iPod touch Why did my week old iPod Touch 4G seem to die?

[robinfinity]

I got this thing last Wednesday, and have since then spent a lot of time figuring out what all it does and how it does it and loading 40Gb of music on it, then getting the cover flow pictures all working, learned a bit about the frustrating iTunes, and then went to bed last night.

Today, about an hour ago, I went to turn it on and it appeared dead.

I tried holding the power button on for a while (I haven't turned it off since I got it) and tried holding the home button in for a while, and got nothing but a cold black dead iPod. I tried plugging it into the computer and the iTunes did not turn on. I started up the iTunes manually and it didn't recognize the iPod was there.

I googled the problem and it led me to a thread in this forum (YEA!) and the thread suggested a total reset by holding in both the home button and power button for 6 seconds. I didn't want to do this because I didn't want to lose everything but nothing else seems to have been working, so I did it.

Holding them both in got it to power back up, and luckily, everything is still on it, so I am cautiously optimistic.

So, why?

Why did this thing just kick itself off? The battery is reading about 3/4's on the little picture (I still haven't figured out how you guys are getting a percentage value) so I don't think that is the issue?

Why did I have to hold both buttons in to get it to come alive again?

Is this going to be a regular feature of this device?

Any thoughts from all you iPod Touch gurus out there for a newcomer to the Touch scene?

 

[lostless]

Its possible the ipod software just crashed (it happens). The ipod is just a very small computer. Holding the power/home buttons is equivalent to pressing the power button on your computer to shut it down if it has crashed and the rebooting it. Nothing is lost.

 

[robinfinity]

Its possible the ipod software just crashed (it happens). The ipod is just a very small computer. Holding the power/home buttons is equivalent to pressing the power button on your computer to shut it down if it has crashed and the rebooting it. Nothing is lost.

Oh, I didn't realize this was a microsoft product. How often will this happen? My PC goes more than a week between such events.

Good to know though, thanks for the reply!

 

[lostless]

Never experienced a full crash, but have had apps freak out on me causing me to reboot many times.

 

[elan123]

I got this thing last Wednesday, and have since then spent a lot of time figuring out what all it does and how it does it and loading 40Gb of music on it, then getting the cover flow pictures all working, learned a bit about the frustrating iTunes, and then went to bed last night.

Today, about an hour ago, I went to turn it on and it appeared dead.

I tried holding the power button on for a while (I haven't turned it off since I got it) and tried holding the home button in for a while, and got nothing but a cold black dead iPod. I tried plugging it into the computer and the iTunes did not turn on. I started up the iTunes manually and it didn't recognize the iPod was there.

I googled the problem and it led me to a thread in this forum (YEA!) and the thread suggested a total reset by holding in both the home button and power button for 6 seconds. I didn't want to do this because I didn't want to lose everything but nothing else seems to have been working, so I did it.

Holding them both in got it to power back up, and luckily, everything is still on it, so I am cautiously optimistic.

So, why?

Why did this thing just kick itself off? The battery is reading about 3/4's on the little picture (I still haven't figured out how you guys are getting a percentage value) so I don't think that is the issue?

Why did I have to hold both buttons in to get it to come alive again?

Is this going to be a regular feature of this device?

Any thoughts from all you iPod Touch gurus out there for a newcomer to the Touch scene?

Just take it back

 

[pepi]

Oh, I didn't realize this was a microsoft product. How often will this happen? My PC goes more than a week between such events.

Good to know though, thanks for the reply!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law

 

[fabian9]

To answer your question regarding battery percentage, it's in:

Settings/General/Usage

 

[transmaster]

Oh, I didn't realize this was a Microsoft product.

?????

 

[robinfinity]

To answer your question regarding battery percentage, it's in:

Settings/General/Usage

Hmmnn, don't have a usage in settings/general/

 

[fabian9]

Hmmnn, don't have a usage in settings/general/

Ah, just quickly checked on google and it looks like there is no native option to turn on battery percentage on the iPod Touch. Didn't know that, apologies!

There is a way to do it if you jailbreak your iPod though.

 

[MsMerryMac]

I've had my iPT4 since day one and it has crashed one time. My iPT2 had the same rate of crashing in the several years I owned it.

Holding the home and power button simultaneously worked like a charm for me and it hasn't happened since so I wouldn't worry too much unless it's a daily thing or something.

In all fairness though, this is far from a Microsoft product and comparing the two is near blasphemy!

Software, even Apple software, is not free from glitches but every Apple product I own has been amazing when it comes to reliability. If you're worried though, exchange it.