Need help with your iPod issues?

[Paulson]

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
it's been recharging for 12hrs+

still no luck.

If you want to PM me and I can take a look at it for you if you'd be willing to send it.

Let me know!

 

[Paulson]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman
My very old Shuffle only plays in one channel if I push the headphone plug in all the way, but plays in both channels when I pull it out a little ways...Any ideas?

I'd like to start with taking it apart but don't know how to do that.

The iPod shuffles aren't really my expertise. I imagine at some point the headphones got jerked out of the iPod and pulled the headphone port inside the ipod up a little.

Try putting a little force when you put in the headphone plug or else get a paperclip and carefully push down a little bit to see if you can get the headphone port lower.

 

[Paulson]

Originally posted by: V00DOO

Originally posted by: Paulson
Back up your music, go into my computer and format your ipod, then restore it and copy your music back.

How do you format a Ipod? Do you just format it like any other Windows XP drive under Disk Management?

Yep, or you can just right click an ipod that shows up under my computer and choose the format option.

 

[torpid]

Disk scan or whatever you asked me to d/l does not function properly. However, ipod has its own built in disc scan. For 3g and older you have to hold menu, select, ffwd, and rwd while resetting to get to it. For photo you hold select and back, then go to IO / Hard drive scan. There's a R and a RW one, running them both now.


V00DOO, to reformat, you can use the ipod updater software (there's 2 options in it, one to update ipod and one to reset it), or you can download a free tool from red chair called ipod reinitializer.

 

[l Xes l]

why wont my iPod dance like the one i saw on TV?

 

[Paulson]

Originally posted by: torpid
Disk scan or whatever you asked me to d/l does not function properly. However, ipod has its own built in disc scan. For 3g and older you have to hold menu, select, ffwd, and rwd while resetting to get to it. For photo you hold select and back, then go to IO / Hard drive scan. There's a R and a RW one, running them both now.


V00DOO, to reformat, you can use the ipod updater software (there's 2 options in it, one to update ipod and one to reset it), or you can download a free tool from red chair called ipod reinitializer.

What do you mean it doesn't function properly?

And for the iPod photo some are like the 4th gen ones, where you use select and back and then scroll down to HD Scan (IO / Hard Drive Scan is on some newer iPod mini's as well as iPod Videos & nanos)

And the reason I'm asking V00DOO to format it in windows is because if he formats it in windows, everything gets wiped out. When you do a restore it sometimes doesn't delete or overwrite everything, so it makes it a pain. If you format it in windows first and then restore it sometimes that takes care of a lot of problems.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: Paulson

Originally posted by: torpid
Disk scan or whatever you asked me to d/l does not function properly. However, ipod has its own built in disc scan. For 3g and older you have to hold menu, select, ffwd, and rwd while resetting to get to it. For photo you hold select and back, then go to IO / Hard drive scan. There's a R and a RW one, running them both now.


V00DOO, to reformat, you can use the ipod updater software (there's 2 options in it, one to update ipod and one to reset it), or you can download a free tool from red chair called ipod reinitializer.

What do you mean it doesn't function properly?

And for the iPod photo some are like the 4th gen ones, where you use select and back and then scroll down to HD Scan (IO / Hard Drive Scan is on some newer iPod mini's as well as iPod Videos & nanos)

And the reason I'm asking V00DOO to format it in windows is because if he formats it in windows, everything gets wiped out. When you do a restore it sometimes doesn't delete or overwrite everything, so it makes it a pain. If you format it in windows first and then restore it sometimes that takes care of a lot of problems.

Yeah, that's why I use the anapod one.

The scan tool works for a little while, it found one bad sector, but about halfway through it just gets endless "the parameter was incorrect" errors.

 

[Paulson]

Ahhh, well then you have a bad drive. What happens is once it hits a bad spot, the ipod is actually dumb enough to cut off communication with the computer (due to the ipod's hard drive having to continually try to read that one bad sector that it absolutely cannot)...

Just curious, how did your actual ipod HD scan go? did it pass or did it fail.

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

Why would my iPod, after months of playing certain songs flawlessly, begin to cut them off 10-20 seconds before they should end? This has only happened on one album on my iPod.

 

[Paulson]

You're sure that it's the ipod and not the actual album that cuts the music off in certain intervals (some cd's don't want you to rip them so they change the track number of the song way early before the song ends, you however don't notice because they don't insert the 2 second pause inbetween tracks)

 

[alanalafriz]

do you have visual instruction on how to remove ipods back cover?

