Is my ipod a piece of crap or what? what is going on?

i've been having so many problems with my ipod mini lately. the battery is malfunctioning (if you look at my other posts), and now i dont know whats wrong with it. i had it on a full charge and then went out and took it with me. i tried to turn it on during the ride home, and it wouldnt go on. i figured it was the battery again. so, when i got home, i plugged it in to the wall charger. it didnt do anything. it didnt even recognize that it was plugged in to anything. so then i tried hooking it up to my computer. once again, nothing happened. the computer didnt recognize that anything was connected, and the ipod didnt recognize that it was connected to anything. i'm kind of freaking out about it, so if you could kindly post if you have any idea whats going on, or how to solve the problem. thank you very much in advance

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hello i just bought my ipod 2 weeks ago and this thing is already having problems it wont show up on itunes even tho it did before and the computer wont recongnize it since it wouldnt recongize and the hard drive thing wasnt spinning i figured it would b ok to disconnect well now it wont get off the do not disconnect screen please help!!!!!!

The first things to try are these basic troubleshooting steps.
The Five Rs.

Want to use iPod on both Windows and Mac What is going on?

I had a iPod mini and we have a 1st gen Nano and 2 2nd gen Nano's and all worked fine when I formatted them on the Windows PC and then plugged into the Mac. My mini died so I now have a 4th gen Nano. Works fine on the Windows PC. When I plug it into the Mac, it started up iTunes fine like it should. Tried to copy one song and it ejected the iPod. It will not recognize it in iTunes or even on the desktop. The Nano charges being plugged in, but it is like it is plugged into the standard wall charger. I would like to get it working with both machines like all the others that I have. It did update to the latest 1.0.3 PC firmware.
Help!

Hello
reading this Apple support doc. on ipod use with multiple computers should help clear things up.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1202

When using the crop button in my photos, my ipod shuts off on me. What's going on?

I wnated to crop one of my photos. When I go to select the tool, my screen flashes white then it shuts off completely. Can someone please tell me what's going on and how to fix it?

I do not want to delete these photos. I cannot sync these photos to my laptop either because I am a student borrowing the laptop for the school year.

Yet another piece of crap released by RIM

Well based on the way the internet forums are blasting away at RIM its obvious. This is just a shinny spiffed up version of pocketcrap. Well, you can shine a turd all you want but its still turd.
There are way too many problems with this software for anyone at RIM with half a brain to have thoroughly tested it.
Now we see post from people "representing" RIM that say "we know about the issue and it will be fixed in future updates", hey that's great. It only took you 8 years to put this piece of crap out how long should it take to fix it? By then there should be smartphones that can actually sync....oh wait there are there are options.
here are my issues with this software:
1) duplicate entries in the calendar (not on the mac just the BB). They are random and not consistent. I just scrolled through my calendar and found at least 30 duplicates. Solution?
2) Duplicate contacts appearing.
3) Format of the contacts in address book aren't consistent. Names are dropped, groupings are dropped, numbers are deleted. Hmmm. how about a solution?
4) Ever since the "update" to OS 4.5 the available memory has plumetted on my BB. I used to be lucky and get 19.6 now I'm at 15.1. That's great. And before you jump ugly, I have already deleted all the applications that DM would allow me to delete. Still no improvement. I suppose I should pull the battery every hr on the hr to make sure the memory improves.
So let's hear it for RIM and their wonderful tech support!! Great job!! Let's keep up the good work!! Perhaps one day the tech support people could actually read the boards and put together a complete list of issues/bugs and solutions..... THAT ACTUALLY WORK!!!

im not a rim expert but everything went smoothly
this is what i did to avoid dupcicates
I CLICKED THE "MERGE" DATA OPTION!

LiveCycle Designer 8.0 is the biggest piece of crap I have ever used.

