Comments on: Fixing a Frozen iPod

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:35:11 +0000

The banging on the knee technique worked and I am not kidding. I know little to nothing about my ipod so when i saw that post that was the only thing i knew how to do lol. I smacked it on my knee and my hand a few times and bam it works again!

By: ray

ray — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:42:47 +0000

my years old but otherwise reliable ipod 20gb froze up and i could hear the “click of death”. apple support pages no good as couldnt reset it or reboot it.only getting apple logo followed by sadface etc. ipod not being recognised by itunes so i’m looking at a new ipod.didnt think smacking it around would work but i thought what the hell its broke anyway so what further damage can i do. smacked it a few times on my knee and hey presto its now working fine.so glad i looked at this webpage although my knee isnt.giving it a good smack really does work

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:33:55 +0000

Hey
The other day I was listening to music, and my ipod fell off my lap. Right after it froze, on a black screen with apple logo, however my music was still playing.After I unplugged the headphones the ipod refused to move. Menu and select doesn’t work. Nothing does, I’ve put it in itunes and tried to restore it, but still it’s still stuck on the apple logo. I really don’t know what to do anymore, the smacking technique doesn’t work neither does putting it into disk mode. Any help would be appreciated.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:36:02 +0000

1. turn off lock
2. hold menu and center buttons
3. dont let go for 6-10 seconds
4. see if apple sign is on screen
5. Hopefully you will be able to play

By: mm*

mm* — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:13:07 +0000

Heeeey. Ipod is doing my head in..
its a 4th generation nano, randomly listening to music..and it just froze on the current song, plus when i had it on the dock, it randomly shuffled ALL the time. Apparently its shuffle is better -_-
So i tried the reboot, menu + center button, but when it restarts all it shows is the apple icon, or sometimes the dead battery symbol, put it on the charger its just freezes…FML -_-
Literally tried everything, cd mode, whacking it a lot, which will likely bugger it up even more, a million and one websites, it sucks.
If anyone has any new sugestions :/ it would be fab because im going crazy. Feel like chucking it in the bin…cheers :)

By: blessy

blessy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:37:53 +0000

i read all your posts here, and i tried holding the menu and center button, after a while, an apple icon appeared and it all went back to normal… thank god! what a relief!

By: blessy

blessy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:32:46 +0000

i have a 5th gen ipod.. i was syncing some pictures. and my ipod was still plugged to the computer. i was scanning some pictures then when i got to the last pic, i clicked the center button, then it all went blue-ish, the kind when there’s a little light on the sides.. and everything froze there. can anyone help me, please??

By: Declan

Declan — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:35:38 +0000

Hey.
One day I disconnected my Ipod (possibly without waiting for the disconnection loading bar to finish) and all my Ipods songs and album artwork where deleted (everything that i had put in up till this point) but when I go over the settings options it still says I’ve only got 3.9 GB left in a 8 GB Ipod. this suggests that the data is still on the Ipod but just isn’t recognised. The ipod also doesn’t register on Itunes when I have the Ipod plugged in. I’ve tried multiple things including letting it run out of battery and trying to wipe the whole thing with the key combinations suggested in the other post but nothing has worked so far (maybe I havn’t used the combinations correctly?).
Can anyone help?
Cheers

By: em

em — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:21:44 +0000

Well i dropped my iPod in the toilet by accident and it immediately got flooded with water…. the screen got all fuzzy with black and white lines all over it- i shook my iPod up and down to get some of the water out; it worked a little then it got even fuzzier….my iPod is sitting in a jar of uncooked rice right now- my iPod is like dead-
and the biggest problem is that THE TOUCH SCREEN IS FROZEN AND IF I WANT TO TURN OFF MY IPOD, I OBVIOUSLY NEED TO SLIDE THE STUPID BUTTON TO TURN IT OFF!!!!!!!!!!!
SOOOOMEEEEONE PLLLLZZZZZZZ HELPPPPPPPP MEEEEEEEEEEEEE :( :( :( :(
I DONNNO WAT TO DO!

By: mandy

mandy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:54:45 +0000

yer, i plugged my 80g classic in. The interface went all old skool mac and stuck on ok to disconnect. did reset but back to silver apple logo. a ouple a slaps off the knee, not too hard and back, everything ther – good advice, ty all