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iPod touch List of iPod Touch problems so far
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Is this true? No wonder I've been having so many problems. I certainly hope a firmware update fixes this.
I think that if you have enable disk usage or manually manage music selected it keeps the iPod from auto-opening iTunes. I could be wrong, but it's worth a look.
Where do I start
1) It dosent come with a charger
2) The battery life sucks
3) The WiFi sucks
These are the only major problems, there a few other things but they are nothing a few software updates cant fix.
BUT...
1) When I buy a £200 smartmediaplayer (we have smartphones so why not smartmediaplayers, after all, thats what it is) I expect it to come with a charger! And not have to pay £20 extra for one!
2) For something that dosent come with a charger, you would think the battery life would at least be decent right? Wrong.
3) Why is it my 802.11b PSP can pick up more networks than my 802.11g iPod Touch? Its also got better range! (The PSP) WTF? Also, theres this network I use all the time, a public hotspot, that hardly ever comes up on the iPT and when it does the connection is very weak, but on the PSP it works every time!
1) iPods haven't had an AC charger in the box for a long time. I agree it's stupid, but that's life. On the plus side there's tons of 3rd part AC to USB adaptors that will work with the iPod (and anything else that charges on USB) just fine, and they can be had for $10 or less. I have one that has a nice folding plug and will power USB or FW device that cost me $10 at Walmart, it's not as nice looking as the Apple ones, but it use slightly thinner and more useful.
2) Is the battery life as long as Apple advertised it to be? By most accounts, it is, so I don't think you'll get any sympathy for this complaint. Would it be nice if it had a larger capacity battery? Sure, but that would have made it heavier and thicker, so compromises have to be made.
3) I can't speak to the reception range of the Touch. I don't have one... I can sympathize with you, though, in that my brand new $1500 iMac has worse WiFi reception than the (literally) $2 (after rebate) PCI .11g card in my wife's $300 Dell. It is what it is, though.
not being hacked - just a rather bizarre bug
wifi was off
SSH? don't think the touch has this...
Something wrinh with the screen, my Nokia 6600 had a similar bug on the "navigational key" (the joystick) and when ever I touched it it would go mad and click everything until I banged it, therefor making the phone useless. Just take your iPod back to the shop and get a replacement.
Also, if you iPod is jailbreaked it has SSH.
Mine is on the plane from Shainghai as we speak
But seriously..all gadgets have these problems (remembers the treo 680 horror stories readd before buying - I've had no problems for 11 months so far). Just pray you get a good unit!
Mine is on the plane from Shainghai as we speak
But seriously..all gadgets have these problems (remembers the treo 680 horror stories readd before buying - I've had no problems for 11 months so far). Just pray you get a good unit!
I know people that have these, and haven't mentioned one problem with them. Is it really as wide spread as it seems?
hello. This is my first and probably only post, I recieved an iPod touch for Christmas and while I do love it, mine is almost totally useless...
You see, the web browsing works fine, its actually quite nice to use. I'm using it now to write this.
Adding songs is another matter all together.
I have a G4 iMac and pretty much all of my computer parifinailia is Apple brand. But I can't add any more than about 100 songs at a time.
The iPod frequently crashes my iMac, iTunes crashes if I have Safari open and I have to spoon feed the little bugger or Im forced to reset everything.
It was a Christmas present and Im now in the awkward positionof having to ask my partner to return it for a refund.
I had a third generation iPod that did pretty much the same thing but I wouldnt give up on it. This time Im not being as charitable.
I was going to get myself a lovely new macbook to go with my touch, now Ive lost confidence in Apple to make hardware that just works.
They're becoming as bad as all those 'cobble it together' machines I hate so much.
Ho hum, it's not like its an essential bit of kit...
You see, the web browsing works fine, its actually quite nice to use. I'm using it now to write this.
Adding songs is another matter all together.
I have a G4 iMac and pretty much all of my computer parifinailia is Apple brand. But I can't add any more than about 100 songs at a time.
The iPod frequently crashes my iMac, iTunes crashes if I have Safari open and I have to spoon feed the little bugger or Im forced to reset everything.
It was a Christmas present and Im now in the awkward positionof having to ask my partner to return it for a refund.
I had a third generation iPod that did pretty much the same thing but I wouldnt give up on it. This time Im not being as charitable.
