iPod iPod Shuffle woes

[shoveland]

I had to run to campus a couple days ago to print something off so I grabbed my shuffle, set up a playlist, and copied my files that needed to be printed. Ran to campus, printed, ejected the shuffle and took off. When I went to play music on it I got the flashing error lights.

Now my PB at home won't recognize it in iTunes, Finder, Disk Utility, /volumes, etc. Do I have to bite the bullet here and take it in to be fixed? Or is there something else I can try?

 

[TheMonarch]

Windows tends to be more forgiving of USB peripherals. Try a WinBox, right click, and format.

But it will erase it!

 

[applemacdude]

run the ipod utility and restore it

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300701

 

[shoveland]

In restore utility it says "connect an iPod" forgot to mention that

 

[ntlman]

split USB personality

I bought a 1GB iPod shuffle yesterday and have had some strange problems. It plays fine, although the connection to the computer is random. If I connect it via the side of the keyboard (on both a quicksilver mac running 10.3.9 and a DDR mac running the same), it will (after some jiggering) show up as a hard drive volume and open my iTunes as well. But the charge light flashes. I realized after 3 hours that this meant that it was not charging. I hooked it up to the back of the quicksilver and after a little jiggering, the charge light came on without blinking, but the computer never recognized the volume, nor did it open iTunes. I have read that plugging the shuffle in the keyboard usb slot is not enough power to function properly, but why would the 2.0 USB slot charge the shuffle but not mount on the desktop?

 

[nightdweller25]

Your not the only one with this problem, tons of shuffle users are having the exact problem (Including myself), something to do with firmware, it should be fixed by the next update.