Damn near impossible to turn off

[goheels681]

Today was the first day that I really had used my iPod away from home. I was showing it to a few people, and therefore constantly turning it on and off. Problem is, 95% of the time, holding down Play/Pause or hitting the Sleep button didn't turn it off. You have to sit there, and about the 8 or 9th try, it will turn off.

Anyone else have these problems?

[ipodphoto30]

mine is fine. probably a bug, when it doesn't turn off immediately, let go and try antoher few seconds.

[goheels681]

I do, but it sometimes will take upwards of a minute of frantic Play/Pause holding and Sleep before it does anything. The menus navigate just fine

[PhillyLivin]

is it because you are playing a video and then you hold play to turn it off or if you are watching a video then hit menu a few times to back out of it and then hold play to make it sleep? If so, that is true that the ipod doesnt turn off usually if there is a video playing so you need to get a song playing and then turn it off.

[goheels681]

This happens during anything. Sometimes a song is playing, sometimes a movie is playing, and sometimes nothing is playing. All my attempts have been by backing out to the Main Menu and turning it off from there

[issachk]

I have that same problem with mine. How does your play button work otherwise?

[goheels681]

The play button works just fine, as far as I know. I don't think that's the problem though, since the Sleep option on the Main Menu doesn't work either.

[iMonster]

that sucks :/ mine has no problem turning off at all *knocksonwood*

[Atkins_1989]

mine does that but allways works on the 3rd time

[goheels681]

Woah, I was playing with it today, not using the Sleep option, but I just kept redoing the Play/Pause button and it always works on the 3rd time too!

This has to be a semi-mass defect, if ours both always turn off on the third try

[Snowsk5054]

mine doesnt turn off either that easily...I usually hafta start playing a song or something...its a pain in the ###, and I think mine turns off on the third try lol

[wezman2k]

i have the problem as well. and i agree with all of you, it is a pain.

[RVdreamer]

Found this forum googling this very problem. A reset worked for me, all the other poking/waiting combos did nothing. This MUST be a widespread issue.

[PMazza]

Mine has been doing thing, people looking at it and stuff and wonder why it won't turn off. But just making sure a video isn't playing and putting it on hold then away and letting it go to sleep on it's own is all I do. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but it's kind of annoying.

[dayon15]

is this some kind of a bug? i encounter this trouble everytime i unplug my 5g ipod from my pc..