My iPod 4th Gen won't restore?

It's stuck in recovery mode and it won't connect to iTunes when I plug it into my laptop, and when it did, I waited for half an hour for it to update, then it came up with an error. I had to update to a different version and it wouldn't do it actually on the iPod, my iTunes is the latest version, too. What can I do?

Then I can't help, There are many different error messages and different solutions for each
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Happy New Year and help Please!!! IPOD 4th GEN won't Synch??

Hello,
And, thanks for reading my question. I recently purchased an IPOD 4th GEN touch from Gamestop. I previously had an ipod that was stolen a few years ago. I had 2000 songs on my itunes and just haven't used it till now.
When I bought the IPOD I ensured that my itunes and ipod were using the most current software. However, it is not synching my music. It will let me start to synch and then go through steps 1&2 of a five step process before it tells me that itunes has encountered a problem and must shut down. There is no specific code it gives me it just asks whether I'd like to send an error report or not.
I have ensured my firewall was off. I restarted the IPOD and computer, and still nothing. Same error message and itunes shuts off. I have installed the latest updates to bonjour and quicktime, restarted, and still no remedy.
I was tempted to uninstall everything but am afraid of losing my music. Only 30-40 songs are in my icloud. I imported the other songs to itunes a long time ago.
Does anyone know how I can get these songs on my ipod? Thanks in advance for any help and Happy New Year to all...

You probably need to set up automatic syncing. If you do not set it up, it will still "sync" but it will sync nothing.
In iTunes 12, select the iPod so that you see its Summary settings screen (click the "device button" on horizontal bar). In the iPod's sidebar, under Settings, click Music. To the right is the iPod's Music settings screen, where you tell iTunes how to sync your iPod.
Check the box for Sync Music. This enables automatic syncing for songs. Below that, if your entire iTunes library fits on your iPod, you can choose the option to sync Entire music library.
Otherwise, you can choose to sync Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres. Then, select what you want to sync from the lists below. On convenient way to set this up is to create one or more playlists in your iTunes library with songs just for the iPod. Or you can use existing playlists. On the iPod's Music settings screen, find and select (checkmark) just those playlists under Playlists.
When you click Apply, iTunes syncs your iPod with your selection(s) on the iPod's Music settings screen, and keeps it "in sync" automatically.

IPod touch 4th gen won't restore or power on after dropping it on its back "waiting for ipod"

My iPod touch 4th gen was recently dropped on its back after playing with its case. It turned white, then powered off.
After that i tried restoring and now everytime itunes stays on the "waiting for ipod" step.
I know that all functions work because I successfully entered dfu mode many times, and the lcd powers on but the progress bar doesn't move while itunes says waiting for ipod.
Thanks for looking at my thread and sorry if i misposted (first time apple forum user)

Something has been jarred inside. Anecdotally, people have reported success smacking their device again, to maybe rejarr things back into working order. But doing that is your call since it could be defined as abuse.
If it's physically damaged inside, there may not be much of a user fix for you to try unfortunately.

My iPod 4th gen won't turn on

My moms iPod 4th generation 8 gb won't turn on. She was gone on a trip and it was low on battery and went dead so she plugged it in all night and the next morning it would not turn on. This was over a week ago I've plugged it In to a computer and nothing happened. I've tried holding the home and power button various times and nothing happened. I haven't tried resetting it yet but I will if I absolutely have too. Also she thinks maybe the wall pluggin wasn't working correctly? Any ideas? Please help me out. Also their is no apple store anywhere near me so that's not really an option. She doesn't have the newest iOS either it's 6 point something don't know exactly.

Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- 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 another cable
- Try on another computer
- 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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Or contact a local repair place

IPod 3rd gen won't restore

I have a 3rd gen iPod shuffle I bought a month ago. It's been working great until one day I went to listen to it and it told me to "Please restore iPod on iTunes." I did so, got all my songs back onto the iPod and went to eject it. When I hit eject using iTunes, it tells me that "The iPod cannot be ejected because it contains files that are in use by another application." It won't let me restore it either for the same reason. When I eject the iPod from my Finder it ejects fine. However, when I plug my headphones in and turn it on, I can't get any music to play. Please help?!

