Accessing your iPod’s Diagnostics
Here is another tip for your iPod. If you ever feel like your iPod may be having a problem, or you just want to check its health then you should try accessing the iPod diagnostic panel. The Diagnostics are used by Apple to check what your iPod may require to be repaired if anything gets damaged. But you can also use it to check for yourself. I have prepared this video on both the iPod Nano 1st Gen and iPod Nano 2nd Gen.
Go ahead and try this on your iPod. I think the instructions are just the same for most other iPods, except the 1st and 2ng generations.
3rd Gen
Press and hold the Back button,Forward button and Center (Select) button
4th and 5th Gen
1.Press and hold the Menu and Center (Select) buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears.
2. When the Apple logo appears Press and hold down the Center (Select) and Back button simultaneously.
Related posts:
- How to Reset the iPod: “My iPod won’t turn on or off”
- iPod Disk Mode
- How to restore iPod
- I turned on my iPod, it said “Connect to your computer. Use iTunes to restore.” What is this?
- iPod Reset Utility to restore iPods
July 19th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Cool. Where is the video?
July 19th, 2007 at 8:18 am
We had to make a new video in hi rez so it will be up soon.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:28 am
[..YouTube..] this is wicked stuff hey…if you wanna wow your freinds then go into colour test
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:41 pm
[..YouTube..] hi my names tom. recently my ipod 80 gb has stopped connecting to itunes and when it doesit says reset. when i reset it and connect it again the same message keeps appearing time after time. how can i fix this thankyou
November 16th, 2007 at 8:22 am
[..YouTube..] same here …wtfif u find out reply to methanks
December 28th, 2007 at 8:22 am
[..YouTube..] what u try calling apple, they know more than us
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
[..YouTube..] what song is that? and by who?
January 4th, 2008 at 5:59 am
[..YouTube..] Totaly Awsome do you think you could help me with some thing. sent u message
January 12th, 2008 at 11:44 am
The new iPod (160G “classic”) tests the video out through the audio jack
February 24th, 2008 at 8:36 am
[..YouTube..] ok, well mine just got frozen at “HP DETECT Test”… what do i do now?
March 10th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
[..YouTube..] plug it in to your pc/mac, that should uunfreeze it
March 22nd, 2008 at 2:36 am
[..YouTube..] my brother was messing with my ipod and it went to this. i cant figure out how to get out of it…
April 10th, 2008 at 9:40 am
[..YouTube..] Try to reset it
May 10th, 2008 at 10:43 am
[..YouTube..] how do u do that
May 18th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
[..YouTube..] plz tell me the buttons u hav to press to get it to diagnostics mode, i cant tell what ur pressing
May 18th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
[..YouTube..] nvm, i found out, u press the middle button and the menu button at the same time and hold it them u press the middle button and the left arrow for those who were confused too
May 20th, 2008 at 11:38 am
[..YouTube..] i accidently got into this crap on my nano, how the hell do i get out? hold the center and menu? also half my screen is screwed up so i cnt even see most the stuff on tht. HELP PLZ.
June 16th, 2008 at 1:38 am
[..YouTube..] my ipod doesnt work i am tryign ot fix it, i tried what u did it work all the way upto that testing now its stuck on accesorize test-PLEASE PLUG FWLCD:1FWPWR:0can you tell me what wrong and what to do next pleasethanks.
June 17th, 2008 at 9:25 am
[..YouTube..] Try to reset it.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:48 am
Thanks for the great article. Keep up the good work.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
[..YouTube..] what do i do if the comp. wont recognize my ipod?
July 25th, 2008 at 10:33 am
[..YouTube..] My computer recignizes somthings connected but itunes doesnt pick up my ipod..?
August 14th, 2008 at 2:24 am
[..YouTube..] mine is the exact same! what do you do?
August 20th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
[..YouTube..] what version is your computer?
August 20th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
[..YouTube..] lol same thing happened on my 3g nano you can not fix the broken screen i tried every thing even tried sending it back they said they could not fix it
September 6th, 2008 at 8:03 am
[..YouTube..] do you have itunes?
October 11th, 2008 at 11:47 am
[..YouTube..] what song is this
October 12th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
[..YouTube..] hey hey people HELP! My 5th generation 30g ipod is appearing to function as normal but no sound comes out! wtf is going on? some one tell me!
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:45 am
[..YouTube..] you must use earphones.there isnt a built-in speaker
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:45 am
[..YouTube..] you must use earphones.
there isnt a built-in speaker
October 26th, 2008 at 10:59 am
[..YouTube..] Watch the end of this video for the website to this song.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
[..YouTube..] some1 help the menue got frozen plz help me plz
November 8th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
[..YouTube..] lol
November 15th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
[..YouTube..] LOL
November 20th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
[..YouTube..] Hi im a Mac and i spend millions of dollars bad mouthing Windows while my products crash 1week after their warranty expire
December 1st, 2008 at 1:48 pm
[..YouTube..] o wtf! now my ipod is frozen..wat do i do help plzzzzzzzz
December 1st, 2008 at 1:48 pm
[..YouTube..] o wtf! now my ipod is frozen..
wat do i do help plzzzzzzzz
December 1st, 2008 at 6:23 pm
[..YouTube..] Do a iPod Reset.
December 10th, 2008 at 11:25 am
[..YouTube..] mine is the same mate did u find out in the end?
December 19th, 2008 at 12:10 am
[..YouTube..] What did u press?
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
[..YouTube..] NICE SONG
January 12th, 2009 at 10:30 am
[..YouTube..] wen i plug my ipod in it doesent read it
January 13th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
[..YouTube..] Menu + Middle until it restarts….While the Apple logo is showing press and hold Middle + < (previous song button) until it boots to that menu.Good video.
January 13th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
[..YouTube..] Menu + Middle until it restarts….
While the Apple logo is showing press and hold Middle + < (previous song button) until it boots to that menu.
Good video.
January 16th, 2009 at 11:27 am
[..YouTube..] whats the song?
January 19th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
[..YouTube..] My Ipod Wont Come Up On ItunesI Reset It And Restored It And It Still Wont Come Up!Hellllppppp….
January 19th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
[..YouTube..] My Ipod Wont Come Up On Itunes
I Reset It And Restored It And It Still Wont Come Up!
Hellllppppp….
April 6th, 2009 at 8:27 am
[..YouTube..] the song is : i dont know -_- -_-
April 6th, 2009 at 10:01 am
[..YouTube..] People the URL to the song is at the end of the video!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 4th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
[..YouTube..] does the ipod have to be restored befor this will work??
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:12 pm
[..YouTube..] doesnt fuckin work for me shit doesnt last anymore apple microsoft you all fuckin suck u make shit to last 1 > 3 years if your fuckin lucky !!!
September 6th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
[..YouTube..] Did you find out how to make iTunes detect it, cause I have the same problem.
September 11th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
[..YouTube..] waht song is this
November 17th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
[..YouTube..] i bought mine 3 years ago and still nothing wrong with it but this is cool in all the years ive had my ipod classic ive never known it could do this the only tihng i hate is they released the 180gig like 4 months after they released the 80gig the one ik bought
December 13th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
[..YouTube..] how do u get there and does that work for a i pod nano
January 10th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
[..YouTube..] song name?
January 18th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
[..YouTube..] or classic?
January 30th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Lots of of bloggers not really pleased with this new iPad.There was just too much hoopla regarding it and lots of blogers got turned off.You see, I actually see some of the cool potential of the device. Third-party apps for playing tunes, games, newspapers and magazine and FFS books, all sorts of good stuff, but IMHO they failed to sell it properly (aside from the books). It looks kind of not finished