Frustrated with Shuffle

My son got an iPod Shuffle today for his birthday and a iTunes gift card. The Shuffle worked great at first. He immediately downloaded about 11 songs and everything was working fine. Then he decided to look for a few more songs and now we can't seem to get anything to work right. We charged the Shuffle for about 3 hours. His original playlist is still on the Shuffle but the new songs are not loading. I have restored teh software and tried re-downloading the playlist but with the same problem. What is more frustrating is now we can't seem to get the Shuffle to work properly either. We turn it on, the green light stays on for about 3 seconds and that is all. Hit play and nothing happens. Sometimes it will work in "Shuffle" mode, but not regular mode. The battery indicator light is green. It also will not loop the playlist and just ends with a slight "click" at the end of his playlsit (still no new songs).

Suggest going to the iPod Shuffle Support Page and starting right out with the "Five R's". Note that those are the common starting points for troubleshooting; they won't automatically fix each and every problem.
From your description of intermittent operation and perhaps some problem in the power switch besides, it may eventually be a candidate for replacement. You should work through the parts of the troubleshooting that you in fact can do, if for no other reason than to confirm that the fault is in the Shuffle and not something that you can correct.

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Someone please help!! I recvd a 1gb shuffle for xmas-it worked for 4 days then died-apple has since sent more 2 more replacements and the same thing basically happeneded with them. No lights or anything will come on. I have talked to an apple rep and did the online chat
This is ridiculous!!
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!!!!

Hi Brandylyn, how are things going with your shuffle, did you run your battery from full to flat over the four day period you describe or did you top-up charge in between useage? I'm on my third shuffle, arrived from apple and hey presto it charges perfectly, is seen by my computer, and will download songs, BUT GUESS WHAT, it won't play anything because it would appear to be permanently set in error mode, that is whenever you press any button, you get alternating green and orange flashing lights on the front. Apple supply a small descriptive card with the shuffle, Apple item no 034--3062-A, which describes this as an error. The fix is to add songs, or reset. Well I've added three complete full playlists, and tried resetting on numerous occasions, the playlists appear OK, but nothing will play! This one will be going the same way as the other two I've had, straight back to Apple for replacement!
Regards, Shanky.

Please ship future iPod Shuffles with Shuffle Mode TURNED OFF

I just got my iPod and loaded it full of podcasts. It kept flashing orange indicating that it was empty. I spent more than 4 frustrating hours restoring, reloading, reading, forums etc etc.
Finally, I found a post that said the iPod will not play Podcasts when switched to shuffle mode. WHY NOT! Man! That was frustrating. At least it works now... like a charm.
Apple,
Please ship future iPods with Shuffle turned off and/or mention this issue in the quick reference cards and the .pdf manual so that others don't waste hours because of this quirk.
Thanks

Thanks, 0Ari0
I looked again at the .pdf and insert and still found nothing mentioning podcasts not playing in shuffle mode.
I suppose that I am once again the exceptional user in that I only loaded podcasts onto it and could not get them to play until researching the "problem/feature" regarding podcasts and shuffle mode.
I realize that podcasts are something that you typically don't want played randomly. I do want them to play in an order. However I want them to play in an order that I specify. I have tried creating playlists, dragging each file individually to the iPod to get them in an order I want. Regardless of how I intertwine different episodes of different shows for a varied playlist the iPod somehow groups them, I believe, by release date.
sadly they also get played backwards from most recent to the oldest regardless of how I load them. I want to listen from oldest to newest. Another, quirk that doesn't work for me personally. But, that is something I still have to research and figure out. I'm hopeful that it can do that.
Anyway, thanks for responding. I have reading to do.

If Apple is so full of geniuses, why can't they come up with a usb cable to connect the iPad to a printer? This would seem like the most intelligent first choice for those of us who are absolutely frustrated with iPad printing functionality.

My sister has an iPad and an HP printer. She cant' print from her iPad even though a genius at the Apple Store sold the combination to her with the idea that it would be easy to do. Instead, I have to go to her place with my MacBook, she sends me an email, and I hook up my laptop to her printer to print what she needs. Why can't the Apple geniuses come up with a USB cable and an OS update to make it easy and NOT SO FRUSTRATING to print from the iPad?
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all printers speak a diffrent "computer language" for a device to understand this language
a driver is required
some devices such a computers come with drivers for a long line of printers and other devices
apple decided that it was better not to include that huge list of drivers as users would then not have
much storage left for media and apps
then apple let printer makers make apps for printing in app store and make printers support airprint

The newest version of iTunes is awful when it comes to Cloud syncing-file management. I'm constantly frustrated with what iTunes 'chooses to eliminate from my mobile device and settings aren't fine-grained enough to allow for real user control.

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Not rally a question, just wanted to share my absolute frustration with the update of iTunes...this is, without a shadow of a doubt THE WORST application i have EVER used, Mac or PC! And that's saying something with the amount of PC dross that's out there

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Pull down View > Show Sidebar. This will give you back the same functionality of iTunes 10.x.x.

