Locked iPod
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- HumanMale0
All you've gotta do is click the hold button on and then off (so i'ts not holding) and hold down the Menu button and the Select button (that's the one in the middle) for as long as it takes (it's always longer than the quoted 6 seconds). The Apple logo will appear, then it restarts...
Don't hold them down too hard, cause it's easy to press more than one button by accident if you do.
Piece of piss... like other people have already said. A lot.
- chameleonic0
um.
make sure it's connected to either your computer via firewire, or to the power supply.
flip hold on then off then hold the menu and select button together for about 5 seconds. if that doesn't work, try the same with menu and play (after flicking hold.)
do it do it do it
- swollenelbow0
press pause and play for 5 second if you're on a 3rd gen ipod. it will "reboot"
- radar0
does it do anything when you connect it to your computer?
- gruntt0
you may have activated the "clapper." Try clapping your hands a couple of times.
- Jaline0
haha, on that note, you should also try and do other actions with your various body parts. just in case.
- de4k0
if holding play/pause down won't turn it off.
wait till bettery dies and then re-charge your problem should be fixed.did happen to me when a banana fingered friend was pawing at the buttons with all the tenderness of a drunk rhino.
- JazX0
take it back to the store so they can reformat it
- radar0
I read on Apple support if you put it down your pants for 10 minutes it will overheat and automatically reboot.
- gruntt0
have you tried verbally abusing it and then after a few minutes apologizing to it, promising it will never happen again?
- Ramanisky20
play/pause doesnt work because its completely locked
put it down my pants.....that didnt work
yelled at it and then told it that I was sorry and that it would never happen again.....that didnt work
tried the clap on clap off..... that didnt work
- JazX0
smack it three times like the Fonz did in Happy Days.
- Ramanisky20
did that too
dammit ...I just bought the Goddamn thing back in December
- gruntt0
flick the hold button back a forth a few times.
and/or
"To unlock it, reset it by holding down the Menu and Play buttons on the first three generations of iPods (or the Play and Select button on the mini and fourth-generation iPod) for about six seconds." - article here... http://playlistmag.com/help/2004…
- radar0
I have had mine lock up like that, and I just plugged it into a wall charger, and once it recieved a full charge it worked fine?
- JazX0
when plugging in and out of your computer, make sure you are ejecting it via software. unless the locked button is the issue..?
- QuincyArcher0
happened to my mini once...as soon as the battery died, i recharged it, and it seemed happy enough.
- Ramanisky20
Menu & Select button worked
thanks a bunch everyone
bye bye Dr Greenthumb
- blindpilot0
get a knife and threaten to cut it