Weird iPod Behavior 3

So I get told by iTunes that my iPod is corrupted. Being a compliant person, I restore the iPod like I'm told to. It said that the Pod will appear in the source list when it is done, but I've been waiting for hours for it to appear. How long does it take? The Pod is fully charged, just not showing up. I'm really ticked as my mother and sister have not had nearly as much trouble with their iPods as I have.

I would suggest that you upgrade to 7.0.2.16, if you haven't already. Updating to the latest software of iTunes/iPod is one of the initial troubleshooting steps to try when you have iTunes/iPod problems sometimes.
Also, in what stage of the restoring was your iPod?
Had you gone past:
The progress bar in iTunes, iTunes will tell you instructions 1 and 2 on the screen, then the iPod will partially restart, showing the Apple logo and the progress bar underneath it.
Then iTunes will tell you that your iPod will appear in the source list momentarily. After it restarted itself after the restore, and didn't appear in the source list, is that where you got "Do Not Disconnect", and the iPod not appearing in the source list?
Is that where you were in the restore process?
By the way, try putting your iPod into disk mode, then connecting it to your computer; see if your iPod is recognized after trying that.
-Kylene

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Weird iPod behavior

I don't know if this has anything to do with the upgrade (to ios 7). This is the first time (since the upgrade) that I have tried to listen to a playlist for an extended period of time. I was playing music through my AV receiver using my iPod (5th gen Touch) and the USB connector. Everything went fine for about an hour. Then, it just stopped, mid-song. It made some kind of muffled electronic noise for a split second. Immediately, I went over to look at the display. It was a black screen with the white Apple logo in the center. When I pressed the Home button, it came right back to the regular home screen. Though it didn't seem like enough time had elapsed for a full reboot. I also noticed that the LED display on my receiver said "no device" even though it was still plugged in. On the iPod, I went back to Music. "Playing Now" was on a different song from a different playlist. NO IDEA what happened. Nothing like this has ever happened before. It seems OK now. I plugged it into the AV receiver and it played fine, but I haven't tried to play another whole playlist.
Anybody have a similar experience... or have an idea what's happening?
Help!

Thanks. Thinking about what happened after the fact, it seems like the iPod just crashed and then came right back up. It shouldn't be a resource issue, as it's got 64GB model with at least half free. Receiver plugged into a surge-protector. I hate that it might be a "usual" glitch, but fear you are probably right. Hope it doesn't happen again. Already had to restore once after upgrade.

Weird iPod Behavior 2

'Kay, so I dumped my crashed Mini for a beautiful new white Video for Christmas only to find that it has a odd problem as well. If I have two songs by the same artist on my Pod, when I go to the Artist page, only one comes up. Odd, right? And it only happens with certain artists. It's still in the Song page, but I want to fix this because I don't want to have to go through 8,000 songs to find one everytime I want to listen to something. It's so much easier to search through Artist, right? I've tried re-typing the artist section in the info window, which helped with my Mini, taking it out and re-installing the song, and resetting the Pod, so I dunno what else to do.

take a look at this article ( click here) to see if it helps. it provides information on id tags that are embedded into the song file at the time the cd is imported, i'm assuming the songs came from cds. remember that itunes connects to gracenote.com to get each songs info including the tags the give the songs artists name etc.
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IPhone 6 Plus weird screen behavior

I recently started noticing some erratic touch behavior on my screen, it's as if I have a possessed phone such as taps that I did not make, or swipes (up/down/left/right) as well. The spotlight randomly swipes down, or the notification center (it seems like a consistent swipe down behavior but at different locations). I couldn't swipe left yesterday to unlock my phone, and sometimes hangs and only locking/unlocking can fix the unresponsiveness.
Moreover, random tappings affect games and apps such as whatsapp, where it goes to the previous page due to a top left page tap, and then again on the edit button, then starts randomly scrolling up and down and tapping random parts of the screen.
This is quite frustrating, I tried formatting and starting the phone as a new one and only installed Whatsapp, but the problem persisted, albeit at fewer occurrences.
Now I noticed the problem again even though I'm on iOS 8.1, with only apps, music, and photos synced back from iTunes. What is happening ? How can I get this fixed ?
Summary
Issue :
Erratic touch behavior which cannot be produced on demand
Rare screen unresponsiveness following the weird touch behavior
What I've tried :
Reset and start phone as New
Reset all Settings
Hard Reset
Currently using a sketching app to see how the screen taps randomly (for proof as well).