I have been digitizing some forms for a customer, and this is my first experience with this product. It has not been a good one. I have been using the 30-day trial, and really don't want to buy it now. Here is my list of problems:
1. When you copy and paste, or move and object, there is a fade effect. On some of my machines, this is not noticeable, but on some, it is very noticeable. There is no way that I have found to turn it off.
2. When you copy and item, you are moved to a seemingly random place on the page. Why does the page even need to move when you copy something?
3. When you move an item, you are moved to a seemingly random place on the page. Shouldn't it center me on the item, or at least do something that makes sense?
4. When you paste an item, you are moved to a seemingly random place on the page. Wouldn't it make sense to paste it in the center of the page, or even close to where it came from.?
5. Inability to group text / numerical fields. When I am making a form with over 200 individual fields, it would really help to be able to group them in some sort of logical order.
6. The interface is not standard, like most of the other Adobe products are. Shouldn't it be the same across all products by one manufacturer?
7. Why not have discreet horizontal/vertical guides, instead of crosshairs? At least give me the option.
8. When aligning something to a guide, why does it line directly on the guide for the top and left sides, but aligns one pixel in on the right and bottom?
9. Why do I line up to text fields, and then later those fields are not lined up anymore?
I have used a lot of Adobe products in the past, and haven't used one this bad since PageMaker 6.5. Come one Adobe, you have a lot of good products...
This is definitely not something my company will purchase.

funny... i am currently working on a bunch of forms in LiveCycle and I am sooo incredibly peeved at this application that I searched for "LiveCycle is a piece of crap" and found this post. =)
Yes, i know the that this post is from over a year ago, but it is obvious they havent made any improvements to the software.
I'll ditto what Jeff said and add
10.the debugger constantly disappears (yes, I followed the directions in the "help" file). I have to constantly flip between Acrobat Pro and LiveCycle, close Acrobat Pro, come back, stand on my head, while balancing a banana on my nose to get it to stay. Seriously, I feel like I'm dealing with a set of old-school TV rabbit ears trying to tune in a distant station
11. the debugger is two lines off in its error reporting. If it says you have an error at line 39, the error is REALLY at line 37. Took me forever and a ton of messageBoxes to finally figure this out.
12. The debugger doesnt actually support breakpoints, watches, etc inside of livecycle. You can set a breakpoint, but your code isnt visible while you are in preview mode, so what good is it? What good is stepping into your code if you cant SEE your code?
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14. Why cant you drag and drop objects from the hierarchy palette from one open document to another??
15. Why isnt there a keyboard shortcut to flip between open documents?? It SHOULD be Ctrl+Tab (following what 90% of other programs use), but instead that flips between the document's different view tabs.
16. Why cant you click+hold+drag from the lower-right to the upper left to select multiple objects at once?
17. When you paste in a subForm with its objects, it makes the subForm area on the page HUGE, even if the objects in the subForm are fairly small
18. When you create a new subForm in the hierarchy pallete, the view in the palette jumps to the very top object, and you have to scroll all the way back down and find your unnamed subform
19. Why are pdfs produced in LiveCycle not compatible with Acrobat Pro's Accessibility Checker? This one is HUGE. I spent over a week with our Adaptive Computing department trying to figure out why my pdfs were failing the accessibility checker when I had followed every known guide available on producing accessible pdfs. Even more frustrating, despite all the errors Acrobat Pro said were there, JAWS and all the other accessible technologies were able to use my pdfs just fine.
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I could keep going on and on and on....

MOVED: FoxConn Piece of CRAP!

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FoxConn Piece of CRAP!

quote:
don't talk like god
???..... Hardly.
So, how is the fact that you "...provided more free and
effective cf, especially db support on this forum..." justify the
current tone of your posts in light of your expectation that
anybody is going to want to help you with your current problem?
I can understand your frustration, but nobody on this forum
posts replies because they are paid to do it. If you really expect
any "volunteers" to take an interest in helping you with your
problem, you might consider avioding the hostile attitude. (Or
not... whatever. I'm done.)
Phil

Digital voice piece of crap

What a piece of crap this service is.
Dial local area code for all local calls, are you kidding me? This is 2010 not 1910.
Cisco Call Manager and Vonnage have been doing this for years... Why can't verizon's piece of crap software do it?

I agree with the previous poster. You can't blame Verizon for that. I've had 10-digit dialing for about 10-15 years in MD. Also had Comcast's Voice service and had 10-digit diualing as well. I will admit that with Verizon having to dial a "1" should be fixed. Nothing like going on your caller ID and hitting redial and then getting the tone saying you have to dial a "1" first. Then you have to memorize the number from caller ID and redial it with a "1".
/rant
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Nothing but 'Problem' message. Tell me how to leave ASAP. Piece of crap.

Just bought ExportPDF 30 minutes ago. Nothing but 'Problem' message. Please cancel immediately. Tell me how to leave ASAP. Piece of crap.

Hi John,
Please see my reply in your other post on the same subject: Please cancel immediately
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Sara

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My iPad 3 takes three or more hours to charge fully. I've turned the brightness down and clean up the open apps daily. Do I have a bad unit, or is this a rotten piece of crap? In addition it won't last through a 4-hour seminar.

