Does anyone else think the click wheel is just awful on this thing?? I had an old 40GB 3rd gen, and the wheel was awesome. Super sensitive, but not overly so. With this one, I find that sometimes it just can't tell my finger is on it. I'll sit there spinning my thumb on it for 5 seconds or more... Fast, slow, tapping it, shouting, stomping my feet - nothing! Then the screen goes dark, the menu times out, it flips back to the Now Playing screen, and OH! Now it senses my finger! But I'm angrily scrolling rapidly at this point and what does it do? Jacks up the volume on my schmancy heavy bass Sony earbuds, that's what. My brain bleeds, I jump a mile, and everyone on the metro thinks I have Tourette's.
Seriously though. Am I stuck in my 3rd gen ways and there's some new technique that I'm missing? Or did Apple just backtrack and make a crappy new wheel? I've had it for almost a year and it still bugs me.
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I believe that this is due to seek times with the larger spindle hard drives. I have had delay on mine since purchase; helped only slightly by firmware updates. Sometimes I find that if I wait til I feel the drive stop spinning it is more responsive. The volume issue might be helped by limiting it in the main menu. I know that I don't like work arounds for expensive equipment anymore than the next guy, but this is what we are stuck with until larger solid state drives are available ( hopefully in a smart phone ).
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I have some issues with this click wheel, I miss the old 4G click wheel.
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I've got sand in mine... it makes a loud crunch every time I press down.
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As captainjj points out, it's the fact that the HDD and the firmware is no longer reading file info / metadata as smoothly as previous iPods did. These days I use the Classic almost purely as a monolithic, somewhat readily accessible backup for my lossy data as coincidentally my lossy library is just about the size of the 120Gb Classic, but trying to navigate the music and - well, use as an iPod - is an exercise in frustration.
In many ways I kind of felt I hit rewind on my player ownership days and was back with the Creative Jukebox 3 I stuck a 120Gb HDD into, because the large dataset navigation frustration experienced was about the same - in fact, worse, since I can't actually prune my metadata or files on the iPod, unlike the NJB3.
I too miss the 'true iPod experience' of the pre-6th gen iPods, and can only conclude that they just decided they wouldn't care any more about this model line.
In many ways I kind of felt I hit rewind on my player ownership days and was back with the Creative Jukebox 3 I stuck a 120Gb HDD into, because the large dataset navigation frustration experienced was about the same - in fact, worse, since I can't actually prune my metadata or files on the iPod, unlike the NJB3.
I too miss the 'true iPod experience' of the pre-6th gen iPods, and can only conclude that they just decided they wouldn't care any more about this model line.
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I have click wheel issues too but if you slide the hold button on and off again and the click wheel will start responding. My old 30gb 5.5 gen iPod was way better.
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I have to admit, it's not perfect, but it was a lot worse when I bought it in the first place.
What solved the problem for me was just resetting it by pressing the middle+menu buttons. After reboot, it wasn't as an ipod nano, but at least it recognizes all of my touches now.
hope it helps some of you guys out.
What solved the problem for me was just resetting it by pressing the middle+menu buttons. After reboot, it wasn't as an ipod nano, but at least it recognizes all of my touches now.
hope it helps some of you guys out.
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