Resetting 30GB IPOD

This probably sounds silly, but if I reset my IPOD will I loose all my songs?
Spirit   Windows XP  

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How to reset the iPod if it appears frozen or doesn't respond.

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    Hello-
    I have a 30gb iPod that froze up two days ago. To make a long story short, I had to reset/reformat the iPod. Well when formating was over; there was no color. It was back to black and white. It is able to upload/update songs from the libray in iTunes but after updates are complete and I have ejected the iPod, I receive a folder stating to contact www.apple.com/ipod/support. It appears that the software is not correct. I think I have completed the steps stated by Apple but nothing seems to work correctly. I have updated the iPod updater to 1/10/06 and reinstalled iTunes. Nothing else seems to work or I might just be missing something. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks

    that is strange. the exact same thing happened to me two days ago too. i can't figure it out at all. i have tried everything. let me know if u find something out.

  • 30Gb iPod Photo Menu button is frozen - can't reset!

    Since yesterday, (31 March) my menu button is frozen. I can't hold it down to reset the iPod and I can't get back to the main menu. I'm stuck in one of my music folders.
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    Updating iPod with your computer fixes the issue.

  • 30GB iPod Video Prevents ASUS A7N8X-X Mobo from Completing POST

    Greetings,
    I've owned my iPod for about a week now, but it seems to have a little bit of an issue with nForce 2 based ASUS A7N8X-X motherboards, specifically in regards to the fact that if the iPod is connected to the PC during boot, the motherboard will not complete its POST and the boot is aborted. Where the POST aborts isn't consistent, but the majority of the time, it will abort on or before the CPU diagnostic. If I disconnect the iPod and then reset the system, the motherboard completes its POST as it normally would.
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    Anything to do with this?
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  • Bright white Screen on 30GB IPOD

    I bought a 30GB IPOD about three months ago. I was carrying the IPOD in my pocket with a radio tuner attached to it. I wasn't using the thing. I didn't run or even sit on it. It was in my pocket for about 5 minutes. When I took it out the screen was bright white. That's it, nothing else on it. I hooked it up to the computer. It doesn't even recognise it. The controls don't do any thing either. Anyone got any ideas?
    Dell   Windows XP  

    wait til the batteries run out. then connect it back to your comp.
    Or try the 5 R's
    1. Reset your iPod.
    2. Retry with a different USB port.
    3. Restart your computer.
    4. Reinstall iPod and iTunes software.
    5. Restore your iPod.
    i'd go for the first option though

  • 30GB ipod does not play videos, it loads but does not streams...

    i have a 30gb 5gen ipod, ant it has a problem... it doesn't plays video. video clips i used were converted in itunes, so it had to fit the requirments. video loads ok, but when i try to play it it shows play sign in the left up corner, however nothig hapens, just black screen. when i push the forward buton it goes forward and i can see that the video clip loaded well, it's just not streaming, looks like it is on pause or something. i have tried to restore it, reinstall it... nothing helped
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    Hard Reset the  iPod  as below- this does not delete or erase any song or data.
    After charging till full charge, at least 2 hours (preferably 4 hours)
    Toggle the Hold switch, make sure you dont see the red mark when you do the  next step
    Reset the iPod -> Press Menu and Center button simultaneously for about 10 secs till the Apple Logo comes ON
    Then release the buttons
    Select your preferred language.
    Here is the Apple support Article on the 5Rs
    http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/
    Good Luck!

  • Viewing photos on a 30gb iPod

    I have loaded 35 full res photos onto my 5G 30gb iPod . It shows that there are 50.6mb of photos on the Summary tab, but when I disconnect my iPod, I can't actually view them on the iPod - all I get in the Photos menu are the options for slideshow, etc. The photos are in jpeg format, so I can;t see why I can;t view them. I've been through the discussions, but can't see the answer I need. Help?!?
    Compaq   Windows XP  

    i'm having the same problem, i've tried reseting the ipod and nothing happened. Then i tried to restore it on itunes, but i didn't even have the "restore" button it was on about! I'm getting majorly fed up with it to be honest, this thing has had nothing bu problems.

