iPod touch Volume Control Slider not working. Will it be fixed? Please fix

tailsthecat wrote:
all of this information is accurate and _*what most people are experiencing.*_

what makes you think that?


have you tried the troubleshooting steps? http://www.apple.com/support/ipodtouch/troubleshooting/ipodtouch/

im actually having the same problem as the one he described first my volume slings back even though the volume is raised also the foreward key does not work either also ive already restored numerous times but nothing

You're not crazy.

I'm having the same problem. Started today after syncing my iTouch with iTunes this morning.

As if that weren't maddening enough, now to get on here in the hopes of support, and find all these non-answers saying, "Did you read this?"

Sheesh... Might as well have a Zune (Microsoft product, duh!) for all the support you get on these forums.

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Actually Shubes, I can't speak for anyone else, but I never post 'just because I feel I have to respond.'
I post to help others. As do all the other people who come here (the ones without the problems).

And yes, i regularly post 'have you tried the troubleshooting steps,' because almost all the posts I am replying to do not describe what they have already tried, and the troubleshooting steps GENERALLY fix most problems - I do not believe this to be a 'non-answer' - I have never had a problem with my iPod touch that has not been fixed by following some if not all of those steps.
Everyone on here is at a different level of knowledge - sometimes even the most simple suggestions really help people out - if a post hasn't explained what they have already done, then we don't know what level they are at, and how much they know about the support pages on here.

You talk about 'canned responses' from Microsoft. I have read plenty threads on here which actually suggest that they have had similar unhelpful contact with the guys at Apple (I talk as a user of PCs and iPods.)

These are user forums, we're all users trying to help from our own experience. Responses like yours calling us 'drooling morons' (when you know nothing about any of us) and asking us to 'shut your trap and keep your idiocy to yourself' is frankly only going to put us off offering you advice.

You haven't said, have YOU tried the afore mentioned advice? Or have you just dismissed it as useless without even trying it?

I suddenly starting having this issue too. It was working fine (I play music and audiobooks), then when I started listening to new audiobook it acted up. At first, the slider was at about 3/4 of the way to the right. Then I went into my sound settings and played around with that for a while. I had left it at maximum volume. When I came back audiobook, the slider was almost all the way down towards the left and I couldn't slide it back up. There was no sound at all but I was able to use the hard controls on the side of the iPos to turn the volume back up. The slider still remains at the same position though.

After powering down and turning it back on, it seems to be working again. Hope it lasts.

i have the same problem after the 3.1.2 update. apple won't say anyhting about this.

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