1.2.3 Update For 5th Generation iPods [Archive]

bochawa

Nov 27, 2007, 05:54 PM

I just checked iTunes on my 5.5 gen 80gig iPod and it now says version 1.2.3 is available. I was not able to get the 1.2.2 update before it was pulled.

All it said in the description was "Bug Fixes".

Download and update seems to have worked OK.

ejg930

Nov 27, 2007, 06:00 PM

My 30 gig 5g ipod now show 1.2.3 as an update also... Just lists "Bug Fixes". Didn't get a chance to use 1.2.2, though. Hopefully, its not as buggy.

Tom B.

Nov 27, 2007, 06:44 PM

I never had any problems with 1.2.1 or 1.2.2, but now that I have upgraded to 1.2.3, I get 'Error (-48)' when attempting to sync. :(

Dagless

Nov 27, 2007, 06:55 PM

1.2.2 brought me (80gb) a definite speed boost. I'm wondering if 1.2.3 is just the same but works for everyone this time?

MacRumors

Nov 27, 2007, 11:01 PM

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Less than a month after releasing the latest update (http://www.macrumors.com/2007/11/13/1-2-2-update-for-5th-generation-ipods/) to its 5th generation iPods, Apple has released iPod Firmware 1.2.3 via iTunes.

Per usual, Apple gives very few details and only states that the update contains "bug fixes."

Thanks to everyone who sent this in

Article Link (http://www.macrumors.com/2007/11/27/1-2-3-update-for-5th-generation-ipods/)

overanalyzer

Nov 27, 2007, 11:12 PM

RichP

Nov 27, 2007, 11:30 PM

Isn't this sort of odd? I thought it was already historically uncommon for software updates for previous iPod generations to be released. But two in a month? Still no ideas on why they're making changes?

I think you are "overanalyzing" this. :p

Seems like they had an error in the last update and are now fixing it...sloppy apple.

Scarlet Fever

Nov 27, 2007, 11:38 PM

Were there really that many bugs in 1.2.2? Or 1.2.1, for that matter?

overanalyzer

Nov 27, 2007, 11:39 PM

I think you are "overanalyzing" this. :p

Seems like they had an error in the last update and are now fixing it...sloppy apple.

Well I'm always the first to admit that; it is of course the reason for my sn :)

I agree the second update is probably a follow-up fix to the first. I just don't understand what's changing to begin with. I think I read either on here during the last update release or on TUAW that the previous time an update for a previous generation iPod was released it was for a DRM update. I'm wondering if it might be in preparation for a video-related change, since it's for the 5th gen iPods, but I don't think the nanos were updated. Video rentals perhaps?

macdim

Nov 28, 2007, 12:00 AM

If it is indeed simply for bug fixes, then why the hell aren't they focusing their attention on the new iPods, rather than the old. I find the the Classic to be a great player, but there are still some fairly obvious quirks that need to be addressed.

overanalyzer

Nov 28, 2007, 12:16 AM

Diabeetus

Nov 28, 2007, 01:09 AM

ipod classic 1.0.3 is out now too, i just checked a few minutes ago. i beat macrumors to an update :-)

puckhead193

Nov 28, 2007, 01:12 AM

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8130/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)

Anyone download it yet?

imfrog2002

Nov 28, 2007, 01:21 AM

I checked yesterday and I didn't even show 1.2.2... weird. I don't think Apple likes me.

vlinkz

Nov 28, 2007, 01:21 AM

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8130/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)

Anyone download it yet?

Downloaded and installed onto my old 80GB model. Worked perfectly.

macdim

Nov 28, 2007, 01:33 AM

Confirmed, downloaded and installed. Looks good. Will test it out later.

1.0.3 Classic, btw... not the 5th gen... will give that one an upgrade later on.

imfrog2002

Nov 28, 2007, 01:34 AM

I just tried it on my 30 GB 5.5G iPod, and it encountered an error. I had to restore it. Upgrade with caution, but it seems to be working alright now.

MrPineapples

Nov 28, 2007, 03:36 AM

I never had any problems with 1.2.1 or 1.2.2, but now that I have upgraded to 1.2.3, I get 'Error (-48)' when attempting to sync. :(

After upgrading my iPod to 1.2.1 i had to reformat, it synced ok at first but now I get the same error message as you. I'll install the new update tonight & see if it helps. It's reassuring that others are having issues, I thought my iPod may of been on the way out.

