Why do ipod classics break

Turn off your iPod with its power switch. If you see green by the switch, your iPod is on. Wait for 10 seconds, and turn on your iPod again. Press and hold the Menu button and Center or Select button for 8 seconds, or until you see the Apple logo. Other iPod models Learn how to force restart earlier models of iPod. Charge your device If your iPod still won't respond, it might have low battery.

Charge your iPod for at least 30 minutes: Connect your iPod to the charging cable that came with your device. Or you can use a USB hub, docking station, or other Apple-certified power accessory. Wait a few minutes until a charging screen appears or until the status light on your iPod shuffle turns orange. Don't see the charging screen or orange light after 30 minutes? Here's what to do: Check that you have firm cable connections.

Remove any debris from all ports. This is likely to be destructive, but only to the cover — even if you pull it off with some force, the ribbon connector that links it to the iPod motherboard will pull loose long before it causes any damage. The technique required is to push a sharp blade between the side joint of the front and back covers: look carefully at our finished case to see how the metal casting of the front is shaped underneath the steel stamping of the back — this is the best place to push your blade.

Ease up the brownish plastic clamp on the battery cable connector and detach the battery. Ease the ribbon cable away on the ZIF socket at the base of the hard drive. Larger devices will need a known-working partition tool, such as the AOMEI Partition Assistant utility recommended by some vendors — note that this software is PC-only.

Insert the formatted mSATA drive into the carrier board. Soft-assemble all the parts — reconnect the backplate cable, fold the mSATA board over and reconnect the battery. Reload your music! Try playing a few tracks before you take the effectively irrevocable step of closing up the back of the casing so that you can be sure the headphone cable and port on your shiny new back are all functional.

See related. Once you've restored your iPod don't rush to dump all the data back exactly as it was before. I have found that lots of large or complex smart playlists can sometimes trigger constant reboots or dumping of the iPod's library. In addition, larger transfers can fail leaving data in an inconsistent state. Try this technique for populating the iPod in stages.

In iTunes select the menu item File New Smart Playlist. Change the first drop-down box to Playlist , the next to is and the next to Music or whatever playlist holds the bulk of the content you want on your device. Tick against Limit to , type in say 10 , then change the drop-down to GB , and set the last drop-down to artist. When you click OK you can enter a name for the playlist, e. Now sync this playlist to your iPod rather than your entire library.

When the sync is complete modify the rule File Edit playlist to increase the size by your chosen amount, then sync and repeat. You can experiment with different size increments, if it doesn't work just choose something a bit smaller until it works each time. Before long you should have all the music that you want synced added to your device. Once that's done you can move on to other media such as podcasts, videos, photos, additional playlists, etc. They can neither be added to an iPod nor transferred from it.

Should you want that facility you may need to temporarily install a copy of iTunes If needs be you can make a separate library to work with this build and iPod games or iOS apps, then reinstall the current version of iTunes and reconnect to your regular library when ready.

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