[cpac]

So I've been using my trusty 512 shuffle for the past year or so without any problems at all.

Yesterday I go to plug it in to charge and instead of the usual light coming on/iTunes recognizing the shuffle, nothing happens. Oh well - no time that morning to try to play around with it, so I take it to work to charge on my desktop. I plug it in, and while windows seems to see a USB device, it can't do anything with it (which is fine, I just want it to charge), but still the light doesn't come on. I think - wow maybe the battery is just really low, so I let it set in the usb socket for a couple hours, but still no juice.

I go back home, plug it into both my TiBook and my wife's iBook and nothing - no light, not showing up in Apple System Profiler - NADA.

So what could have happened? Anybody know of a fix?

[brassplayersrock²]

have you reset it? turning it off for a min or so and than turning it back on? are the keys locked? press and hold the play button for a bit till the light flashes than its unlocked. if you computers don't see it after that, than try an apple store. my first shuffle did the same thing and I got bassically a free replacement. basically = the warrenty was in the last 30 days so I had to pay $30.

Brass

[lilford]

Could be a defective battery too, if the battery is defective, then apple should notice this and should replace it for free or might just give you a new ipod all together. If your ipod is not under warrenty and it is defective, then you can only get a 10% discount from your busted ipod if it is indeed busted.

[cpac]

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

have you reset it? turning it off for a min or so and than turning it back on? are the keys locked? press and hold the play button for a bit till the light flashes than its unlocked. if you computers don't see it after that, than try an apple store. my first shuffle did the same thing and I got bassically a free replacement. basically = the warrenty was in the last 30 days so I had to pay $30.

Brass

Yep - I think it's fried. So I'll bring it in to an Apple store next chance I get.