IPod acts weird sometimes
Hello,
Until recently, the 'other' part of my iPod would usually stay at 0,01 GB. Sometimes when I'd sync it, it'd become sligthly higher, but when I clicked away and then returned, it would have corrected itself to 0,01 GB again.
Then about a week ago, it suddenly went to 0,04 GB, and it wouldn't stop it. So I tried restoring it, which somehow made the max capacity go from 1.77 GB to 1.80 GB, and it removed the problem, so yay.
But for some reason, the problem appears about every second or third time I sync the iPod, and disappears when I restore it.
Does anyone know of a fix, so I won't have to restore it every few days?
Thanks,
Andreas
Theres not much to help you with...im sorry to say
the warranty wont work bc its water damaged and has a cracked screen.
Another website to check out is milliamp.com
they do iPod repairs and can help you.
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So this is my third ipod (4th gen 20gb click wheel). No, i didnt break the other 2, the broke themselves. so when this ipod started skipping through all of my songs without playing them i wasnt really worried, i thought i could just send it in and get another one.
then i found out my warranty had expired 2 weeks prior.
so i tried everything, i scanned posts and looked for problems similar to mine, but nothing worked. for a while my ipod was fine again, but now it is messed up.
heres what it does: it will only play about half of my songs; it freezes and then skips to the next song on half of them.
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1. Send it for repair and it is still under warranty, in return you will get a refurbishment one.
2. If you do not want to do it, (I cant find a reason why not) go to find a Mac (or you can go to an apple shop) and do a Restore there. Once it has been completed bring it back and do a Restore with your PC. I have an iPod photo had the same problem and got solved by doing a Restore with a different kind of computer i.e. Mac's iPod fixed with a PC. -
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if i have the volume at his maximum, i only hear a weird murmur. when i connect my ipod with other speakers or with my headphone
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Happy New Year! Are you working with a Mac or a PC? The link below will walk you through the basic troubleshooting steps for the iPod classic.
Apple - Support - iPod - iPod classic Troubleshooting Assistant
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/
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Step 1: Make sure your iPod is fully charged
Make sure your iPod is fully charged and then toggle the Hold switch on and off
Reset
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2. Press and hold the Menu and Center (Select) buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears, about 6 to 10 seconds. You may need to repeat this step.
Tip:If you are having difficulty resetting your iPod, set it on a flat surface. Make sure the finger pressing the Select button is not touching any part of the click wheel. Also make sure that you are pressing the Menu button toward the outside of the click wheel, and not near the center.
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To update your Mac OS software, select Software Update from the Apple menu.
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Mac OS X|XP|Vista
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1. Make sure you've reinstalled the latest version of iTunes.
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Reinstalling Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing the Drive
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MacBook Pro acting weird at startup
Hi,
First of all thank you for reading this, it's quite a long story. And sorry for any grammatical mistakes, I'm Dutch.
Summary
My MBP suddenly has been acting really weird: kernel_task eating 150-200% of the CPU which caused a super slow MBP, power button not working well, and MBP shutdown after ten minutes without touching it and with the battery on 90%. I did a clean install of OS X Lion, some PRAM and SMC resets and removed the MacBookPro7_1.plist file from the system library. The kernel_task high CPU problem is now fixed. But the power button is still not working: most of the time my MBP shuts down three seconds after I push the power button in a first attempt. In the second attempt I hold it for like five seconds and this works. Sometimes it works fine on the first attempt. Restarting the MBP from the desktop works fine. I'm also worried about the random shutdown. What could probably cause the problem with the power button and the MBP shutting down when I don't touch it, and is there a way to fix this myself? I'm not really into tech, so please keep your answer simple.
My MacBook Pro "13 (mid 2010) with OS X Lion has always been a charm since I bought it. I've never had any problems with my MBP until now. Two weeks ago I was going on a holiday and had to check a few things on my MBP in a hurry right before I was leaving. I'm afraid I forgot to turn off my MBP before I went on my holiday, but I can't remember this exactly. When I came back after a week, my MBP started acting weird at startup and then became really slow. The kernel_task was eating my CPU with 200% and I've tried many things to fix the MBP myself but it still isn't working well. I hope you can help me with this.
This is what happened:
1. When I push the power button to start my MBP, the first time it shuts down three seconds after I push the button. After the first attempt I hold the power button for five seconds, and my MBP turns on the right way. After all the fixes I've done this is still an issue.
2. When I finally got my MBP started the first time after my holiday, it was really really really slow. I later found out that the cause was the kernel_task eating my CPU. It was using 150-200% with no applications running.
3. The MBP was acting normally (not slow) in safe mode, but in safe mode I couldn't open some sites in Google Chrome, like Facebook and Google Maps. So this didn't work either (and was not the solution to my problem).
4. I did some things with PRAM and SMC reset but this didn't work.
5. A clean install was already on my mind for weeks, so I decided that this was the right moment. After I did a manual backup (not with Time Machine) I restarted my MBP holding some buttons to startup the OS X Utilities screen. I first erased my Macintosh HD and then I wanted to install Mavericks because that was the only option from the menu. It took me five hours and at the end it came up with a 'can't download Mavericks, try again' screen. The MBP wasn't starting up anymore because OS X Lion was already erased.