Philberttheduck

Nov 28, 2007, 03:42 AM

Videos Setting now has a TV Screen option (for output): Widescreen or Full Screen and basically made the fullscreen option on the ipod to "Fit to Screen" on/off

nesado

Nov 28, 2007, 07:02 AM

Come on... how about a firmware update to fix the bug in the video nano! I can't even use the on-the-go feature and my nano hangs whenever I customize the main menu. APPLE fix that!!! Or the fact that my video nano don't even get detected by itune with the main menu customized.

twoodcc

Nov 28, 2007, 07:15 AM

wow i didn't even know about the first update. shows how much i use my 5g ipod. :o

miketcool

Nov 28, 2007, 08:37 AM

That was as easy as (version) 1.2.3!

JQW

Nov 28, 2007, 09:45 AM

Yesterday I had my iPod running 1.2.2 reboot on attempting to view a video, something I hadn't seen with 1.2.1. I wonder if that was the problem 1.2.3 addressed?

Full of Win

Nov 28, 2007, 11:27 AM

Why risk it? My 60 gb works fine with 1.2.1.

bankshot

Nov 28, 2007, 12:25 PM

Why risk it? My 60 gb works fine with 1.2.1.

Heh, that's what I've been telling myself for ages with plain old 1.2. I've been putting off the upgrade to 1.2.1 for so long that I think iTunes even gave up on reminding me about it. :rolleyes: I didn't even know there was a 1.2.2, let alone 1.2.3.

The only "bugs" I can think of encountering are the very rare glitch where it stops playing a song partway through and jumps to the next one. Going back to play the partial song again usually plays it all the way through just fine. I always figured it seemed like more of a hardware (disk read?) glitch than a software bug, so never bothered to try the upgrade(s). What other bugs could there be?

One feature I've wanted for ages is to make the To Do List feature actually useful by allowing you to check things off as "done" by clicking the center button when they are highlighted. Should be very simple and easily doable within all "old/Classic" generation iPod interfaces. Would be great for shopping lists and stuff. But since the iPod Touch is clearly the future in terms of interface, I'm sure Apple has no interest in a useful feature for the older stuff. Actually I hear the Touch doesn't even have a decent To Do List feature either, so maybe Apple just isn't interested in useful features, period. :rolleyes:

matd2100

Nov 28, 2007, 01:20 PM

Just thought I should point out another fix in this firmware update: Text scrolling is now a lot smoother than it used to be, albeit it's still not as smooth as my old 4g iPod used to be. But the 4G iPod had other bugs that never were fixed, for instance after turning it off and putting the hold switch on, it may sometimes switch itself on. Or, another bug, is when I turned it on sometimes it would start playing the first song on my ipod in alphabetical order... so I don't see why people complain about the classic iPod especially now it's a very fine piece of equipment...

OldBobsledGuy

Nov 28, 2007, 01:39 PM

So does Safari run faster? Whups... wrong product... :p

AllenPSU

Nov 28, 2007, 02:09 PM

Were there really that many bugs in 1.2.2? Or 1.2.1, for that matter?

I did experience a serious problem if an 5G iPod was connected to my iMac (10.5) during an OS reboot. For now I am waiting to see how 1.2.3 performs before upgrading but I am guessing they are trying to fix that bug.

richardsim7

Nov 28, 2007, 02:10 PM

Dammit, i was hoping it'd be my name who submitted this :(

-Rich-

MrPineapples

Nov 28, 2007, 03:09 PM

After upgrading my iPod to 1.2.1 i had to reformat, it synced ok at first but now I get the same error message as you. I'll install the new update tonight & see if it helps. It's reassuring that others are having issues, I thought my iPod may of been on the way out.

Dam... it still wont sync I strill get "Error (-48)"

aafuss1

Nov 28, 2007, 03:42 PM

Updated my 30GB iPod last night to 1.2.3-and it is faster.

Funny thing is-Aple didn't both to change "Apple Computer,Inc" to Apple,Inc on the Legal portion.

caliguy

Nov 28, 2007, 03:54 PM

Why risk it? My 60 gb works fine with 1.2.1.

Why do people always hesitate on software updates? It's just for the iPod, not a big "risk".

alveryx

Nov 28, 2007, 04:40 PM

That's interesting.

eliot1785

Nov 28, 2007, 06:22 PM

Why do people always hesitate on software updates? It's just for the iPod, not a big "risk".

I have iTunes 7.4.2 and am not going to upgrade until I need to, because I made the mistake of doing so last time and it screwed up my entire installation. Apple made some change between 7.4.2 and 7.4.3 that made iTunes freeze as soon as I started it, and I'm worried that that change is still in 7.5.

So unfortunately, because the software doesn't seem to be completely unit tested for my configuration, I'm gonna have to deal with the slight loss of functionality and security in exchange for the guarantee of stability. I might upgrade once sufficient time has passed that I can assume things have changed enough that there's no longer an issue.

