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(oh, and resetting your iPod by holding down Play/Pause and menu while it still sits in the dock causes a happy Kernel Panic.  Or at least that's what happens to me)

TheConfuzed1 wrote:

Wow... I have reset my iPod in the dock without any problems at all.  I can't say that I have an answer for you, but I have a thought...

Maybe your iPod's hard drive has become corrupted?  Have you tried reformatting it?  Of course, if you do this, you'll want to make sure that first you have a back-up of your music.

Good luck.

He said he restored it.

Mine just did the same thing. No reformating, no software restore seems to do anything. It just locks up my system and I have to force restart. This is a Loaner till my replacement comes in so I am not too worried but it means 5 to 10 days wait.

justine wrote:

TheConfuzed1 wrote:

Wow... I have reset my iPod in the dock without any problems at all.  I can't say that I have an answer for you, but I have a thought...

Maybe your iPod's hard drive has become corrupted?  Have you tried reformatting it?  Of course, if you do this, you'll want to make sure that first you have a back-up of your music.

Good luck.

He said he restored it.

I meant what Kirk said.  Only he said it more eloquently than I. 

If someone posts an answer in here, will shoeman ever know?

Last edited by TheConfuzed1 (2005-03-17 9:23 pm)

There's one last thing to try before declaring it bad.  Clean the contacts on the iPod.  Use Q-tips dipped in isopropyl alcohol to wipe any crud off the gold plated terminations.  Try to connect it up one more time.

No the Computer is fine. Did a check on the whole system and everything is working well.

My music files is on an extranal firewire drive and I tested that by draging a 1 gig file off (Read) and copying it to my towers drive. This worked with no problems and reversing (Write) it showed no issues either. Swiching around connections to other firewire ports had the same issue with the iPod.

So, it's the iPod or the cables.

As an aside- Dicks Smith's make-up from the Exorcist? Just commenting on your avatar.

I tried running disc warrior over it and doing I didn't do a surface scan. Frankly it would take forever and this is still only a loaner. It just bugs me is all.

Threads not dead sad to say.

I got my replacment iPod and the same damn thing happens. IPod freezes during download.

Tried three different firewire cables and a usb 2 cable-same results.

Tried it on both my Macs, tower and Powerbook-same results.

I even did a archive install on my tower and yeah, same results.

Spoke with a tech at Apple and we removed the iPod extenstions plus the latest os X update and reinstalled-nothing.

Now in most cases the iPod won't even show up on the desktop to be mounted. Can't even run a utility on it.

Something is seriously hosing my iPod and I can;t figure out what and neither can Apple.

This sucks.

Both Tower and Powerbook are running the latest versions of Panther. Again, nothing bothered my previous iPod with these versions.

I don't have a free partition to install Panther on that would be able to boot. My other drive is a firewire drive.

And yes it is freaking insane. I installed about a gig worth of music on my power book to try and get the iPod to load from that seperate from my tower's system and yes, you guessed it-froze up.

The real test is that if locks up just moving a file to the iPod. So it's not the music as it is the read/writing to the iPod. Again, all cables have been checked and swapped. The odds that they are all bad are low. I tried other firewire ports so that is not it. Besides I can move files back and forth between my internal & external drives with no trouble.

The most tinkering I done was on the tower as per Apple's instructions but the Powerbook wasn't touched. Not to mention with a fresh install on the tower, I should have a clean OS to work with.

frankly, I am getting to the point I will have to wait to Tiger to (hopefully) get this straightened out. Or i pitch the iPod into the East River.

Try deleting your iPod and iTunes preferences files.  They all end in .plist

Good news! Well, for me at least. brought my pod in and the tech was too busy to look at it so he just gave me a new one.

Works perfectly.

So all that crazyness and checking cables and installing and uninstalling iTunes, iPod extensions, updates, archive install of the OS...

No, just two bad iPods in a row.

It's kinda funny, you buy a new device and a extended warranty and something happens and you get a rebuilt device back. Well at least it;s in good shape (not as good as my old one- a couple swirls/scratches on the back) though it works perfectly.

One last rant. My 3rd gen ipod was bought at Chump USA. Bought an extended warranty. Had a problem and they initally tried to weasel out of it but eventuall honored the repair/replacement. But told me that was it, my warranty was void after the replacement.

Man they suck.

Last edited by JackSkellington (2005-03-31 10:42 pm)