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ApexMirage
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My iPod has taken a turn for the worse, and I've got a couple of questions.
I'm essentially calling it a total loss because at this point every movement I make flickers the sound on the right side of the headphones and it's driving me completely mad, preventing me from enjoying my music.
- The headphone jack has gotten loose - the connection now only reliably plays on the left side of my headphones. The jack jiggles both side to side and in/out by about 1mm. Is there any way I could possibly fix this myself? It's easily at least 3 years old, an 80 gig video.
- If I really am screwed, is it possibly to copy my old ipod's files/playlists over to the new one without actually losing anything, or does apple have somekind of 'feature' preventing that?
- I'm fairly sure that this was caused by my new headphones and their considerably larger and more protruding jack:
I used to have my ipod in my front pants pocket, which was no problem with my old headphones as they were had a standard size jack. However, the pocket wasn't big enough to accommodate the new jack's size, pushing it around side to side while walking and whatnot, which I can only assume caused this. Should I take extra precautions with any future ipods, or was this simply the last straw to a problem that was bound to occur?
I'm essentially calling it a total loss because at this point every movement I make flickers the sound on the right side of the headphones and it's driving me completely mad, preventing me from enjoying my music.
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If you get a Touch, you should be fine. But it sounds like it wouldn't meat your storage reqs.
Despite the shitty phone jack, the Sony Pro's are the best goddamn headphones in the universe, the fact that they are nigh-indestructible is just an added bonus.
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Haha no, I actually only had like 250 megs left on it too =p
I did this to my old iPod.
I tried with paper, avoiding the actual contact points - It didnt help as it's the entire plastic part of the jack moving around the case. There isn't actually enough space to put anything in between the jack and the case or I'd have tried. Also I was kind of afraid of having a piece break off and get stuck in there D=
This is amazing. My nano's port only works for one ear so I guess I should go try this.
Apple won't even attempt to fix it for me.
This happened to me when mine was still under applecare - the connector pins get dislodged or moved around or bent or whatever, so i guess the tin foil is making contact with them and keeping the circuit together. They didn't fix mine at the store - they just RMA'd it and gave me another one. They said the problem can be made worse/caused by leaving your headphones plugged in and wrapping the cords around the ipod - i guess because the act of wrapping it and keeping it like that creates tension which bends the pins?
Umm that doesn't quite look like a legit site. Googling gave me http://www.getsharepod.com/ which is what I assume you meant. Looks good though, thanks.
I gave this an actual try, and it more or less works. My original idea with the paper was to wedge the thing into place, but I guess the idea here is actually conductivity. I'm still worried about losing pieces in there though, and having to carry foil around won't be any fun (I use my headphones for more than just my ipod and I'm just gonna switch out the foil to preserve it's structural integrity)
Thanks for the help guys
edit: Also very surprisingly, quality doesn't seem to have taken a hit, which is a huge plus.
That is exactly what i did
Yeah, my headphones were doing the same thing whenever I wiggled the iPod around and I learned that licking the connection before putting it back in made the connection much stronger, but pulling the cable out to lick it every 10min or whatever wasn't cutting it for me. But I figurede if licking it makes the thing connect to metal better maybe I could just try wrapping the connector in foil, which eventually fell off and just got lodged into the headphone jack...but it worked so, cool.
Also, it sound like your headphone port has come loose from it's solder, the only way to permanently fix that is to open it up and resolder the jack to the board it's on, and then maybe put something in there to keep it stable. If you don't feel like doing that and getting a newer, larger iPod, you should be able to sell the old one fairly easily, on ebay or craigslist.
If you want to move everything from an iPod to a new PC.
Plug in.
Enable disk use
Show hidden files
Make sure that the option to have itunes organise your music is ticked.
copy all your music from E:/ - iPod of Woe - (the hidden file, and then music, possibly images/movies too) in that stupid ipod notation onto the hard disk.
Consolidate library.
Done.
Hopefully this is the case.
OP and everyone else - some people seem to think it's clever to put all their music on an iPod then delete it all off the computer to save hard disk space but it's pretty much guaranteed that doing this will cause you to lose all of your music when the iPod inevitably dies.
Teslan's suggestion would leave you with a bunch of files with names made of gibberish, but Ramen Noodle's link will work just fine.
In other news, the foil thing is a no-go. It's a marginal improvement at best and and fumbling around with the foil is insanely impractical.
=(
Yes and no - once consolidated your music library will be arranged perfectly in the itunes bit of your music folder, but you will need to delete the original stuff that you copy/pasted (at least as far as I remember, no iPod or iTunes on this pooter to double check)
This file names themselves would be gibberish, but itunes will desplay the correct song and order. I had to do this last year and.... it's kind of annoying because it makes you rely on itunes that much more but, if you use itunes anyway, I say its worth a shot.
Well, here is the thing. All my files in itunes are named properly - and I ripped them from my own iPod.
There is an option, and this is important, to have itunes arrange all your music for you. When that is clicked it renames and fixes all those gibberish files to appropritteness when you consolidate. Did this when I gave all my music to my uncle too, there is DEFINITELY a way.
You know, I never realized that box wasn't checked. I'm trying that now.
edit: what do you know? It worked like a charm
Well in that case, I think you can buy a replacement HeadPhone Jack for not too much.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=ipod+headphone+jack+replacement&btnG=Search
http://www.irepair.ca/Headphone-Jacks_c_34-1.html
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I can vouche for the site, I have personally had my ipod repaired there (headphone jack) and my friend repaired a cracked screen there. Very legit, recommended by ilounge.com
my headphone problem was identical to yours, its caused by longer plugs, applying side pressure breaks loose the connections inside over time, smaller jacks less likely to cause this problem as applying the pressure is harder. Don't fret yet, your pod is not dead.
Smoke came out of my first ipod after 4 years of use and they took it back no questions asked and no receipt, so I figure I'll give it another shot.
Right now. Doing the victory dance. Oh yeya.
You have no idea how hard it was to stop myself from spiking my ipod into the ground and doing the chicken dance.