20
Sep
Upgrading a stuck iPod
My iPod Touch was stuck at version 2.0. Telling it to check for updates would tell me that 2.0 was the latest version and that I was there. Trying to “Restore” it to the initial settings and force the upgrade that way resulted in a message “There was a problem downloading the iPod software for the iPod.” I kind of already determined tghat since downloading the update manually resulted in 0.4K downloads.
Finally I found an answer way down  in a support forum:
- Turn iPod Touch OFF completely
- Plug iPod Touch into PC/MAC while still off
- Turn iPod Touch on if it wasn’t turned on my plugging it in and IMMEDIATELY do the followign steps
- Hold the ‘Home’ and ‘Sleep’ buttons down for at least 5 seconds. It will restart and the Apple logo will appear
- Release the ‘Sleep’ button, keeping the ‘Home’ button pressed
- The iPod Touch will switch to restore/recovery mode and you can follow the prompts on the computer to erase and restore the iPod Touch