  • Why do I have to regularly reset my iPod?

    I recently upgraded to the 5th gen. 30GB iPod with video. I am noticing that I have to reset my iPod quite regularly, sometimes daily. I happens at the beginning of the day when I go to turn it on after it has been off all night. Is this normal? Is it a sign of something possibly being wrong with it? Thanks in advance for your help.

    Sorry but I don't have much
    experience with that one. I had it happen once with
    my year+ old 30GB iPod and never with my (since
    February) 80GB. The one I get a lot on the 80GB is
    the semi lockup where everything on the iPod works
    except actually playing music. Screen shows playing
    but the song doesn't actually advance. I have had to
    reset a lot for that one, but not for your
    condition.
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    are you doing it? Normally, at least in my case, I
    switch the hold slide to OFF then hit the menu button
    to wake up the iPod which normally starts up with the
    Apple logo. Are you doing that or something different
    or expect different results?
    Patrick
    Normally, I would just hold down the play/pause button and it would turn on (that's how it worked with my 20g 4th gen that I have) even if it was off all night. With my 30g 5th gen, I have to hold the center button and menu button to get the Apple logo to appear and wait maybe 30 seconds for the menu to appear. I haven't tried the lock button and menu button as you described, but I will next time and see if that works. Thanks.

  • Frozen 30gb Ipod

    Can Anybody help me! My 30gb ipod is frozen with a white screen and I can get the screen to turn off even when i reset it. The screen comes back on in the white mode and will not turn off !!!!!!! please help me

    Updating iPod with your computer fixes the issue.

  • 30GB Ipod skipping/freezing

    My 30Gb ipod is having a meltdown. It's decided that it doesn't want to play songs anymore. It can get 10seconds into a song then it starts to freeze up have trouble then skip to the next song and do the same thing. Sometimes it will get half way through a song before it does it or if i'm lucky it will actually play a whole song. I'm not sure how to fix this I'm thinking about doing a restore to factory settings. I did this last year when I had a different but equally serious problem. But I want to see if I can get more information before doing this as it's a last resort.

