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wish it worked with 3rd generation...
After tons of research and buying the wrong iHome product (iH6), I now have an iH5 which is supposed to work with a 3rd generation iPod and does not. So now I have a very expensive alarm clock and a dock for my iPod. Having contacted the seller and gotten several infuriatingly insulting emails from them, I give up! I wish I'd saved my money instead. Consider Another Product I received my iHome as a birthday present last year. It worked great for about a year and a half, then it stopped playing my iPod. I would have to move my iPod back and forth to find the right spot in order to hear it through the speakers. I wasted so much time doing this that I just began using the Line In jack on the back to play my iPod. Now I have to turn the volume on my iPod all the way up to control the volume normally on the radio, otherwise it is extremely loud when the alarm goes off in the morning. I have to remember to turn it back down when using it with headphones or else I will damage my eardrums. I would place the iPod back on the dock to charge during the day while I was at work. A few months ago, the dock stopped charging my iPod as well. I tried everything I could think of to get it working again--unplugging and replugging the cord, changing the batteries, I even started placing old receipts behind my iPod in hopes of finding the magic spot so it would play and charge. Nothing worked. Then I noticed that the dock connector was extremely loose. I did some searching on the Internet and discovered many others who were having the exact same trouble that I was. Some were able to get another dock connector and, after supergluing it in, it is working better for them. Others were not so fortunate and had to buy something else to play and charge their iPods on their bedside table. I have not decided what I will do yet. I am lucky that this is the only problem that I am having with the clock radio, but since that was the main draw of the product, it is now no different that the old radio I have sitting at the top of my closet. Please look for another product with a sturdier dock connector. Make this one your last resort. Fantastic. . . until it broke I bought the iHome IH5 Clock Radio about 9 months ago. Up until now it has been a wonderful thing to have. I loved being able to listen to my own music while waking up. The remote control allowed me to adjust the volume, skip songs, hit the snooze button, or turn it off and on all from the comfort of my warm bed. But the dial for adjusting the alarm clock has stopped working. Further, the remote control works only some of the time. So now it's pretty much worthless to me. If it had never broken, I would give it a 4 or 5 star rating, but since it broke after only 9 months I give it 2 stars. <> My ihome would constantly turn itself on in the and blast random music when the ipod was in the dock- most of the time inconveniently in the middle of the night. Also, i bought my ihome before the ipod video came out, and it didnt have the piece so the ipod video could fit. im having a lot of trouble finding the piece so i can use my ihome with my new ipod . Breaks down after a year and a half I came to these reviews to see if anyone had the problem I did. Namely that the setting and volume wheels no longer had any effect. Can't set the clock or reset the alarm -- which was the reason I bought the product. I wondered if I had just gotten a weak unit. I see from the many similar posts that the product was badly made. I won't be buying another. | |
