iPod iPod nano software version 1.0.2

[JDOG_]

Wow, quite the handy update. The menus actually feel like they move when I scroll around, unlike the delay-fest that was 1.0.1. As for coverflow, it looks like it's a little better, but honestly I never use it anyways, so meh.

Bring on the camera connector support plz, k thx.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

[Regarding localization issues]

The implication has always been that the new generation of iPods, run OS-X like the iPhone, (even though Apple has very carefully remained mum on this point). This kind of thing however, very strongly indicates that they are really just running some hacked version of the old OS that only looks similar to what's on the iPhone.

While you could be right, I don't think that's a good enough indicator. Numbers, part of the new iWork suite, constantly screws up date and time formats. If I type September 4 into a cell, it turns it into 9/4/2007, and then re-formats it as May 9. Bizarre.

 

[jorasho]

This thing is ridiculous. First it takes half an hour for my iPod to sync, then it wants to update, but the iPod is already trying to disconnect and freezes. On reset, it connects, the Mac wants to update, first for 10 minutes is 'waiting for iPod' and then after another 10 minutes of 'updating iPod' just quits with an error, again leaving the iPod frozen.

 

[markrich]

While you could be right, I don't think that's a good enough indicator. Numbers, part of the new iWork suite, constantly screws up date and time formats. If I type September 4 into a cell, it turns it into 9/4/2007, and then re-formats it as May 9. Bizarre.

Apple Mail does not check the system preferences for the time/date selection of OSX either. It insists that Sunday is the first day of the week regardless. Come on Apple. It's not hard!

IF country =, then DATE DISPLAY =

A first year programmer could do it.

As for the update, the biggest change I have noticed is the font in Coverflow has changed to a larger one. Perhaps because I think it's a useless "eye-candy" feature for my iPod I haven't used it and not worried about it.

After installing the update I found some issues with ejecting and the iPod remained on while connected with the cable. A restart of my iMac sorted that it is behaves properly.

Syncing Calendar/Contacts still results in a processor spike in the iMac causing the beachball to appear for a while. I noticed the iSync symbol on my menu-bar starts moving when this happens so the question is, does the sync check for changes from iSync or only take from iCal/Contacts the data it needs? It certainly causes a delay from iTunes at this point and noticably more than my old 3G 30GB did. Anyway, turned it off now. I have the same data on my Palm and mobile phone so having it on the iPod too is not that important for me.

With all this talk of cables and docks etc. I do have a question for others. I wish to buy a official Apple dock and cable to connect to the stereo. I noticed a pack with cable, remote and dock from Apple but does this work with the 80GB classic or do I need to buy the dock+remote package and a seperate cable? Video not interested in as I have no TV!

 

[mclihah2]

The update is fantastic but ever since I put it on my ipod last night I had to do a full restore because itunes would not work, and now a new problem. My ipod discharges the battery every 12 or so hours when not in use. I charged it up before work today and came home - DEAD-. This morning before I went to work it was dead when I charged it up the night before. So now the battery completely discharges when off. HMMM anyone else have this issue?

Before I could let the ipod sit for 4-5 days on a full charge and have no worries that it would stay that way. This is weird man!

Wow!!!, I'm finding the same thing on my iPod classic.

I plugged it into my universal dock last night to watch the Office, and the battery was down to nearly zero... I had not even used the thing!

I charged it up last night, and this morning it's already on 50%, after a couple of hours of MP3 playing.

Definitely to do with the update..

I predict that it won't be long before we get 1.0.3

 

[zac4mac]

hmmmm. Mine hooked up, found the new software, loaded and reset with no trouble. Glad I was playing solitaire on another Mac while the iPod updated, 'cause it was quite slow, then I saw it was a 58MB update.

160GB Classic up and running smoothly, unlike its initial behavior. From day one it felt like it was lubed with grease instead of light machine oil. I'll see in a day or two how the battery holds up. It died on me this weekend after only 4 or 5 hours playing music, which I thought odd. I usually have it plugged into a dock, will have to let it run on battery power alone today at work.

so far - thumbs up

Z

 

[mihiruthere93]

I'm actually impressed that Apple took care of these issues this fast

...or should I be disappointed that it took this long?