I'm guessing that's the motivation for the iPod users here, too, though I'm gonna risk it myself.

minik

Nov 28, 2007, 06:29 PM

Just got my 5.5G iPod up-to-date.

honeycrisp

Nov 28, 2007, 09:55 PM

Worked great for me!

AppleSJ511606

Nov 28, 2007, 10:18 PM

One thing I can say this does is "break" games that people have put on (and haven't purchased them) and returns an error

torero

Nov 28, 2007, 10:39 PM

Just updated and now can not eject ipod after syncing, after adding videos. I get a warning saying the ipod is in use by another application. iTunes doesn't quit either.

I have to force quit iTunes.

shouldn't have updated.

Rebel12345

Nov 29, 2007, 12:32 AM

i had no trouble before of after i installed it .

nesado

Nov 29, 2007, 04:48 AM

The 1.0.3 update for 3G nano still have not solve the on-go-playlist bug. My on-the-go playlist is still inactive. All it did is offer some new stuff to the video output feature and the options to choose between widescreen or fill-screen when viewing video on ipod.

jayducharme

Nov 29, 2007, 01:27 PM

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8130/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)

Anyone download it yet?

Well thisis the first message Im posting with my brand new Touch. I love it so far. But the organizer function (iCal) is useless since the alarm notification for some reason won't work. It can be programmed in and it will make a visual notification but the sound won't go off. The latest update didn't seem to fix it. (My Touch claims it's already updated.)

Jetson

Nov 29, 2007, 11:08 PM

The iPod Classic 1.03 update works very well, though a lot more work needs to be done to get it to the functionality of the 5th generation iPod software.

The responsiveness has improved considerably, such as transitions from screen to screen, changing tracks, and scrolling.

Playlists are now sorted in the correct order as they occur in iTunes, instead of randomly as before.

I'm so glad that music videos are once again grouped by artist, then listed in alphanumeric order.

The one remaining glaring problem is that TV videos are NOT listed by season/episode or alphanumeric order as in iTunes, but seem to appear randomly.

Also, in settings you can't place the backlight control in the main menu. You can't select the clicker in off/speaker/headphone/both speaker & headphone modes, it only allows off or speaker & headphone.

Still this was a great improvement and a positive sign that Apple will get the Classic up to snuff. I just get the feeling that Apple must have been in a rush to get the Classics out, because they weren't able to make the Classic system work like the 5th gen iPods right away.

honk123

Nov 30, 2007, 05:47 AM

updated to 1.2.3
after that itunes was unable to read the contents of my ipod so i had to reset.
than i refilled it and directly afterwards it was broken again.
after the second refill it worked, but for some reason it now skips after 12 or so seconds through the tracks of a recently uploaded album and plays various throungh it, the titles are shown correctly, but the sounds are not. and the sounds are deffenetly OK. now i reloaded the songs on the pod and it seems to work.
on older tunes it seems to work correctly.. hopefully this was just a one-time error.

before all that crap the system worked just perfect.

Tom B.

Nov 30, 2007, 03:15 PM

You can't select the clicker in off/speaker/headphone/both speaker & headphone modes, it only allows off or speaker & headphone.

I have a 3rd generation nano with 1.0.3, and I can can chose from: Off, Speaker, Headphones and Both.

I'm still waiting for Cover Flow to be sorted by Album Artist rater than just Artist.

steveDA

Dec 5, 2007, 12:49 PM

FWIW, I have a 1G (5GB) and a 5G (30GB) iPod Video. For previous iPod firmware versions for the 5G, the 1G would not mount on my desktop if the 5G was already connected even when the 1G was visible in iTunes (7.5). The 'do not disconnect' symbol was always on the 1G's screen even after ejecting it from iTunes. Now with the 1.2.3 update on the 5G, the 1G and the 5G mount in iTunes and on the desktop and both can be unmounted normally. Your milage may differ.

tmoney468

Dec 5, 2007, 02:37 PM

My only problem that I have with my iPod that wasn't fixed with this update is that when I plug it into my computer when it's been off for a day or more, it always freezes on the "Do not Disconnect" screen, and it doesn't show up in my computer. I have to manually restart the iPod and then re-connect it and it works. Anyone else have this problem with theirs?

cbrain

Dec 5, 2007, 02:37 PM

Well thisis the first message Im posting with my brand new Touch. I love it so far. But the organizer function (iCal) is useless since the alarm notification for some reason won't work. It can be programmed in and it will make a visual notification but the sound won't go off. The latest update didn't seem to fix it. (My Touch claims it's already updated.)

Hi,

The update we are talking about is not for the iPod Touch, it is for 5th Generation iPods.

Aside from that, I have just installed the update myself and so far have not encountered any problems, but I have not done anything with the iPod as of yet, I just have it on charge.