Anyone know anything about iPods?

[drewdawg727]

Well i'm having issues with mine.
Twice in the past week, my iPod has stopped working in the middle of use. In between songs, it will just freeze on one song, and then skip it and move on to the next, and move on to the next, etc. It just keeps skipping through songs and doesn't stop. So i turn it off, and then after that it won't turn back on.
So i plug into my computer and it worked last week, but this time when i plugged it in, it just goes through a cycle if "do not disconnect" (where it should be charging, but it doesn't charge), and then it switches back to the apple logo, followed by a picture of a folder with an exclamation point. I don't understand why it worked for me last week but it's a flop for me this week.
I would restore my iPod and just satrt all over again and put the songs back after the restore, but i don't have my songs saved in my library because i had to update the songs because they were all old. I was going to update it this weekend just so i'd have them "on file" but then this happened.
Anyone that can assist Harry the Helpless over here..?

[wacked]

time to format ur ipod once and reload all the songs in it all over again.. u need to do it once in awhile..

which ipod do u have anyways?

[Daniel]

time to format ur ipod once and reload all the songs in it all over again.. u need to do it once in awhile..

which ipod do u have anyways?
I agree with wacked :)

Caroline won a new 2Gb Nano the other day. I still prefer my old one though! :)

[drewdawg727]

I have a really old model. It's about a year and a half old and i think it just needs a new battery.

[AndySpeed]

time to format ur ipod once and reload all the songs in it all over again.. u need to do it once in awhile..

which ipod do u have anyways?

I don't think that everyone needs to format their iPod once in while - I never have


I agree with wacked :)

Caroline won a new 2Gb Nano the other day. I still prefer my old one though! :)

iPod Nano's are weak little things - I know someone who bent theirs when they sat down... :s

[fastbitch]

2AndySpeed - did they sit on a pipe? or how did it happen? Can u bend it if you just sit on it? i was gonna buy 2nd hand, so now i m thinking

[AndySpeed]

2AndySpeed - did they sit on a pipe? or how did it happen? Can u bend it if you just sit on it? i was gonna buy 2nd hand, so now i m thinking

I think they were wearing jeans with tight pockets and sat (or slumped) down on a sofa. The bend wasn't much, but was enough.

If you do get one, a case is a must-have. I've also heard that older Nano's scratch much more than new ones, so if you do look second-hand try and get a newer Nano as the scratching can impair visiblity of the screen.

Nothing wrong with the player itself, just its durability.

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1st Gen Nanos = Tripe.

2nd Gen Nanos = Pure goodness. Very hard to scratch. Very sturdy. A massive improvement.

[AndySpeed]

Surely with the capabilities of modern phones today (SE k800i, Nokia N Series) the Nano is increasingly unneccessary - you can pretty much store the same amount on your phone and have it all in one

[harvick#1]

1st Gen Nanos = Tripe.

2nd Gen Nanos = Pure goodness. Very hard to scratch. Very sturdy. A massive improvement.

yeah cause they changed the surface to be like the Ipod Mini, (which is what I have)

you can't scratch the surface and I like it much better than the other Ipod's.

[Dave B]

Surely with the capabilities of modern phones today (SE k800i, Nokia N Series) the Nano is increasingly unneccessary - you can pretty much store the same amount on your phone and have it all in one


:up: Plus when I upgrade my phone I can just pull the Micro SD card out of the side and bung it in the next one.

It's rumoured that Apple are going to bring out an iPod with a phone built-in, which could shake the market up a bit!

[AndySpeed]

:up: Plus when I upgrade my phone I can just pull the Micro SD card out of the side and bung it in the next one.

It's rumoured that Apple are going to bring out an iPod with a phone built-in, which could shake the market up a bit!

Indeed, since I got my k800i and bought a 1gb card I've also stopped buying DRM protected music for the reason that I want to be able to carry it over to other devices if I choose.

I doubt an iPod phone would be as popular, as ditching the classic click wheel design would be essential and it would probably lose it's 'cult design' and fashion status.

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Apple folk have been making and hearing rumors of an 'iPhone' for many many many years now.

The iPod came into a market which was essentially non-existant and created a bloody good (and the most beautiful) First gen iPod.
The mobile media phone market is huge with some already good products, so Apple will find it hard to succeed atall, if only on the 'Makers of iPod' effect the Apple name has.

