iPod Crashed
So my week got off to an inauspicious start when my iPod suddenly stopped working on my way to work. I was just standing on the train -- not moving, not holding my iPod, not doing anything to it -- when suddenly it froze with 24 seconds left on the track that was playing.
Pushing buttons seemed to do no good....it was just stuck. It is still sitting in my desk, backlight on, stuck at 24 seconds. Kind of reminiscent of the old Johnny Cash song, "25 Minutes to Go." Except in that case, I think the subject of the song would have been happy to get stuck at 24 minutes.
So now I guess I'll do some internet research and try to figure out if there's any fix for what happened, or what caused the problem.
Update:
Well, I just checked it and found that the battery has died (amazing how quickly the battery will drain when the backlight is running constantly). When I press buttons, the Apple logo comes up (indicating that it went into "deep sleep") and then the low battery warning is displayed.
In the meantime, I found advice on iPod Garage which indicated that if the problem happens in the future, I should hold down the "menu" and center button at the same time to force the iPod to reset itself.
Hopefully, once I take it home and recharge it, all will be well.
Pushing buttons seemed to do no good....it was just stuck. It is still sitting in my desk, backlight on, stuck at 24 seconds. Kind of reminiscent of the old Johnny Cash song, "25 Minutes to Go." Except in that case, I think the subject of the song would have been happy to get stuck at 24 minutes.
So now I guess I'll do some internet research and try to figure out if there's any fix for what happened, or what caused the problem.
Update:
Well, I just checked it and found that the battery has died (amazing how quickly the battery will drain when the backlight is running constantly). When I press buttons, the Apple logo comes up (indicating that it went into "deep sleep") and then the low battery warning is displayed.
In the meantime, I found advice on iPod Garage which indicated that if the problem happens in the future, I should hold down the "menu" and center button at the same time to force the iPod to reset itself.
Hopefully, once I take it home and recharge it, all will be well.
posted by N at 10:11 AM
4 Comments:
Meanwhile, Hope's mini iPod has decided that--contrary to Apple's promise of a 1000 song capacity--at 500 songs, it's topped off. It also has the annoying habit of dying almost everyday, even though she charges it every night!
but the 1000 song capacity is just a guideline. if you put long enough songs on it, it might only hold 50.
seriously, it's difficult, because they need some kind of measure (beyond 4GB) to give people an idea of how much music they can fit on a given model.
they could say 4000 minutes or 67 hours, but even that is variable, because it's based on ripping at 128kbs. if you rip at 192, then the capacity would be lower.
Oh N, i knowest thy pains of the iPod. As you know, i'm on my fourth iPod replacement--all the previous ones went down due to bad sectors in the hard drive. And even the current one wouldn't work when i first got it. Lucky a few good shakes and it's back in working order!
fortunately, it appears that after a good recharge last night, my ipod is back in good working order. but i'm afraid the problem yesterday was caused by a bad sector, which means it could be a thorn in my side for some time to come.
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