My iPod Died Last Night

Ok, so it's about 2am and I get into bed, and decide I wanna listen to a live version of Black by Pearl Jam.

Select the song, get the first 20 seconds okay, then my iPod completely freezes up, and starts making these quite loud clicking noises, like you hear when an iPod is selecting a song, only louder and never ending.

Then cos it was doing all this clicking and whirring it started to get really hot, and I don't mean warm, it actually got REALLY hot, and this must have gone on for about 45 minutes so I was just waiting for it to melt really.

Anyway it finally stopped and cooled down. Now whenever I try and switch it on, I get the same clicking and whirring as last night for about 20 seconds then it comes up with a picture of an iPod with this face ---> :dead: on the screen. I think it's trying to tell me something.

So now until I get this fixed I have no iPod.

It was like your best friend dying in your arms.

Well ok not quite that bad.

Rest In Pieces

:rip:

The site is saying I need to plug it into my computer and go to the updater and restore it to factory settings, then plug it into my itunes to get all my songs back on.

Problem is, when I plug it into the computer I get the same :dead: face on the screen and nothing happens, OR it says "Can't mount iPod." which made me laugh at first but is now annoying me.

:rip:

I think its f***ed Jack..... You'd call it a hard drive crash on a pc, not sure what that is in Apple-ese. Time for a new one, hope its your birthday soon!

Yeah it is completely fucked. It got so hot last night I reckon the insides are probably melted!

Good thing is it is less than 12 months old which means I am covered by the warranty thing, so I send it off and they sort it out for free.

Probably takes ages but hey that's better than paying!

:rip: Rust in pieces

I hate ipods! For one thing I hate the way everyone talks as though Apple invented the hard drive mp3 player when they were around for years before Apple got in on the act. I hate the way most (all?) ipods use crappy built-in rechargable batteries instead of normal AAA/AA ones that allow you to carry a spare and change it yourself, and use cheap standard rechargables. And I reckon hard drive based players are bad technology anyway, cos they are too fragile, too prone to jog or die, and too power hungry. Still, sorry to hear of your loss :)

Time to invest in a Creative Zen, I think!

Dam That River wrote: Yeah it is completely fucked. It got so hot last night I reckon the insides are probably melted!

Good thing is it is less than 12 months old which means I am covered by the warranty thing, so I send it off and they sort it out for free.

Probably takes ages but hey that's better than paying!

I reckon you probably should have shut it down at the first sign of trouble. But to be honest it was probably dead from the second it went click click click. As Mr Lea said...yer drive's popped it's clogs.

waranty time defo....and of course you have all your music on DVD or cd don;t you because you know about the 3 most important things you need to do with a computer....

Backup Backup Backup

hey Doc-

assuming that my Ipod one day does "buy it"-

all my songs are on the Itunes software on my computer...

Is that enough back up?

(and yes I have about 85% of the music on ds I own...so there)

Get it burned to a CD/DVD or two as well.

Better still make a 2nd copy on a fresh hard drive and leave it in a totally different house.

I aint kidding either, I recall reading an astonishingly wise statement "digital data does not actually exist until there are two copies in geographically distinct places" or something.

Do I do that? do I fuck :D

But I do back my computer system up a lot (system restore is WAY too flakey for me to trust) , and MOST of my mp3's are at least also on a DVDR somewhere.

Did you try restarting the ipod? Pressing and holding down the menu and center button, until it restarts? I had this happen to my ipod a year ago, restarted it and no issues ever since.

JHC

BUY A GIGABEAT

Kay wrote: BUY A GIGABEAT

Dam That River wrote: The site is saying I need to plug it into my computer and go to the updater and restore it to factory settings, then plug it into my itunes to get all my songs back on.

Problem is, when I plug it into the computer I get the same :dead: face on the screen and nothing happens, OR it says "Can't mount iPod." which made me laugh at first but is now annoying me.

:rip:

It shouldn't take long to get repaired. I sent my laptop back to Apple on a Monday and it was back home on Thursday.

Cath wrote:

Dam That River wrote: The site is saying I need to plug it into my computer and go to the updater and restore it to factory settings, then plug it into my itunes to get all my songs back on.

Problem is, when I plug it into the computer I get the same :dead: face on the screen and nothing happens, OR it says "Can't mount iPod." which made me laugh at first but is now annoying me.

:rip:

It shouldn't take long to get repaired. I sent my laptop back to Apple on a Monday and it was back home on Thursday.

But you live in America!! I gotta send mine from the UK!

Dam That River wrote:

Kay wrote: BUY A GIGABEAT

Kay wrote:

Dam That River wrote:

Kay wrote: BUY A GIGABEAT

iPods are well known for being a triumph of style over substance. Flaky hard drive and even flakier battery...

Bloke I know has been through 3 in 18 months, and still refuses to believe there are better alternatives out there.

Old Blue wrote: iPods are well known for being a triumph of style over substance. Flaky hard drive and even flakier battery...

Bloke I know has been through 3 in 18 months, and still refuses to believe there are better alternatives out there.

I've tried and used others, but I have to say the ipod uses better software. If you are a super-organized person with 500+ albums, the ipod surpasses the competition. If the person throws music in by downloading it and doesn't super-organize it, I could see how they could be about equal. The ipod also has a wider variety of add-ons that the other simply can't compete with.

JHC

68Pontiac wrote:

Old Blue wrote: iPods are well known for being a triumph of style over substance. Flaky hard drive and even flakier battery...

Bloke I know has been through 3 in 18 months, and still refuses to believe there are better alternatives out there.

I've tried and used others, but I have to say the ipod uses better software. If you are a super-organized person with 500+ albums, the ipod surpasses the competition. If the person throws music in by downloading it and doesn't super-organize it, I could see how they could be about equal. The ipod also has a wider variety of add-ons that the other simply can't compete with.

JHC

Agreed.

you need to spank your iPod. seriously. whack it pretty good on the bottom and it should unstick your HD. i've done this with several "dead" iPods adn they've all come back to life. good luck.

although it could be your iPod telling you something about the music you puton it, like "i'd rather die than have to play another Pearl Jam track"

Miss Disco wrote: Time to invest in a Creative Zen, I think!

iawtc

i lovemine

Biznotic Love Trapezoid wrote: although it could be your iPod telling you something about the music you puton it, like "i'd rather die than have to play another Pearl Jam track"

how predictable

was waiting for someone to say that

Dang, I didn't know an iPod can fry up in a year.

And, Jack, while you're going to get your iPod fixed, look on the bright side: You have your Last fm playlist.

[magenta]shedmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Dang, I didn't know an iPod can fry up in a year.

And, Jack, while you're going to get your iPod fixed, look on the bright side: You have your Last fm playlist.

I had an iPod for two weeks. Two weeks. I had bought it to go jogging with. After about a week, it started lockig up on me. About another week later, it finally locked up for good. I returned it and have not bought another mp3 player since. iPods were supposed to be the shit as far as mp3 players go but I was rather disappointed in mine. It's not like I'm a spastic runner, wildly shaking my iPod all over the place as I run, either. Oh well, technology has yet to catch up to my demands.

Jack, if its the hard disk you are stuffed but if you havent tried yet try a reset..

Resetting an ipod

never had one. nor an MP3 player.

my last walkman phase was circa Automatic by the Mary Chain.