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iPod touch iPod touch software update on iTunes now!
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Yeah, really friggin nice. So I wasted a ton of gas going back and returning 5 of these and having to deal with disbelieving moronic Apple Store employees.
At this point my frustration is purely empathy towards touch owners. I returned my fifth busted-ass touch and got an iPhone instead. I am much, much happier with the quality of the screen.
I dont know, this complicate things, if the screens was indeed defect, as Apple acknowledged, these kinds of soft patch will Not cause the un-necessary bug/slowdown/burden on good machine?
150MB? whats that supposed to mean? re-write the system?
I have the feeling apple is locking the device tighter and tighter, unless necessary and 100% sure, I will absolutely NOT do these firmwire updates.
im kinda pissed, how come everyone is saying it made their iPod touch look alot better when mine still looks the same??
my store needs to hurry up and get some more units in
my store needs to hurry up and get some more units in
im kinda pissed, how come everyone is saying it made their iPod touch look alot better when mine still looks the same??
my store needs to hurry up and get some more units in
i think its in everyone's head.
im thinking that too. because i watched about 5 minutes of video with black scenes before i installed the update and after i installed i watched the same video and it looks the EXACT same.
Download update before I get touch?
I have slow internet and I want to be able to sync my music and videos and play with my iPod touch asap, but I have a week 37 coming (booo!) and I want to be able to download the update before I get the touch so I can update quicker, because the update is soooo huge it will take forever to download on my internet.
So yer is there anyway I can download it now without having an iPod touch to plug into my pc for it to recognise?
I have slow internet and I want to be able to sync my music and videos and play with my iPod touch asap, but I have a week 37 coming (booo!) and I want to be able to download the update before I get the touch so I can update quicker, because the update is soooo huge it will take forever to download on my internet.
So yer is there anyway I can download it now without having an iPod touch to plug into my pc for it to recognise?
It's definitely not in my head. I've been watching video on this damn thing for two weeks and the negative-black effect is most definitely gone with this latest update.
i had to manually press "check for updates" to download it.
FWI-it doesnt fix the problem(well at least for me it didnt) and i have a 37
well it must have affected different peoples iPod because it did nothing for mine. so i dont know. but it did nothing for me. when is the next shipment coming in??? im getting so pissed over this.
honestly its not in peoples heads, the difference isn't slight were you could think maybe its a bit better but the difference is like night and day, i could tell it was better just on the coverflow screen,
As someone who's been lurking reading lots of threads etc., I have a theory for why the iPod touch appears to be be better after the update. Indeed, whilst I can't tell too clearly as thus far all I've seen is the 'sync in progress' screen (the update caused a restore so all my music is syncing back, oh-so-slowly), my week 37 screen - which previously appeared to be pretty bad - now appears to be considerably better. At the same time, I think the person who mentioned the screen looking 'washed out' earlier may be right, as mine does generally look a little 'lighter' than it did before.
So, taking that in to account, I think it's simple: Apple altered the UI - or maybe even just changed a coloursync profile or something - so that the screen never uses complete #000000 black. Because, at least with my screen, it was only the absolute deepest blacks that showed the negative problem - even slightly lighter blacks looked fine. So, changing the UI's 'deepest point' to, say, #050505 (I'm just making these numbers up btw), would get rid of the negative black problem on the first iPod touches by stopping them attempting to display pure black. But also, this would mean that iTouch W38+ models wouldn't be adversely affected; all they'd see is the same slightly paler UI that we W36/7 people see.
Now, I'm absolutely not saying my theory's right... but I think it's fairly plausible. And if it is correct, it means W38+ iTouch owners needn't worry about the update adversely affecting their iTouches (unless they're worried by the slightly paler UI). It might also explain why the update has worked for some people and not others; some people's iPods might be so badly affected that theirs needs to have an even lighter UI - maybe #101010 - to stop the 'negativity' appearing - which Apple didn't do because it would have made everything a bit too light.
So, taking that in to account, I think it's simple: Apple altered the UI - or maybe even just changed a coloursync profile or something - so that the screen never uses complete #000000 black. Because, at least with my screen, it was only the absolute deepest blacks that showed the negative problem - even slightly lighter blacks looked fine. So, changing the UI's 'deepest point' to, say, #050505 (I'm just making these numbers up btw), would get rid of the negative black problem on the first iPod touches by stopping them attempting to display pure black. But also, this would mean that iTouch W38+ models wouldn't be adversely affected; all they'd see is the same slightly paler UI that we W36/7 people see.
Now, I'm absolutely not saying my theory's right... but I think it's fairly plausible. And if it is correct, it means W38+ iTouch owners needn't worry about the update adversely affecting their iTouches (unless they're worried by the slightly paler UI). It might also explain why the update has worked for some people and not others; some people's iPods might be so badly affected that theirs needs to have an even lighter UI - maybe #101010 - to stop the 'negativity' appearing - which Apple didn't do because it would have made everything a bit too light.
ok, well then it definently affected only certain peoples iPod. b/c mine looks the same. let me say though my screen was never horrible...it has a minor screen issue...but in dark scenes i can defintnly tell its still there. its very annoying.
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its 100% better on mine without a shadow of a doubt! I could tell as soon as the iPod had restarted.
its 100% better on mine without a shadow of a doubt! I could tell as soon as the iPod had restarted.
They probably pushed the entire firmware image out -- if they are using something similar to cramfs then it wouldn't be possible to patch in the changes.
While there is an improvement I still see an issue with the image brought up in this topic: Here
The image is brighter but there is still some weird effect that bugs my eyes, of course the same tilting it slightly fixes that but after shelling out $400 on something you would expect it to be perfect.
The image is brighter but there is still some weird effect that bugs my eyes, of course the same tilting it slightly fixes that but after shelling out $400 on something you would expect it to be perfect.
Well you're trapped really as it's always nice to be updated and secure. For the Touch you don't buy much by staying with the older firmware do you?
Eye Eye Captain!
Before the update, wk 37 Touch looking at Black Cover Art Pic in horizontal mode looked slightly off. Couldn't quite work it out at first but then, while rubbing eyes, realised that with right eye closed there was slight negative effect. Close left eye and examine with right and picture looked fine. Particularly true when Touch about 10" from face and a lot better further away. After installed v1.1.1 both eyes give same appearance and the Album art looks identical to iew on my Macbook.
I've posted before that I thought that comparison pictures put up here of wk 37 and 38 showed improved detail in shadow areas in 38 but the highlights appeared overexposed.
Before the update, wk 37 Touch looking at Black Cover Art Pic in horizontal mode looked slightly off. Couldn't quite work it out at first but then, while rubbing eyes, realised that with right eye closed there was slight negative effect. Close left eye and examine with right and picture looked fine. Particularly true when Touch about 10" from face and a lot better further away. After installed v1.1.1 both eyes give same appearance and the Album art looks identical to iew on my Macbook.
I've posted before that I thought that comparison pictures put up here of wk 37 and 38 showed improved detail in shadow areas in 38 but the highlights appeared overexposed.