iPod (Video and Nano) Secret Diagnosis Menu

Hello poor mortals!! Today I've been afraid of my dear iPod Nano (2nd generation) was broken :S But what a luck, it was only a strange behaviour of this Apple music player.


The wheel didn't work, so I couldn't travel through the menus and options :S At least, I'm always listening to music in shuffle mode, so the music variation was not a problem, but for the volume modification, it's a very huge problem! Auch my poor ears!! But now everything is working, so I decided to explain how I arranged this problem for avoiding unnecessary scares (and another thing as a bonus :P)

All occurred as follows: I was coming home at 2 pm, after my working time at Thermic Engine Laboratory, by foot as always :P So, I turned on the iPod, also as always XD although it's not interesting for this fact, the song was The Wizard's Last Rhymes, by Rhapsody (on their album Rain of a Thousand Flames), so I began to walk with this song sounding throgh my headphones.

But two minutes later, the song stops abruptly. I think it's a battery affair (because it was in a very low level), but no, when I press the button the iPod turned on again, but OMG! The song is pointed onto the beginning, and I already listened two minutes!! The stop action occurred because of the 2-minute-lag-auto-power-off, so although the music was on, iPOD was in pause mode :S very very strange, uooooo uoooooooooo

Nevertheless, the most strange thing was, as I said previously, that the wheel was doing nothing!! The embedded buttons were truly working but not the wheel. And, as I also mentioned, for travelling through the menus and changing de volume level, the wheel is a must-have!! :S

When it happens, you can be quiet: the iPod is not broken, it's only a strange bahaviur. For this kind of things, the reset command was created, so you only have to press action button (in the middle of the wheel) and menu button (upper one) for 6 seconds; iPOD will reset then, et voilà! Everything is working well :D

However, I'm famous for my very poor memory, so I didn't remember how the reset command was activated; hence, I arrived at home listening a too much high volume metal music, and I looked for this command by Google. And what a surprise, I founded some URLs about a secret iPOD menu, accessible through the reset mode :D It's enabled for iPod Nano and iPod Video (I ignore if it's also functional for the old iPod mini).

For avoiding heavy explanations w.r.t. this menu, I think it's better to see a video of someone accessing this menu, isn't true? :) So, let's go with the video!

Curious menu, it's a real diagnosis setup for video and audio and iPod testings!! I think it's very interesting for any owner of an iPod :) I hope you find it very useful :D (yes, I know this secret menu is not a real breaking new, but I discovered it today :$)

Metaphoric Hugs from The Dark Corridor, poor mortals!!! And remember... to fly is an illusion... but the falling is real...