IPod Touch Experience - So Far

Hi,
Let me make this plain before anyone accuses me of being biased, anti Apple or just plain awkard, what follows are pure observations of what's be happening with my iPod Touch and what I see people posting here.
BTW there isn't an appropriate category for this post, so it's here.
First, the iPod Touch is a great piece of technology but it's got teething troubles, as does most first version, high tech stuff. I've had mine since friday 29th September. Setup went ok but I had to do a RESTORE to correct a problem where it wasn't producing any sound when I played a music track.
I've found touch screen response to be a bit irratic. It mostly responds first time but, about 1 in 4 times it needs several tries.
General unit response is usually good but can be slow at time. Internet browsing is often quiet slow but that can be influenced by a number of factors outside the Touch.
I find that the battery runs down pretty quickly depending on what your doing at the time. Mine will use half a battery charge if I play a movie for 30-40 minutes. Perhaps that's normal?
In the last couple of days I've been getting some strange things happening. When logged into iTunes with the Touch connected my pc (Windows XP) has frozen after 10 minutes or so. It was fine up until 2 days ago. If iTunes isn't loaded Windows doesn't freeze up!
Today, it's been dropping out of WiFi a few minutes after connecting. (WiFi shows as disconnected in the iPod Touch!
A couple of hours ago I was demonstrating the Touch to a friend. We were looking at photos and I was flipping to the next photo sideways, as you can when it suddenly went wild and kept flipping the photos at speed without me touching it.
Then there's the growing list of problems being posted on this forum for everybody to see. Admittedly, many of them are going to be 'finger trouble' or 'pilot error'. I remember the early days of Windows 95!!
I've already read somewhere, maybe it was on this forum, that it's hoped that Apple won't be too long in producing the first software patch for download but I guess we've got to give them time to sift the problem reports, decide the priorities and build an appropriate upgrade patch?
Mike.

Hi,
My original motivation for posting this thread was to prompt feedback on what others are experiencing with their Touch. I should also say the only problem that has repeated itself and worries me are the wifi drop outs.
qx5
It's a week 37
Scott
Good point about different skin elec. potential re. the screen sensitivity. It certainly doesn't worry me but is frustrating at times.
The iTunes/Windows 'lockouts'. This has only started happening in the last 2 days and is difficult to decide who to fault it to?
Battery! Not a big problem but for the fact that you've got to find a USB port to do it. Mains charger would be good.
Just a thought, what's battery life expected to be? cos when it's dead so is the Touch!!
Andrew
The fast photo flipping has only happened once, so far and dosen't worry me, either.
I agree, the iPod Touch rocks and it can only get better if Apple listens and responds to customer feedback.
Mike.

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My short lived iPod Touch experience - constant crashing.

Hi there, this is my first post so I'd just like to start by stating I'm in no way here to bash Apple. I think Apple offers a product that is mostly unrivalled in build quality and function. It unfortunate though that when things go wrong there is little recourse once beyond the warranty period.
So here is my story:
My brother bought an iPod Touch(2nd gen) around 2 years ago and in doing so I inherited his iPod Video(5th gen, which was bought the day it was released) and I was extremely pleased, obviously. The iPod video has performed flawlessly since day one and still works without a single error of any kind. That is what Apple is known for.
Ok, so back to the iPod Touch. My brother has now handed it to me telling me of it's problems. It freezes, gets a white screen, then you have to restart it, it's also sluggish. Now, this is the 32gb version and he's never been close to filling it. He just mostly uses it for the wifi. His pc is chunky and loud so he uses the touch when around the house. It rarely left his room in fact! So anyways I asked him why he didn't return it while it was in warranty and he said that because it was rare for it to crash and all he had to do was to reset it and it'd be ok. Quite frankly that's something I could live with too if it was rare. But recently it's terrible. You can't watch videos from youtube or from the ipod itself without it freezing. If you play songs you'd be lucky to get through a couple of tracks without it locking up. And this is after a billion restores. After reading this forum i'm starting to think it's ios4 that effed it up so bad. My brother took it to one of the genius guys at the apple store he bought it from just a couple of weeks ago and they said it was a hardware issue and offered about £50 off the cost of buying a new one as a solution. I'm glad my brother declined that offer because as we live in the UK we're covered by a great law... I'm sure some of you are aware of it. Anyways it basically says that the goods must be of satisfactory quality; fit for purpose and as described and they must be for 6 years from purchase. Now as Apple was both the manufacturer and retailer of the product I'm going to pursue either a full refund, replacement or repair(at reasonable cost if any free would be better :P as £50 discount is not reasonable) because this particular iPod was clearly not of satisfactory quality and now it's not fit for purpose. I was wondering how other people's experience of this has been? As I stated earlier, I love the Apple products and if I were a richer man I'd make one my main workstation too but this is unacceptable.
Much love,
Alberto.
P.S I decided to try the erase content and settings and understood from the warning that it would take around 4 hours. "That's fine" I said to myself and left it plugged into the power supply and went to sleep. It's 24 hours later the Apple logo with the progress bar at 2/3 full is still there. How long should this take? There was nothing on it before I started.

