Re: Fixing an iPod's Click of Death
 

Well, I bought mine not too long before the 2004 Robot Rodeo. (I remember this because I had it rigged up to my car stereo on the ride down, and I was still worried about scratching it up.) That was in later October 2004, so mine's gone right at two years (or one year, 11 months, if you want to get specific) without a failure.

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Not quite the same problem, but I've used www.iPodJuice.com to replace the battery in my just-barely-out-of-apple-care 3G 40GB iPod. So, $35 later and the battery life now is longer than when I got it new -- now I'm just waiting on the dreaded click of death.

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Billfred, have no fear, your iPod has a chance at life. Mine has come back from near death more times than I'd like to count. Here are a few tips that I have that hopefully will give it life again. Chances are what happened is that all of your useage has shaken it around more that it could take easily, it probably just needs a tune up.

• Open it up
• Clean it out, get some canned air if possible
• Disconnect and Reconnect your hard drive, the pins are sensitive and chances are they got knocked around from being carried around so much, so carefully disconnect and reconnect.
• Reformat the harddrive if you really want to

Usually most iPod users go, Sign of Death *Spaz*, but if your nice to your ipod a small tune up will probably be all that it needs.

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If you feel like some reading, I have received some useful information on a variety of topics from other individuals at ilounge.com

Good Luck!

Re: Fixing an iPod's Click of Death
 

Very low. iPod failure rate compared to other electronics is very good. I have only had one major glitch with the iPod i've had for 3 years. I only need a new battery now (thanks brandon!) and it'll last me another 3.

The shuffle and nano are solid state, so none of these problems happen with them.

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Wow that surprises me that apple would use something that isnt proprietary(sp?). but just do the reformat stuff with the HD and see if that works. If not I could turn it into the first 120gig Ipod :D

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So just a good SMACK will do it? i have a 30 gig ipod bran new and its clicking it started last night

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I smacked mine, and it started working again...
then it died again a week later...smacked it once more, it started working...
then I downloaded "RockBox", an open-source Ipod Firmware...and I havnt had an issues for months, apparently it treats the drive differently, and loads alot more inso SRAM, so the drive is used less...

Re: Fixing an iPod's Click of Death
 

is the clicking accompanied with a pic of an ipod with a sad face and an explamation mark?

if not, then that clicking is normal, the "click of death" is a repetitive almost grindlike click...
if you every once and a while hear a click or chug come from your 30Gig, its just the HD accessing data