iPod crash

almost a year on and I still treat my iPod with baby gloves, I don’t know if it is me or the fact Lucy bought it for me but everytime I move it or use I am so careful. Why then do I feel it is safe to put (gently place more like) in my rucksack and then sramble down bridlepath’s on my bike!
Anyway last night bobgbob came round as per usual and was talking about finally jumping on the iPod bandwagon, we were just talking about them so I proceeded to find mne. I removed it from the iSkin case and let him size up the 4th gen model. After a quick trip round iTunes we deicded it was time for a brew, I went to safely return the little jukebox too it’s sleeping bag when I noticed the light on and the displaying showing it was playing. Strange, I thought, I’ll stop that; click! What nothing happened, click! Pause I command you! It would appear my iPod had totally froze and locked up, even the hold switch had no control.
This was not a total new event as at the week end Tim had told me about how his iPod froze whilst playing the James Bond theme the other week. His answer was to leave it and wait for the battery to run down. So I guessed that was my plan, except it was on charge before bob picked it up.
We were just laughing at the prospect of waiting for this thing to die and the fact you can not reset the machine when gravy turned up. ‘Oh yeah, that happened to me, press and hold Menu and Select for a bit’ Sure enough it performs a soft reset! That kind of information should be in instruction books, yell it probably is, but when I got my iPod did I bother to read it, do I need a book to teach me how to use an iPod?!?
It would appear so.

Tim if you ever get stuck just press and hold Menu and Select for about 5 seconds and it will reset your iPod and release Mr. Bond.

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35 Comments So Far

  1. Gravatar Icon Sas wrote on December 29, 2005:

    Thanks, I was a little worried – 2 days old and I had hardly used it. I can sleep easy now, thanks to your advice.

    Respect yo self, and happy holidays.

    S.

  2. Gravatar Icon Alan wrote on May 21, 2006:

    OH MY GOD THANKYOU!!!!!!! Did a google search and you came up with the answer. Didn’t have a clue what to do, you can’t even take the battery out!

  3. Gravatar Icon Adam wrote on May 22, 2006:

    I’m glad I could be of some help, on the plus side this has never happened since!

  4. Gravatar Icon stephen wrote on June 20, 2006:

    i’ve tried reseting my ipod but it still wont turn on it’s just givin me the unhappy sign.
    HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111

  5. Gravatar Icon luke wrote on July 13, 2006:

    my ipod crashed today so i will wait to the battery runs out, and then i will try turn it back on

  6. Gravatar Icon Nicholas wrote on September 17, 2006:

    Could I get a little back up on my blog. I am getting lambasted for saying apple needs to do some iPod reform.

    It’s at nicholasfiedler.com/blog

  7. Gravatar Icon Chris wrote on April 16, 2007:

    Just found your answer and its saved me about 5 10 hours of waiting around. cheers mate

  8. Gravatar Icon Michael wrote on October 16, 2007:

    Brilliant information, you’ve just saved my ipod

  9. Gravatar Icon james peters wrote on October 17, 2007:

    thank you soooooo much!! just saved me hours of waiting. 2 days old crashed nightmare!!! google search….u saved my life!!

  10. Gravatar Icon courtney wrote on October 22, 2007:

    thanks loads my ipod just crashed wen i connected to itunes n u saved me alot ov waiting around, Thanks again xxx

  11. Gravatar Icon charlotte wrote on November 15, 2007:

    WOW!!!!!!! thanks soooo much!
    i was rather worried as my ipod had crashed entirely! however i googled it and found you….perfect!!!
    thnks!!!!

  12. Gravatar Icon Sarah wrote on December 28, 2007:

    Thanks! Just got an iPod Nano for Christmas from my dad, and it crashed after I plugged it into the machine. Had I not found this site, I would have been very inpatient waiting for it to run out of juice. Apple really should have written something about the reset option in the guide book – wonder why they didn’t?

  13. Gravatar Icon G0ldfysh wrote on January 16, 2008:

    Big Thanks, search on google there you where. 80gig here been using for a few months no issues and half the drive with pictures from the last year only on there for couple of days while pc in rebuild. Very simple back up felt like the worst thing done ever.

    Many thanks once again for this short note online, that saved an evening of watching a fully charged iPod slowly go flat, and my nails get chewed to the quicks.

