Filed under: Hardware, iPod Family, Bugs/Recalls, Apple
iPod shuffle Reset Utility 1.0 for Mac
Many first gen iPod shuffle users are are seeing their precious shuffles enter into a sort of fugue state: endlessly cycling between a sad green light and a sad orange light. Today, Apple has posted a small utility that promises to raise your shuffle from the dead. What is this marvel called? iPod shuffle Reset Utility 1.0 for Mac (PC version also available).This little utility restores your shuffle's software to software version 1.1.4, and erases all the music on the shuffle. Apple warns that your shuffle might need to be reset thrice (!) before it takes. Lots more details about the utility can be found here.
Thanks, Mark.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mark said 9:31PM on 10-25-2006
Wow, it brought my Shuffle back to life on the first try. I had thrown it in a drawer months ago and given it up as dead after trying everything recommended by Apple's Support site. Nice!
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Kelly Dumont said 10:07PM on 10-25-2006
Worked great for my dead shuffle as well.
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Mike K. said 11:01PM on 10-25-2006
I just submitted yesterday a support ticket to Apple for this issue, and they're sending me a replacement, when they very well might not have to. Hey, it worked, although I ended up having to reinstall iTunes before it recognized either the Shuffle or the 4G 20gig.
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presodent said 3:11AM on 10-26-2006
awesome! i brought my shuffle to the genius bar last month and they couldn't help me at all since it was completely dead in their eyes and because it was purchased more than a year ago. they told me i could use it as a 10% discount on my purchase of a new ipod. now it works again! thanks for the tip!
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Eric said 4:28AM on 10-26-2006
Unbelievable!! Thanks! I spent about 6 hours last week downloading various windows Fdisk utils, OS X disk utils and basically anything I could think of that might get the drive to be recognizable as a disk again. Called Applecare and they told me the same as "presodent" ... use it to buy a new one.
Ya!! I have my shuffle back! Still the best sounding iPod ever.
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Zac said 7:08AM on 10-26-2006
I work in an Apple Centre in Australia, and we'd gotten to the extent of booking in any iPod shuffle that came in the door, just because iTunes did nothing. Thanks for the post.
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abgzam said 11:12AM on 10-26-2006
wow! my dead ipod shuffle back to life....
why it take so long for apple to release the fix....!@
luckily i don't throw away the ipod shuffle...
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Jose_M said 11:38AM on 10-26-2006
This worked perfectly!
For about four months now I had my daughter's dead 1gig shuffle next to my monitor, wayting for something like this to come out. Today we have functional Shuffle again! thank you for the tip!
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Nate MC said 5:51PM on 10-26-2006
Finally, I had to return 3 shuffles because of that problem.. maybe this will fix the next one that inevitably takes a dive.
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Shawn Smallwood said 11:40AM on 10-27-2006
funny i had this very problem and restored my ipod via itunes and this resolved it. nice to know the issue is out there and has been fixed
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