Ipod line out volume far too low

Sorry if this has been dealt with many times before but why is the volume limit so low on the headphone jack on the iPod 120GB classic? It makes it vidtually impossible to hear music with a lot of dynamic range and you might as well forget about listening to any Classical music outside of a sound-proofed room.
I also want to connect the iPod to my HiFi and Car Stereo via the jack but I have to turn the HiFi so far up to get any volume that distortions etc. become apparent. Again, it makes a £179 purchase pretty pointless for the use I have of the player. I wish I had noticed the limitations before the 14 day statutory rights return policy expired. Can this be resolved by firmware upgrade or is the iPod destined to eBay??

Hi Syex,
I'm sorry about your negative experience with this volume issue in Firefox OS, as well as the update time for your your ZTE Open C.
I understand your frustration about the volume, and this is something that I also experience regularly when connecting my device to an external source. You have my complete empathy on this, and I will continue to push for investigation and a resolution of this issue.
I also understand that you are experiencing a long time for the download of updates on your device. ZTE is responsible for releasing updates, including hosting the update files. This slow download speed may be caused by a slowness on their servers. This is the first time that I hear of this issue, but I will forward this report to our Technical Account Managers if I see other reports around update speeds for ZTE.
Regarding the [http://firefoxosbuilds.org/install/] page, it was created and maintained by the community of Mozilla contributors. Since this is an unofficial update process that can brick the devices, it's recommended that only advanced users attempt it. If you have Windows, you should also be able to just double-click the '''flash_windows.bat''' file inside the Unzipped folder.
Here is a Youtube video I just found with instructions of how to open a Terminal on Windows, as well as simple basic commands, in case double-clicking the '''flash_windows.bat''' does not work:
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbvqCqb-HJk]
Again, I'm sorry about your negative experience with Firefox OS. We will continue to fight for an Open Web and to improve the system, and hopefully you will give us another try in the future.
Thanks,
- Ralph

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