Weird Tone Coming from 3G
Please choose the appropriate forum for this topic. Thank you. I have a 3g that sometimes emits a strange short 2-tone beep, it's 2 short beeps at 2 different tones. I mainly use my iPod in my truck hooked up to one of the Belkin kits so I am not sure if that has anything to do with it. I hear the tone directly from the iPod itself not thru the speakers. This happens while I am listening to music not when I first turn the iPod on and I am not sure if it happens at the beginning of a song or not. It does not always happen and I almost never use it outside of the truck so as I said before I didn't know if the Belkin had anything to do with it.
I wish I could describe the tone a little better but this the best way I could think of, almost sounds like a sound an old Atari game would make. The iPod seems to work fine and the song(s) never get interrupted but I did not know if this was the HD making this noise and there could be something wrong with it that I should look into now.
Any ideas?
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scottw] at [2007-11-10 6:35:09]

# 1 Re: Weird Tone Coming from 3G
Some 3G users, including myself, have noticed a repeated pattern of beeps and ticks that can be clearly heard when you hold the iPod up to your ear. Not sure if this is the same thing, as what you seem to be describing implies that the noise is much louder than what others are reporting.
-James at 2007-11-15 13:42:25 >

# 2 Re: Weird Tone Coming from 3G
Thanks for you fast reply. Your right this does not seem to be what this is, my tone can be heard from over a foot away from the Ipod an only happens once in a while then it is gone.
Thanks again for the reply.
Anyone else?
scottw at 2007-11-15 13:43:25 >

# 3 Re: Weird Tone Coming from 3G
Could it be that it is the sound that the ipod makes when it is being docked somewhere /turned on in the dock?
Is your ipod connected to a dock kit? The beeps would actually be a short three or four tone audio signal...
# 4 Re: Weird Tone Coming from 3G
I know exactly what you are talking about. My 4G does the same thing. I can hear it from 5 feet away. It happens once in a while when my pod is NOT turned on or playing, sitting on my desk at work. I have it plugged into headphones ONLY. Very strange. Anyone know what this could be? It is a very high pitched, almost screeching sound.