  14. Gravatar Icon Joe wrote on January 29, 2008:

    Thanks alot i never knew you could reset them i just used to let the battery run out for hours ha, thanks

  15. Gravatar Icon Jake wrote on February 2, 2008:

    THANKYOU so much I was nearly in tears when my new ipod nano 3rd generation crashed

  16. Gravatar Icon CHEEZ MOBILE wrote on February 2, 2008:

    U R DA BEST THANX FOR DA HELP I NEARLY HIT MY IPOD WITH A SLEDGE HAMMA COS IT WAS REALLY ANOYIN !!!!!!!

  17. Gravatar Icon bethany wrote on February 11, 2008:

    wowwwwwww

    THANKYOUUU! lol

    i was starting to worry!
    i was having to let the battery like DRAIN. x

  18. Gravatar Icon Matt Hebdon wrote on March 4, 2008:

    Thanks for the info my ipod crashed and after swiftly finding this feed its fixed as apposed to in pieces on the floor :-)

  19. Gravatar Icon rach burrows wrote on March 6, 2008:

    thank you SO much! mine just crashed and i did the hold menu and select thing and it just came back to life- i had such a panic! thank you!

    xxxxx

  20. Gravatar Icon MJ wrote on March 31, 2008:

    wow, thanks so very much! pressing on menu+select for a few secs does work. woohoo! how did you know that?? like many people here, my ipod crashed and i didn’t know what to do. thought i had to wait til the battery ran out. good thing the answer is right here. thanks!

  21. Gravatar Icon gavin wrote on April 5, 2008:

    fantastic thanx this is life saver and a half
    helps even more when you remember to switch off the lock. like i did for an hour has i freaked out thinking it wasnt working

  22. Gravatar Icon Dan wrote on April 6, 2008:

    Thanks man. Sound advice that. Saved me from sitting around, hoping that it’d eventually run out of battery. Good times haha

  23. Gravatar Icon leanne wrote on April 24, 2008:

    i’ve tried doing it and it hasn’t worked :(
    (my screens not lit, that might be why??)

  24. Gravatar Icon Marcos wrote on April 27, 2008:

    Hello, anybody knows what to do when you Ipod starts to get really slow? It crushes few times, after I started to try Mediamonkey, so I returned to Itunes, reset it and for my suprise it’s shit now, it crashes all the timed, but it came back, basically is just really slow..
    Thanks for any help!

  25. Gravatar Icon Adam wrote on May 14, 2008:

    Cheers man, great advice!

  26. Gravatar Icon Zoe wrote on July 6, 2008:

    Thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!!

  27. Gravatar Icon Graham wrote on September 13, 2008:

    I had just downloaded the latest Itunes software release, plugged in my half full 160g pod, it automatically attempted to update its driver and then froze! Aaarghh! Nothing! Not recognised by my PC as being attached, nada! Your fix has saved the day. I can’t thank you enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

  28. Gravatar Icon Herbie4 wrote on November 20, 2008:

    Thank you! I googled ‘crashed ipod’ after my 4th generation nano decided to freeze the night before our holiday and I had downloaded stuff to keep the kids busy on there! Thank you for saving our flight!

  29. Gravatar Icon Abii wrote on January 1, 2009:

    Thank you Thank you Thank you =)

    You lifesaver xD

    I just bought my sister’s i-pod off her as she bought a 160 gig one and thoguth i broke it straight away lol

    Thanks once again.

  30. Gravatar Icon Blythey wrote on February 4, 2009:

    Yo! Thanks for the great advice. My mum nearly klled me when she realized it was broken! It is a only a month old!

  31. Gravatar Icon holly wrote on March 10, 2009:

    ILOVEYOU FOR THIS ANSWER`!!!!!!!! :D THANKYOU SOOOO MUCH!

  32. Gravatar Icon ipod wrote on March 17, 2009:

    hello i have an ipod which has frozen i was turning up the volume and nothing was happening i tried to turn it off but it wont i cant press any think it just turned on and i cant do anythink any ideas?

  33. Gravatar Icon Denver311fan wrote on April 8, 2009:

    Thanks for the tip. Funny enough, after finding this site and resetting my ipod I looked in the quick start guide and low an behold…..the instructions had the reset in them. Who’d of thought?

  34. Gravatar Icon steven wrote on July 2, 2009:

    Lol thanks i kept leaving it on over night for months every time this happened so it died
    i though it was select & play button but reading this helped to refresh my memory !
    thank you very much !

  35. Gravatar Icon Kim wrote on October 8, 2009:

    Thanks SO much!!! oh ym goodness i was putting an album on my ipod for a 12 hour trip and it crashed… at 8pm the previous night!!! I would be SO lost without this THANKS SO MUCH YOU SaVED MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

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