[Daniel]

I don't think that everyone needs to format their iPod once in while - I never have



iPod Nano's are weak little things - I know someone who bent theirs when they sat down... :s
Hey she won it so who cares ;)

Caroline's iPod lives in a sock in the car and doesn't get carried around in pockets anyway so I suspect durability isn't an issue.

I like my iPod. It's almost 2 years old now and the battery isn't as good as it used to be but I've got a Belkin external battery pack so I'm not that bothered if the battery dies completely as it never gets used othe than in the car or at home.

Tbh I don't like the idea of a phone that plays MP3's or an MP3 player that makes phonecalls and sends texts. They invariably end up not being as good at both and suffer from bad battery life compared to having one of each.

When I want to listen to songs I have this.

http://www.osxfaq.com/radio/12-2004/ipodu22.jpg

When I want to look at photos or watch video I have this with a 3.8" screen which is probably 4x bigger in total area that of the new video iPod's.

http://xataka.com/es/archivos/images/Epson-P2000.jpeg

And when I want to make phonecalls I have this

http://www.first-handyshop.de/handy/Nokia/3230/nokia-3230-1.jpg

Rather than having 1 thing that does all those jobs cheaply and not as good as I would like I spend 3 times the money and got 3 things which do the job well. Money well spent I think! People would say I'm a gadget freak but I beg to differ. I just can't tolerate things that don't do the job properly!

[AndySpeed]

Like you Daniel when I want to listen to music I use my G4 U2 iPod most of the time.

However sometimes I use this, as I have a few of my more popular playlists on, when I don't want to fill my pockets with both iPod and phone:

http://www.xonio.com/ii/98844872_125873f883.jpg

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Thats the thing, latest iPhone rumor is it will have 2 batteries, one for Music + Stuff, one for Phoney stuff. Not a bad idea.

[Sleeper]

I dont use iPods, I have a very cheap 1GB Logitec mp3 player that playes mp3, WMA, etc music files and does exactly what it says on the tin, and cheaply as well.

I also have a very cheap Sendo phone that I phone and text people from. Why spend silly money on these gadgets when I can get cheap name goods that work just as well and for much less.

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I also have a very cheap Sendo phone that I phone and text people from. Why spend silly money on these gadgets

Precisely :)

http://www.vantru.is/6210.jpg
My Phone, The best phone ever made!

[AndySpeed]

If you're a fan of all things unspectacular then yes.

And always one to argue the point, imagine the scenario:

You're walking through the streets of [insert local town here] when you see parked up a Bugatti Veyron. With your phone, you can only look. With my phone, I can take 100 photos of it and MMS them to my mates making them all feel jealous (except you, since your phone can't do MMS).

I then walk off feeling happy and listen to a song on my phone (and also feeling a lot lighter since my pockets aren't weighed down with a phone that is heavy and an mp3 player).

:p :

[Sleeper]

Point tacken, but I live in Birmingham ( for the few that cant read whats on the left) so there's not likely to be any cars anyware near that level of awsomness around here. Plus, if you have a good phone like that, you imediatly become the target for all chavs and rather a lot of the asian population here unfortunatly. :(

Damned if you do and damned if you dont.

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If you're a fan of all things unspectacular then yes.

And always one to argue the point, imagine the scenario:

You're walking through the streets of [insert local town here] when you see parked up a Bugatti Veyron. With your phone, you can only look. With my phone, I can take 100 photos of it and MMS them to my mates making them all feel jealous (except you, since your phone can't do MMS).

I then walk off feeling happy and listen to a song on my phone (and also feeling a lot lighter since my pockets aren't weighed down with a phone that is heavy and an mp3 player).

:p :


I take my point and shoot camera everywhere I go ;)

So while your sending your walking home and getting phone calls saying 'Stop sending me photos of riced out nissans' I'm selling my prints on ebay for thousands and saving children from the hands of pervets.

[AndySpeed]

I take my point and shoot camera everywhere I go ;)

So while your sending your walking home and getting phone calls saying 'Stop sending me photos of riced out nissans' I'm selling my prints on ebay for thousands and saving children from the hands of pervets.

Unortunately my camera is a little too large and complex to take everywhere.

Let's not turn this into a 'mines better than yours' contest ;)

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Unortunately my camera is a little too large and complex to take everywhere.

