God Damned Piece Of Shit Ipod Won't Charge!!!!!

[Sprite]

Holy SHIT. I fucking HAAAAAAAAATE my sister's IPOD.

She is going away to college in 2 weeks and I cannot get her IPOD to charge on her laptop. It's an almost brand new laptop and it's the 2nd IPOD she's tried on this comp. We returned the first one thinking it was defective, however it seems the problem lies within the laptop. Let me preface this by saying that I am very technically and computer savvy, so it's not like I don't know what I'm doing.

I have tried to get this IPOD to take a charge on the USB in every way possible. I've followed every tutorial possible and checked every option within windows. I am allowing USB to not go into powersave mode. It charges WHILE UPDATING, but once it's done updating, it stops charging. Obviously this is not nearly long enough to give it any significant charge. When I plug it into my brother's computer which also has piece of shit I-tunes installed, it charges properly, as does his IPOD. Every other USB device I plug into this laptop functions properly, including mouse, digital camera and printer. I am losing my mind with this piece of shit.

EDIT - It gets worse... I just installed the Kodak easy-share program for her new digital camera and when I plug in the IPOD, the Kodak program wants to download media from the IPOD. Holy fucking SHIT. Is this thing posessed? WTF???!?!?

Have any of you had a similar problem, and if so, what can you do to help? Please help me with this before I lose my fucking mind. :icon_sad:

[Sprite]

OMG I figured it out. If you go into I-tunes options, then iPOD, then music tab, then check the option "Enable disk use" it keeps charging. w00t!!!!!

However, every single time I open I-tunes or plug the IPOD in, the Kodak easy-share program opens up and wants to download media into the computer. I've checked all the options in the Kodak program and I can't find anything that pertains to other USB devices. W.T.F. :icon_conf


MODS - Please change the title of this thread to - "Plugging in IPOD causes Kodak picture program to prompt download" - or just delete it if I'm taking up unecessary space. Sorry.

[CrazyMrPoopSex]

did the kodak program open before you enabled disk use?

[Sprite]

did the kodak program open before you enabled disk use?

Yes, before I enabled that option within I-tunes, the Kodak easy-share prompt would open to accept new media.

[XMScott]

Throw it in the garbage and buy an Inno

[CrazyMrPoopSex]

I don't know why enabling disk use would let it charge, all that does is let you use the Ipod like a hard drive. you can probaly fix the kodak thing that comes up in the settings for the kodak program. there is probaly a "automaticaly detect media" option or something.

[Sprite]

Throw it in the garbage and buy an Inno

I have a MyFi, and I'm talking about my sister's IPOD. Believe me, if I could have convinced her to buy another portable MP3 player, I would have. I think I-tunes and IPOD's are absolute proprietary GARBAGE.

I don't know why enabling disk use would let it charge, all that does is let you use the Ipod like a hard drive. you can probaly fix the kodak thing that comes up in the settings for the kodak program. there is probaly a "automaticaly detect media" option or something.

I don't know why enabling that option caused the IPOD to actually take a continuous charge, but it did. Weird thing is the first IPOD she had worked flawlessly on her desktop, but when she hooked it up to the laptop, this problem started. I checked every possible option in that Kodak program (and there weren't many) and there is NOTHING I can find that will make it stop recognizing the IPOD when I plug it in.

Now that the IPOD is charging and the camera is recognized, the only real dilemma is that I have to close the Kodak prompt when the IPOD is plugged in. It's not a big deal but obviously there is a conflict that should not exist. I cannot even begin to understand why the Kodak program would recognize the IPOD.

Before any further speculation I should tell you that this laptop is in perfect working order with a fresh Windows 2000 Pro. install with ALL updates and service packs installed. It has a great anti-virus program, no spyware/adware and runs PERFECTLY. I have never seen a program recognize another USB device other than it's own. This is totally weird.

EDIT - Mods, I don't know why I didn't think to post this thread in the Computers/Gaming section. My apologies. Oh wait, maybe it's because I'm on beer # 10 right now.

