iPod Touch update- it lives!
It’s been dead for a few days now and resisted numerous attempts to revive it but I am happy to say that threatening to take it to the Genius Bar persuaded my iPod Touch to wake up from the dead. I was able to successfully restore it to factory condition while attached to the HP Windows PC, and even though I had tried that several times before it actually worked a little while ago. I was able to purchase and install the update for email and the other apps and right now it’s syncing my music collection from scratch. I wonder why the thought of those geniuses scared it into submission? The MacBook Pro is still not cooperating though so I guess it’s not scared enough.
UPDATE: scratch that, while halfway through syncing my music it took itself down and hung up with the Apple logo on-screen. I’m really starting to hate that logo with all the hangups and rebooting I’ve been doing.
UPDATE 2: the iPod finally restarted after a minute and is now continuing the syncing. Sheesh.
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Keep reminding yourself that Apple’s products “just work”… :)
It sounds like a bad battery catching a charge and then discharging, and cycling on and off trying to charge itself.
nope. i had the same problemwith iphone. the update just didnt work. apple support said unintall all apple ipod software nd start from scratch.
James,
Ready to go back to the Zune?
LOL
Welcome back!
Woadan
Hope it gets through this. I’ve fallen in love with my iPod Touch as well.
I’m with Warner on this.
The only issue I’ve had with my iPod Touch is the fact that I had owned it for five days and they wanted another $20 out of me. :S
You’ll probably get that $20 back after only 5 days.
>>>Keep reminding yourself that Apple’s products “just work”… :)
They do! He just keeps ignoring the fine print:
*except for fiends who torment Mike Cane!
My pal, Steve!
I’ve notice a couple of iPod touches (mine included) which had mysterious and intermittent battery drains. Anyhoo, the main reason why I wanted to post is that there are some alternatives to paying $20 for the 5 iPhone apps. A couple are web apps, namely weatherbug (for weather) and iTouchmap (for google maps) – which should be adequate since using the native apps require web access anyway. The third is iMapIdle (a 3rd party app) for dealing with imap mail, which requires a jailbroken touch. I’m still looking for a notes alternative (I’ve been using ‘contacts’ instead), while I have no stocks to look up anyway, but I’m sure there’s a web app for that as well.
I may consider forking out the ‘early adopter tax’ later on for those 5 apps, but probably not until 1.1.3 has been jailbroken.
Welcome back James!
ps: here are the links for those webapps -
weatherbug: http://iphone.weatherbug.com/iphone
iTouchmap: http://itouchmap.com
cheers!