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iPod touch iPod touch problem. It wont turn on, charge, give me anthing on the screen, etc!

TheAppFinder

TheAppFinder

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Hi, my friend gave me a 2nd gen 8 gb ipod touch. He told me that he had jailbroke it then one day it had crashed. And I thought that all I had to do was restore it. When I connected it to my Dell XPS 420 (windows 7) It was connected, and installing the driver's etc, but then it gave me a message, saying that it had failed, and could not recognize the ipod ("unknown usb device"). I looked at itunes and it wasnt showing up. not even a message about it.

I tried it on my imac g3, but it didnt work either, It wasnt showing up in itunes, nor did it give me a message.

I searched online but all i found was to restore it etc, but how can i restore it, when my pc and mac's wont recognize it?

Any body know how to fix this? thanks.
 
TheAppFinder said:
Hi, my friend gave me a 2nd gen 8 gb ipod touch. He told me that he had jailbroke it then one day it had crashed. And I thought that all I had to do was restore it. When I connected it to my Dell XPS 420 (windows 7) It was connected, and installing the driver's etc, but then it gave me a message, saying that it had failed, and could not recognize the ipod ("unknown usb device"). I looked at itunes and it wasnt showing up. not even a message about it.

I tried it on my imac g3, but it didnt work either, It wasnt showing up in itunes, nor did it give me a message.

I searched online but all i found was to restore it etc, but how can i restore it, when my pc and mac's wont recognize it?

Any body know how to fix this? thanks.
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I believe that while it's connected via USB, and within iTunes. You hold down both the power and home buttons until you see the Apple logo with a USB icon. Something along those lines. That's a hard reset that allows you to do a fresh install.

Give that a try.
 
tkingart said:
I believe that while it's connected via USB, and within iTunes. You hold down both the power and home buttons until you see the Apple logo with a USB icon. Something along those lines. That's a hard reset that allows you to do a fresh install.

Give that a try.
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I tried that but it showed nothing on the ipod touch or any messages on my pc.
 
It doesnt work

i bought an ipod touch last october and for some reason yesterday it just went off and it was fullly charged but then when i tried putting it back on the light came on and the apple sign came on but after a few seconds it went a bit dim and just went off. I have tried charging it but it just turns on and then goes off again and the same happens when i plug it in the pc it doesnt recongise it..please help:confused:
 
***AM*** said:
i bought an ipod touch last october and for some reason yesterday it just went off and it was fullly charged but then when i tried putting it back on the light came on and the apple sign came on but after a few seconds it went a bit dim and just went off. I have tried charging it but it just turns on and then goes off again and the same happens when i plug it in the pc it doesnt recongise it..please help:confused:
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DFU and Restore
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1034
 
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