 

[Paulson]

Originally posted by: alanalafriz
do you have visual instruction on how to remove ipods back cover?

What version of the ipod are we talking about. 3rd, 4th or 5th gen or nano?

 

[alanalafriz]

What version of the ipod are we talking about. 3rd, 4th or 5th gen or nano?

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i think the oldest version of ipod... the lcd is not colored..

 

[Paulson]

Originally posted by: alanalafriz
What version of the ipod are we talking about. 3rd, 4th or 5th gen or nano?

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i think the oldest version of ipod... the lcd is not colored..

It could be a second or 3rd gen probably then....

They're pretty easy to open, however I do have video's from a website that show you how to open them.

http://www.djpsmusicmix.com/ipod

 

[alanalafriz]

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Originally posted by: alanalafriz
What version of the ipod are we talking about. 3rd, 4th or 5th gen or nano?

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i think the oldest version of ipod... the lcd is not colored..
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It could be a second or 3rd gen probably then....

They're pretty easy to open, however I do have video's from a website that show you how to open them.

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Big Thanks Dj Paulson for the help and the video link is very much appreciated..

 

[Pepsei]

is it just me or that it is impossible to copy a single 4 gig file to ipod (5th g) even thou i have enough space? it kept on saying not enough space.

 

[Paulson]

That's because the file system is Fat32 and that's the max file size you can put on an ipod (4 GB's)

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: Paulson
Ahhh, well then you have a bad drive. What happens is once it hits a bad spot, the ipod is actually dumb enough to cut off communication with the computer (due to the ipod's hard drive having to continually try to read that one bad sector that it absolutely cannot)...

Just curious, how did your actual ipod HD scan go? did it pass or did it fail.

Hm, but it was smart enough to label an earlier sector as bad. And it passed the internal test. Is there another third party tool I can try? I don't want to have a messed up hard drive but I also don't want to enact the replacement policy if that isn't the problem and then spend $50 for a new policy and get a new unit with the same problem.

 

[sniperruff]

is it possible to have a custom EQ on the ipod mini?

 

[Paulson]

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: Paulson
Ahhh, well then you have a bad drive. What happens is once it hits a bad spot, the ipod is actually dumb enough to cut off communication with the computer (due to the ipod's hard drive having to continually try to read that one bad sector that it absolutely cannot)...

Just curious, how did your actual ipod HD scan go? did it pass or did it fail.

Hm, but it was smart enough to label an earlier sector as bad. And it passed the internal test. Is there another third party tool I can try? I don't want to have a messed up hard drive but I also don't want to enact the replacement policy if that isn't the problem and then spend $50 for a new policy and get a new unit with the same problem.

Well the thing is when you used that program it first marked the sector as bad, and then later on when it got to something it didn't like (perhaps a row of bad sectors?) the drive shut down in the ipod.

If it passes the internal test though I wouldn't worry about the hard drive. I've had issues with the hard drive ribbon connector from the mainboard to the hard drive cause a lot of weird issues on a U2 iPod I was working on.

 

[wfbberzerker]

where's a good (cheap) place to get a replacement hard drive for a 3rd gen?

 

[Paulson]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
where's a good (cheap) place to get a replacement hard drive for a 3rd gen?

Best chance of getting one is either trying to buy one off of ebay or buying a used ipod and taking out the hard drive and selling the rest of the parts.

 

[Pshawn5]

my friend has been having an issue with his ipod for a while. he's given into apple twice, the first time they shipped it back saying no problems, so he called and the lady said they would ship a new ipod for his old one, well the lady lied and they shipped back the same ipod with the same problems.

he was listening to a song on track 1, he presses next it skips to track 4 and then freezes. (this happens on different songs too)
and now the ipod isnt recognized on his computer, so he cant try the disk checker program u suggested.
it's a 4th generation ipod photo

 

[Paulson]

It almost sounds like a hard drive problem...

What he should do is hook it up to a power source, (wall outlet), hold down the select button and menu button at the same time. The apple logo will appear. Quickly hold down the select button and previous button. The apple logo will flip and the backlight will come on. Next use the next button to scroll down to HD Scan (if it's got a different menu then go to I/O and the HD scan I believe).

It will either say that the iPod passed or that it failed.

 

[Pshawn5]

lol, here's what it says:
After Scan:

Unknow!
3rror!

he called apple again and yelled at them, so they flagged his account as FAIL, so allegedly when he ships his ipod again to them, they'll ship a new one to him.