IPod Touch Error: 1604

Question

Anyways whenever I connect my iPod Touch to my computer now it would say that it's in recovery mode and needs to be restored. I can only turn my iPod on via hard reset and cannot exit recovery. The only solution I've found into resolving this error is to drain the battery of the iPod (which is very hard because it shuts off due to inactivity) and then plug it in and charge it. This seems to get rid of the error for the time being, but soon after recharging the iPod it will come back again with the same error. I've tried all the solutions found on the support page for error 1604, but none seemed to work. If anybody has any other solutions please post them. If you don't have a solution, could you tell me if Apple will offer a replacement for faulty hardware? The 90-day warranty that came with the product has just expired, so it's kind of stressful.

Answer 1

So here's the latest: I sent the Touch back to Apple, and they tested it and couldn't reproduce the problem! They made sure the firmware was up to date and sent it back to me. I got it from DHL and it turned on fine -- of course, not being synched with my computer, it didn't have my stuff o it, but it was working. So I plugged it into my MacBook Pro to get my music etc on it again, and what do you know! It goes into needs-to-be-restored yet again, and yet again, ends up with the 1604 error! (If you heard swearing around that time today, that was me.)
So I tried a new tack: if the ipod met factory specs and was fine, according to Apple, then it must be my MacBook Pro. This put me in a completely different queue. We tried everything, including trashing the "iPod Software Updates" folder from inside the Library/iTunes directory for my login and rebooting. So by this time, it's dinner time, and I have to go, and the support person said she'd look into it some more and call me back. When she did, I was still at dinner, but she told me one last thing to try, and she'd call me back before the end of her shift, and this is it:
When the iPod is plugged in and iTunes displays the window for the iPod with the Summary tab and two buttons, one to "Check for Update" and one to "Restore", click the "Check to Restore" button. I told her, even though I wasn't at my machine, that I knew it was greyed out, or else I would have tried it in the past. She said to try clicking it anyway. So when I came home, I plugged it in, got the screen and tried clicking the grey "Check for Update" button. Nothing. sigh So, for the heck of it, I then clicked the "Restore" button (isn't the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results??), only this time the "restore" progress text began including things like "checking software" and "checking restore" or something like that -- text I hadn't seen before. And lo, the restore appears to have taken! The iPod mounted. I'm syncing it now -- fresh, not from a saved profile. Software 1.1.4 with the Software Upgrade. Whether it will "take" and the thing won't just conk out on me tomorrow again and demand restoration yet again, well, that's another matter, but I have not seen ANYTHING about clicking on the grey "Check for Update" button in ANY of the instructions I've encountered before, so I needed to post this while I was feeling optimistic.