{"id":983,"date":"2003-03-05T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T08:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/06\/ipod-troubles\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:56:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:56:05","slug":"ipod-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/05\/ipod-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7113,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ipod&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20170724030711\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ipod\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:11:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 13:56:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 16:21:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 16:21:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15153,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/downloads\\\/macosx\\\/apple\\\/securityupdate.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060422104324\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com:80\\\/downloads\\\/macosx\\\/apple\\\/securityupdate.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:48:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:48:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15154,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/downloads\\\/macosx\\\/apple\\\/macosxcomboupdate_10_2_4.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030409042500\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com:80\\\/downloads\\\/macosx\\\/apple\\\/macosxcomboupdate_10_2_4.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:48:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:48:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7099,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/itunes&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/itunes&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15155,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/docs.info.apple.com\\\/article.html?artnum=60950&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, this bites. I&#8217;m having problems with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipod\" title=\"Apple - iPod\">iPod<\/a>. Normally I&#8217;m pretty good with getting things fixed, but I think this is beyond my abilities. Bleah.<\/p>\n<p>Problem one: every so often, when plugging in the remote to the jack on the iPod, or just bumping the connector, the iPod will &#8220;short out&#8221; and reset. It&#8217;s more or less a minor annoyance &#8212; the iPod will reboot and start right up again, and the only real lasting effect is that the date and time need to be set &#8212; but an annoyance nothenless.<\/p>\n<p>Problem two: iTunes doesn&#8217;t know that my iPod exists anymore. As far as I can tell, this behavior started after I applied the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/macosx\/apple\/securityupdate.html\" title=\"Apple - Downloads - Apple - Security Update 2003-03-03\">Security Update 2003-03-03<\/a> system patch. The iPod mounts to the Finder just fine, but nothing I can do seems to clue iTunes into the existence of the iPod.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried applying the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/macosx\/apple\/macosxcomboupdate_10_2_4.html\" title=\"Apple - Downloads - Apple - Mac OS X Combo Update 10.2.4\">10.2.4 Combo Update<\/a> (even though I&#8217;d already updated to 10.2.4 using incremental upgrades, rumor has it that using the combo updater will fix a number of issues), completely deleting and then reinstalling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\" title=\"Apple - iLife - iTunes\">iTunes<\/a>, and completely resetting the iPod as outlined in Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=60950\" title=\"60950\">iPod troubleshooting pages<\/a>. Nothing&#8217;s worked.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, my iPod is still under warranty, so I went ahead and placed a service request through Apple. I&#8217;ve never had to do this before, but I&#8217;ve read good reports on Apple&#8217;s turnaround time for service, but for the moment I&#8217;m without music when I&#8217;m not at home.<\/p>\n<p>For some people, this might not be that big of a deal. For me? This bites. Hard.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when some of the people at work insist on listening to &#8220;smooth jazz&#8221; &#8212; one of the few genres of music that I would gladly wipe from the face of the planet. Ugh. I want my iPod back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this bites. I&#8217;m having problems with my iPod. Normally I&#8217;m pretty good with getting things fixed, but I think this is beyond my abilities. Bleah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2043],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-personal","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}