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Okay, I just got my Ipod as a gift and it doesn't seem to work! It's been charging for quite a while already and when I looked on the Ipod site, it says that Nano's take only about 3 hours !? But mines is taking FOREVER. It's plugged into the computer right now and the screen is flashing "do no disconnect" and in the top right corner, there's an icon of a battery thing and it has that lightning bolt to the left of it ... So I'm assuming it's still charging? I'm not sure. And it doesn't even want to turn on. I tried Resetting it and everything, by holding the menu and middle button for six seconds, but the only thing that appears is the Apple logo and then there's a folder with an exclamation point. Then after that, it goes straight back to "Do not disconnect" .. but it doesn't show me anything else, like songs. When I look in Itunes and i double click on my Ipod, it has a list of songs that i uploaded onto my nano. But the songs are non-clickable ... IDK what i'm doing, and it's really frustrating. If anyone knows anything about this, Could you please help me?
please do a search on"do not disconnect" - this question has been asked and answered 100 times.... the search box really does work
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61685
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