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Subject: Re: "Recently Added" periodically goes awry, and some locking-up type glitches on an iPod 5G 80GB

Re: "Recently Added" periodically goes awry, and some locking-up type glitches on an iPod 5G 80GB

From: Tommy Beadle <tbeadle_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:00:58 -0400

>
> I've also noticed the device often appears to have shut down (i.e., by
> holding down "play" followed by the "shutting down" screen), but it won't
> turn back on unless I do a hard reset with menu+select. I suspect it is not
> fully turning off and the battery is continuing to drain when this happens.
> Again, bug and/or something that there is a good workaround for?


I also have an 80GB iPod video and have seen this problem as well as the
following one. I don't think I have seen the problem below since I stopped
using the database, though. I'm guessing that the churn right after bootup
is doing something with that.

>
>
> Finally, the device often locks up, particularly soon after starting. I
> think if I wait a really long time it may eventually unfreeze, but usually I
> just do a hard reset as above because I don't want to wait 20-30 minutes to
> listen to music. Any suggestions as to why this is happening and whether
> there is any way to avoid it?
>


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