How to learn repair iPod tricks?
Posted on August 29, 2008
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If you’ve noticed that your favorite iPod stopped to show any signs of life learn repair iPod tricks and read about 9 most common problems.
1. Buttons don’t work (part 1).
It’s quite evident but if you can’t switch on your iPod just check the lock switch position. Many users simply forget that they have blocked player control themselves.
2. Buttons don’t work (part 2).
Check if the battery has run down. Even when it is switched off iPod spends some energy that’s why if you don’t use it for some weeks it’s quite natural if the battery has drained.
3. iPod buzzes and jitters.
reset your player, and if it doesn’t help, download and install a new firmware from www.apple.com/ipod/download.
A step-by-step manual for reset:
1. If your iPod has a touch scrollwheel (models before the 4th gap) then turn it on power supply, switch it on and then off and push and keep Play and Menu buttons until Apple logotype appears.
2. If you have 4th model gap iPod or iPod mini, then the procedure differes from the previous one a little bit. Power up your iPod, switch on and than off “Hold” and than bush and keep Menu and Select until you see Apple logotype on the screen.
4. iPod doesn’t cut off from iTunes.
Probably iTunes is in process of downloading something to iPod. If you have added loads of new tracks to iPod wait until iTunes completes the download. Otherwise it won’t let you to cut it off.
5. iPod doesn’t displays in iTunes.
Check the wire uniting player with computer and connectors themselves. Or try to use another one.
6. Display is in foreign language.
Go to the main menu and check Settings, then check the third point from the bottom. Now find English in the language list.
7. Clicks tuning is left to the standard ones.
After the 36 hours of inactivity iPod turns to the mode of “deep sleep” (to save the battery energy) and after it the rerun clicks settings turn to the standard ones. You should go to the menu Settings and make them again.
8. The remote controlling doesn’t work.
The remote control device of iPod has its own Hold Switch that’s why check the reliability connector link to the jack “remote” on iPod.
If you’ve tried to learn repair iPod tricks and they didn’t help you go to the iPod consulting center.
What Are iPod Hidden Features to Distinguish It From Imitation?
Posted on July 30, 2008
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Very often people refuse from buying iPods at official Apple dealers. It is explained by their impossibility to do that (may be there are no Apple shops at their city) or just by their wish to save some money. But everybody should know that purchasing non-official Apple products can even lead to more expenses and ruin smb’s good mood. So here are some Apple iPod hidden features that can show it’s real.
First of all one should know that Apple offers free service (if the customer act according the warranty conditions).
Chinese fakes
Now there are Chinese iPod fakes at the market. They are very similar to real iPods and only a person who has the company’s iPod can distinguish that fake. The most probable case to buy the imitation is to do that at various radio markets or at places where salespeople palm off.
Advantages and disadvantages
A very low price at the market (lower than the advisable Apple retail price on 40-60%). Similar to iPod.
Those walkmans have nothing in common with iPods. They have only similar appearance. It is an absolutely another walkman inside.
Textel walkmans
A good example of such walkmans is Textel walkmans. They can be good reliable walkmans but unfortunately they won’t have the huge number of advantages that iPod has.
Advantages and disadvantage of such walkmans
The price is 20-30% lower than iPod price.
These walkmans have nothing to do with iPod that’s why they can make many inconveniences to you wishing to have all the iPod hidden features.
Support manning
Official iPods have the warranty of a year but if there are deep scratches they don’t offer the warranty repair with the arguments of “mechanical injuries”. Sometimes iPod has waste but that happens 0.1% times. Other complains are explained that the customers couldn’t cope with iPod functions and options. These questions are decided very quickly by phone.
Ipod really has the world warranty. It means that if you have bought your walkman in the USA you can easily repair it in Germany. But you should obligatory save the counterfoil to prove your purchase.
Summary
1. It is not recommended to buy the walkman at the market or in the company that has no office..
2. Taking into account that iPods break very often (more than 0,1% of waste) you can save a little buying your walkman abroad but you should OBLIGATORY specify the warranty repair availability at your shop assistant.
Do you know who invented the iPod?
Posted on June 27, 2008
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dly find a person who doesn’t know Apple’s great product – iPod. It has become a kind of symbol like the Mercedes or the Rolex. Launched on October 2001, it has made a revolution in the field of music players and changed the way people think about music players. They are no more old big boxes which look really ugly. The IPod has a better look than any other music player in the market. Modern and sleek, compact and roomy, the item has entered Western culture and has made a great impact in every sphere from culture to economics.
Still not everyone is aware of the history of ipod and that’s why we can face a great number of questions like: who invented the iPod, who was the first with the idea of iPod, who is the real creator of the iPod? As the question is very popular, I’ll try to answer it. So my article today is related to the topic of “who invented the iPod”.
In reality, we can’t name just one person that can be pointed as the actual “inventor” of the iPod. And the iPod wasn’t “invented” in our traditional understanding of the word. Its concept and design came into being in 2001. There already existed MP3 players which were created by German research center. But Apple had a desire to make MP3 players somehow smaller and more stylish.
For this reason ordered by CEO Steve Jobs, Apple’s hardware engineering team with Jon Rubinstein in charge started developing of the item. The product was to be developed in less than one year. Jon Rubenstein can be credited to putting the initial pieces together. He did a great deal of research work to see if such a device was even possible and they found out that it was.
The outward look came about when Jonathan Ive was hired to create what was to be the iPod. He designed the whole thing to be pleasing to the eye, to “feel” like it deserved expensive, and to be hip. In his usual style, designer Jonathan Ive designed the iPod to be smart and compact. And thus, the mp3 became something much more — it became the iPod.