[Unknown Target]

Hey, another help request

Anyway, I'm out mowing my lawn listening to my iPod. I've got a riding mower, and it vibrates a lot as it's cutting the grass.
Well, a song comes on that I can't really hear, so I reach down and try to change the volume. The problem is, is that the iPod's click wheel now skips, i.e; I rotate it to the volume, take my finger off, and it snaps  up or down a couple decibals. I get the same problem in other areas of the iPod's menus, where I'm cycling the click wheel, but it's like it loses my finger tip, then picks it up, jumping whatever I was doing to another location.

Any help? I turned it off and plugged it into the charger. Have I permanently damaged it?

[Solatar]

I had a similiar problem (cross country running for a few hours with it in my pocket), but it seems to have since gone away.  Not sure exactly what I did to it though...might try an iPod help forum.

[Grey Wolf]

The only thing I could think of that you could have done to it is somehow damage the hard drive.

[Solatar]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there aren't any moving parts that could be damaged except the spinny part on the hardrive, are there (not counting the "hold" button, )?

[Unknown Target]

Well, the songs and all play correctly, it's just the wheel is messed up.

[Bobboau]

ok sence your on a rideing lawn mower this'll be a bit easier.

step one:remove the Ipod from your pokect or what ever it's in.

step two:engage the mower's blade and put it into gear (make sure you have a few feet in front of you)

step three:remove the earphones (as they may be somewhat useful at some point in time) and through the Ipod directly infront of the mower, continue untill you hear a loud crunching sound, then emediately stop.

step four: ower the blade, (make sure you do this in some out of the way part of your lawn BTW, you don't want people to see the mess and know you owned an Ipod at one point, also you are going to want to lower the blade as far as it will go wich will most likely kill the grass there but it's well worth it)

step five: back over it a few times, go back and forth over the spot untill you don't hear any more crunching sound anymore.

step six put the mover away and get about a gallon of gas, pour it into the soil were you mulched the Ipod. be sure to leave a long trail of gass away from the area from wich to light it from, be at least ten feet away (preferably with some sort of baracade between to and the blast zone) and then light it, you will hear a loud WOOSH! telling you it worked.

step seven: get some garlic and some steaks (the wooden kind) try to find the vile thing's heart and steak it, as it will likely be in multable peases at this point you will most likely need more than one, blend a few cloves of garlic into the ground. this will make sure it stays dead.

step eight: plant an Elder tree in this area, you may need to do this a few times untill all the gass and the evil ora from the Ipod has disapated enough for anything to grow within a 20 foot radius, but this is important you don't want to end up haunted or have someone you know possesed by its wicked anti-sole.

step nine: if it is a requierment of your faith and you haven't done so already you will need to make sure to arainge for a confesion about the origonal purchaseing of the Ipod

step ten: (while you are doing the previus step would be a good time for this if aplicable) contact a preist/rabi/imam/whatever and tell them what you did, and were the beast lays, they'll be over to take all of the remaining rituals in a short amount of time.

step eleven: just to be sure you may want to buy a few protective items like a dream catcher or something.

step twelve: go out and spend thirty bucks on an MP3 capable CD player, burn all your music to one or two 20 cent CDRs.

that should just about solve your problem.

[HeX]

Little resentful of the iPod pricing are we Bob?

[WMCoolmon]

[beatspete]

Originally posted by Bobboau
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My centiments exactly.

"I know, lets all buy the same thing!"

[Bobboau]

Originally posted by HeX
Little resentful of the iPod pricing are we Bob?

not so much it's priceing, but it's exsistence. though, I supose, if an Ipod was..$10 I guess I wouldn't have a problem with them, but as it stands it (and in fact all RAM based mp3 players) are just rediculusly stupid.

[diamondgeezer]

My brother just got a nice MP3 player off of Ebay for about 30 squids. Reckon I'll be getting one for me

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[HeX]

Meh, I likes my minidisc player. Got it for free from my friend cause he bought a new one with direct upload instead of having to record each song to the discs.

200 dollar piece of electronica free is good with me.

[Ford Prefect]

The iPod is the most beautiful piece of technology ever conceived. I love mine like it's my own child. Discman? How can you compare the two? The iPod totally eliminates the need to carry any CDs at all.

[Ransom]

I hate discmen. But I also hate the iPod, because mine died and refuses to work and it's got my Clan Lord install on it.

[Bobboau]

too bad it only holds one CD's worth of music.

[Ford Prefect]

Dude, it holds 20-40 gigs, depending on what version. What are you talking about? I have every CD I own on mine, and it's taking up about 5% of the space.

[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by Bobboau
too bad it only holds one CD's worth of music.

What the **** are you on?

My iPod has a 20 gig hard drive, and I've only got 700 megs of music on there--but that's two hundred songs. You try putting THAT on one CD!

[Nuke]

i got the 40 gig. this is the 4th mp3 player ive owned and is so far the best one. cept for the fact that it looks totally gay its actrually a nice piece of hardware. my first mp3 player was a hip zip 40 gig. it was good, had decent battery life and didnt skip at all. i took it to the pawn shop to feed my crack addiction i had at the time. my second mp3 player was a 20gig archos. it was my least favorite. it skipped , and woldnt work if it got too warm (me being in phoenix at the time didnt help either). the music browser was just too simple for a device that can hold several days worth of music. it had a couple features the ipod didnt, such as a digital out port and recording capability. dispite the dubber corders the thing dies when i had too much weed and dropped it on the concrete outside the pawn shop i was working at (the same pawn shop that gave me 2 8balls for my prvious mp3 player). at the demise of that mp3 player i went to bestbuy and picked up a rather ugly samsung mp3 compatable cd player. it was actuqally pretty durable. its been dropped, kicked, thrown and so on, and it still works today and sits in my closet. i only burned a few discs for it. it was adequit but it lacked storage ability, skipped like a motherphucker (dispite 128 second skip protection). batery life wasnt too bad and it was definately a bang for my buck purchase. the ipod i bought in october sometime. mainly cause i wanted an external harddrive for backup, and of course to store my thousands of mp3s. it actually has a decenf mp3 browser. however the software is kinda lame. apple has a sick sad history of overpricing its hardware. 400 bucks is for an mp3 player, my archos cost exactly half that. the hipzip i got for 90 and the mp3 cd player cost me about 35. i was contemplating buying an mp3 capable pda, but decided against it. none the less i like the ipod. its a very capable little device.

im still waiting for mp4 players to come out.

[mikhael]

Bob must be thinking of the iPod Shuffle.

I love the iPod's UI (the 4th generation click wheel) and the instant on. I bought the iRiver H120, though, since it cost less and had more features (FM tuner, voice recorder, presents as a hard drive).

Ideally, I'd be able to get a mix of the two.

[phreak]

you've returned

my mp3 player is a 64mb rio that i got before iPods even existed.  I had this 128mb MMC card that's being shipped back to kingston right now since it got corrupted and read 0/0MB available.  it would hold about 3 cd's of music, which is about an afternoon's worth.