5th Gen iPod making a clicking sound

Try putting it into Disk Mode, and then restoring again. You put your iPod into disk mode by doing the following: press MENU + Center ( until Apple logo appears ) and than ( quickly ) press Center + Play/Pause.
Good Luck ! Darie

hey my iPod video just stared doing the exact same thing,


but its worse,


i get a Exclamation mark with a iPod icon, a low battery with that no smoking slash mark, then the apple logo, and then repeats over and over,

clicking sound,
light sup with a Exclamation mark along with a iPod icon,
lights off as it reboots
Low battery,
then all over again


and it doe snot show on my desk top., just gets hot and stays like this for hours.

I have the same thing going on with my iPod. Except now it is in Disk Mode and it won't restore anything. It is doing the clicking and now I have a "no smoking" sign and a Do Not Disconnect. I have tried everything that Apple says to do...any other suggestions.

Logic Pro,
I have had this problem about a few months ago, it started happening right after I opened my iPod ( and didn`t close it back together properly ). I have a hunch, that if the back case & the aluminum frame are not connected to the boards GND or - they cause the iPod to function this way. At your own risk, you can try to open it up. The only thing I have seen coming directly from the clickwheel assembly, is a small ribbon, that has an exposed portion of metal, that is pressed to the frame, in the middle-left side of the iPod. See if that`s properly connected, also, you might want to clean it up ( especially the back part ) CAREFULLY ( there might be fine dust/fibres preventing everything from making a good connection ).
!PS!: Be careful ... take extra time in disconnecting every single connector when pooping up back.
Good Luck, Darie

Well thanks Logic Pro.
Looks like I am going to Apple. I got the iPod into disk mode but it won't restore, keeps saying disk is busy. Now I have a check mark saying ok to disconnect. I even tried the disk that came with it and it didn't work. Maybe I am getting a new iPod now. Service is around $129.

same here, sad that they die in a year, i guess we can predict what we are investing into now other mps players are worse, they break down more but depending on the user he or she would still save more money then buying a iPod.

The battery does not seem to charge on this iPod, when i disconnect it from the USB port i notice nothing happens., dead as a door nail.

Finally, TIME FOR A NANO!

My wife has a older nano with those headphones that it hangs from apple makes.

i tell you, using a iPod video 30GB with a radio headset was nothing but problems, unless you want to drag around a semi hard drive a iPhone 3G with 80GB is the best bet., for me a nano with that head set is what i really needed all along, with a 2.5 HD.


thought to share that with you.

I'm having the same problem. A while back my dad cracked my iPod 5th gen video open to repair the broken screen. Shortly after he repaired it, my baby conked out. I get it into disk mode to restore it on iTunes 8 (which is the current and most recent update, and I've reinstalled more than once,) but I keep getting a message that says, "iPOd 'iPod' cannot be restored. Error code (1429)" or somthing along those lines. It's so frustruating, but I think there's a good probability that it's something internal that got shifted a little when my iPod was fixed, and is now corrupting it. If anyone else has had the same problem and has fixed it, please, PLEASE let me know. Thanks. Ashley.

i juts get the apple support ipod exclamation mark with a ipod icon

here it is:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1373?viewlocale=en_US

Has anyone gotten an Error 1429 message when this has happened to their iPod. The error comes up when you are trying to restore and it says that the iPod is busy?????

Hi

I have had these problems a lot of times, I just hate the "error 1429" message.
Try to reinstall Itunes, that has helped me every time.