IPod Broken?

I need help in this because I seriously have no idea what to do anymore.
After I updated the iPod with the 1.3 update, the battery completely shut down. Every time I had it on charge it displayed as fully charged, yet the second I took it off it shut down and said "Please wait - very low battery". I noticed quite a few others had the same problem, they just bought new batteries.
So, I bought a new battery for it and it's even worse now! My first thought was to plug it into my computer and restore it, I did and it restored fine. After charging it all night, it showed full charge but the second I took it off I experienced the same problem. I tried a second time, and it worked for a brief second (still showing the fully charged symbol) but the second I turned it off and on it showed low battery again. And now, I can't even get it to read on iTunes and it won't connected to my computer! (This was not a USB cable error - I checked my brother's iPod and it plugged in and read fine instantly).
I'm at my wit's end here. I've known others with iPods much older than mine that still work. I've been pulling my hair out the past month and a half trying to figure out a solution for this, and now I'm out $40 on top of that!
If anyone has any idea what I can do (but I really don't want to send it in to Apple, as my warranty is up) or what could be wrong with it, I would greatly appreciate it.

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HT1414 my ipods broken so i cant get on it. im trying to sell it so i need to restore it to facotory settings so when the screen is fixed all my stuff wont be on the ipod.

my ipods broken so i cant get on it. im trying to sell it so i need to restore it to facotory settings so when the screen is fixed all my stuff wont be on the ipod.

Connect the iOS device to your computer and try to make a backup (if you want)
iOS: How to back up
Then restore via iTunes. The iPod will be erased. Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode if necessary to allow the restore.
If recovery mode does not work try DFU mode.
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
For how to restore. Make sure that iTunes is not signed into any account otherwise the ID email address (not password) will be on the iPod.
iTunes: Restoring iOS software

Pressing sleep button has a wide variety of random effects, is my ipod broken?

I have the relatively new iPod Nano 9th Generation, and I have had it for nearly a year. Everytime I am done selecting a song, I put my iPod to sleep by clicking the sleep button so it continues to play the song, but doesn't waste as much energy on illuminating the screen and such. I do this often, and now the button is becoming more increasingly difficult to press and less technologically responsive. When I press the sleep button now, it either pauses the song, skips the song, reads the songs title, does nothing, just funtions properly, etc. I feel it may have something to do with the jack of my headphones, because when I am not physically contacting the headphone jack (I usually use it as sort of an extender to make it easier to hold on such a small mp3 player), it normally is a little more responsive. I would attempt to use another pair of headphones, but I do not have any left, and do not wish to invest in more if this iPod is nearing its breaking point.
So, the big question. Is my iPod broken?

It also effects other buttons aswell, such as the increase and decrease volume. They still have the same effect as the sleep button however. All on screen buttons work just fine, it is just the physical buttons. I have recently tried different headphones and the same thing happens so it isn't the jack I don't believe, and there is no easy was to test without headphones altogether because there are no internal speakers to tell me whether it pauses, or reads the song information with siri's voice, or skips to the next song, etc..
If you were unaware, this is the type of iPod I own. It is roughly 2 inches by 2 inches and the jack is plugged into the bottom right of the iPod while the buttons are placed on the top.
From left to right, the buttons order is: Decrease Volume, Increase Volume, Sleep Button.

HT1212 Will Apple fix my iPods broken screen?

Will Apple fix my iPods broken screen?

No. See the following:
If your iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad is Broken
Apple does not fix iDevices. Instead, they exchange yours for a refurbished or new replacement depending upon the age of your device and refurbished inventories. On rare occasions when there are no longer refurbished units for your older model, they may replace it with the next newer model.
ATTN: Beginning July 2013 Apple Stores are now equipped to do screen repairs/replacements in-house on iPhone 5s. In some cases while you wait. According to Apple this is the beginning of equipping Apple Stores with the resources needed to do most repairs for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches that would not require major replacements. Later in the year the services may be extended as Apple Stores become equipped and staffed with the proper repair expertise. So, if you need a screen repaired or a broken screen replaced or have your stuck Home button fixed, call your local Apple Store to see if they are now doing these in-house.
You may take your device to an Apple retailer for help or you may call Customer Service and arrange to send your device to Apple:
Apple Store Customer Service at 1-800-676-2775 or visit online Help for more information.
To contact product and tech support: Contacting Apple for support and service - this includes international calling numbers.
iPod Service Support and Costs
iPhone Service Support and Costs
iPad Service Support and Costs
There are third-party firms that do repairs on iDevices, and there are places where you can order parts to DIY if you feel up to the task. Start with Google to search for these.

