Well, for the first time in the seven months I’ve had my iPod Touch (2nd Generation), it has just had a major crash incident. And by that, I mean that it wouldn’t do anything at all – except charge. I was playing an innocent game of Wild West Pinball, and it suddenly turned off. I thought nothing of it, because it was running low on battery, and I assumed it had just run out. So I fired up the MacBook, and plugged in the iPod. Nothing. All it did was start charging (don’t you just love that little noise it makes when you plug it in?) and showed the dreaded Connect to iTunes screen. The next step in the Plan Of Action was to restore the device from a backup, but when I tried to connect to it in iTunes, it said that it was locked with a passcode – obviously I couldn’t enter the code because the Connect to iTunes screen was there. So I turned it off and on a couple of times, used a different USB cable and even tried a different MacBook, but nothing was working. In the end, I scoured the Internet for a solution. I ended up on some forum or other, which told me that I should put the iPod into DFU mode*. I tried it out, and sure enough, there was my iPod right there in iTunes! I hastily clicked the Restore button so that I could start using it again. The OS had been completely wiped and so I’m currently re-downloading the next version it would allow me to install, 2.2.1 – I don’t have a backup of 3.0 on the MacBook because I usually sync with the iMac. At the moment, the iPod won’t turn on – it doesn’t have an OS, after all – but at least I can see it in iTunes! The downside to restoring it on the laptop is I don’t have all the applications downloaded onto the hard drive, so I’m going to have to get them again from the iPod. I’m also going to have to wait until it has synced all my 260 songs back onto the iPod before I can use it properly again. At least it works, though! Problem solved!
*How to use DFU mode:
- Connect your iPod Touch/iPhone to your computer using a USB cable.
- Hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons together for about 10 seconds.
- Release the Sleep/Wake button but continue holding the Home button.
- Your computer shoud
Tags: 2.2.1, 3.0, Connect, DFU, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Mode, OS, Touch