On the Road Again!

I expect this is what they call a "First World Problem". But even so it is a pain in the ass. My iPod Classic has decided that it will only charge if connected to one specific USB port on Claire's laptop. Luckily, I have an account on it that holds iTunes. Nothing happens when connected through a genuine Apple cable, connected to the mains with a genuine Apple plug. With 80GB capacity it has everything on it that I own in CD format as well as downloads from iTunes and Amazon.  It's a mobile databank of my musical tastes for the last thirty or more  years. Yes, I do have CD's on stuff I bought on vinyl back in the dark ages.  So when it got very low today, so low that on the screen the battery had the smallest sliver of red showing, I had no qualms about firing up the Dell. Then panic mode started.  The screen went off and ever so faintly it said something about recovery mode.  Oh sh*t!  Not here again!  The iPhone 5S did this last ye...

Bereft! I felt like I was cutoff from the world! My 5S has been powering itself off at odd times since the iOS 8 upgrade. It isn't a battery problem, as it had been as high as 47% charged. On Wednesday evening it turned itself off at 27% and when I turned it on the Apple logo stayed on the screen. I went online when I got home and found that this is called "recovery mode". I followed the instructions on Apple's website and it didn't work.  What to do. I had little luck with O2 online and ended up booking an Apple Genius. Just in case I called into the O2 shop in Folkestone and they managed quite easily to reset it back to factory setup. All that means I needed to was attach to my iTunes and restore my data. After the first stage it looked a bit dodgy as it seemed to have lost all my apps and data associated with them. So I left it to sync again.... Fingers crossed.