pete_inthehills Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 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?peteinthehills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Hold down the menu button and middle button for about 5 secs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Mine did this. It eventually just right itself. I'm no help. Apologies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_inthehills Posted July 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 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...peteinthehills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanette Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Sometimes it doesn't work though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Korps Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 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?!),,,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_inthehills Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 hurrah! its working again.I tried the reboot thing this morning. On the apple website, it says that I shouldn't touch the outer ring when pressing the middle button and only press the very edge of the top bit of the ring when pressing the menu button. So I got two pencils and used them to press the buttons and it worked.I'm happy again.thanks for all your advice.Peteinthehills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 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?!),,,,That works! When my old one used to freeze up I would put it out in my car all night in the winter and it would get so cold it would think the battery was flat and it would completely shut itself down. Then when I went out in the morning and heated it up again it would work fine. Straight up, no word of a lie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 That works! When my old one used to freeze up I would put it out in my car all night in the winter and it would get so cold it would think the battery was flat and it would completely shut itself down. Then when I went out in the morning and heated it up again it would work fine. Straight up, no word of a lie.Is that whart you were trying to do with your washing machine when it got nicked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Is that whart you were trying to do with your washing machine when it got nicked?That was Calum who had his washing machine nicked. I, ironically, had my iPod nicked from my car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanette Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 My four year old 4th gen decided to give me a scare when I was in Tenerife.I've got the sad face icon. Anyone able to give easy instructions to either sort the problem or restore the ipod. Don't really want to be buying a new one and I'm finding the Apple site complicated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 My one came back to life by giving it the 2 whacks treatment mentioned earlier, then holding down the 2 buttons. Then it died again a few weeks later, and doesn't respond to a beating.However I dug out an old, dead 20 gig one, gave it the rough treatment, and it seems to have been reborn. Fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 I haven't had my iPod long but I am constantnly dreading the day it chokes, which seems inevitable. There's only one way to make iPods be built like tanks, and that is to build them out of what they use to build tanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 I haven't had my iPod long but I am constantnly dreading the day it chokes, which seems inevitable. There's only one way to make iPods be built like tanks, and that is to build them out of what they use to build tanks.Fuck running with that in my pocket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Fuck running.Edited for truth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hobo Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Throw it in the bin and buy a Sony Walkman MP3 player.truth!I have an ipod nano which kept resetting and freezing so I plugged it into the computer in disk mode and deleted all settings, folders and files via windows explorer then recreated the folder treeWhen the ipod switched back on it put everything to the default settings and hasn't frozen or reset in over a month, used to do it several times daily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Throw it in the bin and buy a Sony Walkman MP3 player.Can you get a 120gb version? I doubt it, so ipods all the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Do you have enough music to fill a 120gb mp3? Plus, i'd rather have smaller library of the select songs i know i want to listen to than everything i ever heard ever.Sony Walkman has twice as good sound quality as Ipod.I've had my 120gb ipod for about 6 weeks and its 60% full. There would be more music on it, but I've been a bit too lazy with transferring my record collection to my PC.I would admit that the sound quality of my ipod is not as good as my old Creative Zen, but it is made up with the shear ease of use, small size and excellent battery life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJimF Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 You also have to include the videos that you can watch on the ipod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyEB Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 o_O Holy fucking shit, i can never imagine filling an 80gb and you've nearly done it!?I don't believe you, Prt Sc of your itunes so i can see the size of your library or your lying:PHis Smashing Pumpkins collection would take up most of that space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 o_O Holy fucking shit, i can never imagine filling an 80gb and you've nearly done it!?I don't believe you, Prt Sc of your itunes so i can see the size of your library or your lying:PI don't use itunes for a start, I use Winamp. And only about 40-50 of those are Smashing Pumpkins or Smashing Pumpkins related... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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