 

[topher]

A couple of questions

Hi all,

Has anyone noticed the screensaver is gone? You know, the dark screen, with big clock and play indicator? I haven't seen it since the update. But I've only used my ipod in its dock since the update...so maybe the screen saver has been changed to only work when ipod is working on battery.

Second? Has anyone else seen shut down problems? I can't be certain, because the night that this happened, I can't be 100% certain I actually hit pause. But, the night of the update, I thought I paused the ipod. But I woke up the next morning with no battery, as if it had been running overnight.

So, just generally, anyone with new battery issues after the update?

Thanks

 

[markrich]

Has anyone noticed the screensaver is gone? You know, the dark screen, with big clock and play indicator?

No, it's still there because the update did not address one of the issues I mentioned earlier in the thread; i.e., if you change the clock to 24 hour format, the screensaver still shows it in a 12 hour one.

 

[mclihah2]

Hi all,
....

So, just generally, anyone with new battery issues after the update?

Thanks

Yours is the third report on this forum regarding poor battery.

I'm also experiencing this, and I can only imagine it's happening all over the place.

 

[markrich]

I plugged it into my universal dock last night to watch the Office, and the battery was down to nearly zero... I had not even used the thing!

I charged it up last night, and this morning it's already on 50%, after a couple of hours of MP3 playing.

Definitely to do with the update..

I predict that it won't be long before we get 1.0.3

It could be that the update reset your battery memory limit. Best to follow Apple's advice on all rechargable batteries and let it run down completely and then do a fresh recharge until full. I haven't noticed yet but rarely use for more than 30 minutes at a time so we shall see.

 

[jhsfosho]

Well, I suppose that faster and more improved don't hurt anything. Too bad they don't focus more on fixing the "bugs" on the ipod touch.

 

[writeous]

It definitely sped the menu up (whats up with the termonology "snappier" on here? lmao). It still has a little lag though. Usually when you hear the hard drive spinning, that means there will be a delay in the responsiveness. I think they should make the side artwork optional, cause that would make everything significantly faster.

 

[rockthecasbah]

Hi all,

Has anyone noticed the screensaver is gone? You know, the dark screen, with big clock and play indicator? I haven't seen it since the update. But I've only used my ipod in its dock since the update...so maybe the screen saver has been changed to only work when ipod is working on battery.

Second? Has anyone else seen shut down problems? I can't be certain, because the night that this happened, I can't be 100% certain I actually hit pause. But, the night of the update, I thought I paused the ipod. But I woke up the next morning with no battery, as if it had been running overnight.

So, just generally, anyone with new battery issues after the update?

Thanks

My screensaver type thing is still working but my iPod has acted funny with the battery exactly as you mentioned. I don't what's up with it, i posted a thread about it here:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/366045/

Yours is the third report on this forum regarding poor battery.

I'm also experiencing this, and I can only imagine it's happening all over the place.

Well since it has only since arisen with the new update, maybe a new update can fix it? One may only hope, i really do not feel like taking my iPod to an Apple store...

 

[markrich]

Well since it has only since arisen with the new update, maybe a new update can fix it? One may only hope, i really do not feel like taking my iPod to an Apple store...

I have been using my iPod all day today on a single charge and the battery metre still reads full. I cannot see any issues with the battery since the update on mine. Presently connected to my HiFi and listening to some music on battery power after headphones all day.

I don't doubt some iPod owners feel that there may be battery issues but I am doubtful the update was the cause based on personal evidence alone.

 

[johnmcboston]

would be nice if it didn't wipe out my 'custom menu' settings every time an ipod update came around...

 

[Sephora]

Coverflow on my 3G nano seems to get slower with each subsequent update.

Now I can actually follow the loading process of albums along for a few seconds, until it finally loads up the remainder.

As an aside, would I notice a speed difference in loading between a) letting itunes find artwork automatically vs. b) embedding it myself in the id3 tags?

 

[Madaracs]

I Had That Problem with 1.0.1

This thing is ridiculous. First it takes half an hour for my iPod to sync, then it wants to update, but the iPod is already trying to disconnect and freezes. On reset, it connects, the Mac wants to update, first for 10 minutes is 'waiting for iPod' and then after another 10 minutes of 'updating iPod' just quits with an error, again leaving the iPod frozen.