Hello zazu90,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
To troubleshoot this issue where your touchscreen is behaving erradically on your iPhone, please follow the steps below.
Restart your device
Hold the On/Off button until "slide to power off" appears. Slide to power off your device. When it is off, press the On/Off button to turn it back on.
If you can't restart your device, reset it by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for a least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
Clean the screen with a soft, slightly damp, lint-free cloth.
Avoid using the device while wearing gloves, with wet hands, or immediately after applying hand lotion.
If you have a protective case, or if you are using a plastic sheet or film on the display, try removing them and testing the device without it.
If the steps above don't resolve your issue, please schedule a service appointment with an Apple Retail Store for evaluation. If an Apple Retail store is not an option, contact Apple to find out your best service option or see the Service FAQ for your product.
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Troubleshooting touchscreen response - Apple Support
Take care,
Alex H.

Some playlists don't show up - weird iPod syncing problems

Apologies if this question has been answered elsewhere - couldn't find the answer when I was searching the boards last night. Don't know if this is an iTunes problem or an issue with the touch...
Last night, I plugged my iPod touch (1G) into my MacPro to add some new music. This is when things got weird!
First, I noticed that my iPod's name had mysteriously changed since the last time I synced it. It used to be called "Christine's iPod" and now it has reverted to the default "iPod touch."
Next, when I went to add some different playlists to the iPod, I noticed that one of the playlists I wanted to add didn't show up in the Music tab, so I couldn't "tick" it for inclusion on the iPod. This isn't a new playlist, and I have successfully synced it with this iPod in the past. I tried renaming the playlist and making a new playlist with the same songs, and neither of these playlists showed up either. BTW, I definitely don't have too many playlists - I probably have 100-150 playlists total.
Anyway, I restored my iPod and starting from scratch - and the playlist still didn't appear to be available to sync. I ended up adding the playlist by "manually managing" my music, but this isn't an ideal solution. I'd like to be able to sync the playlist!!
Don't know if it's relevant, but my bf also has an iPod touch that he syncs to the same iTunes account. We have separate computer logins, and our iTunes Library is on a shared disk on our MacPro (to prevent needlessly wasting HD space due to song replication) and occasionally we both get messages saying we don't own or don't have permission to access the Library when opening iTunes. To solve this, we alter the permissions on the disk and apply to enclosed items. Maybe this happens after updating iTunes or adding new songs? Not certain what triggers it.
Thanks in advance - this is really bugging me!

This isn't foolproof but there are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song has no album name associated with it or 2) the song is marked as part of a compilation.
If tracks are missing an Album name (as mentioned above) in the Info tab, this information needs to be filled in. The no album one is a bit quirky as the songs will appear under certain circumstances but the simplest remedy is just add None or Miscellaneous in place of a title. See this link for more detail: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod
Also if the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. Compilations are stored in a separate folder in iTunes so the songs don't appear inside the normal Artist>Album folder which may be why this happens.

Weird keyboard behavior in MacBook Pro 13'

Hi guys, I have a MacBook Pro that's starting to show a strange keyboard behavior.
The problem is that the keys: e r t y u i o (curiously all belong to the same row) sometimes get unresponsive.
It's very annoying of course and it happened about 4 months after upgraded to Lion.
The geneal perfomance of the laptop was deteriorated and I've read that a clean install of Lion might help so I've did it thinking that it will also fix any OS weirdness about the keys too.
The machine works way better after the clean Lion install but the problem of those same keys persist.
What I did next was to reset the PRAM thinking it might be interference from some weird state there. But after the reset the problem persisted.
Curiously, I've figured out that when, for example the i key gets unresponsive, if I press AND hold the e key then the i key works totally fine (think of typing an "I" but using e instead of shift).
If, when pressing the unresponsive keys, I use different angles or quantity of force in the pressure of the keys or cornes of the key the behavior stays the same. The only thing that seems to affect is holding the e key down before pressing it. Every time it gets weird I do it and it kind of get normal for a while.
Also, sometimes, keeping some seconds the unresponsive key ends up getting responsive again (but not always).
This mac has about two years now and it's very well preserved.
Do this happen to anyone? ideas?
Is there some other thing than PRAM I could reset to see if it gets normal again?