Go to your computer's System Tray and try ejecting. If you can't eject, there is an application that is trying to access your iPod.
Go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx and download ProcessExplorer.
Go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555665 and follow the instructions under Resolution.
Note that this is a good, general process any time you can't access any file.
In my case an update to RealPlayer installed a program called RecordingManager that was accessing my iPod.

My iPod 4th gen. won't charge or connect to iTunes,What do I do?

My iPod 4g hasn't been recongize by iTunes and it won't charge when it is pluged into my wall or pc.I'm struggling to find a way to fix it.
It has been like this since yesterday and nothing had changed.I plugged it into the wall also and still it won't charge.What should I do?I'm desperate for answers.

After charging for half an hour, reset the iPod and connect the iPod to the syncing computer and try to restore 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.o
- If iTunes does not see the iPod, place the iPod in recovery mode and then try to restore the iPOd. For recovery mode see:
iPhone and iPod touch: Unable to update or restore

IPod 4th gen won't boot

Just today my iPod finally stopped booting up completely. For the past few months, it'll freeze, make loud buzzing noise through the headphones, and sometimes take forever or won't boot at all. At first I thought it was caused by temperature because these problems only occured when I expose it to the cold Canadian weather, or leave it on my desk for a extended period of time. (Room isn't heated when it happens.)
However, now it won't start at all. It'll start hanging at the apple logo and nothing else happens. Even if I plug it into a computer, it won't go past the apple logo. So I put it into disk mode and everything seem to be detected. All my music, notes, data, everything was in order. But after you restart it, it still hangs. Therefore, I tried restoring it a few times and that doesn't seem to fix it. I even tried downgrading it back to 1.0.3 (the version pre-installed when I got it) with no such luck. Is it a firmware issue because all of this started after I upgraded it? From that point, things just started getting worse and worse.
I'm running on a PC. Any help will be appreciated!

Update, I left it on over night and it'll still show that connect to power logo when the battery is dead. So hardware wise, I think it's working cause it'll go into disk mode, the computer can read what's on the device. But it still can't get past the apple logo.
Please help!

My Ipod 4th gen won't play certain songs/displays wrong name

I got a referbished Ipod nano two months back and it worked just fine. Then all my music was erased from Itunes for whatever reason (not important.) Then I restored all my songs from my Ipod by transfering all the encoded files into the itunes folder. This worked just fine on Itunes (everything plays just fine) but when I synced my Ipod I noticed that a lot of the songs wouldn't play. when I click on a song it will go into the song interface quickly then go back to the menu screen. also when I would play all the songs by an artist it would skip massive chunks of songs and only play one or two. When it did play a song it would trip up and display the details for the next song and would require some effort to get it to display the right thing. Also when I would click on some songs it would take two tries to get it to play. I noticed that this only happens on songs that I transfered from my old mp3 player and not songs that I bought on Itunes. anyway any help is appreciated. Please respond.

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
If still problem, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store since it appears you have a hardware problem.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

My ipod 4th gen won't update to the new one with imessage and all that.

I got my ipod touch in march 2011. So its not ios 5. But everytime i plug it in this is what happens step by step.
1. Itunes comes up like usual and asks me if i want to updated my ipod to 5.0.1.
2. The tag your pictures come up.
3.I tag the pitures and say ok to the updating.
4. the sound comes up to say that my pics are uploaded.
5.it contacts the apple people.
6.it says the are some pucheses that haven`t been transefed. but i click continue
7.it says that it will restore and backup.(update too)
8.it starts backing it up.
9. it says and error occurered while backing it up.(-43) but i hit update anyways and continue
10. its says that it cant be restored because the ipod cannot be found.
it never axctually gets to the state of updating. in wont restore. I have tried updating itunes to 10.5 and putting the iopod into recovery mode. when i put it into reconvery mode and plug it back in, itunes says you have to restore it. i hit restore but then itunes says it cant and then the ipod is sunddenly normal again, like it was never put into recovery mode.

