frozen iPod, like frozen frozen

The Green Eyed Monster

I have an 80GB Video iPod, and it appears to be frozen. It's unresponsive to any inputs on the touchwheel, and the screen will not stop showing a backlit, frozen image of the "Now Playing" information of the song I had paused a little while ago. Basically I came home, went to go plug it in to my desktop to fiddle with some stuff, and then it stopped working. I've tried reconnecting the USB to see if that wakes it up, but still nothing happens.

I have a warranty on it, so I know I can just take it to the store to get this dealt with, but I was hoping maybe someone knew of a way to fix it and save me the trouble of an extra trip (and potential time without it while it's serviced). Since it's sitting here backlit, I assume the battery will die eventually, but does entirely killing one of these batteries hurt it or what?

Anyway, any help is appreciated, even if it's just "Sorry, no fix -- take it in."

pacbowl

This happened to one of my friends who has a nano. Try this

embrik

pacbowl wrote: »

This happened to one of my friends who has a nano. Try this

This should do it, it's worked for me before.

The Green Eyed Monster

embrik wrote: »

pacbowl wrote: »

This happened to one of my friends who has a nano. Try this

This should do it, it's worked for me before.

Beauty -- that did it.

Thanks so much!

ProPatriaMori

Because it's already been solved, I'd like to point out that I'm disappointed that your iPod wasn't in a block of ice.

To try to be somewhat helpful even if you don't come back to this thread ever: knowing the reset is damn handy. Knowing how to smack the hard drive back into operation is also handy--I have a 3G iPod that now resides solely in my car because if I move it around the hard drive will usually get wonked again and I have to spend another five minutes slamming it on something before the read head will work right again.

Those are the most common iPod maladies I know of.