From my experience you have a bad one. I have an iPad 3 and battery life has been amazing. I use it all the time and even have forgotten to charge it overnight and have gotten a second days worth out of the battery.
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my iphone is totally messed up. showing main screen magnified 100x and cannot reset. How do you turn this piece of crap off even to re-boot it?

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Purchases made on my ipod touch are no longer being transferred to the Mac...but yet they are showing up in "grey" in the purchased list on the Mac. Any clues as to what is going on?

What used to work just fine, is no longer working...
Within the last 2 days, song purchases that were made on my ipod Touch are no longer being transferred when the ipod synchs up. The strange thing is that the songs appear in iTunes --> Store -- Purchased list, but are greyed out. They play just fine on the ipod...but aren't making it back to the Mac.
I have tried right clicking on the ipod when it appears in iTunes and selecting "Transfer purchases", but that doesn't seem to work either.
Any clues as to what is going on?
Thanks,
Tim

One other very important piece of information I forgot to include...the purchases were made prior the iOS update. So the sequence of events went like this:
1) ipod Touch with previous iOS (4.0 I think)
2) purchases made
3) ipod connected and iTunes prompts for iOS update
4) iOS upgraded to 5.0
5) Now the purchases seem to be stranded on the ipod Touch
Thanks!

Ok so we bought an ipodtouch for my daughter and when she connected to the computer all of a sudden she lost all her pics and she can no longer connect to the app store on her ipod.. any suggestions why and what can be done?

ok so we bought an ipod touch for my daughter and when she connected it to the computer after she downloaded itunes, she was asked if it was her ipod or a new one, so she clicked on her ipod and lost all her recent pics plus is unable to locate the app store on her safari on her ipod touch. any suggestions as to what went wrong or what should be done ? should we restore or what?
much appreciated if there is anyone else who had this happen to them.

- The iPod got erased since it sounds iTunes identified that the iPod has been synced with another computer and she said yes to making this computer her syncing computer. It could also she restored the iPod from the backup of another iPod, iPhone or iPad that was in iTunes. If in iTunes you go to Preferences>Devices is there a backup listed for her iPod with a date/time when she first connected the iPod to the computer. If so then restore the iPod from that backup.
iOS: How to back up
Note synced media like apps and music are not included in the backup,
You can redownload iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
- Regarding the App store. The App store is not in Safari. It is a separate app. Also, could the Apple store be hidden by Restrictions? Settings>General>Restrictions. Further, can you find the App store via the Spotlight search on the iPod?

My ipod won't show up on my computer. I have another ipod touch, that works fine. What should I do? Do I need a different ipo usb cord for the nano?

my ipod won't show up on my computer. I have another ipod touch, that works fine. What should I do? Do I need a different ipo usb cord for the nano?

iTunes never displays the iPod in the left pane?
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1. Quit iTunes and, if your iPod is currently connected to your computer, safely remove it using the system tray application to manage removable devices.
2. Right click on "My Computer"
3. Select "Manage"
4. In the "Computer Management" window, left pane (tree view), follow this path:
+Computer Management (local) > Services and Applications > Services+.
5. In the right pane, scroll down to "iPod Service" and double click it.
6. If the service is listed as "Disabled" and "Stopped," change to "Manual" and "Start" it. ("Manual" will cause it to start when iTunes starts and "Start" starts the service right now.)
7. Close "Computer Management"
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How to get podcasts onto my ipod so I can see what's going on?

Hi,
My G3 15GB ipod with version 2.3 on it...
My podcasts sync over from itunes OK. But by the time they get onto my iPOD its really hard to see what's what.
The ipod shows a "Podcasts" playlist. But really they are not presented in an elegant way. What I get is a long list. Grouped by the podcast. But not in the same order as they are on my itunes. I can't figure out what order they are in - some podcasts seem to be oldest to newest, but others are all jumbled up. Perhaps its to do with download order or something.
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- I'd like to see the episode date rather than, or as well as, the title.
Lastly, I'd really like ability to create a "listening program" for me - a "smart playlist" - basically a playlist that will take me through my new podcasts. that would make it easier to hear the new stuff in the car without having a crash whilst trying to figure out what is what on my ipod.
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Steve

I have ordered a USB3 BluRay/DVD/CD player/burner and will use that both with my iMac ( in which the Superdrive seems to be failing ) and the MBPro Retina I just bought .

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