Try:
iOS: Troubleshooting backup issues in iTunes
Alsi this completed [revious discussion.
Error -43:

IPod 6th Gen won't restore on Win7 but will on Win8

I bought a 6th generation 80GB iPod classic from eBay. I've tried everything to get it to connect and sync using iTunes but it's nothing but issues. It will initially connect and tell me it's corrupted but I get either a 1415 or 1439 error. I've been through all of that troubleshooting multiple times as well as the 5Rs with no success. I've run chkdsk /r and performed a low level format, restarted, and tried to restore but still nothing. I'm running 64-bit Windows 7 on a Toshiba Satellite. I have access to 2 other laptops: a Lenovo, also running 64-bit Windows 7 and a newer model Toshiba Satellite running 32-bit Windows 8. The Lenovo gives me the exact same issues but the Satellite running Win8 does not. I am able to connect, restore and sync with no issues. I haven't been able to find a similar situation through all of my Google searches. Does anyone know what could possibly be the issue with my (Win7) laptop? Some setting or missing files/update?

appreciate your response - just tried this approach. cycled to apple sign, so I plugged into usb cord, immediately went to that **** do not disconnect warning - will let it set for a while to see what materializes.
Couple questions - out of curesicity (sp) -
1) when you plugged in did the system reconize your ipod? I thought there was a spot between store and playlists that ID's the devce - i see nothing. use to say the name I had set for my iPod
2) did you ever have to go thru restore?
3) did you have to pull down your playlists from your library to sync - I can not get to the "sync Ipod" selection
I have wiped all apples files and restarted from scratch - still no luck.
again thanks,
Fristrated Mike

My ipod (4th gen) won't charge at all

When I plug it up in the wall or computer the screen will cut on and the apple will show up but right when it is about to show the lock screen it cuts right off again. Now it can barely load to the lock screen. It cuts straight off and repeats this action over and over again. It will also show the low battery sign but still nothing will happen once I plug it up. I also let it sit off the charger for X number of hours then plug it back up. It will show the low battery sign and charge like it normally does but then it shows the apple 5 seconds later then cuts right of again.
What should I do? How do I fix this problem?

Not Charge
- See:
iPod touch: Hardware troubleshooting
iPhone and iPod touch: Charging the battery
- Try another cable. The cable for 5G iPod (lightning connector) seems to be more prone to failure than the older cable.
- If a 5G iPod
Iphone 5 lightning port charging problem - SOLUTION!
- Try another charging source
- Inspect the dock connector on the iPod for bent or missing contacts, foreign material, corroded contacts, broken, missing or cracked plastic.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
And
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- 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 another cable
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Ipod 4th gen won't charge

My ipod won't charge and i tried a lot of chargers. I don't know if the charging port was messed around with. Help. It's dead.

- See:
iPod touch: Hardware troubleshooting
- Try another cable. Some 5G iPods were shipped with Lightning cable that were either initially defective or failed after short use.
- Try another charging source
- Inspect the dock connector on the iPod for bent or missing contacts, foreign material, corroded contacts, broken, missing or cracked plastic.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

My iPod 4th gen won't activate

my ipod wont activate

İ tried activating because i couldn't download any apps and now i can't even get in to my ipod without activating are you having the same problem:

IPod 4th gen won't update!

okay so I've read a few discussions from people who have the same problem as me! its so annoying now, I've been trying to update my iPod to the new iOS 5 update but it refuses to update!
It finishes downloading the update then says an error has occured, the timed out one, it then tells me to check my network connectivity, I do so and it works perfectly.
I then turned ALL my secruity settings off and tried again. Still no luck.
help me??????

- Disabling the computer's security software during the dowload and update usually works.
- You can also try a direct download and install using these instructions.
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My iPod 4th Gen will not sync Mp3s.

My iPod 4th gen won't allow mp3 files to be dragged into the bar and downloaded. I am using iTunes without signing to the same apple ID that the iPod is on, so maybe that has something to do with it, but my family member's iPod of the same generation works with the same circumstances. Please help.

Problem solved. First I deleted synce back up, then deletedl sync history under preferences in iTunes. Next, I went into the settings area of my iPod. I renamed it with it's same name (in my case, Dominic's iPod). I then rebooted the computer (Win 7). When I logged into windows, it started syncing instantaneously.

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