I recently had a problem with my ipod and wanted to spread the news.
My ipod stopped holding a charge, it would die after three or four songs. As you can imagine this was quite annoying considering the price tag. I tried every fix out there short of sending it into apple and paying they outragous 250 $ ipod service fee.(out of warranty)
Eventually what I noticed is that my Hard drive was spinning non stop, an obvious power drain.
I suspected a RAM problem but the RAM checked out fine.
What I discovered was strange and I still am not sure if it was the problem or if my ipod just started working again after the fix by coincidence.
I had backed up all of my MP3 files to three seperate DVDs and an external firewire drive and was using them to update my ipod manually, there were no MP3s on the computer hard drive. I decided to try a clean install on my ipod one more time before sending it to apple, but this time I had recently ripped a few cds to my hard drive and when I installed the ipod software it did an auto update and put those songs on the ipod. I decided not to put any other on and it has worked like new since, now I copy all MP3s to my hard drive first and then directly from my hard drive to my ipod, and have had no problems since.
So my question is what is the conflict? And is it intentional?
Also posting this in case anyone else has had the same problem under similar circumstances
My ipod stopped holding a charge, it would die after three or four songs. As you can imagine this was quite annoying considering the price tag. I tried every fix out there short of sending it into apple and paying they outragous 250 $ ipod service fee.(out of warranty)
Eventually what I noticed is that my Hard drive was spinning non stop, an obvious power drain.
I suspected a RAM problem but the RAM checked out fine.
What I discovered was strange and I still am not sure if it was the problem or if my ipod just started working again after the fix by coincidence.
I had backed up all of my MP3 files to three seperate DVDs and an external firewire drive and was using them to update my ipod manually, there were no MP3s on the computer hard drive. I decided to try a clean install on my ipod one more time before sending it to apple, but this time I had recently ripped a few cds to my hard drive and when I installed the ipod software it did an auto update and put those songs on the ipod. I decided not to put any other on and it has worked like new since, now I copy all MP3s to my hard drive first and then directly from my hard drive to my ipod, and have had no problems since.
So my question is what is the conflict? And is it intentional?
Also posting this in case anyone else has had the same problem under similar circumstances