Ipod Touch(4G) won't sync after iOS 5 update

After I updated to iOS 5 my ipod could no longer sync with my iTunes. When plugged in it will appear on the left of iTunes but the sync button is grayed out and unpressible. I have tried restoring a backup on the ipod, resetting to factory settings, reinstalling iTunes, rebooting computer/ipod, and creating a new library. I have never had a problem like this before. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

I have the same problem and read where one person turned off ICloud. I do not have I Cloud activated so I went ahead and turned off WiFi. Now it is syncing.
It used to not get past Step 1 of Syncing and it would say "Fail to Sync" or something like that.

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A couple of things come to mind. If Apple Mobile Device Services is not working properly, your Mac isn't going to see the iPod. You can troubleshoot that problem with some help from this Apple Support article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1747
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Welcome to the discussions,
you can delete the app on your ipod by touching the icon until it starts to shake, then hit the little cross to delete it.
Did you try to connect in recovery mode to see if it is recognized by your mac? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

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Today, my OCD kicked in and I wanted to get all my content synced between all of my devices. Turns out, my iPod Touch 4G won't sync contacts or calanders with my PowerBook G4. The PowerBook is running Mac OS 10.5.8, iTunes 10, iCal 3.0.8, and Address Book 4.1.2. The iPod is running iOS 6.1.3.
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You can only sync contacts, calendars and some other things with the one syncing computer you can have.
You may not be able to make this computer (because it has OSX 10.5.8 which can only go to iTunes 10.6.3)
If the Mac has an Intel processor you can update to at least 10.6.8. The you can do the following to make this your syncing computer
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Hello,
My iPod touch (4G) won't sync with iTunes.
When i plug it into my pc it recognizes the iPod, but the device doesn't appear in iTunes.
I use iTunes 11 because iTunes 12 doesn't work on my pc.
My pc runs on windows 8.1, my iPod touch is running on the latest update of iOS 6.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks

I have the same problem and read where one person turned off ICloud. I do not have I Cloud activated so I went ahead and turned off WiFi. Now it is syncing.
It used to not get past Step 1 of Syncing and it would say "Fail to Sync" or something like that.

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my ipod touch accidentally disconnected during sync, after that it wont sync at all. although it appears to be syncing on both the computer and ipod, it rushes through "determining which tracks to sync' step and no changes are actually made.i restarted both and reset the ipod. i checked to see that the computer recognizes the ipod (yes) and tried to sync over wifi with the same result...(i am afraid to retore to factory original beacuse the problem is about transferring from th computer itunes to the ipod)

There is no good way for yur problem since iTunes sees the iPOd. Yu can ry removing and reinstalling all the Apple software using:
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Does anyone know what's happening?
And "restore to factory settings" is the last thing I want to do so no need to answer with that. I doubt it's anything wrong with the iPod anyways as it synced fine the last time I used it, which was back in the iTunes 10.x days.

The message means that something happened to your computer files and now the iPod thinks that the iTunes library is a different library. You need to do the following:
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If it happened after updating iTunes on the computer see:
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- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
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Hello.
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Hey, I'm probably too late and you may have already solved it but here's a solution. In iTunes go to Edit then preferences and then click on reset dialog warnings. What happens is when you first sync your ipod, you receive a message saying something like transfer?and you've probably selected "Do not show this message again". I don't really know why but iTunes assumes that the apps on your iPod are already on your computer and therefore need no transferring.
After you've reset it, the same message should pop up about transferring. As long as you don't click don't show, you should be good to go.

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I have the newest version of iTunes and have tried rebooting everything with no luck.
Any ideas to fix this other than restoring the iPod? Would the next iOS update fix this?

Hey Ross, OK no joy with reboot...? Have you tried going into Settings>General>Reset then tap Reset All Settings.
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I have a 4th generation iPod Touch. Pretty new right?
Either way I tried updating to iOS5.0 and it said I had to delete pretty much everything and restore it to the new OS. I did. Unfortunately after it wiped my touch clean, an error occurred. It says "The iPod "iPod" could not be restored because an unexpected error occurred (1611)" or some jazz like that. I researched it, so I closed everything down, restarted my computer, and switched the USB ports like an Apple tech told someone else to do. I try syncing again, and this time I get error (1601). I have no idea what to do. I tried putting my ipod in to DFU mode, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, and I just get booted back to error (1611) or (1601). I've been at it for a few hours and needless to say am very frustrated.
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I'm using a Windows Vista, so its not like its an outdated computer either.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694#error1601
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