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The iPod click wheel is the navigation component of non touch-screen iPod models. It uses a combination of touch technology and traditional buttons, involving the technology of capacitive sensing, which senses the touch of the user's fingers. The wheel allows a user to find music, videos, photos and play games on the device. The wheel is flush on the face of the iPod and is located below the screen. The click wheel was invented by Norihiko Saito in 1998.[1][2]
The design was first released with the iPod Mini, and was last used with the (non-suffixed) iPod, now called the iPod Classic. The click wheel's design is credited to Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller.
The click wheel detects a user's input via its touch sensitive ring. Because of four mechanical buttons that lie beneath it, the ring is able to perform multiple commands.[3] For example, browsing through music, after selecting a particular song, the click-wheel is used to adjust the volume. Pressing the select button can be used to skip to a specific part in the song.
The "brain" behind the click-wheel is the conductive membrane behind the plastic covering. This membrane has "channels" that when connected, create a set of coordinates. These channels are conductors, which when connected to another conductor (a finger in this case), try to send a current through the user's finger, but are blocked by the plastic covering the click-wheel. So instead of passing through the plastic, the current creates a charge at the closest location to the finger, which is also known as capacitance. The component that detects this change in capacitance is the controller. Whenever the controller senses a change, it sends a signal to the microprocessor, which performs the desired action. The faster a finger moves around the wheel, the more concentrated the stream of signals it sends out. The moment the finger leaves the wheel, however, is when the controller stops detecting change in capacitance, therefore stopping the current process.[3]
The Creative Zen Touch from 2004 has a vertical scroll wheel similar to the iPod's click wheel.[5] That same year, the luxury Nokia 7280 mobile phone also featured a scroll wheel.[6] The Samsung SGH-i300 from 2005,[7] as well as Motorola ROKR E8 from 2007,[8] also have it. In 2007, Nokia created the 'Navi wheel' which debuted on the Nokia N81.[9] LG also implemented such a feature on its LG Chocolate (VX8550).[10] Several models of Sony Walkman music players also have similar interfaces.
I recently decided to resurrect my old iPod. It is an original 4th Generation iPod, model MP103, the first iPod model to come with a clickwheel I believe. After sorting out all the hardware issues, the device now runs fine, however, I am having issues with syncing music to it through iTunes.
The issue: When I plug in my iPod, with iTunes open, the small iPod click wheel icon appears greyed out in the top left corner for a moment, and then disappears. Windows explorer does recognise the devise and 'iPod' shows up as being connected in Explorer, but not in iTunes. If I close iTunes and repoen, same thing happens, the icon appears momentarily, then disappears. Hence, I cannot access my iPod through iTunes.
Maybe some of you have been lucky enough to use the early versions of the iPod, where we use a circular gesture with the click wheel to perform some functions, from navigating songs, to changing the volume, to navigating within different parts of a song.
I recently replaced the logic board on my iPod class 160GB. I reassembled it, and at testing found that the click wheel would not work at all (no scrolling or clicking). After taking it apart again a few times, attempting to reconnect the click wheel, etc. I figured the click wheel must have a problem, so I ordered a new one and installed it. Now, the scrolling works on the iPod but it won't click. The click wheel makes the same satisfying clicking noise when you hit the buttons, but nothing happens on the screen, which means I can't even get past the language choosing screen :(
Everything else seems to be working order... as I understand it, the buttons on the logic board are what allow you to click, suggesting a problem with the logic board. But after replacing the click wheel it scrolls, and this is a brand new logic board. All other logic board operations seem to be just fine.
As implemented by Apple, the Click Wheel's select button is in the middle, the next song is the button below the right side of the circular control system, the previous song button is at the left side, the menu (or back) button is near the top, and play-pause is near the bottom. To scroll down, the user "turns" the wheel in a clockwise rotating motion around the central select button, and counter-clockwise to scroll up.
