4GB nano repeatedly killing Monster iCar, Griffin, now iFusion?
I bought a 4GB iPod nano in september with the Monster iCar am/fm stereo adapter off the apple website. I set everything up per the instructions and it worked fairly nice for roughly 3 weeks and then one day the iCar adapter stopped transmitting anything, the ipod continued to recieve a charge through it and the stereo went from static to silence when the ipod was plugged in, just no music, no matter any volume.. ok, return - replace. Also, tested friends iPod with it and got same behavior - he has had his own monster iCar for an ipod mini going on over a year now no problem.
While waiting for the Monster iCar stereo adapter to be replaced I ended up picking myself up a Griffin stereo adapter which I liked better with the telescoping arm.. again, 3-4 weeks of flawless playback and then suddenly one day exact same behavior - silence, no sound no matter volume. replaced the griffen easily at target and the new one worked.. now the second one stopped working one day. worked the next day and then hasnt worked since. its dead all over again.
At this point I'm beginning to believe I have extremely bad luck with my car stereo adapters. However, for Xmas I also recieved an iFusion portable speaker system to use while im at work. in the past several days it has become flakey, sometimes it will not work once the nano is plugged in and I have to wait awhile before trying again and its fine.
I've reset my ipod nano a few times during all this, yes i'm positive i've checked my volume settings, i've tried other ipods with the same devices and once the device is dead, its dead for everyone. I cannot see any damage to the connectors. in every case, the ipod continues to recieve a charge from the device, just no music. with the stereo transmitters(griffin/monster), the device is clearly transmitting since turning it on results in static to nothing and yes, i've tried changing the stations it transmits on.
has anyone else seen this? are all these accessory devices for ipod truly flakey? is the nano really killing things? perhaps a voltage problem? I realize the Griffin did not specify it was compatible with the Nano explicitly but the Monster was sold on Apples website as a nano accessory and the iFusion advertises compatibility... but still, any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.
While waiting for the Monster iCar stereo adapter to be replaced I ended up picking myself up a Griffin stereo adapter which I liked better with the telescoping arm.. again, 3-4 weeks of flawless playback and then suddenly one day exact same behavior - silence, no sound no matter volume. replaced the griffen easily at target and the new one worked.. now the second one stopped working one day. worked the next day and then hasnt worked since. its dead all over again.
At this point I'm beginning to believe I have extremely bad luck with my car stereo adapters. However, for Xmas I also recieved an iFusion portable speaker system to use while im at work. in the past several days it has become flakey, sometimes it will not work once the nano is plugged in and I have to wait awhile before trying again and its fine.
I've reset my ipod nano a few times during all this, yes i'm positive i've checked my volume settings, i've tried other ipods with the same devices and once the device is dead, its dead for everyone. I cannot see any damage to the connectors. in every case, the ipod continues to recieve a charge from the device, just no music. with the stereo transmitters(griffin/monster), the device is clearly transmitting since turning it on results in static to nothing and yes, i've tried changing the stations it transmits on.
has anyone else seen this? are all these accessory devices for ipod truly flakey? is the nano really killing things? perhaps a voltage problem? I realize the Griffin did not specify it was compatible with the Nano explicitly but the Monster was sold on Apples website as a nano accessory and the iFusion advertises compatibility... but still, any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.
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