Problems with new Ipod 4th Gen - Syncing - Need Help

Hi My Daughter has an ipod (4th Gen) but it wont do the final sync on itunes. It just keeps saying "Waiting for changes to be applied"

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Hello, well im having some problems with my ipod 4th gen it will not turn on and when i plug it in to itunes it will not come up saying i need to restore. when i try that it will not compleet. the ipod will not do anything at all... please help me

Hello, well im having some problems with my ipod 4th gen it will not turn on and when i plug it in to itunes it will not come up saying i need to restore. when i try that it will not complet. the ipod will not do anything at all... please help me i havent got extra money to spend..

Just what happens when the restore does not complete?
Error message?
Does it freeze? Is so what is listed in the status bar of iTunes?

Ipod 4th Gen: I need help to retrieve my music files

Ipod 4th Gen: I updated my OS to the latest. But before i update it, i backup all the files, because the music and photos there is very important to my mom. then after i backup it i updated it then when its done i can no longer see my music files. please help

Synced media like aps and music are not included in the iPod backup that iTunes makes.
If the songs are not in your iTunes library then:
- You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
- For other music you will have to get it from where you got them before

Problem with synching iPod 4th gen Nano to iTunes Vista 8.02

Not had a problem with this Nano - sometimes hangs on first play nothing a reset doesn't cure - til now.
For some reason iTunes decided a Smart playlist (To delete - if I rate one star it lists it there) was missing when it was there, just disappeared for a while. It eventually came back after I recreated it.
This meant the other playlists I synch from fell over and refused to synch to the iPod (having a massive collection and only a 8Gb Nano means I tend to have playlist for Recent stuff, and random shuffle type playlists).
So I deleted the condition in those Smart Playlists, and thought it was fine...nope, it now only synchs less that half of the iPod, even though the playlists have loads more tunes in them. Tried deleting the 'To Delete' playlist(s), restoring the iPod, upgrading from 8 to 8.0.2 - no dice. Even a restart and an iPod reset doesn't fix it.
It just says 'synch complete' when there are obviously many more files to download, it usually only does 300-600 then stops. Sometimes it tells me (wrongly) there is not enought space on the iPod by 0.2 of a Gb or something, and says it won't synch. When I reduce the size of one of the playlists, it then goes back to saying 'Synch complete'.
Don't know what's wrong with it - could it be the iTunes library - I moved it to an external USB drive, and switched from my XP machine to this one, but it seemed to be working fine? Hence the restart - I had switched off the drive when I put the laptop into suspend mode, so initially it wasn't there, so I thought iTunes might have gotten confused, and did a restart after upgrade. Still the same.
Any ideas?

Nope still doing it. Just got to 2-thirds full.
So what's happening now it says
'Ipod cannot be synched, playlists are 1.82Gb and there is 1.77Gb on the iPod'
Fine, you then reduce the size of one of the playlists by say 100-200Mb:
Then it doesn't sync those files - it doesn't sync anything and says 'Sync completed' and 'Ok to disconnect'
Argh.
BTW what's sentinel?

Problem with my ipod (4th gen i think, the one with the click wheel)

after i updated my ipod (its the old click wheel one with the black and white screen, brought in 2004) with update 3.1.1 (2006-03-23) i got some new songs that i brought from itunes and they worked fine. i left my ipod for a couple of days and it took a while to load which is usual and the apple symbol came up etc. the problem came after this having not turned it on when i do those new songs just skip and don't play. whichever way i try it, playing them in a playlist or straight from the album section or just as one song they do not play. i have rebooted my ipod and have the most recent version of itunes. the only way i can get these songs to play is by reconnecting the ipod to my computer which becomes a hassle if i have to do it every time i have left it. once i have done this they play fine until i leave it again and miss a day of not turning it on.
any help would be much appreciated but i am beginning to think that it is past all help.

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.
- 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. The hotness is symptom of a hardware problem
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

I need help with my iPod 4th gen. Details attached below! thank you!!

So I have an iPod 4th gen,
I bought off of ebay. Since my original one was knocked into a bowl of water...:( anyways...
and the original owner did a factory reset on the device or erased all of the data... since
now when i turn the ipod on it pulls up a screen (center of it)
with a white usb charger cord, and an arrow pointing to the itunes logo.
also when i try to find the device in itunes it is not appearing.
Ive never had any issues like this before so I am really confused and kinda clueless lol
ANY help on this would be great!
Thank you!!

See what you missed here:
- 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. sync problems.

