I just dropped my 4th Gen 20GB iPod. All the prompts on the screen seem to work. Scrolling works, speaker when using the scroll works but no sound from my 80's mix tape playlist. Any ideas.

6/21/2007 1:21:57 PM

damaged hard drive. same thing happened to my niece but her's is completely unresponsive.

6/21/2007 1:25:20 PM

If it still appears to be playing normally, I imagine you just damaged the headphone jack, so try this -

Go into options and change the clicks from speaker to headphone and see if you hear the clicks when you scroll. If you do, it's probably a damaged HDD. If it will seem to read and play files, but you get no sound, then I'd definitely put money on a damaged headphone jack or sub-board.

I have one just like yours and I have to open it pretty routinely to re-seat the HDD cable, so I'm familiar with the guts of it. If you figure anything out about the headphone jack, let me know and I'll help you out if I can.

6/21/2007 1:44:36 PM

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"no sound from my 80's mix tape playlist"

i am assuming that this man has more than this on an ipod, and i also assume that every thing else will play but this playlist. it this playlist been added recently?

6/21/2007 1:48:17 PM

^^ I switched it to headphone and I don't hear the clicks. So I guess its not the HDD. I know for sure that my headphones work.

^ No I was just making a joke. There have been no playlists added for quite some time. There are about 3000 songs and none of them work.

[Edited on June 21, 2007 at 2:05 PM. Reason : words]

6/21/2007 2:03:23 PM

hard drive may be gone sonny

sorry but ipods are not that shock resistant

6/21/2007 2:21:14 PM

sell it to a deaf person on craigslists

[Edited on June 21, 2007 at 2:25 PM. Reason : .]

6/21/2007 2:24:48 PM

invest in an iskin next time, ive dropped mine a shitload and never had a prob

6/22/2007 11:02:23 AM

Yeah I've dropped mine a bunch too, but always in some sort of case. If it's under warranty they will send you another one, otherwise it is probably pooched.

6/22/2007 5:05:59 PM

I dropped this exact same iPod on to asphalt last year, it works out perfectly fine. Even though it bounced 3 times.

6/23/2007 12:09:12 AM

ipod's suck

my gf has just returned her 2nd one today that quit working for no reason

6/23/2007 3:47:59 AM

solid state memory whooo

6/23/2007 11:23:37 AM

Given that it's probably the headphone jack or the like, try getting one from ebay or somewhere that has a broken screen or HDD. You can just replace the headphone jack sub-board, or if that doesn't cut it, then the whole mainboard should do the trick.

I'm pretty sure your HDD is okay, as long as it actually appears to play alright. Does it actually load the songs and the progress bar moves, etc.?

6/24/2007 12:55:58 PM

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"solid state memory whooo"

damn straight. I've dropped my mini tons of time.

6/24/2007 3:25:17 PM

YOU FUCKED UP. stop dropping the damned ipod, idiot

6/24/2007 4:00:01 PM

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"ipod's suck my gf has just returned her 2nd one today that quit working for no reason"

Pretty sure there was a reason it quit working. You just don't know what it was.

6/24/2007 4:37:31 PM

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"gf"

That's the reason...

6/24/2007 6:08:12 PM