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Originally Posted by Spear Dane  What is the purpose of "lock" anyway? |
If you bump your iPod while it's off you can turn it on by accident. Whenever I'm travelling I lock my iPod while it is off so something doesn't bump the play button and then the iPod turns on and plays my entire music library and kills the battery.
Also, you might be listening to something and you don't want to inadvertently bump the wheel and advance to another song or something like that.
Lock essentially disables the inputs so whatever state the iPod is in, it stays in that state.