My beloved iPod went into a coma on Monday. Even the Restore button of the iPod Updater application (which usually works wonders) failed to resuscitate my precious.
I first noticed that something was wrong with my baby when the hard drive started to make ominous clicking noises. Then Monday morning, I got into my car and fired up my iPod, but was shocked to see that the playlists were empty and the songs were all gone. (Thank Odin I have two back-ups.) The poor little guy won’t mount anymore; he just plaintively flashes the circle with the diagonal slash until his little battery runs dry.
My iPod should still be under warranty; I got it the last week of September. Tomorrow I have to surrender it to my university’s hardware support people. I hope that my baby will come back to me soon, good as new.
Did you get it fixed this happened to me this morning!
Yes, I got mine fixed—or more accurately, I went to http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod/, they sent me a shipping box, I packed up my old one, and in a little over a week they sent me a brand new one.
Thankfully, it was still in warranty. My colleague’s iPod failed a couple of weeks ago, and it was out of warranty, so he had to add “a new iPod” to his Christmas list.
I think if mine died out of warranty, its replacement would flash-based, like an iPod nano. The capacity is smaller, but the hard-drive ones seem to fail way too often.