The first iPod, released in October 2001, featured a physically-moving Scroll Wheel, with a center button in the middle and four push-buttons around the wheel. The 2nd-generation iPod, released in July 2002, featured a Touch Wheel, which replaced the physically-moving wheel with a touch-sensitive version surrounded by the four push-buttons. The 3rd-generation iPod, released in April 2003, moved the four outside push-buttons to the top, and replaced them with LED-lit touch-sensitive buttons.[1]
The iPod mini and the 4th-generation iPod, both released in 2004, made the four buttons into clicking push buttons, and embedded them below the four directional edges of the wheel. This became known as the Click Wheel, which was also adopted by the first five generations of the iPod nano.[1]
A version of the Click Wheel was considered for the iPhone line, but a multi-touch interface was implemented instead, starting with the first iPhone that was released in 2007.[2] The multi-touch interface eventually replaced the clickwheel in the iPod touch series as well as the 6th and 7th-generation iPod nano.
to tiuk: theres a good chance that the 5G ipod is still running on the same protocol(physical and data). i have had my 5G open a few times and the connector was the same pin out iirc with the big difference of the clickwheel being integrated in to the plastic case of the 5G.
FYI, the latest builds of Rockbox actually let you use the clickwheel of any supported iPod as an USB HID device. Certainly not of use to anyone wishing to use this in an embedded environment, but if you wanted to use an existing piece of hardware to control your media player or whatever, it works nicely.
just reading the datasheet its not MEP. MEP relies on a 3 wire with bi directional communication. The communication observed when probing all cliclwheel lines (in original cct) was only unidirectional.
As I moved our iTunes library last week, I worried that the new system might not be able to sync with the old iPod, but relaxed when I saw that Apple still sold the click-wheel iPod Classic. They discontinued it a few days later, but fortunately we were able to sync the old devices.
The very first iPod featured a scroll wheel that you physically turned with your finger. This model came with options for 5 or 10 gigabytes of storage. It had an actual hard drive inside so dropping your glossy next-wave music device was a terrifying thing.
In what was surely a marketing coup for U2, Apple released it's first and last band-specific special edition in October of 2004. What made it special was it's black plastic exterior and red click wheel -- plus it had engraved signatures of the band members on the back. Several iterations were released through 2006 including one based on a 5th Generation iPod with video.
In October 2005 the 5th Generation iPod added video and featured a large color display a clickwheel, USB for syncing and either 30 or 60 GB of storage. In late 2006 an 80 GB version was made available.
In September of 2007 the iPod Classic was introduced, sporting an anodized aluminum enclosure and offering a whopping 160 gigabytes of storage. It was a simpler music-focused ipod with click wheel for those who wanted to carry their entire music collection with them. These became a fan favorite and future iterations were released in 2008 and 2009 in 120 GB and 160 GB respectively.
In 2005 the iPod Nano was announced, which seemed to be a new spin on the Mini concept. With a color screen and click wheel but less delicate flash memory, this model allowed syncing over a USB 2 cable. It was available in 1, 2, or 4 GB.
The 6th generation Nano saw the line shrunk down to the size of a watch-face and indeed many accessories were developed for folks to wear this ipod as a watch. It squeezed up to 16 GB into it's magically small touch-screen color discplay.
A decade ago Apple introduced the iPod, and with it a new method for controlling music playback: a scroll wheel with buttons around the perimeter. The interface was novel for a portable music player, which usually used more traditional buttons in a linear or grid layout.
On the first iPod the scroll wheel was a mechanical wheel which spins around on the face of the player. By the second generation it had become a touch sensitive surface, and by the fourth generation the buttons around the edges were built into the wheel itself. The click wheel had arrived, and it survives (barely) to this day in the venerable iPod classic.
Depending on the skin you add, it automatically assigns a layout based on the size. And if you use one with a click wheel, you will actually be able to use the circular gestures to navigate through your music collection.
The easiest way to tell is by the four control buttons (menu/on,
prev-track, next-track, pause/off). If they're mechanical and are arranged around the outside of the scroll
wheel, that's either first or second generation. You can easily
distinguish 1G iPods, since they're the only ones with a mechanical
scroll wheel.If the buttons are touch-sensitive and arranged in a line above the
scroll wheel, that's third generation. If the scroll wheel itself is clicked to perform these functions, that's
fourth generation. Given that yours is 15GB, I think that rules out 1G and 4G anyway. But
I'm not sure about that.