You are making me dig into nightmare-ish memories here.
Ok, I'll share.
This is how turned out:
Needed to send my MBP to another town with an Apple authorized service provider and asked to change the keyboard for a new one.
It was ~20 days waiting until they got the new keyboard part from Apple and about ~3 more to get it fixed and ~2 more to get it again in town.
I received it very well packaged and all was fine after that but the whole thing was very expensive, ~40% of the price I paid for the whole MPB in the first place plus all that time without being able to use it.

Weird Battery Behavior in 7.1.1

Has anyone else noticed weird behavior after upgrading to 7.1.1 - on my 5s its not that the battery is draining quickly - in fact its showin 5 hours 40 minutes usage with 75% remaining - which i find hard to believe
whats weird is standby time equals the usage time but i have turnd off and aback on the iPhone - I even did a hard reset - i have a monitor program which is showing the cpu as mostly idling at 90% or more ( although the monitor probably doesnt know about the M7 chip - it probably doesnt even know about the A7 chip too)
The battery percentage is not going down quickly - it seems to be thr same rate as with 7.1 but i dont believe these numbers
Im going to let the battery drain completely and do a battery calibration - that some times helps after IOS upgrades
But i was wondering if anyone else was seeing this and had any suggestions

Grant Hiesterman wrote:
Out of curiousity, how were the issues fixed/resolved other the past? With IOS updates? Other?
The problem has always been an errant app that got stuck in a loop. It can happen any time, but is more likely to happen right after an update. My hypothesis is that the update process suspends running apps, and sometimes after the update they "lose their place" and spin their wheels trying to find it. (It's easier to say it that way then to talk about race conditions.) What will frequently fix it is to run the battery all the way down until the phone shuts off. This terminates all processes, even those that cannot be killed from the Quick Launch screen.
You can also try to find the app; if it's email turning off any Push email accounts, rebooting, and turning them back on will frequently fix it. If it's a 3rd party app killing all apps in the Quick Launch will frequently fix it.
Sometimes just turning off the phone for a few minutes will fix it.
Restoring the phone as new will usually fix it, but restoring from backup may not, because the app state may be preserved in the backup.
It really just a matter of trying things like these one at a time. One of them will work.
Do you or Trevor have a CPU monitoring app you believe is a quality application?
I've tried several, and haven't found any that I like. I like Trevor's answer.

Not a real problem anymore, but a weird Apache behavior wrt .php files

Hello everyone. Yesterday I was trying to set up an ordinary LAMP server in my VPS, running Arch (first time ever touching apache). After all was said and done, and apache and PHP were correctly configured following the Arch Wiki, I tried to get some things like phpmyadmin and ampache running, but I found out that my browser was asking me to download either a login.php file or an index.php file (to be more specific: I added a test.php file in /srv/http and that was interpreted correctly and I could see all the information as intented; if i pointed my browser to /phpmyadmin or /ampache though I would see the first page but after trying to, for example, logging in with phpmyadmin I'd get the download prompt). I googled around and yes, everything was configured as it should have, I had the AddHandler directive in the apache conf file and all that jazz. This morning, I log in, I start apache (since it wasn't working I figured that I might as well shut it down for the night and yes, while testing and setting up things yesterday I restarted the daemon every time) and everything works as it should: ampache lets me create my configuration, phpmyadmin lets me see my DBs and everything works. So, the problem apparently fixed itself, or at least the weird behavior I was witnessing is no more. Is there any specific reason for this? I wouldn't want to start from scratch (and I probably will, since I like to mess up a lot, that's how i learn!) to perhaps find myself in this spot again and not know what to do!
Last edited by mrz87 (2011-05-11 09:12:21)

This was a problem with apache-2.2.17-2. Don't worry, it's fixed for good.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24208

Sound acts weird - ipod toch

first my ipod workt perfect, untill last week. suddenly the sound of my ipod acts like really weird.
if i have the volume at his maximum, i only hear a weird murmur. when i connect my ipod with other speakers or with my headphone
i hear the sound very very loud with a lot of murmur. i already have tried to reset my ipod touch but i still have the same problem.
by the way, i have a ipod touch 2g with the newest software.
thanks in advance,
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btw: sorry for my bad english