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Which service did you subscribe to? Adobe PDF Pack?
Once I know the service that you subscribed to, I can move this post to the right forum so that you can get in touch with the folks who can assist you.

I'm frustrated with the bookmarks. I so long to be able to right click on any bookmark and choose to have them in alphabet order. Would also like for the little icons to go away. Never been able to figure out how to do this the MAC way. Help.

I am frustrated with the Bookmarks. I want so much to be able to right click and alphabetize the list. It's been a year and I can get my mind around the process that's there. Also I'd love for those pesky little icons to disappear. Help me please.

After the release of Firefox 29, several people noticed that after using the Customize feature, most items on the right-click menu for the Bookmarks menu on the menu bar became ''grayed out'' and unusable until you closed and started Firefox back up again. That seems to still be a problem for me in Firefox 36.0.4, so if you used Customize, that could be the explanation.
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And if it's easier than restarting, the context menu still works in the Bookmarks Sidebar (Ctrl+b to open/close) and Library dialog (Ctrl+Shift+b or "Show All Bookmarks").

Frustrated with lack of help!

I up graded my phone to an iphone 5c. I received it yesterday and call the 800# to activate my phone. During the phone call I was transferred to customer service because my phone was unable to activated. I was on hold for 30 mins and the customer service rep told me there was nothing she could do manually I would have to call the 800#. I did this 3 times, each time told the same thing! Finally the 4th time I told the rep I needed to speak to a manager and he informed me the manager wasn't available and to call tech support. So my 5th phone call to Verizon I spoke to a girl in tech support who was able to tell why my phone wasn't unable to be activated. the SIM card that was preinstalled was never registered and I would have to go to a Verizon store to get one. Here's my problem again, I leave in a rural western pa. I called my local store and they told me I would have to buy a SIM card because they are not a corporate store! The closets corporate store is 1 hour away. I am so frustrated with verizons lack of system checks that I just want to send the phone back!! I have never had this many problems with Verizon and I have been a customer for 15 years.

Verizon can mail you a Sim for free. No travel time to a corporate store.
http://www.apple.com
In their community help forum the not being able to activate is listed there as well as the fix.
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HT4972 the apps weve downloaded are not working. please help, extremely frustrated with our ipod 4

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See my previous reply for for the apps closing.
For the wifi problem:
Does the iOS device connect to other networks?
Does the iOS device see the network?
Any error messages?
Do other devices now connect?
Did the iOS device connect OK before?
Try the following to rule out a software problem:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Power off and then back on your router
.- Reset network settings: Settings>General>Reset>Reset Network Settings
- iOS: Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
- Wi-Fi: Unable to connect to an 802.11n Wi-Fi network
- iOS: Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
If still problem make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store since it appears you have a hardware problem.
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DHL is refusing to leave the package at the door. Apple refuses to tell DHL that it's ok to redirect the package to my place of employment. My only option, it seems, is to spend almost two hours of my time driving to the DHL location and back (the pickup location isn't even in the same county I live in).
If anyone has any better ideas, I would love to hear it.
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If your battery was stolen after it was delivered, I'd bet you'd really get upset. If DHL is anything like UPS, you can sign the receipt telling them to leave the package. Pretty simple.

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Excuse me for venting on this forum.

I have all of the same issues Jeff. What gives?? This needs immediate fix.

Frustrated with layers

I know this is so simple but I can't get it to work. what I want is to have a plain background color with either a picture over that is faint or a pattern that is lighter these are not the focal points then i want to add a few photos but would like to feather or rough up the edges so they don;t ;look like i just dropped them in and maybe a some other graphic like an animal or flames etc. and some text. please any help would be great. thank you in advance. Susan

Since you mention being frustrated with layers, I assume you are having problems getting several images into the same document.
Start by reading through this tutorial which shows how to open and get more than one image into a document.
http://www.alibony.com/pse/070308copy.html
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http://www.alibony.com/pse/022108collage.html
jazzyroses13 wrote:
I know this is so simple but I can't get it to work. what I want is to have a plain background color with either a picture over that is faint or a pattern that is lighter these are not the focal points
Use opacity in the layer's palette to reduce this image or pattern's transparency.
jazzyroses13 wrote:
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http://www.photokaboom.com/photography/learn/Photoshop_Elements/layers/layer_groups_clippi ng_masks/1_layer_groups_clipping_masks.htm
jazzyroses13 wrote:
I know this is so simple but I can't get it to work. what I want is to have a plain background color with either a picture over that is faint or a pattern that is lighter these are not the focal points then i want to add a few photos but would like to feather or rough up the edges so they don;t ;look like i just dropped them in and maybe a some other graphic like an animal or flames etc. and some text. please any help would be great. thank you in advance. Susan
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HT201210 I am absolutely frustrated with this new phone. My old phone a 3G took a total dump and would not update, so, I bought the 4G with Siri and it will not update either. The error message is a "3014" again. I am ready to throw this thing against the

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The support document that you refrerred from explains it, however I have posted it here.
Error 3014
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