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July 03, 2005
iPod ICU (for 4G click wheels)
If you use your ipod as much as I do and consider it a daily necessity you may want to know how you fix it should it ever become ill.
Occasionally our wonderful electronic devices develop frustrating, hate inducing hiccups. Personally I've had a few of these recently happen with my iPod. The first such instance occurred when my ipod decided not to turn on. After some asking around the office and some googling I discovered a fix.
To perform a soft reset (meaning you don't lose any of your songs or files) plug your iPod to the wall via your supplied firewire cable. Then move the manual lock button back and forth for 5 seconds. Once finished depress you center button and the menu button until the onscreen apple appears. After a few seconds you will return to your typical menu.
The next problem I ran into was that every time i plugged in my iPod to my computer iTunes would quit. I am not sure what was the cause of this problem but I did find out how to fix it. Should your iPod go completely daft, simply find a file somewhere in your system called iPod updater (there should be several). This application will allow you to completely wipe your HD and then reinstall the iPod software. The only draw back is that you will have to re-import all of your songs, files, podcasts....etc. This is very simple, plug in your iPod, open the iPod updater and then click the restore button. Your iPod will be empty but it is much better than having a 3-4 hundred dollar paperweight.
Cheers,
Posted by steve horvath at July 3, 2005 09:24 PMPosted to Apple
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