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[pete_inthehills]

NNNNOOOOOooooooo!!!!

My ipod has crashed. Its just hung on the do not disconnect page.

I've tried the middle button and menu button thing and nothing happened. I've tried reconnecting it to my pc and it isn't recognised by itunes.


HELP!

anybody know how to fix it?

pete
inthehills

[Chris]

What was happening when it crashed? Did you disconnect it when it said do not disconnect?

Tried holding down the play button to switch it off? Maybe leave it overnight and let the battery run down then charge it up in the morning (kind of like a hard reset).

[Tubthumper]

Hold down the menu button and middle button for about 5 secs.

[Teabags]

Mine did this. It eventually just right itself. I'm no help. Apologies.

[Lucky Rathen]

Put it in the freezer. This may sound stupid but if you do this the cells in the battery get cold and it switches itself off cos it thinks the battery is flat. Then when you take it out and warm it up again it's reset.

[pete_inthehills]

stop with the "put it in the freezer nonsense"! That must be an urban myth - I've seen that advice given for everything from broken hard drives to car radios with no code.


sorry, enough ranting. I'm kind of fraught with out my ipod. Thanks for all your advice.

I was updating stuff and plugged it was in to my pc when itunes crashed. Itunes appeared to be still running but when I checked the task manager, itunes wasn't one of the apps running.

I tried to restart my pc, but that crashed too. So I had to hold the start button down until it turned off. My ipod has the "do not disconnect" bit displayed, but holding down the middle and menu button together hasn't worked.

I've heard rumours of an application you can download to reset your ipod so I'm looking for that on the apple website.

other than that, I'll just put in a corner and tell it not to bother me until its sorry and is ready to work again...


pete
inthehills

[Original Spies]

Mine freezes all the time. Most of the time, the menu/centre button thing works. Sometimes it doesn't and I just have to leave it and hope it fixes itself. Don't like iPod's but there just doesn't seem to be a widely available alternative anymore.

[Jeanette]

I know everyone has suggested it but the hold down the middle button and the menu button thing does actually work. I've had to do it to mine a few times and I've had to hold the buttons down for longer than a few seconds. Just be persistant.

[Original Spies]

Sometimes it doesn't work though...

[Free Korps]

my ipod miraculously recovered after almost a year out of action, before i bit the bullet i looked about for a solution on the net, but my problem was the unhappy face icon, could hear the thing trying to boot & continuously fail, anyway long story short, i kept reading about & even saw on youtube some giving it a few whacks on the side & hey presto it's back. honestly. search on net and you'll see the same bizarre solution being advised but like i said it was a different problem i had but hey if you get to the try anything stage (well apart from the freezer thing?!),,,,