saulrosenbaum.com / It Lives

So I haven’t mentioned it but my Ipod died, it’s really been bugging me, because I really babied it and the darn thing lives in a waterproof ballistic acrylic case, so I would have though it was somewhat immune to the typical issues that plaque Ipods. Now I know that Ipods are essentially a consumable item that even under ideal conditions would probably only last 2 years or so, but I totally wasn’t done with mine yet, and it appeared to be fixable, and that generally turns my OCD on high - if it WAS fixable - I had to fix it:

• I could get it to mount in Itunes.
• I could reformat it via Itunes.
• I just couldn’t put any music on it, and it seriously hung any machine I connected it to.
• I was never aware of the drive whir before, but I now was.

Over and over I tried restoring, reboot, resetting the little beast always with the same result, on a whim — I hooked my shiny white brick to my PC, after a few moments I get the message I knew was coming — I needed to reformat my Ipod for windows use, with literally nothing to lose I moved forward - 15 minutes later and I’m listening to the newest episode of Coverville on my resurrected ipod (although it looks slightly less white to me now) I won’t even begin to understand what the PC accomplished that the Mac wasn’t able, but I honestly don’t care, Itunes on the PC is fine by me, you won’t hear me complain, and I certainly won’t hear you - I have earbuds in…

UPDATE (7.07.07): It IS actually working - but it’s still seems to stop mid-track occasionally and it seems fine, the podcast itself was truncated.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE (7.08.07): It’s dead… plain simple dead, I thought it was okay, but it failed on the resync several times.

Tagged: Ipod Battery, Ipod Repair, Ipod Repair Success Story