I have an ipod 4th gen.
I was upgrading it to the 5.0.1 software, everything went well until i tried to restore it from the backup.
The apps synced okay, but when the music and videos were syncing i got an error message.
Now i cannot sync any music or videos to my ipod touch.
The media is still in my itunes account, i just cannot get it onto my ipod.
Any help???

Perhaps you might grace us with the details of the error message?

Many Problems with new iPod

It all started out when I got my nice shiny new iPod. I installed the latest 64 bit version of iTunes and connected my new iPod. First thing iTunes told me was that the iPod was corrupt and needed to be restored. I thought no big deal. The iPod is new with nothing on it so I had nothing to lose. The iPod was stuck in restore mode for about 8 hours and I gave up. I rebooted the computer and reconnected the iPod. Now iTunes could not see the iPod.
You may need to know that this computer is a newer Dell Studio XPS running the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium.
I followed all of the recommended solutions on the page for Windows not seeing an iPod. When it came to reinstall iTunes is when the real challenge started. Lots of problems with not being authorized to write some registry keys and iTunes would roll back the installation. Each time I installed iTunes I installed as Administrator. I had to jump through all of the hoops of deleting these registry keys what would not delete. I installed several times, each time deleting a new registry key that the installer would not overwrite. After 2 days I finally got iTunes reinstalled.
However iTunes would still not see the new iPod. Messed around with this for another few hours.
I have an old computer that I seldom use. This is an older Dell Dimension running Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3. It had an old version of iTunes. I thought I would try getting the iPod to work on this computer. This would at least tell me if there was a problem with the iPod itself. I updated the iTunes to the latest version. Connected the iPod. It was seen but said the iPod was corrupt. Did a restore and all appeared to work fine. So this tells me the problem is not with the iPod, but with iTunes on the other computer.
I went to my other computer, the one that I want to use iTunes on, and reconnected the iPod. It was seen this time but iTunes said that the iPod was corrupt and needs to be restored. I started the restore process. It has been restoring for over 10 hours now.
I really don't want to start over with all of the problems I had reinstalling iTunes.
Anyone have some suggestions on what to try next?

Made some progress during my lunch break. I started suspecting a problem with the USB driver for this iPod. I found KB article 1538 which was helpful.
I went to the device manager and deleted anything that looked like an Apple device and deleted all USB mass storage devices. I also deleted the device drivers for these items at the same time. I then scanned for hardware changes and the iPod was found.
The iPod is now seen in Windows Explorer. It still has the name I gave it when it was connected to my other PC. So I suspect the restore that was taking over 10 hours never had a chance to start. From Windows Explorer I was able to access some folders on the iPod.
iTunes would still not see this iPod. However I hope a reboot will solve this.
Ran out of time and needed to go back to work. I will update how this worked.

When I take pictures with my iPod 4th gen it will flip my pictures right away, as if it's a mirror. How can I fix this?

Okay, so my iPod 4th gen has been acting up. Everytime I take a picture while facing the camera, it flips my picture. So if I take a picture of my right side, it'll show my left side. It's very annoying and I can only take mirror pics >.< someone please help me!

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 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
Apple will exchange your iPod for a refurbished one for $199 for 64 GB one and $99 for the other 4Gs. They do not fix yours. The cracked screen voids any warranty you had on the iPod.
Apple - iPod Repair price

Distortion problems with new iPod Classic

Hello:
I recently purchased a 160GB iPod Classic to replace a 2-year-old 60GB iPod. I had no problems updating the new one; about a zillion tracks went in very smoothly in about a half-hour. But I have noticed a couple of problems:
First, I always listen to my iPod at work on a Klipsch dock, and even though I keep it set at a fairly low volume (all of the content is classical music), I'm getting crackling and distortion in random spots in music. It doesn't seem to matter if the music was downloaded from iTunes or imported from a CD. It's definitely not the dock, because I tried the old iPod on it and it worked as well as it always did.
Second, when I select a playlist and start playback, I notice that more often than not, the first second or two of music is cut off. I have to press the back arrow on the iPod, and then playback is correct.
That is a minor annoyance, but the the distortion problem is far more serious. I never had either problem on the old iPod, and I was wondering if anyone has experienced similar problems with the iPod Classic. I'd HATE to think I'd have to trash 40GB of music and start all over importing CDs.
Thanks for any input you can give me.

