Comments on: What to do with a Dead iPod

By: DuffmanWdeadipod

DuffmanWdeadipod — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:24:48 +0000

What about if my ipod tell me nothing but an exclamation poin (!) inside a triangle an a picture of an ipod with a face like this… x_x
is ther someway i can get my music back? :/

By: Pumpkinn16

Pumpkinn16 — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:14:36 +0000

I’m liking the paper-weight idea!

By: Denis

Denis — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:27:47 +0000

I have a 20GB ipod and its battery is completely dead, so as you said I want to use it just for the car. It works, but the thing is that now I can’t add anymore music to it! when i connect it to the computer the “charging battery” icon appears and the ipod never starts up since the battery holds literaly cero charging. When it was new the ipod waited to have a a minimal amount of charge before starting up and connect to the computer but now that minimum amount just never comes along so it never get recognized by the computer. Also, I cant use it as a portable hard drive for the same reason.
Do you have any ideas on how to go around this problem??

By: Ellie

Ellie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:57:05 +0000

My iPod Photo has a different problem. The battery is fine, the backlight is fine, and I can hear the songs. There is light on the screen but no writing. No menu shows up, no letters on the screen. Does anyone have any idea what happened?

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:37:37 +0000

Ha, everything on that list is a smart idea! thanks

By: kelly

kelly — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:18:43 +0000

if you have a small ipod u can make a cool thumbdrive out of it.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:55:47 +0000

There is a simpler method to measure the height of a building using a dead iPod, and it’s not destructive, and it doesn’t require any knowledge of physics or math. Just go find the owner of the building and say, “Hey, if you tell me the height of your building, I will give you this dead iPod.”

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:32:06 +0000

Mine won’t work with or without a battery in this case-it just says please wait very low battery.
I can’t access it via hard disk mode or update/format it in any way. I do want some of the tunes i had on it, some of the functionality back, but honestly the Geek in me wants to figure out and resolve the issue.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:38:05 +0000

You either keep it plugged into your computer with a USB cable, or, if it’s
external, plug a charger into a dock in which you place the iPod. In both cases,
it’ll get the power it needs. In the latter case, it can be a source for a stereo or
for portable speakers from the dock.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:02:20 +0000

I have an iPod Classic 160 GB.

How does one implement the below? Doesn’t it require you to have the iPod connected to a power source independent of the battery like a power adapter and to your computer at the same time? How does one do that? Thank you.

"Another way to use an iPod sans battery is to use it as a music source for iTunes on your computer, at home or at work. If you manually copy music to the iPod (which you can still do, even without a battery, as long as the iPod is connected to power), you can then connect the iPod to any computer running iTunes and play its music back, browsing, using playlists, or simply selecting songs, exactly as if it were an iTunes music library on that computer."

By: mb

mb — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:29:30 +0000

Take it to you nearest apple store with some cash and get a new ipod with a
10% price reduction…..sorry, shuffles are excluded.

My first gen is about to become "the wife’s" Touch.

By: Grubbi

Grubbi — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:27:30 +0000

After 3 years of abusing my ipod mini, throwing it, bashing it, leaving it in the bottom of my bag underneath amazingly heavy maths books, etc, it died, not just dead battery died but froze, wouldn’t unfreeze, tried connecting it to a computer, did nothing for 4 hours, tried pressing the buttons, then this little screen came on of a picture of an ipod with a face, the eyes xed out, i looked this up on the apple site and it basically meant that it was stuffed, so I told my friends that we were going to have some fun up on the top of the school grandstand, i brought my dead ipod mini, showed them the dead screen, stood it on the top step of the grandstand and kicked with all my might, then people saw and I had a crowd of people helping destroy it and taking pieces that came off, there were 40 ore 50 people, it was completely insane.

By: r_bebeau

r_bebeau — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:46:15 +0000

well my ipod went bottom up on me. the hard drive gave out. here are the ideas i came up with.

1. you can take it abart and use it as a wallet. it holds cash or cards.

2. use it as a piggy bank. the slot at the bottom is great for puting coins in.

3. paint it! nothing looks better on your desk then a tydye ipod.

4. take it abart and put a cheap mp3 in it. kinda dumb but looks funny.

5. take it abart and put a phone in it.

6. (this is what i did) if you have a big enof ipod you can fit a phone and an mp3. budget iphone! this as the two above takes some doing. so eather know what your doing or move on.

7. two words. fire crakers

thats about all i came up with

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:09:53 +0000

You should go report it at the Planned Obsolete website–they are keeping track of dead iPods, digital cameras, etc. that were purposely designed to fail, hence the website: http://www.designedtobreak.com.

By: zafo

zafo — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:08:37 +0000

I had a 2G iPod where the PC foil came loose from the PC board at the headphone jack. The charge would have been $150 to have it re-bonded, but they couldn’t guarantee that it would work. So I got a new iPod!

I did a variation on your backup hard drive. I found a slick little USB 2.0 case for $12 and put the iPod 20 GB hard drive into it. I now use it as an Ubuntu Linux drive for my work notebook computer. Even the Grub boot loader is on there, so the IT guys from work cannot see any personal files. It works great.

zafo