Weird keyboard behavior PS CS3

Hi all,
Every now and then it seems like my keyboard has gone nuts.
This always happens inside PS CS3. After doing some actions, especially when doing a 'Shift-Alt-Arrow key' action (duplicating a layer or group and moving), it looks as if the keyboard goes in some sort of 'Alt-Always-On' modus.
The annoying thing about this is, that regular keyboard-shortcuts for selecting a tool don't work (pressing 't' for the type tool does nothing) but far worse is the fact when you want to move a layer or group of layers they get unwantedly duplicated.
Sometimes this behavior seems to disappear, when I click around my desktop (outside of Photoshop), but sometimes it doesn't disappear. The only thing left to get rid of it is to quit and relaunch PS.
Does anyone else have this problem, and how can it be solved.
This weird keyboard thing does only appear in PS, every other application is not affected by it.
I'm running PS CS3 on Windows XP SP3
I have all updates of PS CS3 installed

Zeno,
I feel so stupid, but that also crossed my mind.
And to be honest, I think that is really the reason.
Why didn't I think of that before...

Weird compression behavior

I have been trying to compress some animation material for DVD. It is mostly flat colors with black outlines. The past few weeks I've been having trouble exporting to compressor via Final Cut (the connect to background process bug) and so I have been using reference movies loaded into Compressor standalone.
I am seeing weird behavior, though. When I compress the reference movie, the frames look fine although every now and then there are artifacts, pieces of the image that break down. I think of them as compression errors, and I suspected that the compression markers at the beginning of each clip were not being exported in the reference movie.
So I tried a few things and finally got Final Cut to connect to compressor directly. This worked in that the compression errors I was seeing are gone--HOWEVER, the overall quality of the encode has decreased markedly! The black lines around shapes are all jagged, and the whole image looks inferior to the one compressed in Compressor standalone.
The thing is, both of these were compressed using the exact same preset! Does anyone know what the deal is? I would like to get the image quality from the standalone Compressor encode, but without the artifacts.
Thanks for any advice,
Bob

Your mileage may vary with Compressor 2. Some like it, some don't.
As for your original question, I've never seen unexplained changes like what you describe in a preset's behavior with FCP HD and/or Compressor 1.2.1.
As for the "unable to connect to background process" problem I've seen that once in just over one year of use with Compressor and Final Cut. On this one occasion I just manually relaunched QMaster and everything was fine from then on.

Strange stacks icons and weird dock behavior

I got leopard for Christmas and on the first day of the install my icons on the right side of the dock- i guess the stacks for applications and downloads icons look weird. It's not a combination of all the icons in the stack like someone else wrote, it is a weird green, white, red rectangular shaped image with weird black and grey squiggles going through the middle. Also-I'm not sure how to describe it but what used to be a clear line I guess to separate the stacks stuff with the other icons on my dock it's next to about this mac icon on my dock has turned into a weird pink rectangle with a really small picture of the weird red, green, and white rectangle on top. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My husband is a windows guy and after me bragging about how much better mac is, I don't want him to know that I'm already having problems with leopard

No, this is not "normal behavior." The problem is that it is not consistent, either, so it is hard to tell what is going on. It may happen after using some full screen programs, but I am not sure. I am not able to reproduce the issue, myself. It just happens from time to time.
The icons are not changing after they are used. The ones in the download folder will usually have their normal appearance, the dmg file or a pdf file with its "preview" icon or whatever. Then, for some reason, I will notice some of the icons have become blocky and pixilated, not resembling anything, usually almost a solid color.
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Really weird ipod problem that i cant find info on

Okay, so i took my ipod to my dad's house over the weekend and his computer messed it up. Now when i import songs, they appear to convert to the ipod when I'm in itunes, but once i unplug the ipod from the computer (and yes i do eject it first) the songs disappear. For some reason i can't ad any songs to my ipod anymore. Earlier some weird message about a corrupted file chklis/file7 or something along that line at least came up. And well, I have no idea what to do. Ive been searching for help all night and i havent found any yet.

