i hate ipods..

[scott0482]

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?

 

[frostedflakes]

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.

 

[scott0482]

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...

 

[scott0482]

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...

 

[scott0482]

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..

 

[scott0482]

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...

 

[zig3695]

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.