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User profile for user: LOck-doWN
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My Ipod Wont DO ANYTHING AT ALL!

This isnt like other peoples problems where they forgot to turn off the lock or all they needed to do is reset.....that is not my problem...At first it was not doing anything except going into a screen saying please wait very low abttery but it wouldnt charge at all no matter how long i left it....then i brought it over to a friends house and used his ac charger and finally it started to work then we went on the ocmputer and it was registering in iTunes....finally i thought my luck was improving but suddenly it all went downhill....iTunes said that i should update my ipods software to version 1.24 i believe and i said 'Update'. It then reseted my ipod and showed the loading screen for updates...the apple logo and a bar that fills on the bottom. But after about 20 sec it stopped filling the bar and the backlight went out and wouldnt come back on. I waited for about 30 min and it still hadnt done anything so i had nothing to do except to do a reset. I reset it and suddenly it would do anything at all....it was fully charged at the time so i know it has battery power but it wont turn on, reset, show the apple logo, go into diagnostic....it wont do anything but show a blank screen.....not a powered blank screen ....no just a screen of the ipod when it is turned off...no apple logo....i cant eset it or do anything. I think that the OS or firmware was just fried and now it has no commands that are registered at all....it doesnt even know how to boot up. Also my warranty just ran out a month ago(how convenient). I don't think that anyone can fix this at all. So dont tell me to reset it. Also the lock isnt on.

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Posted on Jan 16, 2008 10:55 PM

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User profile for user: RorySMiller
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Jan 17, 2008 1:14 PM in response to EAV10 xB

My older 4th gen ipod did the EXACT same thing your's has done. It won't do anything now!

It seems lots of people on here have had troubles stemming from trying to restore (or is that reset, the one you do in itunes) their ipod after downloading the recent new itunes.

Mine's a brick now too! And of course, no warrantee left on it.
Did you recently download the new itunes too?
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User profile for user: kkilman
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Jan 18, 2008 3:56 PM in response to paganblood

I have the same problem as well with my fifth generation video. I also got the message to update my ipod's software, did that, got the status bar and everything seemed to be going well. I got the message that my ipod needed to restart. Now the black apple logo screen is flashing and the ipod is making funky clicking noises. My computer doesn't even recognize that the ipod is connected to it. Out of warranty, of course...
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User profile for user: Scott P.
Scott P.
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Jan 20, 2008 6:34 PM in response to LOck-doWN

So...
when you went to a friend's and plugged it in to an AC charger it charged, correct? And it wouldn't charge when connected to your computer? And after charging it with an AC charger, you then did several things including update the firmware.

Try borrowing the AC charger again. Or use the power brick that came with the iPod and the connector cable that came with the iPod to charge it.

-When plugging it in to your computer, are you using firewire or USB?
-Have you applied any hacks to your iPod?
-Software you downloaded from the web (not Apple)?
-Illicit games from p2p?
-Are you using a third party (non Apple) application to manage music?

I'm asking a lot of questions, but that's because my 1G, 3G, 4G, and 5G iPods are all working fine, so I really doubt the firmware update from Apple did it.

That it wouldn't charge from the computer leads me to think that there is something either that you are doing or that the iPod is not doing that is preventing it from charging.
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User profile for user: LOck-doWN
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Jan 21, 2008 1:54 PM in response to Scott P.

first of all i did test the ac charger and it did nothing. i havent done anything to do with homebrew or any games. i have only used itunes, and i have kept good care of it. i have nvr done any hacks to it. the things started acting weird one time that i charged it but then like i said it started working fine until it was doing a firmware update where it completely died. it is not the battery and it would still do something even if for only a second if it was the HDD but it didnt even do anything. so it must be the circuit baord got fried hen i updatd it.
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User profile for user: Dis_Is_Nuts
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Jan 21, 2008 4:22 PM in response to LOck-doWN

I tried to connect my IPOD to my computer. The "Do no disconnect" screen came up. Then it just stopped. My iTUnes never opened the summary page. It won't turn off or anything. It's been frozen for 3 hours. I tried plugging it back into the computer, but iTunes still didn't open the summary page. My computer made the connected sound, but my IPOD is still frozen.
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User profile for user: Musashi Strebe
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Jan 22, 2008 3:29 PM in response to LOck-doWN

I'm also having the same problem with my 5th Gen.
Everything worked perfectly until I lost my iPod at school. Once I got it back (a miracle in itself), I noticed it wouldn't power on. I figured I'll just charge it in the car. After a long while charging through the car, I tried playing a song. It goes into the song screen (where your song info appears with the time bar), but the time bar doesn't move. It's the same deal with video. And then the iPod dies.
Back home, I try to connect to iTunes, but I get the Do Not Disconnect icon, it freezes, and I have to reset. Meanwhile, iTunes doesn't see a thing. Then the iPod goes into Very Low Battery, and it's stuck at that since.
A couple things I found out about the condition of the iPod:
Diagnostics mode doesn't work. I've tried many times to get into DM, but it just doesn't work.
Starting up in Disk mode lets me connect to my computer. From there I proceeded to restore. After restoring though, things are still messed up, so it's not a software problem.
Charging through the wall *kind of* works, while charging through the computer doesn't seem to work at all.

I should also mention that whenever I'm charging the iPod, the battery indicator shows the right icon (battery with lightning). But when I disconnect, the entire battery icon disappears. IE, no battery icon, no lightning icon, nothing.

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