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i hate ipods..

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scott0482

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ok..

i have had recent experience with two different ipods.. both do similar things..

i will start with this one..

i have an ipod in front of me.. 20gb.. old school.. maybe gen 3.. newer than the ones with the 3 or 4 round buttons at the top.. but not by much

i go to a computer that has never had itunes or anything on it before..

i install the latest version of winamp.. i plug in ipod.. it is detected.. i go to winamp.. and it just says loading ipod for a long time.. finally i have to crash winamp to be able to eject the ipod from the usb port.. i have tried restarting the computers.. and have tried it on 3 different comptuers...

on this computer... i installed itunes.. as a last resort.. i made sure that it wouldn't autosync and delete all the music off of it... i plug the ipod in.. and it says it it corrupted and i should restore it.. it has 6 gb of music on it, and it all works.. so how it is corrupted?

i put that music on the thing 6 months ago or so.. and had to reset it multiple times before i ever got it so i could put music on it..


i have an ipod nano at my house.. 1gb or something.. my mom's friend gave it to me to get it working.. i had the same thing happen.. it would just crash winamp immediately when i plug in the ipod.. i go to itunes and it doesn't even show up.. that one is even worse off than this.. i don't even have the option to restore it.. there is music on it however.. and the music plays.. i did just read about the whole holding menu + the center button to reset it.. because with that one, i had to just unplug it from my computer and let it sit saying "do not disconnect" until the battery died..

i am not trying to use a mac formatted ipod on a windows computer either.. i read about that before..

so are ipods just that tempermental? or am i using ipods that are borderline functioning?
 
I had that crashing problem w/my Shuffle until I updated the firmware in iTunes. The iPod might need a firmware update, but I don't know if you can sync it w/iTunes and update the firmware without having it formatting the drive. 🙁
 
i formatted it.. i found a computer that has all the music on it..
so then i formatted it.. was copying music to it from winamp.. and it just froze.. i waited a while and then finally crashed everything.. i was able to eject the ipod through windows.. i was looking to see if any of the songs showed up.. nope.. it appeared empty...

so i plug it into a different computer.. one that i have used successfully in the past to copy music to it with,... the one with all the music.. it crashed winamp on that computer.. then i ejected it in windows.. and pulled the cord.. only to see that the ipod still said "do not disconnect" even though windows said all was good..

so then i reset it.. and it is frozen on the apple logo.. i have reset it several times both plugged into a comptuer and not.. there is no power adapter here.. i have to take it out to a car and use the cigarette lighter adapter .. but i don' tthin kit will work..

this happened before.. and she had to take it to an apple store to get it reset.. if i hoold it up to my ear i can hear the hard drive clicking.. which is the same click i hear in a larger laptop or comptuer hard drive when it is dying.. but i said that 6 months ago when it happened before and taking it to an apple store cured it until now.. i think it is me.. not being patient enough or something... and crashing out windows programs when they might recover.. i don't know though..

no.. i actually think the ipod has been dropped too many times.. and when i was copying music to it i hit a bad sector on the hard drive and it froze everything up.. and now i won't reset all the way becuase it is corrupted.. and it won't show up as a usb device until it fully resets...
 
so i was telling my boss, the owner of the ipod about how it was stuck.. and wouldn't boot all the way.. and then i pushed the buttons agani to reset it while i was standing there.. and it booted.. maybe it was because i was holding it at a wierd angle.. or not holding it still or something...
 
i am just going to continue spamming my thread.. it reset and booted.. but that didn't actually let it work of course.. i managed to get itunes open and the ipod half recognized by windows.. then i ran a diagnositic and it said ipod connection failed.. now it is exactly like the nano i have at home..

except this one shows an ipod with a frowning face, and then and triangle with exclamation point.. and it says www.apple.com/support/ipod
but more often it shows a big battery symbol that leads me to believe that the battery is charged about 1/4th of the way.

i am trying to get through to apple tech support

i cant't turn it off.. i can just keep resetting it.. how fun..

no.. it won't let me reset it.. i am about to chuck it out a window...

http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248...base/93936/93936_4.gif

there is the icon..
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61771

they say it needs service..

the battery icon just means very low battery... i don't see how, since it has been plugged into various computers for 2 out of the past 3 hours..
 
ok.. i am at home.. and i got the nano working.. i forced it into disk mode.. you hold menu+select and then switch to menu+play/pause and it does it.. then i plug it in.. and it shows up as a drive and everything works.. then you just reset it after you unplug it and it works like an ipod again..

i plugged it into my computer in "ipod" mode just now.. and it doesn't show up as a drive.. and i won't eject.. so now i have to pull it and reset it..

but i will try that on the ipod at work tomorrow.. if the hard drive isn't screwed or something...
 
TRUST ME. any and all weird problems associated with ipod's is because of thier dying harddrives. almost 100% of the time. there is a hidden cost with ipod's and thats when their tiny harddrives die, because none of them last more then a couple years it seems. unless you dont put scratches on your ipod and it never gets hot. normally i find they will play fine but wont load songs without locking up the computer or the program thats trying to do it. i HATE ipod harddrives, they are garbage.
 
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