Turning off ipod during video play

I always experience problems when playing a movie on my 60g Ipod video. I can't turn it off and in fact any use of the centre wheel is extremely slow or sometimes non-responsive....any ideas?

I have noticed this sometimes when playing a video on mine. I just think that it is because a video is a very big file and requires alot of iPod resources to work. I just be persistent with mine and it takes a couple of times to try and turn it off before it will. I have the Sleep turned on on my main iPod menu and sometimes I have to go all the way back to that menu and select the sleep to turn it off.

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Has anyone complained about this design?
For crying out loud can’t an Apple engineer come up with an on/off switch I'm sure if they do China can make it. Heck make it an option I'd even pay extra for it.

Adding another switch just to turn off the ipod would add parts and that lowers reliability and increases cost, so I can see why the ipod doesn't have a dedicated on/off switch.
On the other hand, it should be smart enough to turn the screen off when commanded; if it still has disk housekeeping to do it could finish that up in the background, then actually turn itself off.
I decided long ago to just forget about this whole issue, I just let my ipod turn itself off when it is good and ready. Having it run on for a few extra minutes uses a miniscule amount of battery anyway.
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If you tried resetting the ipod and it still keeps having the same issue you described, try setting the ipod to disk mode.
Here is an article from the apple support website on setting the ipod to disk mode.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
If you can get the ipod into disk mode, connect it to the computer and rrestore the ipod using itunes.
if the ipod will not go into disk mode, you can return the ipod or set the ipod up for service via the apple ipod service depot.
http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod

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I just bought me an iPod nano the other day. It seems to work perfect, and I'm not having any scratch related problems.
I do have one problem though, sometimes my nano won't seem to turn off. Holding the play/pause button is the right action, I know that, and it works.. Sometimes, but not allways.
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Try resetting the iPod..
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Then wait about a minute and see if you can turn it off.
Also, putting the headphones in will usually wake up the iPod, if I'm not mistaken. Was it not doing that before?
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Try a Reset. The detail is described here; http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/
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I have just recently not been able to turn off my ipod. I press and hold the play/pause button but nothing happens. What can I do for this?

ok mine works now but i didnt do tat. wat i did is let it run nearly completely out of bateries(or atleast to the point where wen u restart it cant get past the apple screen) then charged it half way and tryed to turn it off. it worked on my 60G ipod video. it may b differnt w/ u idk but give it a try.

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