I am unable to switchoff the ipod, unable to goto previous menu
Dear Sir,
I am having a iPOD NANO of 8GB. Problem right from the begging. once if I select any category (be songs or pics) from there onwards you can't go to another category. for example if u are listening songs u can't go back to pics.
And most difficult problem is that I am unable to switchoff the ipod.
Kinldy help me, I am getting frustrated being a new one.
regards,
srikar
Hi. Stupid question: Did you read the manual?
You can get back to a former menu by pressing "menu".
You can switch off iPod by pressing "pause/play" for 2 seconds.
Be sure that "hold" switch isn't in use.
Hope that will help.
Chris
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