[CrazyMrPoopSex]

is it a photo iPod? if so, easy share is just recognizing a storage device with picure files has been connected and wants to import them, if there's no way to turn it off, then deal with it, or try removing all pitures from the iPod

edit:- my wireless keyboard has been missing letters

[Sprite]

is it a photo iPod? if so, easy share is just recognizing a storage device with picure files has been connected and wants to import them, if there's no way to turn it off, then deal with it, or try removing all pitures from the iPod

edit:- my wireless keyboard has been missing letters

Nope, it's just a NANO with no picture files, just audio. :icon_conf

[thegreatgazoo]

Has anyone had problems with the computer suddenly not recognizing the Ipod. This has happened to me twice. On my old computer I gave up. When I got my new computer, I reinstalled it and reload all the music. Now six months later it did it again and says it cannot locate Ipod but it charges and says it keeps updating it. I was told to uninstall it and reinstall it but I'll lose all my muic. Anybody have any ideas. Thanks

[PCLoadLetter]

I was told to uninstall it and reinstall it but I'll lose all my muic. Anybody have any ideas. Thanks
How would you lose all your music? Uninstalling iTunes won't affect the folder in which you keep your music.

Do you have the current version of iTunes and iPod updater?

[ol' Cabey leg]

Has anyone had problems with the computer suddenly not recognizing the Ipod. This has happened to me twice. On my old computer I gave up. When I got my new computer, I reinstalled it and reload all the music. Now six months later it did it again and says it cannot locate Ipod but it charges and says it keeps updating it. I was told to uninstall it and reinstall it but I'll lose all my muic. Anybody have any ideas. Thanks

look in a torrent site for ipod access. It can transfer songs from your ipod onto your comp. So if you lose your music in itunes you can just upload it from the ipod when u re-install.

[kid afrika]

I noticed this problem before with my ipod. As far as I was able to figure out, when you are updating or using itunes to play music from your ipod it is NOT charging. When you eject the ipod from itunes it starts charging.

That's how I Understand it, and how I've been using it. Seems to be working well for me, anyway.

[thegreatgazoo]

How would you lose all your music? Uninstalling iTunes won't affect the folder in which you keep your music.

Do you have the current version of iTunes and iPod updater?


I was going to uninstall the ipod and reinstall it because it is not being recognized by itunes. I was told if I do , it will wipe evwerything out.

[thegreatgazoo]

look in a torrent site for ipod access. It can transfer songs from your ipod onto your comp. So if you lose your music in itunes you can just upload it from the ipod when u re-install.


Sorry but what is a torrent site.

[PCLoadLetter]

I was going to uninstall the ipod and reinstall it because it is not being recognized by itunes. I was told if I do , it will wipe evwerything out.
Well if you mean that everything will be wiped off of the iPod, that's correct. But if your music folder (on your computer) remains intact, all that will happen is that iTunes will just re-install all the music back onto the iPod after you've reset it.

This is what I assume you're talking about... Using the iPod updater to "reset" the iPod to its factory configuration. I had to do this once, and aside from the annoyance of having to transfer all the music onto the iPod again (which takes a couple of hours when you have 40gb+ of material), it was a non-event.

[DonTheTrucker]

Fuck Apple. Get a Creative Zen,

[thegreatgazoo]

Well if you mean that everything will be wiped off of the iPod, that's correct. But if your music folder (on your computer) remains intact, all that will happen is that iTunes will just re-install all the music back onto the iPod after you've reset it.

This is what I assume you're talking about... Using the iPod updater to "reset" the iPod to its factory configuration. I had to do this once, and aside from the annoyance of having to transfer all the music onto the iPod again (which takes a couple of hours when you have 40gb+ of material), it was a non-event.


So I should just make sure that all the music is on the hard drive somewhere, and then I could transfer it back later? It's all in Itunes now. Should I make a folder and copy evrything into it to be sure. Thanks

[PCLoadLetter]

As long as the music is on your computer's hard drive, what you do to the iPod itself is immaterial. Even if your present iPod got lost, stolen, broken or whatever, you can hook up another iPod to your computer and get exactly the same music, playlists etc. that you have on the iPod right now (as long as the newly-connected iPod has sufficent space to store everything in your library).

Your COMPUTER is the warehouse that keeps your music... And the iPod gets its music FROM the computer. You can wipe your iPod using the iPod updater software to your heart's content without affecting your "master" music library one whit.