Is my iPod broken?

I was listening to my iPod when all of a sudden it turned off and it will not turn back on. I've tried charging it and plugging it in my computer but it still won't turn on. Is it broken?

Did you try moving the toggle swith to the on/off. http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/

UK complaint or help line needed. 3 ipods broken out of 3.

Does anyone have a UK telephone number (that someone will answer) so I can complain about 2 ipods that I have purchased. A "help line" would be even better but I doubt if they have such a thing. I am so far disgusted about the lack of customer service. I have purchased 2 ipods. One stopped working some time ago so we got a replacement. Now the replacement has also stopped working. (That is 3 rubbish ipods out of 3). My daughter threw her ipod in the bin today she was so fed up with it. It felt good!!! If you have a UK phone number or email address please let me know. I have been through the Apple web site and had no success so I thought I would try this complaints site. Looking at the thousands of complaints on this site I can see that I am not on my own!

Thanks for your help. I called the help line and sure enough the helpful assistant I got through to a young lady in Greece (her English was about as bad line as the line but never mind). We had along chat and went through all the different things that could have been the problem but eventually she admitted the ipod was broken. She gave me a web site to go on so to send it back to Crapple (sorry I mean Apple). THIS IS TO REPLACE MY REPLACEMENT IPOD THAT HAD ALREADY BROKE. I followed the instructions and at the end the web site said because it was 1 year and 2 week since I purchased the ipod I had to pay £130!!!! Now bare in mind that I had I purchased it for my son for Christmas last year and it went wrong shortly afterwards – broke for about 2 –3 weeks before I got through to Apple and then I send it back and they had it for at least 6 weeks and then it broke again before getting to this stage I thing they are take the p**s. I isn't me - my daughter had an ipod and it uploaded fine on the same computer. Although with hers as soon as the ipod is taken out of the charger the battery goes off- she kept her ipod in her bedroom before we had the burning ceremony at the weekend.

Phantom iPod (broken alias?)

I have a 3rd Generation iPod that doesn't show up in Finder or in iTunes. When I open Disk Utility, my iPod shows there, but is greyed out. I'm not sure why this is happening, but I may have a guess:
I was using it to listen to music at school (I'm a teacher), and I changed the permissions (using "Get Info") so that my students couldn't access it from the finder. (I keep school work, newsletters, and reports on it.)
Now, no matter which computer I'm using, I can't access my iPod to change the permissions back. Also, since it's not showing in iTunes, I can't play it from my computer at school anymore.
One more thing: When I search for it in finder, I get a hit, but there is no iPod icon. When I double click it, I get some message about a broken alias and do I want to fix alias?
Any advice?
Thanks,
Rob

Follow the instructions in this FAQ to regain access to your iPod.
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All new iPods broken (?)

hey everybody,
my old, 3rd gen iPod broke a while ago, so I got a new 60GB 5th gen to fill the gaping hole in my heart ... :P
anyway, i got it engraved, so it came straight from the factory in China, complete with the latest software etc. first of all, it was USB, which i think is stupid, because i don't have USB 2, but w/e. then, i found out it was pre-formatted in FAT32 (WINDOWZ eww). after reformatting it with the ipod update, i attempted to load my music onto it. however, iTunes kept on spitting this error message out, "cannot read or write to disk" every 100 songs or so.
i returned it, and got another one.
this time, it was the right format, but it had the same problem.
i returned it and got another one.
same problem.
i returned it and got another one.
THE SAME PROBLEM!!! AAARGHHHH! needless to say I am pretty p**d off at apple right now ...
well, I looked at this article, and narrowed the possible problems to these things:
1. broken HD in iPod
2. bad cable
3. bad USB chip
I don't have a PCI slot on my PowerBook and I don't know if i can swap the chip, the cable looks fine, and I hope that apple hasn't lowered its standards to the point that i got 4 bad hard drives in a row.
I am trying to load 9,000 songs to my iPod in a single session, could that be a problem?
sorry, this is a monstrosity of a post, but I need this fixed by the end of the week, i am leaving to europe for the summer.
cheers,
-lpod
1.33 GHz PowerBook G4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1.25GB DDR SDRAM

Since your powerbook doesn't have USB 2.0, and never will, you are stuck using USB 1.1 for syncing.
While USB 1.1 has a theoretical maximum transfer speed of 12Mb per second, you will really only get about half that.
I'm ballparking the size of your library to be about 30-35GB, maybe larger.
It would take hours to transfer that entire library at once.
What may be happening is your powerbook is going into sleep mode, or standby mode during the transfer which is causing the USB sync to get interrupted.
I don't think the problem is the USB ports, cables or the iPods themselves. I think this is simply the result of trying to transfer too much data at once over a very slow link.

