Ipod Help

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Last night, my Ipod fell out of my jacket pocket and somehow landed in the toilet. I quickly got it out, and dried it off. The screen's color turned negative, but it still worked. Today, it's not working, and it makes a weird clicking noise. I think it' done, for good. I got it about 2 and a half months ago, so the 1 year warranty is still valid. I also have the reciept, from when I bought it at Walmart. Should I try sending it to Apple, or take it to Walmart? Also, I sure hope the warranty covers this.

[Hyperplex]

Just about any warranty on any device will NOT cover water damage unless you purchased some sort of extended protection that explicitly covers it. That said, it sounds as if you flooded the hard drive. If it's an iPod Classic, I'd say you're fucked because the clicking noise you hear is likely the hard drive mechanism failing to operate properly. If it is an iPod Touch, you could try plugging it into your computer and running disk maintenance on it to see if there is some sort of way to get the drive to be recognized and functioning. You're probably SOL, though. Water damage is pretty much a dead device in terms of warranties.

[FlyingBIZKIT]

It's an ipod classic. Damn, well thanks for your help.

[Hyperplex]

You can always try to take it back, especially if you have the original packaging. The worst that could happen is they refuse to take it back.

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Yeah, i have everything. It's worth a shot.

[Orbert]

This isn't really ethical, but since it's Wal*mart, I have something less of a problem with it.

Take it back to them and play dumb.  Tell them that it just stopped working one day, it's only a few months old, you have your receipt, and you're pissed.  They'll probably exchange it or refund you, no questions asked.

[AcidLameLTE]

Might work actually.

A couple of times, I knocked over my Xbox (it wasn't in its usually place) and it tore up the discs. I just took them back to the shop and said they were like that when I got it. Got them replaced.

[Rina]

Any luck returning it yet?

If they won't do that, then the next step would be sending it to Apple I suppose. But try returning it first.

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Any luck returning it yet?

I tried, but they wouldn't take it 


Now the thing won't even turn on. I'm just going to have to get a new one.


I sure wish it had been my phone instead. I use my Ipod all the time.

[Hyperplex]

Water is the death of electronics. There are sensing labels inside most devices that change color when submerged, letting people know when they've sustained water damage.

[ReaperKK]

Sorry to hear that, and it sucks Wal-Mart didn't take it back.

[Dr. DTVT]

Water is the death of electronics.

And magnets.  Got a little too close to a 11.7 Tesla (that's an incredibly strong one) magnet once, wiped my iPod touch clean.

Sorry for your loss, but I would have been stunned if they would have taken it back.

Strangely, I've had 3 phones survive the washing machine and still work, and one of those survived the washing machine and 20 minutes in the dryer.

[AcidLameLTE]

You could see if a third party repair shop could help.

[YtseBitsySpider]

We should make this an iHelp thread, as the main apple thread seems more about news and predictions about up coming releases.

I'm having a devil of a time with my phones.(wife's) Because iTunes won't let us "manually manage our music" without completely wiping the phones clean. I get the warning that a device can only have one iTunes profile, and because my old pc crashed, new re-installed itunes won't really talk to my phone. I was using "autofill" to get stuff on my phone but now that has stopped working. 

I assume that iTunes will back up my phone before wiping it clean, I'm just scared shitless to do it. I know alot of my game saves are saved in Game Center...still......(trembles)