IPod constantly pauses during use

very frustrating. it pauses constantly. i am not touching it and it pauses. i put it on hold while playing and it pauses. it's only two months old. i am using the headphones that it came with. they work fine. HELP!!!

This is apparently a very common problem -- stalling, freezing, etc. Mine started doing this several months ago, and it has continued to deteriorate. It would stall for no reason, freeze, wouldn't turn off, wouldn't turn on. Sometimes I would plug it in and it would look okay, then begin to freeze up again, sometimes for a short time, sometimes for a long time. Finally, I tried resetting, and sometimes it helped but sometimes not. The problem continued to get worse. (If you look around the discussions, you will see it has happened to a lot of people -- I hope the Apple "people" keep tabs on what's going on). It has been extremely frustrating to me -- I have had my iPod for less than a year. Tonight I tried using the "restore" though I really hated to do it. It was much faster and easier than I thought, and I was able to reload everything from my library surprisingly quickly. AND it seems to be working okay now, but since the problem is so intermittent -- time will tell.

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