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Hello everyone
Is anyone experiencing the same issue as me, using Podcasts on a iPod Touch with latest software update.
When I listern to a podcast, it shows as being played, then if I turn off and on again (holding the switch for period of time or just suspend by pressing the on/off switch) the podcast is marked as unplayed, and what makes is strange is it is totally random, it can happen on a podcasts then not again, or another it totally random. I turned on today and all my podcasts are showing as unplayed? even though I'd listerned to them all
I listern agian let it complete and it is makred as unplayed then switch off, on again and it might not show as unplayed, but another could show as unplayed to be played, its driving me crazy.
I've reset, restored defaults everything, resubscribed to feeds everything still happens.
Anyone see similar?

Yes, I am too.
Found this thread in the iPhone forum that seemed to cover the same issue:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7013430#7013430
Following one of the suggestions there I reset the 'sync history' (Edit > Prefs > Syncing > Reset Sync History" (button at bottom of that tab), which seemed to update the list straight away - will see if this continues to be the case over the coming days though!

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