I have had a lot of hits from google on my iPod won’t turn off article. I just wanted to write a quick article to clarify on how to turn one off. If you hod the play/pause button for several seconds, it will turn off the iPod. If the iPod is not playing music, it will automatically turn itself off after several minutes.
To turn off the iPod shuffle, you simply put the slider on the back to the up position.
Now for the iPod Video, you have to pause the video first, and then hold the play/pause button for several seconds.
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umm i tired that hold the play and pause button and it just wont turn off!! iam so pissed
I can turn ipod on but cannot get it off pause to start playing. I’ll either hold too long and turn it off or keep pushing 3-4 times hoping it will start. Drives me crazy.
There are at least two diff probs here. 1) Ipod is hung and won’t respond to turn off signal (pressing bottom of wheel) at all–stays lit no matter how long you press. This happens sometimes when, for example, your ipod is connected to a docking device and you turn it off while pressing bottom of wheel wheel - then you immediately unplug it the ipod, which lights it up again — sometimes it will won’t then respnod to a a shut off signal by pressing bottom of wheel. This prob has been recurring on opds for years and can be fixed with a reset.
2) Ipod turns off for half a second and comes right back on –when you press the bottom of the wheel, the ipod turns off for about a half second or so and lights right back up again. This prob has an unknown cause and is not fixed by a reset. If you restore, the prob will be fixed UNTIL you reload you music files onto the Ipod - then the prob automatically returns. Some suspect this prob has to do with a file problem and ipod’s inability to appropriately deal with the file problem.