Assuming that your computer recognizes the iPod is connected, check out the instructions/suggestions here.
Music from iPod to computer.
There's also another method I've seen posted. I've successfully tested this across several different Windows PCs.
Open iTunes and select edit/preferences/advanced/general. Put a check mark in the box marked "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" and also "keep iTunes music folder organized", then click 'ok'.
Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
Then go to file/add folder, open 'my computer', select your iPod and click 'ok'.
The music files should transfer to your iTunes.
However it appears that no playlists or any other info such as ratings/last played etc will transfer.
If this is important to you, you may want to use other options.
There's Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music and playlists etc from iPod back to the computer.

My weird iPod

hey my ipod is acting kinda weird. about four days again i was going to skool and i was going out the door to the bus stop and tried to turn on my ipod. on click it should have turned on but it didnt and it wasnt on hold. so i had to press around the wheel to try to get it to turn on because i new the ipod was charged. well it turned on and everything was fine. then at the end of the day i was listening to it and the sound was normal and then it got really low volume then all of the sudden a loud ear crenching sound came from the earphones and the music got unbearibly loud. then i turned it off. then it was fine for a day or two and then the same thing happens wen i try to turn on the apple logo is there before it turns on and then i could listen to music wen suddenly my ears are bumbarded with loud sounds and wen i took the earphones out and just leave it on for a minute the ipod suddenly turns off. wats all that about? help me someone it would be greatly appriciated.

Someone earlier on today had EXACTLY the same problem. Someone else pointed out that this is a known issue. It happens when iPods are near certain mobile phones. You iPod is probably not broken.
Here's a similar thread I've found for you.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=167924&start=0&tstart=0

Weird application behavior - solution

I recently had a major series of disk meltdowns. I suspect part of the problem may have been caused by letting my startup disk get too full and working with very large photoshop files (with photoshop using the startup disk as a scratch disk). Anyway, I managed to restore a clone of my startup drive, update all apps, and get back to work. I've cloned the startup drive to my second internal drive and intend to religiously update the clone whenever I update any applications (we'll see if I return to agnoticism). Anyway, several applications had weird behavior. Cleaner would succesfully compress one file and then quit. I could then restart cleaner and the batch list had successfully updated but again, just one compression and then a quit. DiskWarrior would successfully rebuild a drive directory but then quit without any notice. Today, I restarted from my cloned startup drive and ran diskwarrior on my main startup drive. Problem solved. Figured a few people out there might benefit from my experience.

Michael,
Often, the Quits are caused by a corrupt Property List file. When a number of apps have the Quits, that's another story. Back in v10.2, that was often caused by a hidden user prefs file
(~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist) where ~ is your user Home folder. You could try deleting it in Terminal, but I haven't heard of this causing these problems since Jaguar.
Maybe you could try creating a new user Account, log into the new Account and see if things improve. At least that would prove whether the cause has something to do with user prefs, including that hidden global prefs file.
I'm thinking it's a hardware problem, though.
EDIT: FWIW, here is the step-by-step for deleting that global prefs file and replacing it with a fresh copy:
1) Log in as an Administrator.
2) Create a new user account, called NewUser.
[The name isn't important, because you're going to delete this account when we're done].
2b) If the affected user account is not an administrator account, go ahead and make it one. You can revoke this privilege later, but it will make things easier for now.
3) Log out, and log back in as NewUser.
[This will initialize the account and create undamaged preferences.]
4) Log back out, and log in again as the user affected by the crashed (who, according to step 2b, is an Administrator).
5) Launch the "Terminal" application, located in /Applications/Utilities/
6) Type the following command (for all of the following, copy and paste):
cd ~/Library/Preferences/
7) Type this command:
rm .GlobalPreferences.plist
8) Type this command:
sudo cp /Users/NewUser/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist .
[it will ask for an administrator password to allow you to log in as root for this action]
9) Type this command -- DON'T COPY-PASTE THIS ONE! YOU NEED TO PUT YOUR OWN USERNAME:
sudo chown USERNAME .GlobalPreferences.plist
10) Log out.
10b) If you enabled Admin access on an account that shouldn't have it, log back in as an Administrator and disable that Admin access.
11) Delete the NewUser account.
12) Log out, and log in to the affected acount.
There will be some System Preferences you'll need to reset afterwards.

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