Ok, so an addendum of sorts.
I removed the power cable because I was moving to another room and I wanted it with me but I forgot to plug it back in so I'm going to presume that the battery ran out before the full erasure took place.
Restored a fresh ios4 etc. etc. and began to fill up the ipod. I also put a 3 part, 3 hour BBC documentary on there to test the video. Well, no surprise. It began to crash/freeze again with the default settings so I thought I'd try everything on at the highest and it did a little better. The strange thing is when I put the headphones I use on my laptop onto the ipod it worked like it's meant to work. It played the video without flaw until the batteries ran out. So now it's charging up, without the cheap-o Creative headset on and it's back to being a lump of poo. I mean it's actually worse than it was before as it now crashes at the initial unlock screen after it's booted up. So it obviously hates having to use it's own speaker and hates the earphones it came with. This makes no sense what so ever.
I'm still going to aim at a refund, repair or replacement because it's meant to just work. No excuses, no work around, just work.

WiFi on 2G Ipod Touch is very weak

I had the OLD Ipod Touch (32Gb) and sold it to buy the new 2G Ipod Touch.
So far so good. Got speakers now and I'm happy.
But before (with the OLD Touch) I was able to connect to my home wireless network from anywhere in the house.
Now with the NEW 2G Touch, I have to be in the same room in order to get a signal. Even in the same room... If I'm not too close, the signal will be lost.
I then Upgraded my router to a Wireless N and put a Range Expander (to be sure I have a strong signal) and even my neighbor will get the signal from his laptop and enjoy a nice internet session, but yet, My new 2G Ipod Touch finds no WiFi.
Is the new update causing the problem?
I know the new update messed up the audiobook button and people are waiting for a new update, but could it be that the WiFi antenna is affected as well?
Help Please!

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but here goes:
I really like my 2g but I noticed the same thing: The wifi detection is very poor, even when I know there are access points nearby and all other devices (not just laptops, but other handhelds etc) have no trouble detecting them. I can see some of the networks in WiFinder if the antenna happens to be on but it apparently turns itself off when it can't find any networks.
I asked a buddy about it and he said he never noticed any problem, but he has a 1g touch. I borrowed his and took a picture with my phone of the two devices side-by-side: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1170172&l=32825&id=508280781. The 1g is on the left, as you can see it detected a lot more networks and had no trouble connecting to the desired network. The 2g is on the right and it sees no networks at all. Occasionally one will pop up in its list with 1 dot for a few seconds.
What I want to know really is really just "Is this a design defect w/ the iPod Touch 2g (and if so is apple going to fix it w/ a software update or recall them or something)?".
If it's not a design defect and mine is just a bum unit then I will get mine swapped out for a new one at the apple store, but it they're all like this then that is a waste of my time and effort. Clearly there is a difference, as the picture shows (and it is completely obvious anyway if you have experienced it).

