Ipod Troubles

tobbogonist · May 12, 2008, 4:38am

Ok i was doing some gnarly gardening earlier in my large straw hat with a sunflower on it. Whilst reeling about in the roots and weeds i used my ipod to listen to the ricky gervais podcast, season 2.

I decided to come in for lunch, just before i opened the fridge i absent mindedly reached into my pocket and unlocked then paused my Ipod. Now i cannot get it to turn on the screen is blank and it will not respond to a direct power sauce(hehe, sauce). I have tried the reset, menu and play, and all that Jazz. Any advice? (beside taking it back from apple. it was a present and i have no proof of purchase and neither does the presentier (is that what you call them? present givers…)

Thanks

Tom

Oh and FIY!!! its an 8gb ipod nano.
sorry, just wanted an excuse to type FYI

tobbogonist · May 12, 2008, 5:04am

and if anyone is interested, it was mostly weeding.

oh and i transplanted a small green plant from a pot into a ground hole.

kington99 · May 12, 2008, 10:14am

the fact that it’s an ipod is fair proof that you purchased it from apple.

If it won’t respond to a hard reset then there is little you can do except send it off with a pile of your benjy greens.

thejdw · May 12, 2008, 11:05am

plug it in to power for ages until it beeps
Impact it hard (would recomend this but has worked)
Use a hair dryer and screw drivers to take the ipod apart and disconect the battery and then reconect it - this always works for me.

(this is a mini, may not apply to nanos)

mill_mobile · May 12, 2008, 12:57pm

Hey Tom,
My 8GB nano froze too a while back but mine wouldnt turn off!
The reset thing worked for me.
I suggest going back to apple, when i took mine back they didnt ask for a receipt.

tobbogonist · May 12, 2008, 1:01pm

Bother, Thankyou Kington, Jdw and Jono for your suggestions.

The Jdw how do you take an ipod apart with a hair dryer?

I will contact apple today.

Thankyou again

Tom.

ivan · May 12, 2008, 1:04pm

You guys scare me. I got an iPod nano for present about a week ago and now there’s a possibility I’m gonna have to smash it open with a hairdrier and take it to talk to apples? Damn, with power comes responsibility.

tobbogonist · May 12, 2008, 1:11pm

whoa whoa hold on there Ivan sir, we do not know whether the hair drier is for smashing open yet. If that was true then why not use any other hair styling utensil? nope i think it has something to do with the heating part. maybe Ipods expose there screws upon gentle heating.

1-wheeled-grape · May 12, 2008, 1:15pm

how can you take an ipod apart with a hair dryer, it doesnt work! My friends 1Gb ipod shuffle has packed up, it started by messing up the songs on there, then when het battery died it would not charge!?! and a hair dryer will not fix that

ivan · May 12, 2008, 1:19pm

Tom, you’re overanalysing. When facing such a delicate process as fixing an iPod, one should stick to a simple and foolproof method: Act before thinking. It may not always fix the iPod, but at least noone will be able to blame your brain for messing it up - you never used it!

Can you open those tight fistachio nuts with a hairdrier? Do they expose the hidden screws after heat treatment? I usually use a hydraulic press and a filter, but new methods are welcome.

tobbogonist · May 12, 2008, 1:36pm

hmm. you could be right, but still, a hairdryer? they are not really know for there whacking capabilities.

ivan · May 12, 2008, 1:42pm

They will be, with the popular advancement of iPods.

tobbogonist · May 12, 2008, 1:49pm

and i guess apple are in the midst of devolping the iHairdryer?
Not only dryes your hair, but styles, books your next trim and color and receives msgs from your friends.

harper · May 12, 2008, 1:50pm

Hair driers are used for disassembling two parts that have different coefficients of thermal expansion or are sufficiently thermally isolated from one another. Think two drinking glasses stacked and stuck together. Put ice and water in the top one. Run warm water along the outside of the bottom one or heat it with a hair dryer. The top one shrinks, the bottom one expands, and they come apart.

ivan · May 12, 2008, 1:52pm

That only works if you believe in physics, Harper.

Normal people just bash it till it falls of. “It” being a dynamic variable.

1-wheeled-grape · May 12, 2008, 1:54pm

they are for me, everything can be used as a weapon in my eyes:p hitting things is one of the best forms of stress relief;)

thejdw · May 12, 2008, 1:55pm

Watch, the hair dryer softens the adecive which bonds the white tabs to the ipod, when these are removed, the screws are exposed.

ivan · May 12, 2008, 1:55pm

We’ve got a live one!

kington99 · May 12, 2008, 2:16pm

i got one towards the end of 2006 and it’s never required anythign more than a hard reset (and one software reinstall)

ivan · May 12, 2008, 2:18pm

Uff, now I can sleep again.