s how to
http://www.wikihow.com/IPod-Low-Level-Format
It worked for me
2Gb Nano. In recovery mode. Tried Restoring. Nuttin.
Keeps coming back to the Recovery mode when hooked.
Plzee Help
HELP! My ipod video 30gb keeps on resetting! There’s this “click” sound everytime it reboots from the apple black screen, flashes the menu for a while, then reboots again. I tried to restore it from iTunes, loaded some songs for testing, ejected it, and true enough, it still did the same thing over and over again. There’s no sad face though, and everytime i plug it back to my macbook, it shows up on my itunes and my data is still there. I’m too chicken to pry the thing open and mess with the wires and cables. Is this a hardware or a software problem?
Right now, I’m doing the ipod low level format, and i have 1.5 hours to go. Will update and see what happens. Hope it works.
UPDATE: After 2 hours
Oh fuck, its still the same! I did what was recommended above, the whole low format thing, and I thought it was gonna work this time. I loaded the songs and ejected it and to my dismay, it did that resetting thing again. Once it booted, it showed the menu for 2 secs, and I barely chose the English as the operating language and it rebooted again! And again!
I am so annoyed now, i cant live without this thing!
FINALLY! After charging it fully for half a day, and going through the apple forums, i found this to be useful and it worked!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1035878&tstart=45
hope it works out for you too!
I have just replaced the battery in my Ipod 30GB. I am not electronically inclined at all! I followed the directions, replaced the battery, and plugged it into charge. After I had charged it for hours upon hours it still was not turning on once I unplugged it from the wall. So I reopened it and discovered the battery cable had wiggled it’s way out of the socket. So I put it back in and charged it again. It charged to about a half way point then stopped. Opened it again, same problem. It appears that the socket is loose. So I have a bad connection. So it may not have been my battery in the first place! Any suggestions? Since I’ve opened my Ipod it’s no longer under warranty! Not sure what to do next! Thank you for any suggestions!
I;ve broken the dam zif connector on the hard drive ribbon, it has come of the logic board and split in two. Does anybody know if this is repairable or whee I can get the connector from, and how easy it will be to solder to the logic board, i’m must get outta the doghouse!
cheers.
H
ipod mini the thin white one
ribbon has sheared at join with usb plug as i disconnected from computer
please advise
regards bob
I foun an ipod mini that was in three pieces,the scroll wheel,the ipod,and the outside covering.So i put it together and got it to work,But it says it’s on HOLD mode and the hold switch is not even turned on.
There is a very small ribbon type cable connection for the hold switch, if this is not connected properly when reassembling, the ipod will sense this and assume it’s in “hold” mode no matter what position the switch is in. maybe you should check that cable.
Good Luck!
Ummmm……..
you just saved me $350!
thanks!
can anyone help me please? my ipod had an exclamation point on the screen but since i took it apart its not working anymore. i dont know what to do.. so im asking everyone to help me and tell me what should i do. thankyou very much
i have a ipod shuffle 2nd gen, when i put music to it using i tunes it says, “the ipod cannot be synced, the disc cannot be found.” AND I CANT RESTORE IT. its says that my ipod is courrupted, but i cant reformat it bec i cant see it in MY COMPUTER?
what will i do????
pls help me..
i have a ipod shuffle 2nd gen, when i put music to it using i tunes it says, “the ipod cannot be synced, the disc cannot be found.” AND I CANT RESTORE IT. its says that my ipod is courrupted, but i cant reformat it bec i cant see it in MY COMPUTER?
what will i do????
pls help me..
Hi, hoping someone can help me. whilst taking apart my ipod mini, its one of the first ones out so very old school.anyway the connector at the bottom of it, the one that connects the clicky wheel to the main part of the ipod, has come off, when i plug my ipod into the wall the screen comes on and everything, so its definetely this little connector which is making the buttons not work.
Thanks heaps!
iPod mini needs a new clickwheel.
