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Re: my ipod photo won't turn off! Thanks! I had the hold key on - its the switch at the top left of the ipod. if you turn it towards where it says hold, none of the keys work. |
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 DavisPhotogFlyingphotogPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-26
Rohnert Park, CA | Maybe this needs to be in an FAQ entry.... |
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| reply to hez
Hey,..i have tried reseting(pressing the center and the menu button together)...and then pressing the play/pause button...but it still wont turn off..it shows the charged logo all the time...can someone help please! |
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DavisPhotogFlyingphotogPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-26
Rohnert Park, CA | Plug it in to a power source and then try resetting it. |
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I have plugged it to my pc's usb(1.1), i don't have a conventional power adapter.. but still same.. the funny thing is that even after a certian period of use(1-2hr).. the charged logo still appears..shouldnt the power be half down. |
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 rgm
@nzgfamlaw.com | reply to hez
Thanks a lot. Your suggestion did the trick. I had to reset it 2 times before I was able to shut it off though. Wow, what a relief!! And it doesnt lose any of the music.  |
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| reply to hez
This happened to me too. I solved it the following way. I left my ipod on until the battery ran down (didn't have a choice really as I couldn't turn it off anyway!). Then I recharged it fully from my pc via the USB connection. When it was fully charged and working again, i was able to turn it off in the way you are meant to by holding the pause button on the wheel down for a few seconds. It seemed to correct it. |
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| Okay, good for you people with iPod 60G videos that still turn off EVENTUALLY. Luck is on your side...but I've tried EVERYTHING and it still refuses to shut off. I reset it, nope, plug it back into the power source, nope, reset again, nope, and it is not the hold button. I find often times my iPod doesn't even turn on. I have to do weird things like remove the ear plugs or press Menu for it to turn on sometimes.
This is incredibly irritating as this is practically a new iPod...less than one month old.
Can someone please help me? Do you think the Apple updates for the iPods would help this problem? I'm helplessly waiting for the batteries to drain. Anything is appreciated. |
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| reply to hez
toggle the hold switch on and off a few times |
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| reply to hez
I have had the exact same problem since I bought my Video 30 GB IPOD ealier this year. Two trips to the Geeks and a service call to Apple produced absolutely nothing! They said that they couldn't "recreate the problem." But lo and behold here I was again sitting on a plane about to take off and the blasted IPOD won't go off!!! Battery finally died AFTER I landed. I'm worried that this could be a real problem when flying.
Anyone else have a similiar problem at airports?? |
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| reply to hez
Thank you all - I was heading out for a trip and couldn't turn off my iPod. The reset worked and now I will be able to have music on the trip! |
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irritating. same prob, with a nano though. won't turn off, i've reset probably 10x now and have drained the batteries twice. damn thing just refuses to turn off. been two days T.T
i'm taking it back to the store unless any of you have any other suggestions.
much appreciated. |
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sah
@bigpond.net.au | reply to hez
thank you so much for your help!, i was getting heaps worried and i thought i broke it. haha. and i was getting huge lectures about how to look after things properly.
once again, thankyou! |
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| reply to hez
I posted a partial solution to this problem here:
»ipod.wikia.com/wiki/My_iPod_Won%27t_Turn_Off
and it has since been enhanced by someone else. Basically, the short term solution is to reset your ipod. The longer term solution is to 'restore', which unfortunately wipes all the music on it so you have to let iTunes refill it. |
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Most of them are becaue people DO NOT READ the manual on how to reset the device, or likely didn't read their Bose or Sound dock to know that it can't be turned off while in the dock....... believe me, so many of the problems are just because people refuse to read anything.
You must not read so good yerself there missy, since if you did you'd know that you CAN turn off your iPod while it's in the Bose sound dock. Amazingly enough, there's actually an OFF button for the Bose sound dock (on the remote), which you'd also know if you had read the first page of posts in this thread.
I love it when people try to generalize in a condescending manner and put their lack of intelligence on display in the process.
To add to this topic, I just had my iPod Nano refuse to shut off all day today at work, after it had been on my Bose sound dock all night. This is the first time thsi has happened, and I've just started leaving it on the sound dock overnight.
I am currently updating mine and charging it on my laptop. I thank you for this thread, having found it with a Google search.
I own a shuffle and a nano and I don't ever remember readign about resetting the iPod in either of the instruction booklets that came along with them. Hell, the nano instruction booklet was basically non-existent. |
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WOW am I relieved...I am getting on a flight to France in the morning and my ipod was frozen. typed "my ipod wont shut off" into google and got here - two minutes later pressed the center button and pause/play for 10 secs and now it works.................. |
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I tried to reset and this didn't fix it... any other hints? |
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no problems noted here, yet... |
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I'm having the same problem - but mine doesn't fix itself when I reset it. The only way I can turn it off is to pull the earpiece out of the 'pod and get it to pause that way. It's ridiculously annoying. My Nano is only about a year old (if that) but I feel like it is getting time to trade it in because this is mad obnoxious. |
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Same problem. It stays on constantly, even if nothing is playing. I hoped at first the automatic sleep thing would kick in when nothing was playing but it didn't. Then I tried reseting, clicking the sleep button on the ipod menu,(and yes making sure the hold button wasn't on). I'm hoping by draining the battery and recharging it, it'll start to work again but I fear it may be a problem with the actual mechanics of the ipod  |
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