Fix your ipod by spanking it?
March 29, 2006 by Josh Highland
Filed under hacks, hardware, iPod, tutorials
Its common knowledge that you dont want to drop / slam / or hit your expensive electronics, you might break them. Well, what if your expensive electronics is already broken?
Im writing this in response to the hundreds of comments I received on my blog post about replacing a broken ipod hard drive.
It seems that there is a very unconventional way to fix your broken ipod, without having to open it or spend any money…. beat your ipod up! You heard me right, Slap your ipod!
How to do this:
Hold your ipod so the screen faces the palm of your hand and slap the back of it a few solid times. Thats it.
I personally havent tried this, but based on the response to my previous blog post, its worked for over 100 people so far.
Why does spanking your ipod fit it?
Here are a few of my thoughts on why this might work.
- Your ipod might have stopped working if the hard drive connection came lose. Slapping the ipod might jar the connection back into place.
- The hard drive arm might have gotten stuck for some reason. Spanking the ipod might free up that hard drive arm.
- It might just be magic!
I really dont know why it works but I guess it does. If you have any experience with this post a comment.
Worked like a dream – ipod was clickng and showing sad symbol – smacked it three times and hey presto a working and charging ipod – thanks very much
I love ipods !
Well, wadda you know! My 20GB from five years ago is working again! Slap!!!
Thank you so much for this. My old U2 2Gen iPod has been ‘dead’ for 18 months and in my spring clean frenzy, I thought I’d give it one last attempt at CPR. I screwed up formatting the hard disk and thought it was a goner: sad mac, won’t mount, dead hard disk etc. Tried numerous utilities, but then I smacked it on the floor and the hard disk whirred into action and it just mounted immediately! I am over the moon, and absolutely amazed.