Buying iPod touch 2g - have 6 questions

Tomorrow most likely. The 16gb. $280 ($20 off at Wal-Mart 8-)
Don't really care about the rumored iPod Touch 3rd gen; as the 2nd gen will be able to download the 3.0 software. I wouldn't use the camera anyways as it would probably only be 4 megapixels or less, and I have a 8 megapixel digital camera.
Well, here are my questions.
1.) Since it is bluetooth compatible, will I be able to use my headset as a microphone to record college lectures? I would place the headset near the professor if he allows it. I know it doesn't have a built in mic.
2.) Hard case reccomendations? I heard good things about the Tumi T-Tech case. Id like for it not to hamper any of the functions.
3.) Im going to convert AVI movie files to MP4 movie files. There should be no hassle porting those to the Ipod right?
4.) Will I be able to drag my Mp3 song files into the folder which contains the songs? Or do I have to use iTunes. I feel that it is easier this way when you download from other music purchase programs.
5.) If Apple does announce the new iPod touch within the next month, does that mean it will be out on shelves? Or that the features have just been announced?
6.) Finnaly, screen protectors. I heard that you really don't need one. It's not like I would ever put it in my pocket with keys. What do you think?
THANKS for ANY help!

just to add my opinions: (i think the above post covers 1-3)
4.) as Nocturnal says, you have to use iTunes. the iPod touch doesn't have a disk mode like other ipods, so the 'drag and drop' method which worked before will not work.
5.) thought you weren't that bothered about it? lol. i would imagine they'll announce it before it is released. that's usually what happens isn't it? educated guess, we're looking at early september (that's when the last two gens have come out) if there is to be a new release. put it this way, i upgraded to an 8GB touch from a 4GB nano, before they brought in the app store. if it was just down to my music and podcasts, 8GB would be plenty, but now i'm seriously starting to think i need that extra space! but i won't be buying just yet.
6.) i didn't bother with one, messed up putting it on, so just gave in. over a year later and i don't regret it. the back is a bit scratched, but that doesn't worry me greatly. i use a silicon case from http://www.exspect.co.uk/, it's starting to look a bit ragged (edges are splitting a little), but it does the job perfectly adequately for what i want.
hope you enjoy your ipod touch experience, it really is an amazing toy!
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Reading email via dotmac on ipod touch

Am I correct to state that you can only read the title of the email and the first line?
I bought the touch as I thought I could check email on the go, but if it only shows one line, it is pretty useless for that...
Does anybody else have that phenomena? Am I wrong in thinking that we can check our dot mac email via safari? (So that expensive data packages on GPRS phones would become obsolete)

O thanks! That is a very important piece of information...
Would not have found that one myself...
I find that there is not much to read up to learn to work with ipod Touch. So far, all I know I learned in the discussion groups... It would help if there would be a manual available with all those little snippets of information. I have a manual, but so far it has been proven useless as it does not start from the little basics... We need people like you all to help us out!

IPod touch runs very slow on my computer

I recently purchased the 3rd Gen iPod touch and so far it has been running extremely slow when plugged into my computer. I installed all the latest updates and it's still running slow. On my 5th Gen iPod, songs were changed and deleted instantly. Any suggestions?

Same problem, although it used to be much quicker, I am unsure of when it became so slow.
It's taking about 4 seconds a song to copy to my Touch, while an older Nano takes less than a second per song on the same computer. The same Touch hooked up to my Macbook Pro is very quick. Just on my PC running Windows 7 64 is it slow.
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Using ipod touch 4gen with bose ae2i

I just got my new Bose Ae2i (the one with the remote and mic) and i cant use the controls with my ipod touch 4gen
As far I had read (user guide and many websites) both are compatible, but there is no response from the remote
For the record, the remote works with my mac mini and ipad2 perfectly
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This helped meRe: Using ipod touch 4gen with bose ae2i
05-mar-2012 22:05 (in response to Platactico)
You can try the standard fixes:
- Reset, Nothing is lost.
- Restore from backup
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as you told be b4 I did with no success

I need a list of games I can play on 2nd Generation Ipod touch

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Apple Club - filter apps by iOS version.
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how do you unlock ipod touch security code

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16 GB ipod touch only holds 9 pages of apps?