I have an ipod nano it’s a little over a year old and I run all the di to find what is wrong with it and it says that everything is O>K> but I can not get it to work. What to do???!! Help me if you can please!!! I want to get it running for my grandson johnathan who is 11yrs old and can not afford to pay to get it fixed and am in bad health. Please help!!!!
“Another trick is to give the ipod a good rap against a hard surface, say from 2-3 inches above the surface, sometimes that will unstick a drive.”
^Worked for me! 20gb 3G functional again after being stuck on the sad ipod icon.
I have a 4th gen ipod 20gb. I broke the screen, replaced the screen. Then, I realized the ribbon connector was also damaged (the ribbon split)and would not fit into the slot. Can you tell me the type of ribbon. Where to buy a new one or how to fix the old.
Thanks
My 30 g Ipod stopped playing music and sound in general. Everything still works but the sound. The wheel works and makes the click sound when you scroll but I can not seem to get sound to play. Can you help me please?
I have a 60gb ipod. It got wet. I dried it out by putting it in a plastic bag with rice in it and by putting it over a lamp shade. When I was sure all the moisture was out of it, I plugged it into the AC power adaptor and tried to reset it. I got a cycle of 3 messages continuiously. It went from the apple logo, to “extrealy low battery” to a battery symbol with and exclamation mark on it. I left it charging for some time and tried resetting it a different points to no avail. Finally now…. it will do nothing. Itunes does not recognize it either. Any advise?
There are so many great suggestions on this page, but I am sure I am missing something.
I have a 20 gb ipod with the frowny face on it. It used to work well with a good whack or two, and come back working just fine. That no longer works
I turn it on, and I see the little apple.
I hear a few whirs and clicks and then it shuts off
If I hold the select and menu button at the same time, it goes to the frowny face again.
I have read about low level formatting, but I am not sure I can get it into disk mode.
I have pulled out the cable from the hard drive and from the board and I feel both are in place correctly
Any suggestions would be welcomed.
Thanks
Mike in St. Louis
Thanks! Suggestion seems to work well! (iPod 40GB non-photo).
I hav a 5th gen ipod vid and it will not charge anymore. All I get is the apple sign then a battery with an exclaimation point. If someone could tell me how to fix this i would love to know.
Ipod is Ok except only the backlight turns on and cable connection seems loose on outside. Can anyone help?
Please help! My ipod nano is brand new, i hadn’t even put music on it yet when it accidently went through the washing machine! It didn’t go through the dryer thank goodness. I dried the inside as much as I could with the cool setting on my hair dryer and then set it on my dehumidifier for 3 days. It is completey dried out and works perfectly except for the backlight. I am scared to death of taking it apart and can’t afford a new one. Can you tell my how to get my backlight to work again?
in addition to my previous post, i have to let all of you know that when it comes to the technology behind my ipod nano, i am a wet match in a dark cave. any suggestions are desperatly welcome just know that if you try to explain technical terms to me I might start crying.all i know is that my ipod is pretty useless if I can’t see what is on the screen.
PLEASE! I AM ABOUT TO ENTER PANIC MODE!
email me- shining_inside@hotmail.com
okay, i went to methodshop.com and told them my problem. they told me that i should send them my ipod so they can assess the damage and then send me a repair estimate. i am hesitant about sending it out in the mail. if anybody has any suggestions… shining_inside@hotmail.com
Worked for my Ipod Photo….thought battery was dead then found this fix. One good smack on the dash of my minivan 3 weeks ago INSTANTLY brought it back to life.
thanks!
dave
My 30 gig ipod was dropped and now will appear to operate normally in scrolling, charging & accepting music files but am unable to get sound from it. Of course I have tried other headsets – no good. any ideas?
ok ed this might sound risky but what you need to do is open up ur ipod. open up your ipod and there is an audio jack wire connected from the metal back piece well if the cable is disconnected then connect the cable. Am sure you’ll find where it goes because the slot is corresponding to the cable. Well good luck
Hi , I have a 30 GB Ipod , which worked perfect. but I was out for a long time and that Ipod was not charged for a long time ( 1 Year) . and now when I am trying to charge it, it is not responding at all.
Any suggestion!!!!!