    Since the release and update of iTunes 7, I have not faced any problem, but I heard a lot of articles from this forum about the errors 1417, 1418, 1428 and 50 etc. I could not make any suggestion and find a solution about it, all I could do is to copy some threads from some successful cases mentioned on this forum.
    Until yesterday, I finally received a 4th Gen 20GB iPod (around 2 years old)from a friend and asked me whether I could fix it for him, which has been left untouched as a paper-weight for almost 2 months.
    I tried to turn it on, and the screen was completed blank and the device looked dead. Before doing anything I prepared the following:-
    1. A window based PC
    2. A Mac computer
    3. An USB iPod cable
    4. A Firewire iPod cable
    5. An iPod AC charger
    As the iPod was previously formatted on a PC, therefore I tried to plug it with a PC via USB cable, it did not response and not able to get recognized by the PC. I ejected the iPod and connected with an AC charger, after a few minutes, I did a Reset for the iPod
    How to reset iPod
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61705
    The iPod showed an Apple sign, it stuck there for almost a minute, the screen then showed a battery with an exclamation mark sign, and after a minute, the iPod turned off itself. I was sure that the iPod carried very low battery, and could not be charged by connecting it with any computer (both Mac and PC).
    I decided to let it have a charge with an AC charger for a bit longer, after 10 minute I did the Reset again, this time a sign of folder with exclamation mark showed up after the Apple sign, and again could not get recognized by a computer.
    I changed my mind, and put the iPod into disk mode
    Putting iPod into disk mode
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
    Instead of connecting with a PC, I plug it with my Mac using a Firewire cable, it did not response, so I switched the cable to an USB, interestingly, the iPod got recognized and a window pop up indicating that the iPod needed to do a Restore. Therefore I clicked “Restore”, after a few seconds, an Error message pop-up with Error Message 1417, the sign that I have been waiting for quite sometime.
    I ejected the iPod and the screen immediately showed a folder exclamation mark (a sign indicating a corrupted or a failure iPod OS). I am forced to put the iPod into disk mode again, connected with the Mac computer and open the Disk Utility
    1. Open the disk utility, hope your iPod appears there (left hand side), highlight it
    2. Go to Tab “Partition”, click either “Delete” or “Partition”, if fails, skip this step and go to 3
    3. Go to Tab “Erase” , choose Volume Format as “MAC OS Extended (Journaled), and click Erase, again if fails, skip it and go to 4
    4. Same as step 3, but open the “Security Options....” and choose “Zero Out Data” before click Erase. It will take 1 to 2 hours to complete.
    5. Eject your iPod and do a Reset
    6. Open the iTunes 7 and click “Restore”
    It managed to complete the Restore process, and started to sync with the iTunes. However, it got stuck at the song no.238 from the total of 2000. I left it for an hour, but with no process, instead the iPod became “Hot” and the iTunes showed an Error message of 1428. I ejected the iPod from my Mac computer, the iPod’s screen turn to show the famous killer icon;“The Sad iPod“.
    This time it was totally dead, even failed to put it into Disk Mode and non of the computer could recognize it. Sigh, I hated to do it but I knew that I must did the following:-
    Holding the iPod in my Palm, and hitting it on a surface of a Sofa with 5 attempts.
    Did not surprise me, the iPod turned on and it showed the Language Menu on the screen. So, I put it into Disk Mode and connected with my window PC.
    The PC showed a sign and indicated that an USB device had been connected with it. I opened the iTunes and did a Restore there.
    However, an Error Message 50 showed up, but I were not worried about it, connected it back with my Mac computer with it in Disk Mode. As expected the iTunes opened and allowed me to do a Restore there.
    This time it managed to complete the process and a window of register pop up. After the completed the process, the iPod started to sync with the iTunes again, which finally managed to complete the process.
    I left it connecting with the AC charger overnight. In the next morning, I switched it on and have a play with it, I am so glad as it is working like a charm.
    From the above experience, I would like to share it with the user the following:-
    1. It always better to charge with an ac charger instead of the computer, as when an iPod carrying with very low battery, it may not able to get charge from a computer
    2. Try to connect the iPod with a computer, switching between USB and Firewire
    3. Try to format an iPod with HD problem, with a different kind of computer e.g. Mac or PC, as the formats are totally different, the way it formats may able to solve the bad sectors on the HD
    4. It may get better chance to get your iPod recognized, if you put it in Disk Mode
    I hope the following works in your case as I did.

  • 30GB iPod won't connect to iTunes applications and is now frozen

    So I'm nearly useless on a computer and I recently received a 30GB iPod for Christmas. It had been running fine until about two days ago when I had my computer updated and installed a 200GB hard drive keeping my older hard drive as a slave.
    Once I did that and transferred my iTunes to the active hard drive I couldn't get my iPod to work anymore.
    It no longer shows up in iTunes and the iPod updater doesn't even recognize it. It only shows up as an external hard drive under "my computer" heading. I've tried resetting it and it still doesn't work. I'm currently removing all of my iTunes files and reinstalling the whole lot in hopes that it may help fix the problem.
    Unfortunately now my iPod has frozen up and when I start it they only display is the title “disk mode”, a check mark and the “ok to disconnect” dialogue. And none of the buttons are responding so I can’t reset it.
    Has anyone else encountered this or have any advice on what to do?

    I have a somewhat similar issue.
    I cannot connect my 30GB video iPod to iTunes. The iPod plays my song files; however, when I connect the USB cable to my iPod the 'do not disconnect' image appears; furthermore, the iPod doesn't show up on the 'source panel' of iTunes.
    I still haven't figured out how to fix it.

  • 30GB iPod only registers as a 15.9GB iPod?

