Just dropped my ipod...

I'd take it back. If you dropped it from 2 feet onto carpet and it broke it sounds like it is a defective piece of electronics. An mp3 player shouldn't be that delicate (my fiance's certainly is not).

 

Is it a Nano or what?

The older ones use HDs that aren't ment to be jostled.

 

I dropped my first iPod onto a hard surface and it broke. Well, the buttons stopped working and it effectively became useless. I went to the apple store and the 'genius' there took it, looked at it for like 5 seconds and said "ya, you dropped this, nothing we can do, unless you have applecare, or you want to spend (fairly large amount of money)"

Now, the thing is, that was because there was a dent on the back, so he clearly knew it had been mishandled. If there is no physical damage to the frame, you very well may be able to get it replaced by going into any apple store and saying that it just stopped working one day or something like that.

As for mp3 players 'should' being able to withstand a drop to concrete on a run. That's kinda dubious, they have hard drives, it would be very difficult to make them that durable without making them way too bulky to fit in your pocket(defeats the 'on a jog' part) or even around your neck/arm.

Both the nano and the shuffle could most likely withstand a drop while jogging, but you're asking quite a lot from a portable HD to do such.

 

The Nano uses a flash drive. So it should be able to withstand the hit.

I wouldn't advise it... but...

Trust me. I got 50/50 on a paper about iPods.

I'm in the class right now... on TalkBass.

 

Tried rebooting it? I think you hold the middle button and menu for 10 seconds. SOmething like that. It could just need to be reset (cross your fingers)

 

That's what I would suggest trying. Hold the Play/Pause and the Menu button for about ten seconds and it should reboot. I've seen that solve problematic ipods before so it is worth a shot.

 

hmmm interesting. I was using my ipod mini one day and it just froze, it was playing "car wash" and when the song was over, the screen indicated the song was still playing, only stuck in the middle of the song somewhere, but the counter wasen't moving....

all the controls were useless. the padlock icon was on which indicated it was on hold, but moving the hold button was useless.

Good thing I bought it at Costco.......I try and make all my electronic purchases there because of the refund policy is so bitchin.

Here's the funny part, when my ipod froze while playing the song "car wash" (I was learning it for a gig) ...........I was actually at the car wash waiting for my car to get done. too weird. I upgraded to an ipod 20GB, we'll see what happens next time...........

 

Sony Network Walkman

This is taken directly from the site:

I believe this is the best mp3 player by far. Beats iPod in lots of categories.

 

Let the iPod bateries drain completely and then when you recharge it see if it works. Its worked for me the couple of times Ive bumped mine too hard.

 

This is pretty much the same as performing a reset. The ipod never turns off, it only 'sleeps'. A reset or completely draining the batteries means the ipod gets to start up fresh and happy.

 

No, I mean draining it completely to the point that the clock resets.

It's happened to me where a reset wouldnt work since the buttons were not working at all and thats what I did to fix it.

 

That's interesting...I've got a 4gb Mini, and it has sustained several drops, accidental of course, onto pavement prior to a protective case...Works with no problems...

 

HOLY ****ING ****! MY IPOD IS BACK FROM THE DEAD!


This is terrific!

I read nick's post and thought "whoa... my broken iPod has been sitting in a bin unused for almost a year now, its battery is definitely 100% exhausted. I plugged it in, sure enough... it chirped an beeped a little strangely, but the buttons work again!

wooohooo!!

My replacement 40 GB was stolen, so I was seriously missing having iPod action. Oh boy

 

Im awesome.

 

Golly, yes - I'd suggest all iPod users be aware of how to do a reset. IIRC, Apple advises toggling the lock switch a couple of times before holding down the menu and play buttons (for 3G pod). Consult documentation or Apple website to be sure, but by all means - learn it, know it, live it! I've never owned a computer that didn't have to be rebooted - it's something that's going to happen eventually to just about every iPod, I suspect. It's happened to me two or three times - no dropping involved.

 

As a former Apple employee, there has been some good advice on this forum - secretdonkeys advice of "if you own an iPod, you should know how to reset it" is too true. Your iPod WILL need to be reset at some stage, no matter how well you look after it. Knowing how to reset it on the fly will stop you from being one of those stupid morons who flips out when their iPod freezes/stops playing/goes flat and who makes an ugly scene about how much you paid for your iPod and its not working etc, even though you have only had it for a nominated period of time, but have never read the manual about how to use it.

Running the battery completely dead is also good advice - sometimes the internal battery can get frizzed and needs to be reset by draining and recharging. Leaving the iPod connected to your computer while it sleeps is the quickest way to drain its battery if it cannot play music.

And a final thing, if your iPod has a hard drive DO NOT GO RUNNING/JOGGING/ROLLERBLADING/POLE VAULTING WITH IT - Apple says not to! It's a great way to stuff your iPod up - buy a shuffle if you need music to do these activities, as they do not have a hard drive and can handle constant shocks.

My grandfather used to say "stupid people can drive too" - my experience shows they also own an iPod, but have no idea about how it works.