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'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…

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

I did try a different USB cable and it didn't work, and likewise I tried her USB cable with my iPod and that worked. I don't know how to reset the iPod though.

Called apple and they won't sodder the ribbon. Applecar apparently doens't cover physical damage and I'll be charged for a new one. Then, I went looking for a computer repair shop …

http://img195.exs.cx/img195/3968/dscn01378ev.jpg The shuffle taken apart:-)

You must have had some *really* important data on there to go through all this and spend $80 to get it off of a $99 device. If it was that important, you should have had it backed…

Quote: Originally posted by ibook_steve: You must have had some *really* important data on there to go through all this and spend $80 to get it off of a $99 device. If …

Just call Apple and I am sure they will give you a new one.

Went ot the repair shop in Wethersfield, CT which turned out to be the Apple Reseller that my family used to use up until 2000 The guy who helped was going to try and take the USB…

Quote: Originally posted by celebi23: Left some details out of this for some reasons. ( Big Apple is watching you) send me a message if you want the rest of the story. …

Not even sure if the thing was defective. That couldn't have happened by a "defect" or a "design flaw" Looks as if you were in a hurry and just ripped it off the USB slot, and …

While I doubt it is a "design flaw", it might well be a lemon. My first Apple portable was an iBook. Both front corners on my ibook cracked off while I had it. I hadn't mistreat…

Glad it worked out for you. However, the path to get your issue resolved was good, I still would have barked up Apple's tree in regards to possibility of it being a manufacturing …

Wow, I can't believe how unsympathetic the posters on this thread are. What if it were you? Why assume that he's at fault? Whatever, it's not like it's so impossible that there wa…

BTW, just want to add that some people use USB flash devices solely because they don't want to store particular data anywhere else, like encryption key or passwords, sensitive data…

Quote: Originally Posted by jon l. dawson Wow, I can't believe how unsympathetic the posters on this thread are. What if it were you? Why assume that he's at fault? Whatever, i…

If it was a defect, it would be happening more often. A friend of mine broke his in the same way. But he yanked the thing off his USB slot and cracked it. Looks just like yo…

I concur with the overall opinion... unless that was a bloody awful solder join on the board, there is no way in hell that came apart through normal use (several months of board so…

Hope all goes well, both sites needed a shot of activity.