thanks for the suggestion but it did not work.
The iPod came up asking for the password (WEP key) and i entered it. It showed connected with the router but Safari does not work and when i check the DHCP entries in see the following
IP: 169.254.202.45
Sub: 255.255.0.0
This means that the connection was made but the router DHCP server did not assign an IP address to the iPod.
This exact problem i have encoutered so far in my office, a cofeeshop and a car dealership. In all cases the wirelles was based on an older linksys router and except in the case of my office the other two were unsecured networks.
I believe it has something to do with the firmware on those linksys routers causing a problem specificaly to iPods and i would guess iPhones too since they have the same OS.
I'm open to any suggestions but i've tried all the ones posted in this and other forums so far with no luck.
When i assign a static IP, the iPod again connects, the router log indicates outgoing traffic from that IP but there is no incomming traffic.
John

Recently got a new iPod 4th gen; I had previously backed up to iCloud and subscribed to iTunes Match, and then wound up syncing the new iPod to my MacBook Pro; all iCloud tunes were downloaded to Mac but won't all sync to the iPod - any suggestions?

Recently got a new iPod Touch 4th gen; I had previously backed up to iCloud and subscribed to iTunes Match, and then wound up syncing the new iPod to my MacBook Pro; all iCloud tunes were downloaded to Mac but won't all sync to the iPod after multiple attempts, despite all songs showing properly on the Mac and multiple syncs occurring after all songs were properly reflected on the Mac. I updated iTunes Match from the iTunes Store menu as well pre-sync.
I should mention that I had previously had the library on a Dell (which is still running) and shared it on my home network. While all iTunes purchases now show in the Dell, the Mac is the device I use for all syncs.
There appears to be no rhyme or reason to the iCloud physical sync failure - some songs were legacy, some were purchased via the PC, some on the old iPod.
The Mac shows all the songs correctly and none show iCloud status -all have been downloaded, but the downloaded songs that were previously showing up as iCloud based aren't syncing to the iPod.
Is there any way to force all music being seen by my iPod as iCloud to download to so I can listen to them offline? Is there a way to force the sync from iTunes?

The "system" performed as designed. All devices syncing to one iCloud account are kept in common sync. The idea is that all such devices belong to one user. Different users should have different iCloud accounts. Once your contacts were edited, all devices were updated as well and subsequent backups (from yours and her device) reflected the changed contacts (and any other data that may have been edited like calendars). Your first task is to change your daughter over to a new account before she makes other changes.
The only way I see for getting back contacts is to restore them from a time machine backup, assuming you also have a Mac included in the account which syncs the contacts. However, I'm not sure whether time machine includes contacts from iCloud along with those that are local, "on my Mac".
Otherwise the deleted contacts are gone.

Why won't my old iPod (4th gen) sync with iTunes 11.1.5?

My 40GB 4th generation iPod won't sync automatically or manually when I connect it (via iPod dock) to my Mac Mini running OSX 10.8.5 and iTunes 11.1.5.
The iPod shows up in the iTunes side bar, but that's the extent of the interaction between the two. Even dragging selected songs to playlists in the sidebar won't work. Is this just an age-related incompatability issue for which there's no fix, or is there a solution? Thanks.

If those options are grayed out, that probably means the Sync Music checkbox on the iPod's Music screen is not checked. Then, your iPod is set to sync manually. Check the iPod's Summary screen in iTunes to see if Manually manage music is checked. If it is, the iPod is maintained manually, NOT automatically when it is connect or when you click the Sync button.
I wanted to select the latter so that just the songs I checked off in my iTunes library (those added since the last time I synced the iPod) were copied over.
Automatic syncing does not work that way. When you set up the iPod's Music screen (and Apply), it syncs based on what you select on that screen (the songs that are part of the selected playlists, artists, albums and/or genres). It does not add songs to what is already on the iPod, based on what is checked or not check in your iTunes library.
If you want to add songs to what is already on the iPod, and the iPod is currently set to Manually manage music, this is how to add (and remove) songs.
To Add songs manually... Show a list of songs in the iTunes window. For example, you can click on Music under LIBRARY to show your main iTunes music library list. Select a song that you want on the iPod, and drag it to the iPod in the sidebar. You can select more than one song at a time when you do this. Alternately, select the song(s), right-click on the selection, and choose the command to Add to Playlist -> [name of your iPod].
To Remove songs manually... In the sidebar, click on the small triangle to the LEFT of the iPod's name, to drop down the iPod's content list, indented below the iPod. Click on Music there. To the right, the iPod's song list is shown. Select the song you want to remove from the iPod, and press Delete on the keyboard. You can do this with more than one song selected.
There's nothing on the iPod that's not currently in my iTunes library, but I'd prefer not having to do a complete resync.
So, if you want to set up automatic syncing, you can check the box for Sync Music on the iPod's Music screen. If 40GB is enough to hold your entire iTunes music library, you can choose to sync Entire music library. Then, "everything" (that is music) syncs to the iPod. Going forward, any changes to your iTunes music library automatically syncs to the iPod (the next time it is connected or you click Sync if already connected).
Otherwise, you can choose to sync Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres. A good way to set this up is to create new playlists in your iTunes library with ALL (and only) the songs you want on the iPod (or you can use existing playlists). Back on the iPod Music screen, select those playlists under Playlists. Going forward, to update the iPod, just update those playlists (add/remove songs) in your iTunes library. So, if you have new songs, add them to one of those playlists. iTunes automatically updates the iPod with the same changes (the next time it is connected or you click Sync if already connected).
When you click Apply, the existing content on the iPod is replaced by the content selected on the iPod's Music screen. Going forward, iTunes is responsible for automatically keeping the iPod "in sync" with your iTunes library, based on now the iPod's Music screen is set up.
To me, setting up and using automatic syncing is the most convenient and elegant way.