    I updated my wife's 30GB iPod today to v1.2.3. That crashed it hard. I couldn't get the unit to respond after iTunes suggested "restoring" the unit. All it would do is bring up the Apple graphic and then reset. After getting it into disk mode and restoring it several times, it appears to be working now except it is now a 15.9GB capacity drive!! How can I reformat it to 30GB like it should be?

    If your iPod is recognized in "my computer", changing the drive letter can sometimes resolve this apparent wrong capacity issue.
    Click on control panel/admin tools/computer management/disk management/right click on the iPod to re-assign the drive letter.
    Choose something lower down the alphabet, say 'M' or something similar.
    The iPod can be confused by any other storage devices assigned a similar drive letter even though they may not connected at the same time.

  • Daily freezes of 30gb ipod

    doesn't matter how strong the battery is. doesn't seem to matter how long i've been listening. but my 30gb ipod, which i've only had about two months, freezes every single day during playback. sometimes i have to reset it more than once a day. i've tried the five Rs to no avail. any ideas? thanks!

    see doing this helps
    For Mac computer
    1. Open the disk utility, hope your iPod appears there (left hand side), highlight it
    2. Go to Tab “Partition”, click either “Delete” or “Partition”, if fails, skip this step and go to 3
    3. Go to Tab “Erase” , choose Volume Format as “MAC OS Extended (Journaled), and click Erase, again if fails, skip it and go to 4
    4. Same as step 3, but open the “Security Options....” and choose “Zero Out Data” before click Erase. It will take 1 to 2 hours to complete.
    5. Eject your iPod and do a Reset
    6. Open the iTunes 7 and click “Restore”

  • Only certain purchased videos locking up 30GB iPod video

    What causes certain videos to lock up my 30GB iPod video, but not others? All the videos I have are either purchased or free podcast downloads; All from iTunes.
    I transfer the files all the same way to my iPod, by clicking and dragging the file to my iPod in iTunes.
    Some play all the way through without an issue.
    Some start at the beginning and then lock up after 10 or 15 seconds and I have to reset my iPod because it won't let me do anything else.
    Others start playing right in the middle of the video and then after playing for about 10 or 15 second, it locks up and I have to reset my iPod because it won't let me do anything else.
    I performed the 5 R's, no luck. I checked out and compared the file properties between one of the files that plays and one of the ones that don't. They're identical.
    I'm bummed because I'm paying for videos that I have to watch on my PC, not on my iPod. So what might be causing this problem?
    HP 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4   Windows XP   30GB iPod video with software version 1.2 and iTunes version 7.0.1

    I have the same problem; at least there's more than one out there. One of the videos I downloaded eventually began to work (I'm not sure why) but it kept freezing up and the audio had horrible static. (When I played it on the computer through the ipod, it worked fine.)
    I cannot find an article on this site that explains what to do about that problem and apparently you can't simply send an email to a tech support center to ask about it. I guess I'll have to bring it to a store...
    Compaq Presario V2000   Windows XP  
    Compaq Presario V2000   Windows XP  

  • How many times can you reset an ipod

    I have a 4G iPod purchased 6/05. My computer is 14in iBook with Mac OS X 10.4.3. I mainly use the firewire dock connector my iBook to update music/podcasts. I use the iPod on my way to work with a Griffin iTrip and at work by hooking up to Kensington dock.
    I've been having intermittent problems with the iPod freezing on me. It has happened a few times when I hit "play" on a song when it wasn't hooked up to an output source (no headphones or dock connection). But in general, I can't determine any specific inciting event to explain why the iPod freezes or why I need to reset.
    The iPod responds well to a simple reset, which has been going on weekly. On one occasion, I had to completely restore it--including renaming the iPod and resyncing everything.
    So, is this a normal occurence? Is a reset every week or two out of the ordinary? Is there something wrong with my iPod?
    Thanks,
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    i think having to reset your ipod really at all is out of the ordinary. bring it to an apple store, call support, or look around the forums for topics pertaining to this.

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