As anybody who reads my blog obsessively would know, I have a love/hate relationship with my iPod. It’s a wonderful device, and it keeps me from getting all stabby with my cow orkers, but I don’t have good luck keeping them working.
For the past couple of days, when I’ve started it up in the morning for the drive in to work, played one song, got about 20-30 seconds into the second one, and frozen. Or it’s just skipped one song before freezing on the second. Each time, doing a reboot (hold down the menu and play buttons, curse yourself for not removing your earbuds first because it makes a really loud click, wait for the menu to reappear) has fixed it. Until this morning, when the first attempt to play made a lot of those drive chuckling sounds, and I could feel the drive head moving, which is unusual. It of course immediately froze up, and I rebooted, but it wouldn’t come up. I got an Apple icon and then nothing else. Thank goodness it didn’t show the bad disk or the sad iPod icons. I rebooted a second time, and this time it came up.
Last time I hooked it up to my laptop (last week some time, I think), it updated the firmware to version 1.5. I think it’s time to re-lookup how to reflash the firmware again. I wonder if I can go back to the previous version?
I think any version of the iPod firmware installer will just overwrite whatever’s on there. Older versions might be tricky to track down though.
This is from memory though, and referring to the Windows version, not the Mac one. Good luck!
http://search.info.apple.com/?q=ipod++kbdload&search=Go&lr=lang_en&search=Go
I hate to say this, but this problem is the reason I just replaced my 2G iPod. In my iPod’s case, it almost certainly seems to be a bad drive. Erasing the iPod and reinstalling would simply mean that different songs would skip.
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