I was going to get myself a lovely new macbook to go with my touch, now Ive lost confidence in Apple to make hardware that just works.
They're becoming as bad as all those 'cobble it together' machines I hate so much.
Ho hum, it's not like its an essential bit of kit...
Sounds like you have some corrupt music files. Set the iPod to only sync checked songs and uncheck the "101st song" (the one right after the last one will sync). The fact that you had a 3G do something similar leads me to think it's a bad file. Blaming Apple for it is, well, a little misguided at best.
Think of it like this: there's 5 million iPhones and a few million touches out there (and 100+ million other iPods). Do you think that if everyone had similar issues people would buy them in that ind of quantity? Seriously, it's probably your music.
If this also happened with an old 3G iPod then I would suspect your Mac is the problem.
I would recommend trying to copy song songs onto it from another Mac (or a PC), to see what happens. If you're getting a MacBook anyway, that may make the problem go away.
Unless you just don't like the thing...Mine has been pretty trouble-free. Sometimes I get the music stopping during Safari bug, but that's about it.
I would recommend trying to copy song songs onto it from another Mac (or a PC), to see what happens. If you're getting a MacBook anyway, that may make the problem go away.
Unless you just don't like the thing...Mine has been pretty trouble-free. Sometimes I get the music stopping during Safari bug, but that's about it.
Hmmm... well it could be the songs or the Mac, but they both worked fine on my last 80G Video iPod, and on my partners 2G iPod Nano, so I'm not sure why it's suddenly become an issue with this model.
It doesn't crash on a particular song, it just crashes at random.
Sometimes it gets to about 80 or 120 songs, like this afternoon, and sometimes it gets to 3 songs in the list and kills my machine.
The point about the MacBook is that I've lost confidence in apple to produce consistently bug free products. Why would I buy another product to replace my seemingly needlessly defective one? Surely we are all surprised at people who continually re-buy windows machines, and then rage at them for not working properly?
The only apple thing I've ever owned that 'just worked' was the 80G Video iPod, which now belongs to someone else, because they stole it.
I actually love the Touch to bits, it's really lovely and it's like living in the future, but it does all these fancy extras really well, yet I can't get it to do something as basic as load songs.
I've boxed it up to have it sent back three times today, then after about 30 minutes I've gotten it out again all excited and just crossed my fingers and hoped that the threat of sending it back will make it behave.
Do you think it might be because I don't have USB 2.0?
USB 1 is slower, but it shouldn't be a deal breaker, non?
It doesn't crash on a particular song, it just crashes at random.
Sometimes it gets to about 80 or 120 songs, like this afternoon, and sometimes it gets to 3 songs in the list and kills my machine.
The point about the MacBook is that I've lost confidence in apple to produce consistently bug free products. Why would I buy another product to replace my seemingly needlessly defective one? Surely we are all surprised at people who continually re-buy windows machines, and then rage at them for not working properly?
The only apple thing I've ever owned that 'just worked' was the 80G Video iPod, which now belongs to someone else, because they stole it.
I actually love the Touch to bits, it's really lovely and it's like living in the future, but it does all these fancy extras really well, yet I can't get it to do something as basic as load songs.
I've boxed it up to have it sent back three times today, then after about 30 minutes I've gotten it out again all excited and just crossed my fingers and hoped that the threat of sending it back will make it behave.
Do you think it might be because I don't have USB 2.0?
USB 1 is slower, but it shouldn't be a deal breaker, non?
Oh, you didn't mention the bit about it working fine with a 5G iPod!
Hmm...that does seem odd. It might be the older USB 1 interface (though that should still work fine). As another poster suggested, do you notice it happening with any particular songs or albums?
That's a tough call. I mean you still do have a 1-year warranty, but I can see your point. I've had problems occasionally with Apple products, but nothing that wasn't under warranty.
The current MacBooks SHOULD be fine now, but that's no consolation if you happen to have a troublesome unit. I own a first-gen 1.83 CD MacBook. I really like it, but my Bluetooth would intermittently go out and they recently replaced the logic board under warranty. My impression is that Apple products are no worse than others when it comes to reliability, but I can understand that people have higher expectations since Apple products can cost more.
If you have another computer (even PC), I would perhaps try to load songs on your Touch with that, just to see what happens.
