Shut down iPod Classic

Hhhmmm!

Your post set me on a quest to see this for myself and so off to YouTube I bravely marched. Mission accomplished, but frankly, I'm at a loss to understand the benefit. Perhaps you could enlighten me.

The procedure shown in the YouTube video involves six steps and took one person 39 seconds and another person 55 seconds to achieve (excluding turning on the Hold key). It's especially fiddly when trying to scroll down to the Power option. It took 49 seconds on my iPod Classic and since there is no option for "Sleep Forever", I used the "Deep Sleep" option instead. It then takes one minute and 27 seconds for the iPod to re-boot when one decides that there is a desperate need to listen to some music.

My suggestion takes two seconds and involves only one step (or two, if one sensibly turns on the Hold key). Power up is immediate since it does not involve a re-boot (re-start) of the iPod.

What am I missing?

Stonerock wrote:

Haha, I like how you write all those just to ask for an explanation.

Hehe!

So presumably, you don't value the information I have supplied then. You certainly have a long winded way of seeking information that you didn't need anyway.

There is a standard procedure for Resetting an iPod Classic if it is not behaving properly.

Turn the Hold switch on then off again and press-and-hold the Menu and Select (centre) buttons together for at least ten seconds. This will cause the iPod to restart, during which time it will display the Apple logo for a short while. This is the same restart that occurs when you power back on after the "sleep forever".

Three steps and approximately one minute 35 seconds.

You can press-and-hold the Play button, which will turn the display off and put the iPod into sleep. To turn it on again, simply press a button.That's all it requires.

You don't need to do any more than put it to sleep.

With more complex iPods, such as the iPod Touch, even when it's asleep, it is still using power running apps. No apps on iPod Classic.