IPod Mini continually skips tracks all the time every half a second!

Question

My iPod Mini continually skips tracks all the time every half a second. The only thing that stops it is if you press pause but once you press play off it goes again. This means noi music is able to be played because it's always skipping. The menu button works as does the backlight if you hold the menu button down. The enter button works and the touch pad navigation also works. Both skip buttons have no effect on the unstoppable skipping. Can anybody help or at least verify the problem with other users of simular problems and if they were able to fix them simply, without having to go to an Apple dealer (it's out of warrenty i think)Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

My iPod Mini continually skips tracks all the time
every half a second. The only thing that stops it is
if you press pause but once you press play off it
goes again. This means noi music is able to be played
because it's always skipping. The menu button works
as does the backlight if you hold the menu button
down. The enter button works and the touch pad
navigation also works. Both skip buttons have no
effect on the unstoppable skipping. Can anybody help
or at least verify the problem with other users of
simular problems and if they were able to fix them
simply, without having to go to an Apple dealer (it's
out of warrenty i think)Any help would be appreciated.
---thats what happened to mine, then it stopped working altogether. liek not playing songs at ALL. i have tryed reformating it, i finally got all the settings erased, but then it woulndt 'talk' to iTunes. it has been about 2 months and im still working on it. my suggestion is send it in beore it gets as bad as mine.
good luck!
-adair
no idea 1123   Windows XP   haha
  Windows XP