Hmm...that does seem odd. It might be the older USB 1 interface (though that should still work fine). As another poster suggested, do you notice it happening with any particular songs or albums?
That's a tough call. I mean you still do have a 1-year warranty, but I can see your point. I've had problems occasionally with Apple products, but nothing that wasn't under warranty.
The current MacBooks SHOULD be fine now, but that's no consolation if you happen to have a troublesome unit. I own a first-gen 1.83 CD MacBook. I really like it, but my Bluetooth would intermittently go out and they recently replaced the logic board under warranty. My impression is that Apple products are no worse than others when it comes to reliability, but I can understand that people have higher expectations since Apple products can cost more.
If you have another computer (even PC), I would perhaps try to load songs on your Touch with that, just to see what happens.
Oh, sorry to double post, but yes, I agree that not packing a charger in the box should be classed as a fault, and also that it really should be able to work over firewire (making my 8 1/2G upload take minutes rather than hours).
Other than that, the Touch doesn't mount on the desktop, which I've been told is a feature that they've removed (thanks!) that I used to use all the time.
So I would consider that a problem too.
(now how am I meant to take my files to work?)
Other than that, the Touch doesn't mount on the desktop, which I've been told is a feature that they've removed (thanks!) that I used to use all the time.
So I would consider that a problem too.
(now how am I meant to take my files to work?)
Oh, you didn't mention the bit about it working fine with a 5G iPod!
Hmm...that does seem odd. It might be the older USB 1 interface (though that should still work fine). As another poster suggested, do you notice it happening with any particular songs or albums?
That's a tough call. I mean you still do have a 1-year warranty, but I can see your point. I've had problems occasionally with Apple products, but nothing that wasn't under warranty.
The current MacBooks SHOULD be fine now, but that's no consolation if you happen to have a troublesome unit. I own a first-gen 1.83 CD MacBook. I really like it, but my Bluetooth would intermittently go out and they recently replaced the logic board under warranty. My impression is that Apple products are no worse than others when it comes to reliability, but I can understand that people have higher expectations since Apple products can cost more.
If you have another computer (even PC), I would perhaps try to load songs on your Touch with that, just to see what happens.
Actually, I've got an old 3G PowerBook in the spare room.
If I can find the power cable I'll give that a try.
Oh, the Powerbook makes a really loud clicking sound and puts itself to sleep randomly too!
Go Apple!
Right, well the mystery of what my iPod touch thinks its doing deepens.
It's got a load of album artwork wrong and is now refusing to play some songs that have worked fine on all other media playing devices I have. It just waits a couple of seconds and goes to another song it feels like playing in the playlist (these songs seem to be marked with a ! in iTunes - when iTunes can keep it together long enough for me to have a look).
I'm definately having it sent back.
I'll wait until the 3rd or 4th generation touch come out so that Apple will have sorted out all the problems they should have sorted out at launch.
Pfff.
It's got a load of album artwork wrong and is now refusing to play some songs that have worked fine on all other media playing devices I have. It just waits a couple of seconds and goes to another song it feels like playing in the playlist (these songs seem to be marked with a ! in iTunes - when iTunes can keep it together long enough for me to have a look).
I'm definately having it sent back.
I'll wait until the 3rd or 4th generation touch come out so that Apple will have sorted out all the problems they should have sorted out at launch.
Pfff.
Brand spanking new w/problems.
Has anyone heard of it not working at all. I picked up the 32G iPT today and when I plugged it into my notebook and ran iTunes, nothing happened. A Windows screen popped up asking me where I wanted to configure my photos and this was followed by a big nothing. No indication of a new device plugged into the computer and on the iPT screen, the pic of the iTunes mp3icon with a pic of the male piece from the cable that goes into the iPT. My computer seems to be working alright so I don't know what the deal is. Did I get a dud? Am I missing something here?
Has anyone heard of it not working at all. I picked up the 32G iPT today and when I plugged it into my notebook and ran iTunes, nothing happened. A Windows screen popped up asking me where I wanted to configure my photos and this was followed by a big nothing. No indication of a new device plugged into the computer and on the iPT screen, the pic of the iTunes mp3icon with a pic of the male piece from the cable that goes into the iPT. My computer seems to be working alright so I don't know what the deal is. Did I get a dud? Am I missing something here?
Do you have iTunes on your computer? If so is it the latest version?
You need a recent version to reconise a iPod Touch.