One month ago, I offered a customized pink iPod mini to my sister for her birthday. Everything was good but few days after, it started to sounds poorly, like listening music under water.
Worse, sometimes you could only hear music without lyrics. Knowing Apple, I was very skeptical about an hardware failure but after several attempts to reset the iPod, I had to change my mind. Looking at the Internet about the fault description, I found out that is a known issue with iPod minis.
Apparently a problem with the sound board that may happen if the iPod drops on the floor. What? The iPod is brand new and was never shocked. Anyway, I have to return it to Apple, it’s still under guarantee and I hope they’ll change the whole unit.
UPDATE (Aug. 22, 2005) The iPod is back and works fine. It took a couple of weeks to fix it but that’s good.
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iPod mini started to sounds poorly like
listening music under water
free ipod3 November 08 at 5:59 am
It looks like the same symptom. I'm afraid you'll have to return it to Apple.
Fred Brunel3 November 08 at 12:40 pm
It sounded that way because the port for the headphones is broken and the audio becomes mono. The right channel gets inverted and parts of it cancel out the left one. The effect gets songs with bits taken out or their quality reduced. You can simulate this by pulling the headphone jack out a little bit.
Blacklemon6713 September 09 at 12:56 pm
It sounded that way because the port for the headphones is broken and the audio becomes mono. The right channel gets inverted and parts of it cancel out the left one. The effect gets songs with bits taken out or their quality reduced. You can simulate this by pulling the headphone jack out a little bit.
Blacklemon6713 September 09 at 4:56 pm
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