The batteries do drain slightly over time - maybe up to 5% a day. If it was also colder when you tried it again, the combination of that and trying to spin up a HD could have been…

Quote: Originally posted by 99RedSi: I turned off my iPod on Friday, left it on my desk at home, didn't turn it on again until Sunday night and it was dead! How is that …

I get this issue too. Sometimes It's when I have about a half charge left. It doesn't turn on then after some prompting by hitting the buttons is comes back on. It will show red…

Same problem for me here, too, on my 40GB iPod Photo..... SO ANNOYING!

I had a similar problem with my 4G 40 gig. Tried everything I could think of & nothing worked. Finally did a complete reloading of the system software & that cleared everyt…

I'm having trouble writing emails in Japanese. Both Yahoo and Hotmail come up with question marks instead of the Japanese text that I've written. Has anyone else had this problem…

I just tried sending emails in Japanese both from and to my Yahoo account, and neither worked. Sending from my Yahoo account resulted in question marks instead of Japanese, while …

Quote: Originally posted by mduser63: I just tried sending emails in Japanese both from and to my Yahoo account, and neither worked. Sending from my Yahoo account resul…

This seems to be a bug with the way Yahoo Mail (and apparently Hotmail as well) works. It's just as screwy in Firefox, so I don't think it's a browser issue. My solution was just t…

Yahoo and Hotmail (dot com) do not support Japanese characters and whatnot. Pages there are encoded such that they do not support these characters. Other places, like g-mail, do …

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I use Japanese all the time on hotmail. You're going to have to change your hotmail's account default language to Japanese (Options>Personal>Nihongo (will be written in Kanj…

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I'm not sure anymore, but you used to need to be invited to join gmail, if anyone needs an invite let me know, I've got 50 of them just simmering in my inbox.

Hi, Did you try going to any japanese sites and did they show up correctly? If they don't, maybe your computer doesn't have the Japanese language pack installed. Same thing happene…

Thank you very much for the reply. ben

I bought an iPs right after they came out and have been having numerous problems with the thing. First issue is sometimes it decides not to turn on. This has been a problem since…

I had posted this question in another ipod forum. had gotten a couple of replies, but unfortunately, they gave me apple support links that I had already gone through. so I decided …

I've gotten it before, twice. Once after dropping it and once out of the blue. In both cases, it was a terminal event. I had to have it sent back and replaced. Since you are st…

Quote: Originally posted by mgehman: I've gotten it before, twice. Once after dropping it and once out of the blue. In both cases, it was a terminal event. I had to h…

Quote: Originally posted by ghostgrrl: wow, that doesn't sound too promising. still have yet to get the adapter to try to put the thing in disk mode. in your case, did y…

I recently got a sad iPod on my two-week-old iPod mini. I took it to the Apple store, where the "genius" claimed that he had never seen that error before. Since it was only two wee…

Quote: Originally posted by Phoible: I recently got a sad iPod on my two-week-old iPod mini. I took it to the Apple store, where the "genius" claimed that he had never s…

My sister's 4gb iPod mini (bought late Jan 05) has just stopped working with USB2. I thought it was her computer (PC) so plugged it into my iBook with my iPod's USB cable (4G 20gb)…

Did you try and do a reset on it? Or try a different usb cable?