Q: How do you create additional screens for icons on the iPod Touch?
A: 1. Touch and hold any icon on the Home screen.
2. After the icons wiggle, drag the icon to the right edge of the screen.
3. A new screen will appear. You can then flip back and forth between screens and arrange the icons as needed.
4. Press Home to save the changes.
You can create up to 9 different screens on the iPod Touch for your icons.
Want to overwrite your iPod Touch with data from your computer? You can with these steps:
1. Open iTunes and connect your iPod Touch to the PC. You may want to prevent syncing 1 time with these steps.
2. Select your iPod Touch on the left pane.
3. Click the Info tab toward the top of the screen.
4. Under the Replace information on this iPod touch area, you can choose the items you wish to perform a one way sync on.
Contacts
Calendars
Mail
Accounts
5. Click Apply when you are done.
How to download videos to your so that you can watch them on your iPod Touch.
1. First you have to ensure the video is in one of the formats supported, MPEG or MP4. The videos you can purchase via iTunes are all in these formats. If you have another format like AVI or WMV you wish to use, it has to be converted to MPEG or MP4 first.
2. iTunes needs to be used to transfer the video file. On the left side panel under Library, they are under the Movies and TV Shows options. Connect your iPod Touch to the computer, then drag and drop the ones you want to the iPod Touch under Devices on the left side panel.
Videos that are not listed in iTunes can be dragged from any folder on your computer and dropped to the Movies section in iTunes. From there, you can drag and drop the videos to your iPod Touch.
How do you save an image in Safari for the iPod Touch?
1. Simply touch and hold the image that you wish to save.
2. A menu will appear. Select Save.
The image is then saved to your Photos.
How to find the firmware version of your iPod Touch.
1. From the Main Menu, select Settings.
2. Select General.
3. Select About.
You will see a bunch of information such as number of songs, serial number, and the firmware version.
On several occasions, I have been watching or listening to my iPod Touch and gotten distracted by a phone or doorbell ringing. Usually I put the device down on a table and leave it playing. Of course the next time I want to use the iTouch on the go, the battery is drained. This can be prevented though by using the Sleep Timer feature.
1. From the Home menu, select Clock.
2. Select Timer.
3. Set the number of hours and minutes. Tap When Timer Ends and choose Sleep iPod.
4. Tap Set then tap Start to start the timer.
Now you can use the iPod Touch and it will automatically stop playing video or music after the time specified.
How do you move the icons around on the home screen of the iPod Touch?
1. Touch and hold any icon on the Home screen. The icons will begin to wiggle.
2. Drag and drop the icons anywhere you like.
3. Press Home to save your changes.
My iPod Nano recently started skipping some songs here and there. I thought that maybe there was a problem with the music file, but it would play fine on the PC. I had purchased the song in iTunes, so it wasn’t a problem with a rouge file or anything like that. I tried these steps recommended by Apple here.
First I reauthorized my iTunes.
That didn’t work, so I had to restore my iPod to the factory settings. Finally that did it. It was kind of annoying to have to reload all of my music over again.
Prevent your iPod Touch from automatically syncing when you plug in the device to your computer.
1. With the iPod Touch connected to the computer, select the device in iTunes.
2. Click the Summary tab.
3. Uncheck the box Open iTunes when this iPod is connected.
Now you can sync the device only when you want to by clicking the Sync button in the lower right corner of the window.
Other iPod’s have Disk Mode where you can use the iPod as a hard drive. However, the iPod Touch doesn’t have this mode. There is currently no way to get it to show up in the Finder on a Mac or on the Windows Desktop. You are only able to use the iPod Touch within the iTunes application.
Personally, I think that it’s kind of strange to me that a feature like this would not be available on an iPod in this price range, when you have this feature on the $50 iPod Shuffle.
UPDATE: We have found third party solutions available to use your iPod Touch as a hard drive.
For Mac, you can use PhoneView.
For PC or Mac, you can use TouchCopy.
If you like playing around with deep settings on your electronic devices, you might want to have a look at the Diagnostics Mode screen on the iPod Nano. Here is how to do it.
1. Reset the unit by pressing and holding Menu and the Center Button simultaneously.
2. After about 5 seconds, the screen will melt away and the Apple logo will appear. Now press and hold Rewind and the Center Button simultaneously.
3. Now you can navigate the screen using the Forward and Rewind buttons. To exit Diagnostics Mode, you will have to reset the unit again.