When I transferred the info from an old ipod, broken, to a new one the contacts I received were from all over the place, many whom I did not even know. Can I only restore from the last sync or can I go back further to get my old contacts?

I recently had to replace my ipod touch. The old one had a broken button and would not change the screen correctly. Apple gave me a new ipod and told me all I needed to do was update the new ipod from the itunes which I had backed up prior to getting the new one. When I did the sync , the info for my contacts was giving me names and addresses from all over the place except the itunes. Can I retrieve info from a previous sync or only to the last sync that was made?

Yes I did. When installing the new ipod it had to update the software, then it sync'ed the information onto the new ipod. The contacts were not the original ones, and all the phone numbers have dissappeared. Is there any way to recover them?

Is the ipod broken forever?

i found a 30g ipod classic today and i figured it was broken but i tried plugging it in to see what was on it and its not syncing. it turns on and charges but it just gives the 'do not disconnect' screen. and when i unplug it a screen comes up that says 'connect to your computer. use itunes to restore.' and then like 4 different languages saying the same thing. it also doesnt get recognized by my computer. it seems like something could be functional i just dont know where to start to try and fix it. any ideas?

Do the iPod disk diagnostic on your iPod, as in this excellent earlier post by tt2.
It wont fix your problem, but help us in troubleshooting.

Ipod broken would warranty cover it?

My ipod's screen is broken. Would the warranty cover it?

No, try http://www.iresq.com or http://www.ipodmods.com or Google for more.

Water on my ipod, broken?

water got onto my ipod and now the menu and power on/off buttons won't work properly...after clicking the menu button 100 times it may work once...but how do u get it to work as normal? whenever i play a song, i cant go backwards to the menus cuz my menu button won't work...how do i fix this? resetting...?

holy crap, well obviously water short circuits the iPod so it's broken, no way to fix. get a new one.

Ipod broken!!! HELP!!!

My friend gave me his iPod to use and i accidentally dropped it. The screen is cracked, but thats not the problem... the problem is that Its brightness is Always low! The brightness isnt working at all, I brighten it to its highest and doesnt brighten, it just stays dimmed. How can i fix that????

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HELP!!! PLZ iPod broken!!!! PLZ

Hi
My iPod Nano has broken i think because it wont turn on even though i left it on charge through a ac charger al night, it's not recongnized both of the computers that i have tried i have tried it on both Vista and XP. Then when it is recognized(only for 2 mins maximum) a message appears which is saying that my iPod Nano needs to be formated then disappears, so i went onto "my computer" and clicked format on my ipod. Does anyone know what i can do now?

I have an ipod nano 3rd generation, and I got the exact same problem this morning. I have not reformated yet.
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Solid Orange Light When Charging, Yet Ipod Broken?

So, at some point in the past I walked into the ocean with my IPod shuffle. Yes, stupid move, I know. Anyway, it still worked for a little while afterward, and I got a new IPod, which got stolen. So, recently I've been trying to get this IPod Shuffle 2nd Gen to work. I've tried browsing topics to no avail so decided to post.
Here's the symptoms:
1. IPod cannot be recognized by either my computer(Windows XP) OR ITunes.
2. My IPod will not light up at all unless plugged into my computer, in which case it turns orange as if charging.
3. I've tried the 5 fixes. None of them worked, and the IPod will not play music.(Though I'm not sure it still HAS music.)
Any ideas?

On a 1G Shuffle the fix was to disassemble, rinse with distilled water and CRC, carefully dry, re-assemble, and hope for the best. I'm sure the same would be true for the 2G, but I've never taken that one apart; I'm sure the same folks provide the guidance on how to do that, however.
OTOH, a brand-new one is $49 ...... and it even comes with printed warnings against walking it into the ocean.

Is this normal or is my ipod broken?

i cant play purchased songs. all it does is go through them all without stopping. just wondering if i should invest in a new one or not

Before you sync music that's been bought at the iTunes store you should play at least one of the new tracks. This will ensure that iTunes 'knows' you are the authorized owner of the tracks. Otherwise the iPod 'thinks' the tracks are not yours and will not play them.
I've also noticed that sometimes the iPod will spontaneously 'decide' the tracks aren't authorized and stop playing them. It has happened to me twice. I don't know if it is an iPod bug or a 'feature' and I'm clueless as to what triggered it.

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