I have plenty of memory available. How come only nine pages are accessible? There is plenty of room for more dots going side to side across the screen.
Also, is there any way to avoid losing the apps from page nine that get squeezed off the side and into the page ten that doesn't exist? I have to do a reset on the ipod in order for them to come back from that strange place.
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Unfortunately that is the max for all ipod touches. As far as I know there is no way to avoid losing the icon if you go over the limit, other than to remove enough apps to go under the 9 pages.

Sony icfcs10ip "not supported" by ipod touch

My son has a 4th generation iPod touch. We purchased a Sony icfcs10ip iPod docking station for him in August 2011. It worked great with his iPod Touch.
Now it will not work. In fact, it gives a message "This Accessory is Not Supported by iPod touch." However, the Sony dock will work just fine with my iPhone4 and my daughter's 4th generation iPod touch. As far as I can tell, my daughter's iPod is identical, although hers is newer than his. My son's iPod was purchased in December 2010 and my daughter's iPod was purchased in July 2011. They are both 32 GB iPod Touch models, 4th gen.
You might think the problem is with my son's iPod, but it will work with two other iPod music docking stations, one which is very old (Apple Hifi) and one which is very new (a Philips music dock that is only 2 months old).
His iPod is updated to the latest OS (version 5.01). I tried doing the "reset all settings," which does everything but erasing all the content. My son doesn't want me to do the full reset because he is worried that he will lose all his levels on the games he likes to play.
Is there any difference between a 4th gen iPod touch purchased in Dec. 2010 and a 4th gen iPod touch purchased in July 2011? Was there a software update that made the Sony dock unusable?
TIA for any help!

Stop shouting!!!
We are ipod users just like you.
All caps indicates shouting, is rude and is difficult to read.
If you want help, yelling at those that would help is a terrible way to go about it.
Contact ihome and ask if the unit is compatible with your ipod.
Try the basics form the manual: restart, reset, restore.
turn off your caps lock

Any experience using iPod touch with Onkyo DS-A1x iPod dock?

Just bought Onkyo home theater with DS-A1x iPod dock.
Will test it out tonight, but can't locate any user feedback on
web.
Anyone out there tried this combo?

So far my experience is positive BUT.
The sound of the system is great. It charges the iPod touch just fine.
However, no video so far. Rsearching if cable/connector difference for iPod touch versus other iPods..
Remote functions work generally but the palylist/album swithcing is hard to figure out. Might make more sense with actual video.
Hey - DS-A2X user! How does the video work on yours? Do you see whatever the iPod is deisplaying or only when it pays a video or photo slideshow?
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HT1212 My ipod touch is not turning on, even if i plug it in to the charger. I'am wanting to rest the passcode through my computer in hopes it will turn back on. So far nothing is working what should I do?

My ipod touch is not turning on, even if i plug it in to the charger. I'am wanting to rest the passcode through my computer in hopes it will turn back on. So far nothing is working what should I do?

Try:
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- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
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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.
- Try on another computer
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I have an older Ipod touch with 4.2.1 and cannot be updated any further, how do I install apps on it now? so far every app I have tried says I need an updated IOS. This sounds like I now have an apple product paper weight.

I have an older Ipod touch with 4.2.1 and cannot be updated any further, how do I install apps on it now? so far every app I have tried says I need an updated IOS. This sounds like I now have an apple product paper weight unless I want to run out and buy the latest and greatest overpriced apple product.

Are you willing to buy a newer iPod? How about the 4g @ 16gb for $199* usd or the 5g @ 32gb for $299*.
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http:/I'm using 4th gen IPOD touch and the wifi can't connect to my home NTWK, it sends me to a far distant IP ADDRESS and can't connect. a building public NTWK is wifi connectable, any ideas how I can resolve this WIFI issue??? TY
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Do other devices connect to your router?
What do you mean by distant IP address?
- Reset the iPod:
Reset iPod touch: Press and hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button and the Home
button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
-power off and then back on yur router
- Reset Network settings: Settings>General>Reset Reset Network Settings
- The troubleshooting here:
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