I got my 120GB iPod in November of 2008. Since then, I have had to swap it for a new one twice. Apple made the swap within days because the iPod is still under the warranty.
The iPod would reboot when ejecting it from my Mac, would truncate songs and podcasts (cutting them mid-track and forcing me to listen to the shows over from the beginning), and it would reboot randomly. Occasionally, the reboot in some sort of 8-bit graphics mode! I told Apple that I was sure it was a hard drive problem, since I heard clicking, and the problems were most frequent when shuffling and playing large files. Both activities spin the drive and move the head often.
Anyone else been experiencing this?
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I hope you get this issue resolved. My 120GB was purchased in Feb 2009. The only issue I have had is the very rare reboot after I disconnect it from my computer.
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i would take it in and ask for a new one again. if you effectively argue your case, you should get a new one no problem.
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Yeah, I've actually gotten a new one twice already within the span of a few weeks. It's just a hassle to make time to go to the shop and wait a week each time.
I even got Apple to tell me that if this third one breaks, they'll swap it for an iPod Touch. That would be a compromise, but at least it won't have Hard Drive problems.
I even got Apple to tell me that if this third one breaks, they'll swap it for an iPod Touch. That would be a compromise, but at least it won't have Hard Drive problems.
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Tough luck KC. I hope your new iPod is working well.
I'm not completely sure if my problem is similar, but I have a 80GB, and for some reason the iPod just doesn't store any album art when I transfer songs from the iTunes library. Also, about 1 minute into some songs, the song skips and plays a "buzz" sound intermittently with the actual song. Are these firmware bugs, or should I be more concerned?
I'm not completely sure if my problem is similar, but I have a 80GB, and for some reason the iPod just doesn't store any album art when I transfer songs from the iTunes library. Also, about 1 minute into some songs, the song skips and plays a "buzz" sound intermittently with the actual song. Are these firmware bugs, or should I be more concerned?
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I got my 80GB in November of 2007 and it's been absolutely perfect since then. Quiet as a mouse considering it has a hard drive, never skips, really long battery life, etc. etc.
Done me proud.
Never had any problems with syncing, either, no random reboots. The only issue is that if it's docked while my computer starts up, the BIOS and drive recognition screens take ages, but that's easily solved by just nudging it out of the dock for a second to let the BIOS do its thing.
Good to hear Apple are treating you well, though — I wouldn't mind an iPod touch in exchange for my Classic. ;)
@mirajshah: Have you got the "Display album artwork on your iPod" option ticked in the Music tab on your iPod in iTunes?
Done me proud.
Never had any problems with syncing, either, no random reboots. The only issue is that if it's docked while my computer starts up, the BIOS and drive recognition screens take ages, but that's easily solved by just nudging it out of the dock for a second to let the BIOS do its thing.
Good to hear Apple are treating you well, though — I wouldn't mind an iPod touch in exchange for my Classic. ;)
@mirajshah: Have you got the "Display album artwork on your iPod" option ticked in the Music tab on your iPod in iTunes?
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My 80GB died yesterday, for no apparent reason. No signs of trouble, never been dropped, never been left in a hot car, you name it. Had it since December 2007. Hard drive is dead and it won't go in to disk mode, and iTunes won't recognize it. This really sucks because I have gone out of my way to take extra good care of it, and now it drops dead out of warranty.
I'll probably still buy another one eventually though.
I'll probably still buy another one eventually though.
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My 160GB Classic from 2007 is pretty much incapable of holding more than a few gigabytes of music before my computer tells me to "Please insert a disk into [drive letter]:." It then tells me my iPod is full, even though I know it has about 140GB remaining.
Copying over a song seems to work fine, but when iTunes (or Winamp or MediaMonkey or Songbird; I've tried them all) tries to update the iPod's database, the "Please insert disk" and "disk is full" errors come back up. The iPod shows that it does have less space than before the transfer, but the new music is nowhere to be found.
I think it's a hard drive problem, and one that no amount of Googling seems to explain. For two years I've been butting heads with this little monster, and it's time to put this thing to rest.
Copying over a song seems to work fine, but when iTunes (or Winamp or MediaMonkey or Songbird; I've tried them all) tries to update the iPod's database, the "Please insert disk" and "disk is full" errors come back up. The iPod shows that it does have less space than before the transfer, but the new music is nowhere to be found.
I think it's a hard drive problem, and one that no amount of Googling seems to explain. For two years I've been butting heads with this little monster, and it's time to put this thing to rest.
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i've had the 120GB classic since july 2009 - lately it's started hanging on me and i'd need to reboot it. sometimes it'll pause in the middle of playing songs and once it just went bonkers and wouldn't shuffle and album art would go missing.
i would hate for it to die on me seeing as i've spent an immensely stupid amount of hours creating playlists, editing genres, updating the album cover art and whatnot.
sometimes i whisper sweet nothings to it at night, hoping that'll make it behave.
i would hate for it to die on me seeing as i've spent an immensely stupid amount of hours creating playlists, editing genres, updating the album cover art and whatnot.
sometimes i whisper sweet nothings to it at night, hoping that'll make it behave.
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me to have the same problems with my ipod classic 120gb,such as skipping a song frequently and rebooting itself many a times, etc .,
im using about 25 gb's of my ipod's space,song skipping was annoying me like anything.(usually happens with my discman)
i had tried everything, 5R's steps, updating and restoring my ipod and itunes too ,but the skipping problem still persists, what to do now...
(ITS UNDER WARRANTY TOO)
im using about 25 gb's of my ipod's space,song skipping was annoying me like anything.(usually happens with my discman)
i had tried everything, 5R's steps, updating and restoring my ipod and itunes too ,but the skipping problem still persists, what to do now...
(ITS UNDER WARRANTY TOO)
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I've owned a 160G Ipod classic since 2007 - no problems as stated above. Only one simple harrassement - it skips from time to time. I never know if it's the MP3 file or the ipod. I'm thinking now it's an Apple MP3 player issue. Plain an simple.
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