How-To: Fix an iPod by Means of Force and Other Such Fun Things
Once in a while, my iPod will decide to play a joke on me. It will work perfectly fine, only to freeze on occasion. Holding down the menu button and the select button simultaneously will fix this. However, yesterday my iPod decided it wanted to up the extremity by giving me a little picture, of itself, with a sad face.
I restarted it.
It booted!
…and then gave me the sad icon again. It continued to restart itself and tell me in its own special way that it was sad.
I looked online, and found that this icon is actually quite infamous, and the cure for this is just as equally infamous, as it a.) channels the Fonz and b.) teaches your iPod who’s boss.
Now, slamming down a piece of expensive hardware is a hard concept to grasp. Fortunately, my iPod was only a little bit of a bastard, and has not yet become a full-fedged non-functional asshole, and so I was able to make it work by charging directly into the wall. The charge seemed to give it a little nudge that plugging it into the laptop could not provide. But it’s good to know that giving your iPod a good smack might do the trick later on, when it decides it wants to be funny.
The moral of the story? No matter how advanced technology will get, at least we know that hitting things will still be a legitimate form of troubleshooting.
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