My ipod seems pretty dead everytime i press the select button an apple logo comes up following with a sad ipod icon or a folder icon. i’ve triied hitting it on a hard surface and it still wont work it just makes spinning sounds with the hard drive. PLease someone help me my ipod wont turn on. does this mean i have to get a new hard drive or can i fix it myself
i need someone to help me fix my ipod it doesnt charge even if i leave it charging for two nights the ipod doesnt hold the charge someone that know abotu ipods hepl me please i need my music guys 500 dollars to anyone that knows how to fix them…………….
This works!!
Thank you so much, my son had commandeered my Ipod after his own had lost one channel on his headphones and the warning triangle came up so I thought here we go another bit of technology tragedy! But no tried your fix and it worked first time really easy and 5 minutes later we are back in business.
Thanks again
Evo
Hi , I have a 30 GB Ipod , which worked perfect. but I was out for a long time and that Ipod was not charged for a long time ( 1 Year) . and now when I am trying to charge it, it is not responding at all.
Please some help
Friggin genius!!! Thank you so much! I was about to go drop another couple hundred on a new ipod, now this baby works like new! Awesome advice! (Can you tell I’m happy about this?)
amazing. It seriously worked. thank you so much. I can’t believe this isn’t on the mac website. The support they offer is worthless.
Hey I have a good one for you. How would you, when you’ve snapped out the hold switch out of your Ipod Mini, out of frustration, don’t have it anymore and have only the loose metal conductor which broke off the circuitboard…, either reconnect the conductor or do any other genius fix…where to permanantly disable the lock that is currently frustrating the hell out me. And no I’m not looking to get a new circuitboard when I know there has to be a way to disable the lock with what I have…since, when I gently touch the afformentioned little metal bridge looking conducer to a random conducer on the circuitboard in the vacinity of the hold switch, the lock is gone from the screen but comes back when the piece loses it’s connection. I know only someone extremely knowlegable in this subject might know. I thought I’d just throw it out there. Thnx
+1 to the succes stories … your a ipod’s life saver
I have a 5th generation video. I know I don’t have a hd or cable problem because when I plug it into a different video ipod, the hd and cable work fine….. could there be a problem with the board? I have tried to reset, no luck and also put it into disk mode, and only with that certian ipod will it not sync. Instead of going into disk mode it says reboot with computer then I try it and nothing happens, I wait for minutes to see the do not disconect but nothing turns up and it turns off…. any ideas?
I have a 5th Gen. Video ipod that had a bad logic board. I was only getting a blank back light. I bought a new (used) logic board and after installing it I only get the apple logo, and then the sad face icon along with the very low battery icon. I tried charging for hours, and also plugged it into my mac and it doesn’t show up in Itunes. What is the problem? the board? I had an extra hard drive and ribbon cable that I switched but it still did the same thing. I tried resetting and of course it just does the same thing.
Thanks in advance.
hey!
so its like this..my ipod was involved in an accident i was rideing my lil sisters scooter and my ipod was playing and in my pocket i flew off the damn scotter my body and the cement collided/crushed my ipod it remained in my pocket (didnt fall out), gave me a big bruise and it does nothing. Ive tryed everything bar takeing it apart which btw i being a 17 yr old girl with a small attention span would totaly suck at.please help me!!!
my email is monkeys_with_wings91@hotmail. email me please as i probs wont be able 2 find this site again
. (im at school atm).
or my myspace:- www.myspace.com/skylouise91
thank you sooo much oh and btw my warrenty has expired.
eep
This post is a life saver (or ipod saver)! Had ipod symbol with sad face, was told on many other sites that it meant my hard drive was bad. Good thing I stumbled onto your post! Followed you advice and now have a working ipod. Thanks a million!
Hi all
Got a 5th Gen ipod video 30GB
Worked fine for a few months but then left it alone for a few months (annoyingly this time coincided with the warranty running out – but then again my wife and I did just have a baby…. so the ipod was the last thing on my mind)
Now I have got round to trying to use it again, it seems as though it is TOTALLY DEAD.