HT201269 i have copied pictures from my old ipod 4th gen to my computer, i recently got a new ipod 4th gen today, i transferred all of my music, but when i open the folder to the DCIM (something like that) it will not let me copy the two photo folders, pl

I need help on how to copy photos from my old 4th gen ipod touch to my new one, i have the folders but when i try to put them in the main folder (DCIM) it shows a red X as it will not allow me to copy them, please i need help these pics cannot be replaced!!

I do not really understand what you are doing to get them from the iPod to the computer.
First import them to the computer by:
iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
The sync them to the the other device

Two main problems with new iPod Touch

I received my new iPod Touch 32Gb last week and I've been trying and testing for some days. It's really a nice device, but I've found two big problems with it...
1.- WiFi connections are extremely unreliable. On my home router it connects and gets the right IP from DHCP but then it gets stuck and can't transfer data. Safari seems to work sometimes, YouTube and maps are almost impossible to use, and other apps works only sometimes.
I've tryed also on my office WiFi network and it's a little better. But when connection is not used for a minute it gets stucked againg. Then I need to go to settings, switch WiFi off and on again, then works again for some time.
I've spend days searching on the Internet for a solution and I've found that lots of people has the same problem. It seems iPods have serious problems connecting to some routers and blame the router about this.
My opinion is that the problem is with the iPod. My router works flawlessly with my two laptop computers, my desktop computer, my PSP, and my HTC PDA. No problems at all. So, where's the problem?
2.- There's a big problem on iTunes with sync settings. I've noticed that users can select to to transfer the data manually or synch. Then on each tab for media you have individual options. For example I can choose to sync music and photos, but not sync videos and Podcasts.
The problem is that this don't work at all. I've selected to sync music but not videos but when sync all my videos had been deleted from my iPod.
I don't see the point on placing independent sync option on iTunes if they don't work at all.

Sounds like a faulty battery to me. Might need to contact Apple about that.
As far as the volume, I'm pretty sure, as I just responded to another post, the problem is the software. Any ios version 4.0 and higher, the volume is lower than iPod Touch/iPhones with 3.1.3 and lower. My volume has been lower ever since I upgraded to 4.0 and 4.2, and I've found a lot of other people online complaining about the same thing. I've seen a couple posts where some have said Apple lowered the volume on purpose. I think we just need to complain to them and hope they release an updated ios with the volume raised back to where it was.

Problem with new IPod Touch - connecting to computer

Just bought an IPod touch 2nd generation and plugged it into my computer to charge and to set up. I got a "found new hardware-Ipod" message and then the "found new hardware wizard" screen came up asking me for an installation CD or floppy to install software. I already have iTunes installed (the newest version) as have used it before with an Ipod nano. I have tried plugging the ipod into different USB ports on the computer but no avail.
Could anyone help me with this problem as am desperate to use my new Touch?
Thanks

All was well with my 2nd Generation Itouch until I downloaded Itunes 8.2. then ol boy what problems I have had! As follows:
1) Itunes cannot detect my device, therefore, no syncing is possible
2) Cannot connect to the Itunes Store....error indicates I have problems with my network connection (error code 3221), although I am connected and I have not previously had a problem.
I have searched for possible resolutions and have:
(a) Uninstalled Itunes and reinstalled .... NO GOOD
(b) Reset the network settings on the Itouch .... NO GOOD
(c) Reset all settings ... NO GOOD
(d) Ensured that the Apple mobile device option are okay
etc etc. In fact, I have done everything possible that has been indicated on the various websites. I should confirm that my computer recognises my Itouch BEFORE I access Itunes.
Please help.

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