6. So I became annoyed and decided to use my original Snow Leopard dvd which came with my MBP. Installing Snow Leopard took me two days!!!!!!!
7. When I finally got Snow Leopard installed, it still was really really slow and the kernel_task was messing up my CPU again.
8. After some hours of searching on the internet, I read the following thing: fixing the kernel_task problem was easy by removing a file from the system library (http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=259). Of course I've researched this solution because I'm not a fan of changing things in the system. But I decided to give this a try and it worked! Like a charm!
9. I still was on Snow Leopard and decided to upgrade to Lion again, because I did know for sure that my MBP could handle Lion and I wasn't sure with Mavericks. So I first downloaded Lion from the App Store and then opened the installation program. This took me one day again, probably because the file from the system library was put back with the installation of Lion...
10. When I finally got Lion running, the kernel_task was using a high CPU% again so I removed the file from the system library again and restarted my MBP. This worked.
11. I'm working on Lion for a day now and I've installed some applications (Adobe CS5 Master Collection, Office for Mac, updated my 17.000 mails in Mac Mail, and installed some browsers). It's working fine and the kernel_task is at 1-10%. The issue with the power button is still there but sometimes it works fine at the first attempt. Yesterday my MBP suddenly shut down when I didn't touch it for like ten minutes. The battery was still on 90%. Maybe this was caused by the fact that my MBP was running for four days non stop because of the OS X installations, and it was a hot day yesterday.
So this is what I've done so far in this order:
1. First of all I did a manual backup on my external HDD. Not with Time Machine.
2. I tried to restart my MBP multiple times. Restarting from the desktop worked well, but shutting it down and than turning it on with the power button didn't work well.
3. I did PRAM and SMC resets multiple times.
4. I decided to do a clean install and erased my Macintosh HD from the OS X Utilities screen at startup.
5. Then I wanted to upgrade from Lion to Mavericks but Mavericks couldn't be downloaded.
6. I've installed Snow Leopard from the original dvd, this took me two days.
7. I've followed the instructions from http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=259 (remove the file MacBookPro7_1.plist from the system library) and this worked for my MBP.
8. Because my MBP was working fine again, I decided to upgrade to Lion. This took me one day.
9. My MBP was really slow again: Lion put the MacBookPro7_1.plist back in the system library so I removed it again. This worked.
10. The problem with the power button still holds so I did a SMC reset again. Didn't work. My MBP also shut down yesterday when I didn't touch it for like ten minutes. I hope this was caused by the fact that the MBP was running for four days non stop, and it was a hot day so maybe it was overheated.
So everything is working fine again, but the power button still isn't. Most of the time my MBP shuts down three seconds after I push the power button. In the second attempt I hold it for like five seconds and this works. Restarting the MBP from the desktop works fine, and the kernel_task is now using 1-10%. I'm also worried about my MBP suddenly shutting down. Is there a way to fix this myself?
Thank you!
Regards,
TokkieTorTokkieTor,
This is the full error message I got from the test:
4SNS/1/40000000: IP0R-9:166
I read that those letters (IP0R) stand for different errors in the hardware, in my case it's something with the Power Bus according to this website: http://www.cnet.com/news/how-to-invoke-and-interpret-the-apple-hardware-tests/.
Again, I'm really not into tech so what is a Power Bus and should I be worried?
what you have is a problem with a sensor which monitors power bus current. The power bus is the main pathway along which electricity travels in your MacBook Pro. If the sensor isn’t individually repairable, then you could have reason to worry — if they tell you that a logic board replacement would be needed, then that could cost hundreds of euros. (One would hope that replacing a sensor would not require a logic board replacement, but only hardware experts can say for sure.)
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ALL OF A SUDDEN , MY POINTER ARROW IS OUT OF CONTROL OR WON'T MOVE. I DON'T USE A MOUSE. THE WINDOWS SHAKE LIKE WHEN I'M TOLD I HAVE THE WRONG PASSWORD AND THEN THE WINDOWS FADE, SWITCH AND/OR FLIP AROUND. THERE ARE NOT THE 3 DOTS IN THE LEFT-HAND CORNER SO I CAN'T CLOSE WINDOWS WHEN I FINISH WORKING WITH SITES. MY MAC HAS STARTED ACTED WEIRD SINCE I STARTED USING LION. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi,
I work for Dr Pod, an iPod repair company. This sounds to be that the hard drive is dying in the iPod. As it is an older iPod it is out of its one year warranty, the iPod won't be repaired for free by Apple, and you'd need to consider wether it'd be better to have the iPod repaired by an iPod repair company such as my own, or to purchase a new one from Apple.
If you did choose to purchase a new iPod from Apple, then they do provide 10% off the cost of a new iPod if you exchange in your old one. I'm not sure if this applies to faulty ones though (I have heard of some people being turned away for having a faulty device).
Hope this helps,
Mark Sweeney
Dr Pod Founder
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