Comments on: Possible simple fix for iPod 4G Static Issue

By: OnionLoaf

OnionLoaf — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:19:46 +0000

You sir, are my hero, just for shits and giggles I came on here and looked to see if there was a fix for this and what do ya know, You saved me buying a new ipod!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:33:03 +0000

Just tried it and it works perfectly :)

THANKS SO MUCH!

By: Mina

Mina — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:10:24 +0000

em i don get it my speakers don have metal disk and still pause

By: Luciana

Luciana — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:38:26 +0000

I connected my iPod before installing the software.
a friend of mine said that it can broke the iPod.
and I just can’t turn my iPod on.
what can I do?
thanks

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:14:25 +0000

I put a piece of tape over the headphone jack and pushed the headphone male end throught the tape. It works like a charm. Far better than calling the outsourced idiots at HP who informed me that I’d have to pay $275 (the cost of a new ipod) for someone to look at it. You guys are brilliant.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 14 May 2006 05:12:01 +0000

wow, this really worked
thanks man

By: makichan

makichan — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:42:56 +0000

Wow, Thank you so much for posting this… I am pretty annoyed about this (I *love* my shure headphones..) Just went to the Apple Store in the mall and they told me to call Shure and get replacement headphones. Huh. Doesn’t sound like that would be the solution.

By: tony

tony — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:29:28 +0000

i dropped my ipod and it froze with the backlight on and started to overheat, so i pulled it apart because i tried to turn it off but it wouldn’t then when i pulled it apart it turned off

By: Rich Hilliard

Rich Hilliard — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:16:26 +0000

Took an xacto knife and the clear plastic bubble packaging my fm transmitter came in and carefully cut a plastic “donut” that slides tightly onto the headphone plug. It is cosmetically invisible and works like a charm. Be careful with that xacto folks!

By: The Yellow Dart

The Yellow Dart — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:58:40 +0000

use electrical tape, works the Best!!!

By: churek

churek — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:52:48 +0000

Thank you. it really works

By: watch me

watch me — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:29:51 +0000

hmm…:?

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:25:10 +0000

The iCondom helps

i did the same like Siff (small ring of Scotch tape on the hadphone jack, so it covers the metal ring coplaetly)

Thanks.

ps: i use 4g ipod 40 GB just for the info.

By: Siff

Siff — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:32:26 +0000

The iCondom (I’ve put a small ring of Scotch tape on the hadphone jack, not on the iPod) works perfectly for me. I have a 60GB iPod and I had the pausing problem with both Sennheiser MX 450 and Sennheiser PX 100. I’ve never had the problem with the Apple headphones and I’ve thought that the Apple headphone’s jack must be somehow special and it really is: its ring is much smaller than the ring on the Sennheiser’s jacks and does not make a contact with the back of the iPod (the female jack has a small white plastic ring and the male touches it only).

By: JC

JC — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:19:16 +0000

Sounds more like you need a new Y adapter.

As for the volume… remember that the line-out through the dock is not amplified. it’s just signal out. So it has almost no volume at all. You have to adjust whatever you’re hooking it up to to do that. Or you could just go through the headphone jack, which is amplified.

By: Rob L.

Rob L. — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 05:40:48 +0000

I’ve had a 4G for a few months, and it only recently started making the hard drive noise I’ve read so much about. However, I haven’t had it with earbuds.
I usually leave my iPod docked and listen through my computer speakers (connected w/ y-adapter to PC). The computer has always put out much less sound whenever the iPod is plugged in. I found that it goes away completely if I unplug my computer’s audio from the y-adapter.
So now we know of another possible source of the static.

By: Matt H.

Matt H. — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:48:07 +0000

not elegant but it could work

By: Matt H.

Matt H. — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:47:30 +0000

masking tape

By: tan

tan — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:28:37 +0000

can some one post the piture of the fix ?

TIA

By: Doug G

Doug G — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:16:38 +0000

If the problem reappears, I’ll post an update.

By: JC

JC — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:04:52 +0000

Dunno, Doug. I didn’t have the problem with mine for the first few weeks… then I started noticing it, particularly when I’d jump past several songs at once.
While it’s possible they fixed the problem, you’d think they’d have announced it somewhere or something. Or maybe they didnt want to be inundated with returns. If only I had an apple store within a reasonable distance, I’d try it out… but I don’t want to take a 90 minute drive to chicago for a fix that may not work.
Congrats on the replacement, though.

By: Doug G

Doug G — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:01:15 +0000

To follow up my my post above, #9… Great news: Apple replaced the iPod with one that doesn’t have the problem.

Here’s the story. I took the iPod back to the Apple store today, made an appointment at their “Genius Bar”, and described the problem to the guy behind the counter. He’d heard of this problem but had never personally experienced it. He said it wasn’t an Apple Support “Hot Issue”, but he did have a suggested remedy:

1. He’d let me return the iPod and get a replacement. Once. He couldn’t guarantee that the problem wouldn’t exist in the new iPod, and he was unwilling to let me continue to return iPods indefinitely.
2. He let me plug my headphones into the new unit to see if the problem existed on the new iPod. It didn’t.
3. If the problem HAD existed with the new iPod, he was going to contact Apple Engineering and see what they could do about it. Worst case scenario, he would have let me return the iPod for a full refund.

Luckily, the new iPod gave me no static, so I walked out of the store very happy. He told me the my new iPod was manufactured very recently, “so they might have fixed any defects”.

The difference in my listening experience is remarkable. Thanks to Apple for some great customer support!

By: JC

JC — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 04:26:02 +0000

taking the ipod back probably won’t make any difference. You could put a little teflon washer on one side or the other, use some nail polish or latex or something. Good luck. :-)

By: Doug G

Doug G — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 04:19:47 +0000

Hey, thanks for this idea. I have a 4G iPod and some Shure E3Cs. The static was awful, and your fix works.

Somehow, after spending $300 on an iPod and $200 on a set of Shure earbuds, it doesn’t seem fair that I’d need to screw around with Saran Wrap, scissors and pins to avoid intolerable static. Two questions:

1. If I take my iPod back to Apple, will they replace it? Will the replacement have the same problem?

2. Any experience with a more permanent fix? I hate having to screw around with plastic every time I unplug the earbuds.

Thanks.

–Doug G.

By: tina

tina — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:53:06 +0000

dude ur amazing!! my iPod was pausing without unplugging anything, it would pause by itself, but i took your advice and it totally worked!!! thanks so much!!!!