Try putting your iPod into Hard Drive mode. If you do this the iPod won't prematurely eject. Once you've synced your iPod, wait for it to complete the operation and then apply the update.

I did this and then switched back to regular usage mode, disabling the hard disk mode--and everything works great now.

 

[Simple.Nature]

Yes, things load faster under 1.0.2 but someone REALLY messed up. My COVER FLOW is no longer sorted by artist!!! I even deleted ALL the albums and reloaded them from iTUNES... ha... exactly the same unsorted order.

HELP!!! Kitaro Album 2 should follow Kitaro Album 1! ALWAYS!

 

[Simple.Nature]

Yes, things load faster under 1.0.2 but someone REALLY messed up. My COVER FLOW is no longer sorted by artist!!! I even deleted ALL the albums and reloaded them from iTUNES... ha... exactly the same unsorted order.

HELP!!! Kitaro Album 2 should follow Kitaro Album 1! ALWAYS!

Seems odd to be answering my own questions on the forum especially for a nubee but here goes:

Seems the new update (1.0.2) has incorporated the "Compilations" flag and for some reason, this affects the sort of the Album Flow by placing Compilations-tagged albums on the end of the Album Flow sort.

Who at Apple decided that Compilations should be part of an Artist/Album sort anyway?

I had 5 albums tag themselves as Compilations during the iTunes upload from CD. Each album was placed in a "Compilations" folder (PC!) with the album name'd folder only (no artist!). Simply untagging the Compilation field will not correct this in iTunes. You have a little more work to do than that.

In your PC's folder where you have the iTunes songs go, make sure you have the artists folder available. Then drag the album folder from the "Compilations" folder to the correct artist folder (that's the easy part). Now you need to get into iTunes again. Once you let your iPod sync, you will see "!" next to the songs that can no longer be found (iTunes to PC sync). Now you have to re-sync iTunes with your files CAREFULLY one at a time. You can also uncheck the "Compilation" tag in iTunes now.

Took me about an hour to re-sort 5 albums. I don't know what the proper use for compilations "really" is but obviously I'm not the only one. I had David Arkenstone Visionary, Album 1 and Album 2 both tagged as compilations... and Kitaro only album 2 was tagged... and The Doors ?!? Steel Pulse? And why doesn't iTunes have a field for the compilations tag in their lists??? ...it has every other @#$%dang thing available in the spreadsheet!

Oh well, could have been worse but mystery solved. My favorite and most valuable sort has been restored and it only took me a week of frustration to figure it out. BTW, I figured it out by turning on Compilations in my Music Menu and noted that those were the albums that were out-of-sorts

And no need to answer my other open question... what happens to my pre-installed games on a restore of my Classic 80Gig?!? No one has answered that yet. And I still cannot find a way to back up those games that are on the pod. Seems someone traveled this path by now... NOT?

 

[Fernandisco]

Hi there, people

I'm having troubles with my 3rd generation iPod Nano 4GB since I've installed the 1.0.2 update. Searching for help, I've found this.

Well, after the installation I put some songs in my iPod, and then disconnected it from iTunes. When I got asked to, I plug off the cable and then the iPod froze, showing the apple logo.

I reset it holding the central button and the Menu button, but after the reset I always get the same screen. I connected it to the PC again, but neither Windows nor iTunes recognize it.

I can't turn off it, only reset it. Now, I have an excellent coaster which will only show me that beautiful Apple.

What should I do? Thanks a lot.

PD: Sorry if I have some misspellings, but I'm Spanish.

 

[Fernandisco]

Well, this morning when I went to see how was it going with my iPod, I realized that it was turned off. I tried to turn on it, and 'connect to power' message said me that the battery ran out. I connected it to the PC... but I'm still getting that apple-logo screen.

Any suggestions? I think I'll have to contact with Apple Care...

 

[eric55lv]

I think that Apple needs a new softwore update for the new nanos

 

[Fernandisco]

But even if Apple makes a new software, I'm now unable to install it because my iPod won't connect to my PC.

 

[Stike]

Sounds like you need to return your nano... Should still be under warranty, right?