LuxCaeli

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When I was about to go running with my iPod Mini today, I noticed that there was an apple logo on the screen. I tried to reset it by pressing down the menu and select buttons, but instead of being fixed, a sad face appeared! I remembered accidentally dropping it onto the sidewalk yesterday, but it worked fine when I inspected it at the time. I immediately started panicking because a friend of mine said a sad face showed up on his iPod's screen when it broke just a few days after he had gotten it.

I went to the apple support site, but none of their instructions worked, and the only thing I discovered was that the sad face was extremely bad and showed there was a hardware problem. Since my warranty expired a month ago, I'd have to pay about $250 to get it fixed, which is how much the iPod cost originally.

I did a Google search on 'fix iPod sad face' and was directed to the forums at ipodlounge.com. Someone had posted that a few slaps were all it took to get rid of the dreaded sad face, and many others had replied and said that it had worked for them, so I decided to give it a try. I slapped the iPod a few times at first, but that only got rid of the sad face for a few minutes. When I tried turning it on, there was a whirling sound and the apple logo came back up, only to be quickly replaced by the sad face again. I became very distraught because the method seemed to have worked for everyone else. I wasn't about to give up though, since my iPod currently holds 600 something songs, and I can't bear the thought of running without it. I slapped it a bit more on all sides, dropped it from 5ft onto the carpet, and let it fall from a few inches on a hard surface to no avail. By this time, I was considering taking the iPod apart and shaking the hard drive like someone had suggested on the forum.

I really did not want to pry open the iPod and risk breaking it in the process, so I desperately slammed the side of it against the table a few more times more, and voilà!, the menu came up!! I reset the iPod right away and plugged it into the charger. Hopefully my iPod will never give me another scare like that...

I am ecstatic at the moment! The joy of owning a working iPod Mini again is wonderful. I feel as if I could hug every person in the world!

Posted by Lili on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 2:43 PM | Permalink