I thought my iPod died. I am having the Apple 20 GB iPod U2 Special Edition (4th Generation), which was bought 2nd hand as well. I hardly carried it around, it sits on its dock speaker at home most of the time. One day, after not touching it for a while, the iPod’s screen became blurry. The words can hardly be seen, even on a full charge, but it can still play the songs.
Then suddenly one day, I tried to on it, and the words came back on fine, but all the songs are gone. It wasn’t such a big deal, as I thought I can just put in all the songs again. Simple.
Not so simple, says the iPod. When I plugged in the iPod to my PC, iTunes doesn’t recognise it. In fact, it jammed iTunes for a few minutes. I was plugging it into my Windows Xp machine. Anyways, the exact problem goes like this:
1. Tried the Apple 5R troubleshooting. No response.
3. After ITunes realises an iPod is attached, it says iPod may be corrupted and needs to be restored.
4. Tried restoring iPod through iTunes – Says “There was a problem downloading the iPod software for the iPod “iPod”. The requested resource was not found.” As you notice in the picture, iTunes doesn’t recognise the iPod’s model or make.
5. Tried running iPod diagnostics via Itunes help menu – says “iPod connection status failed” and “No IEEE 1394 Host Controller found.”
So I really thought my iPod died, but I didn’t want to give up. Then I read this thread. The forummers said to slam the iPod down on its back to make it work. Apparently it worked for many of them that tried on their supposedly dead iPods. I didn’t want to do that coz it hurts! Unless it’s a dead end already.
And then I tried putting the iPod in Disk Mode. After putting it in Disk Mode, then only I plug in the USB, and let iTunes it. It jams up and takes a while to respond. But there was a difference, this time, iTunes recognised it as the iPod U2. A light of hope!
I redid the whole thing, trying to restore it again. And this time it worked! iTunes was able to find that iPod software for update.
There were bug fixes?
I can’t disagree..no?
Software starts downloading…
Software update downloaded and iPod being restored!
After that, I had to unplug the iPod and plug it to an external power source and not the USB to complete the restoration.
So I brought it home to plug into its charger, but a folder with an exclamation mark showed. Boy, what a trial. Then I decided to plug it into my iBook instead. The same thing happened, but it wouldn’t restore anymore. Instead it showed an unknown Error 1418 occurred. I tried it several times to no avail.
I then tried to reformat it using Disk Utility. It could reformat to Windows format, but even after that the same error. I was then ready to do a minor surgery but try as I may, I couldn’t get the iPod case open..it’s just so tight, or I just don’t have the right gear. It’s been four days! It’s just getting hopeless :(.
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