Let's not turn this into a 'mines better than yours' contest ;)

Ok, But to have a phone with a decent camera costs quite a bit of moolar ;)

[drewdawg727]

Yikes i've created a monster out of this thread!

[Daniel]

Ok, But to have a phone with a decent camera costs quite a bit of moolar ;)
To have a phone with a decent camera means you have to gaffer tape a decent camera to your phone. NO PHONE WILL EVER TAKE DECENT PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eki]

I think it's better to have a simple mobile phone to make calls and send SMS, a separate digital camera, a separate MP3 player and a separate GPS navigator. That way, if you want to upgrade one of them or one of them stops working, you don't have to buy all of them again. I wish there were pocket size modular gadgets like the PCs that you can buy plug and play devices like phones, cameras, MP3s and GPSs for.

[Daniel]

I think it's better to have a simple mobile phone to make calls and send SMS, a separate digital camera, a separate MP3 player and a separate GPS navigator. That way, if you want to upgrade one of them or one of them stops working, you don't have to buy all of them again. I wish there were pocket size modular gadgets like the PCs that you can buy plug and play devices like phones, cameras, MP3s and GPSs for.
Yes. Another good reason NOT to buy an all in one device :)

[nicemms]

You can get reasnable photos from a camera phone but for high quality ones you need a proper digital camera with optical zoom.

[Daniel]

It's nothing to do with the zoom. It's more to do with the lens and the CCD the phone uses.

[nicemms]

well yes there is that. But if you want to take a picture of something far away, digital zoom is hopeless just degrades the picture quality.

[AndySpeed]

I speak too soon really. :\

My iPod has a wee problem. The click wheel is not responding to touch (so I cannot scroll). Normally when this happens I just reset the iPod by toggling hold, and pressing menu and select.

Only problem is it's not responding to this reset. Not even with mains power. I've tried draining the battery, synching with iTunes and everything.

All of the buttons work, but obviously with the loss of touch sensitiveness I can't select the music I want. :(

Recommendations?

Note - first ever serious problem in 2 years

[Daniel]

I'd drain the battery, leave it for a couple days till it's properly dead and then see what happens. Have you tried a restore?

[tmx]

Well i'm having issues with mine.
Twice in the past week, my iPod has stopped working in the middle of use. In between songs, it will just freeze on one song, and then skip it and move on to the next, and move on to the next, etc. It just keeps skipping through songs and doesn't stop. So i turn it off, and then after that it won't turn back on.
So i plug into my computer and it worked last week, but this time when i plugged it in, it just goes through a cycle if "do not disconnect" (where it should be charging, but it doesn't charge), and then it switches back to the apple logo, followed by a picture of a folder with an exclamation point. I don't understand why it worked for me last week but it's a flop for me this week.
I would restore my iPod and just satrt all over again and put the songs back after the restore, but i don't have my songs saved in my library because i had to update the songs because they were all old. I was going to update it this weekend just so i'd have them "on file" but then this happened.
Anyone that can assist Harry the Helpless over here..?


i think it might be your harddrive in the verge of dying, does it make any strange noises?

i wouldnt think it is the battery, if you are still getting a couple hours a charge. if you can play the ipod while conencted to a wall charger or computer and it doesnt do that, then maybe it is your battery. but even with a power source and still doing that, then probbably the harddrive.

repacement harddrives and battery for ipod are widely sold ebay.

[Daniel]

I wouldn't think the clickwheel would stop responding if it was the hard drive.

[odykas]

Surely with the capabilities of modern phones today (SE k800i, Nokia N Series) the Nano is increasingly unneccessary - you can pretty much store the same amount on your phone and have it all in one

Couldn't agree more!

[odykas]

To have a phone with a decent camera means you have to gaffer tape a decent camera to your phone. NO PHONE WILL EVER TAKE DECENT PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, but it can play music with same quality as iPod.
Also a mobile phone can do 571 more things, apart from just playing music.

[AndySpeed]

ody is spot on. Consider this - the k800i does the following:
Makes phone calls, texts, plays music, takes 3mp photos (good for nights out), access the internet via 3G, video calling, stores documents, notes, contact info, has an fm radio, colour screen, 3d games, mobile TV (a bit pointless IMO).

the only downsides are the memory card limit (1gb currently) and battery life.

If my iPod does die at least I still have my phone as an mp3/aac player :)

Talking of which still no luck - about to try a restore.