Not able to power it up either via my PC or via an independent charger.
Not recognised on my pc either.
If it wasn’t in my hand it would seeem as though it didn’t exist at all…..
Have read through the topics and suggestions here, but still in the dark.
Help!
Thanks
My ipod just automatically shut off while playing a song. And it is now making this clicking noise that sounds like it is turning on and off. It is a blackish bluish screen that keeps on popping up with an Apple Symbol on it. How can I fix it?
Can someone help me please? My ipod is a 2005 ipod mini and my wheel seems broken. I don’t know what is wrong with it. I have called an ipod specialists and they wanted me to bring the ipod to the store and they wouldn’t let me know how much they would charge me until they fix it. So can someone help me, please?????………..
my ipod dosent turn on & i was hoping if u guyz could tell me what 2 do please!!
IPOD shuffle 2nd gen. Went through the washing machine and didnt turn on at first. I took it apart and dried it out, and it connects to a computer now, but as soon as i disconnect it, it doesnt turn on. Holds data I copy onto it. In I-tunes, it wont come out of recovery mode. Everytime i format and update it, no more than 5 seconds after it’s done, recovery mode pops up again. I thought it wa the battery, so i bought a new one and replaced it, but the problem still exists. I appreciate any advice.
My ipod lay sitting in a draw for a couple months. I then charged till it said it was fully charged, however, I only get about an hours use. If I leave it over night while not playing, it gets completely drained. I thought it was the battery, so I replaced it, I have fully charged it a number of times but it always dies the next day. I have even put another battery in, this time a a 1200 ma one but I still have the same problem. I really need help trying to find out what is goin on… any ideas?
heyy i have an ipod nano 2nd generation…i got it for my birthday and it went throught hte washer in like november and it still doesnt work adn i have tried like everything..its hopelesss..PLEASE HELP!!
My son’s 30gb video ipod only plays through one channel of the headphones. The phones are good and it plays fine on the charger speakers. He’s a swimmer, so I don’t know if it got washed at a swim meet…Has anyone dealt with this?
Thanks!
Hey, My ipod is a 30gb, and for some reason all of a sudden it’s not working properly. It would come up to the main menu, but the buttons(menu,select, etc.) will not work. The only way I can get it to the main menu is to restart the ipod itself by holding in the menu and select buttons. This is the only point where the buttons will work. I’ve just tried to restore it and that brought it to the language screen, but now it will freeze. I’ve tried toggeling the hold button but that will not work either. Odly enough, it says it’s charging or charged for a long period of time after I have already taken it off the charger or off of the computer wire.
What can I do?
So my 4G iPod just stopped today, and the only sign of life is a tiny flash from the display when I plug in the power cord (which is plugged into the mains). Listening to it while connected and I hear a quiet, whistling, oscillating sound. It’s NOT a hard disk type of noise. Unplug it and the noise goes away.
After trying everything I could – resetting and all that but to no avail – I opened it up. Plugged in again, it’s clear that the noise isn’t coming from the hard disk as I’ve unplugged the disk. Everything appears properly seated. I’ve checked that the battery isn’t the cause by unplugging that too, and it still makes this noise when it’s getting power.
So it’s some logic problem perhaps, or a fault with the charging circuit? What’s the prognosis?
OK, so I’ve fixed this by replacing the battery. It seems that the old battery was so tired that the iPod didn’t register its presence. Hope that helps someone.
Third installment: the iPod is dead again after having come to life after the new battery was installed. It now has reverted to the situation ante – it whistles quietly to itself when plugged into the power but won’t do anything else. It doesn’t even get as far as searching for thew hard disk.
Is it time to admit defeat and pay another tranche of the Apple tax?
ARGGHHHHHHH. HELP.
my ipod was washed in the machine after my mum washed my jeans.
i left it alone for about 4 months.
drying it out.
i connected it to my docking station
and it worked perfectly.
playing my music and everything.
same as when i connect it to my pc.
but as soon as i take it off charge or out of the station the screen freezes then eventually goes black and just wont work.
HOW DO I SOLVE THIS?!
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!