IPod Nano Frozen please help :)
Hello,
My 3rd Gen. iPod Nano has frozen on me. This is what happened in detail..:
I turned my ipod on and it just came on stuck on a screen which is a song that is playing . The ipod says that it is on hold but it isn't. The volume bar is showing constantly . The ipod isn't responding to anything i do to it. It won't reset. it won't connect to the computer. It's just stuck on the music player area where it says:
Now Playing (Lock which means it's on hold but isn't) <paused>
<Song Name>
<Artist>
<Album>
<2 of 47>
<Volume bar is 100%>
Any ideas?
Oh and the screen never turns off it's jsut constantly on.
Thanks for reading .
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