*sniffles*
I think my iPod is dying. Well, I know my iPod is dying, the question is how much more life can I squeak out of it?
Starting perhaps a couple of months ago, sometimes the start of a podcast would get garbled (first 5-10 seconds or so), but the rest would be fine. Last night, after pulling myself away from a sudoku way too late at night... I discovered that, although my iPod appeared fine, all of the music and podcasts had disappeared. When I plugged it back in, my computer didn't recognize it, and iTunes asked me to run the "restore to factory settings". So I did. Then I let it resynch, eventually going to bed without it lulling me to sleep.
This morning I had to repeat the process, but I got to listen to a podcast on the way to and from my doctor appointment. (No death panels, and my rash is probably allergy/hives/eczema... although it was hard to tell, because it decided to mostly clear up for the appointment, and my doc told me I could call my mystery joint aches "arthritis". Yay for that last one! I hate having something with no name. It's not severe arthritis, but it's still probably arthritis. I guess I'll take my mystery rash to the allergist... assuming it comes back.)
Tonight... dead iPod again. It's currently resynching... and I'm googling to find out if there's something I can do.
*sigh*
This is my second dead iPod... it's the one that the wonderful Jess sent me after my first one died. Thank you Jess!!!!
4 comments:
oh no! did you try reformatting it (I'm not sure the iTunes restore does a full format)? It is a rather old ipod, but still, very sad! :( Hope you can eke a few more weeks or months out of it!
Not having found anything terribly useful online (yet), I'm going to give Disk Utility a try. I suspect there's bad sectors on the disk. I don't think iTunes likes what Disk Utility does to the iPod, but hopefully doing a scrub and restore will equal a full format.
If nothing else, I did get lots of use out of it already... two hours a day on the bus, and an hour or so every night!
If you do buy a new one get the extended warranty it is totally worth it on MP3 and iPods! Yes I used to be in this business so I know of what I speak.
Really? I've had problems with two iPods now, but both would be well beyond their initial extended warranties, I'm pretty sure.
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