My iPod deleted everything on it too!

My sister gave me an ipod nano for my Birthday at the end of August. Knowing me well, she preloaded it with hundreds of tunes. I have recently visited the US and at my transfer airport on my return I found the device empty. I had not plugged it in to anything between using it and finding it empty - could it have been the airport security system? It was kept in my handbag and has been through many x-ray machines in the last 2 weeks.

Aggromike99 wrote:
I haven't jailbreaked, but from what I've heard, if you update your iPod and it's jail broken, it loses the jailbreak and resets to factory settings.
As I said previously:
"The effects of jailbreaking are that we no longer know how the iPod will react."
Now, which part of that did you not understand?
In addition, I also stated that:
"discussions about jailbreaking are not allowed and this post is likely to be removed as a result."

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