See also: The iPod’s Diagnostic Mode
If you’re getting Error 1418 in iTunes when you try to sync your iPod, try the following steps to fix this issue:
1. Click Start > Run and type regsvr32 softpub.dll
2. When you receive the message that the DLL has been registered, click OK and perform the same steps for each of the following commands one by one under Start > Run:
regsvr32 wintrust.dll
regsvr32 dssenh.dll
regsvr32 rsaenh.dll
regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll
regsvr32 sccbase.dll
regsvr32 slbcsp.dll
regsvr32 mssip32.dll
regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll
regsvr32 initpki.dll
If these steps do not fix the issue, see if you can disconnect any other USB devices from your computer (except keyboard and mouse) to see if that fixes the issue.
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When you sync an iPod in Windows XP, you may get the following error:
The iPod “name iPod” cannot be updated. An unknown error occurred (-50)
To solve this problem, try the following:
1. Click Start > Run and type regsvr32 softpub.dll
2. When you receive the message that the DLL has been registered, click OK and perform the same steps for each of the following commands one by one under Start > Run:
regsvr32 wintrust.dll
regsvr32 dssenh.dll
regsvr32 rsaenh.dll
regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll
regsvr32 sccbase.dll
regsvr32 slbcsp.dll
regsvr32 mssip32.dll
regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll
regsvr32 initpki.dll
I recently experienced a problem with my iPod Shuffle where it would take over one of my mapped network drives. This became increasingly annoying. Sometimes my music files would get copied out to the network drive instead of the iPod. Luckily I was able to solve the problem by changing the drive letter to the iPod.
1. Right-click My Computer and select Manage.
2. Click Disk Management on the left side.
People that use headphones are said to go deaf over time because they tend to play music too high. Setting a limit on the volume on your iPod can be a good idea to prevent ear injuries. Here’s how to limit the volume level on your iPod Shuffle.
1. Plug in the iPod Shuffle.
2. Start iTunes.
3. Click the iPod Shuffle on the left.
4. Click the Settings tab at the top of the screen.
5. Check the Limit maximum volume box, then set the minimum audio level using the sound bar. You can also click the lock to prevent changes to the maximum volume.
6. Click Apply in the lower right corner.
How to convert a video so that you can view it on your iPod Touch.
1. Click on the video in your iTunes.
2. Select Advanced.
3. Select Convert Selection for Pod.
4. Add the converted video to your iPod Touch.
Here’s a workaround for a problem when you sync your iPod with a Windows XP computer and you get an error:
Disk cannot be read from or written to
1. Disconnect the iPod.
2. Right-click My Computer and select Properties.
3. Click the Hardware tab.
4. Click the Device Manager button.
5. Expand Universal Serial Bus Controllers.
6. Right-click Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller choose Disable.
Now try attaching your iPod again and syncing. Hopefully it will work. If it doesn’t check out the Apple article: “Disk cannot be read from or written to” when syncing iPod or “Firmware update failure” error when updating or restoring iPod
If you have an iPod Nano or iPod Video, you can display lyrics to songs while the music plays. Here’s how to enable this feature.
1. Get lyrics off the web by searching for the song lyrics. For example, I wanted to find lyrics for “Across the Sea” a song by Weezer. I searched on Google for +”across the sea” +lyrics. I then clicked on a web page that contained the lyrics to the song.
2. Highlight the lyrics on the web page with your mouse, then select Edit > Copy.
3. First you have to add lyrics to the song manually. In iTunes, right click the song you want to add lyrics to and select Get Info.
4. Click the Lyrics tab.
5. Right-click into the box and select Paste. The lyrics should be then be pasted into the box.
6. Sync the song on iTunes with your iPod.
7. When you play the song, the lyrics to the song should show on the screen after pressing the center button a few times.
How to assign a picture to a Contact on your iPod Touch.
1. Tap Contacts.
2. Select the contact entry.
3. Tap Edit.
4. Tap Take Photo if you want to take a new picture. You can also tap Choose Existing Photo and select a photo.
5. Move and scale the photo the way you want it. Drag the photo up, down, or sideways. Pinch or double-tap to zoom in or out.
6. Tap Set Photo and you’re finished assigning a photo to a contact.
Source: iPod Touch Features Guide
It looks like there are a bunch of iPod Touch users that keep getting a screen prompting them for a January Upgrade. When clicking on No Thanks or Remind me later they get an error:
An error occurred. The iTunes store could not process your request.
Then the message won’t go away.
Here are some steps to try for this issue:
1. Unplug the iPod Touch and disconnect the computer from the Internet.
2. Close iTunes.
3. Wait a few seconds and Re-Connect the iPod Touch.
4. Start iTunes.
5. When prompted with the message, click Remind me later or No Thanks, then OK then quickly click the X button at the top to stop loading iTunes shop.
6. Close iTunes and reconnect to the Internet.
7. Start iTunes.
For more assistance, you might want to try the Apple Forum entries: Can’t get rid of iTouch upgrade offer
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