Soldato
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Hi there, I've had an "Apple iPod shuffle 3rd Generation 4GB" for over a year now, its the smallest one they've ever done with the controls on the wire with the earphones, hopefully you know which one I mean.
Because it was so small it was excellent for the gym, but after like 6 months I'd be at the gym, and all of a sudden whilst doing cardio it would change songs on its own, and the volume would go up and down and when I tried to correct this using the controls on the wire they wouldn't work, so eventually I phoned apple and they asked for my serial and they sent me two lots of new headphones for free.
So 4 or 5 months passes and then all of a sudden I have more problems, the volume goes right down on its own and the controls stop working on the earphones.
And then I started using the 2nd pair of headphones they sent me and everything was fine again and now 2 months later the same thing has happened again, so I've been through 3 pairs of headphones now and its doing the same thing.
A couple of days ago my cousin bought the same "Apple iPod shuffle 3rd Generation 4GB" but his is 2GB, and I tried both pairs of my earphones in his brand new IPOD and they were working for 5 mins and then stopped working.
So from all of this I'm kinda thinking that it's the earphones and that apple have designed some earphones that brake really easily and just dont work for very long, and am guessing theres millions of people out there in the same situation, I remember around a year ago or whenever it was when I searched online for problems with my ipod I found a thread on the offical apple forums somewhere and thousands of people had posted saying they'd had the same problem as me.
So am really posting this out of frustration and also advice.
I'm thinking of getting the APPLE IPOD SHUFFLE 4th Generation, because it's small aswell and also the controls are on the ipod itself so maybe this problem wouldnt happen again.
Also I was thinking of maybe going to an apple store in town and seeing what they say, but I don't know what they'd do. Do you think perhaps they'd let me swop it since I could show them it malfunctioning and maybe they'd give me a shuffle instead of the same ipod for free? Or is that too much to hope for. Coz those shuffles are £39.99 and the IPOD nano's were around £60 I think when I bought it.
Cheers for listening!
Because it was so small it was excellent for the gym, but after like 6 months I'd be at the gym, and all of a sudden whilst doing cardio it would change songs on its own, and the volume would go up and down and when I tried to correct this using the controls on the wire they wouldn't work, so eventually I phoned apple and they asked for my serial and they sent me two lots of new headphones for free.
So 4 or 5 months passes and then all of a sudden I have more problems, the volume goes right down on its own and the controls stop working on the earphones.
And then I started using the 2nd pair of headphones they sent me and everything was fine again and now 2 months later the same thing has happened again, so I've been through 3 pairs of headphones now and its doing the same thing.
A couple of days ago my cousin bought the same "Apple iPod shuffle 3rd Generation 4GB" but his is 2GB, and I tried both pairs of my earphones in his brand new IPOD and they were working for 5 mins and then stopped working.
So from all of this I'm kinda thinking that it's the earphones and that apple have designed some earphones that brake really easily and just dont work for very long, and am guessing theres millions of people out there in the same situation, I remember around a year ago or whenever it was when I searched online for problems with my ipod I found a thread on the offical apple forums somewhere and thousands of people had posted saying they'd had the same problem as me.
So am really posting this out of frustration and also advice.
I'm thinking of getting the APPLE IPOD SHUFFLE 4th Generation, because it's small aswell and also the controls are on the ipod itself so maybe this problem wouldnt happen again.
Also I was thinking of maybe going to an apple store in town and seeing what they say, but I don't know what they'd do. Do you think perhaps they'd let me swop it since I could show them it malfunctioning and maybe they'd give me a shuffle instead of the same ipod for free? Or is that too much to hope for. Coz those shuffles are £39.99 and the IPOD nano's were around £60 I think when I bought it.
Cheers for listening!
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