Hi Peggy, It's actually the top and center of the wheel that you need to press simultaneously. This is somewhat unintuitive, so I had to check the manual again:
To reset iPod nano: 1 Toggle the Hold switch on and off (slide it to HOLD and then back again). 2 Press and hold the Menu and Center buttons for at least 6 seconds, until the Apple logo appears. The menu button is at the top of the wheel. I'm glad you got things working. Did the instructions I sent off list of using VO-Up arrow twice to get to the sync field information work for you? Cheers, Esther On Apr 9, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Peggy Fleischer wrote: > In the nano fourth gen. you press down on the top and the bottom of > the wheel simultaniously for six seconds then wait about ten seconds > counting slowly and press the middle of the wheel. There is no audio > feedback for this. My husband did it last night when my Ipod crashed > and it turned back on just fine but my songs were lost and I had to > resync. > On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Dave, >> >> Reformatting is done in iTunes. I've never had my iPod settings >> window completely disappear, but I'd guess this is like setting up >> the new Nano 4G from scratch -- the area is reached by doing a VO- >> Right arrow from the sources table past the splitter to an area >> that originally shows up as "unknown", and you have to interact >> with it in order to see things. When the settings menu doesn't >> disappear there is a button to restore or reformat the iPod that >> you press (VO-Space). What model iPod do you have? The other >> thing that I've done (with my Nano 4G) was look at it when >> connected in Finder. The files are normally hidden, but I had >> changed this with one of my maintenance facility tools. (I wanted >> to see where the spoken menu snippets were stored, and found I >> could QuickLook them). You could also try resetting your iPod >> before reconnecting. Exactly how you do this will depend on your >> iPod model, but it usually involves toggling the hold switch on and >> off (on the Nano this means you push it to the right, away from the >> left edge of the iPod to the locked position, and then back to the >> left to the unlocked position), and then pressing the menu (12- >> o'clock position on the wheel) and select (center of the wheel) >> buttons simultaneously. This is hard to do with your fingers on >> something as small as the Nano; I had to put it on a flat surface >> and use either a small screwdriver or a pen or pencil to press down >> on each point and hold it down for several seconds to reset. >> There's nothing audible about this. (I had to do this on the older >> 1G model Nano; I've never had to reset my 4G Nano.) >> >> Once again, the reformatting is handled in iTunes, not in Disk >> Utility. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> >> >> On Apr 9, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Dave Wright wrote: >> >>> I've upgraded to the latest version of iTunes and still cannot see >>> the settings area. How would I go about getting my iPod to show up >>> in disc utilities in order to perform a reformat? I'm guessing >>> that when you performed a reformat, everything worked out ok? Did >>> you just do a quick erase, or did you zero out the drive? >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
