I swear I'm about to kill someone at Apple. It took my over two hours to figure out how to download apps onto the itouch, but I was finally successful. My girl takes it to work, and after a ton of difficulties to get it online, we set that up. Then she goes to her place to charge the phone and it deletes every f***ing app I put on there in the first place. To add insult to injury, it says that her itunes isn't authorized to download free apps, and when I log in to her computer, it says the same thing. What the hell happened?
We'll start with the beginning. Your iPod Touch can only sync to one computer at a time. Period. One computer can have as many iPods as you want synced to it, but each iPod Touch itself can only sync to one at a time. If you change computers, it will delete everything on the iPod touch to sync itself to the new computer. It does prompt you to do this, so skipping warning boxes can really hurt you. If your iPod Touch was synced to her computer to begin with, check her App sync settings. Is it set to sync any? Does she even have iTunes 8? You CANNOT use the App Store without the latest version of iTunes. It is available for free from apple.com/itunes/
This is correct. As an example, my Touch is sync'd to my computer. If I plug it into my wife's computer, a box pops up saying that my Touch is currently sync'd to another computer and do I want to sync it with this computer. Choosing "yes" will lead to losing stuff that currently exists on my Touch. Choosing "no" will allow me to transfer music from my wife's computer or simply just let the Touch charge up. That being said, if you downloaded apps to the Touch directly via wi-fi and then had it sync up with your computer, the apps should be on your computer's iTunes and resyncing it with your computer should bring them back.
Well then, I'm really curious why Apple charged me 10 bucks to install the latest version of iTunes? I finally googled the authorization crap and found out that a little bitty prompt stuck away in the files above allows you to authorize a computer to sync up to your account. Finally reinstalled everything again. I'll be curious to see what happens the next time we try to charge it. And the damn thing should have several "warnings" that it will delete information AND apps if you choose to sync your music up. I'm still livid. This thing should not lose applications so damn easily.
step 1: walk into an apple store step 2: anne hathaway the first douche employee you see step 3: ??? step 4: retribution.
What generation is the touch? There was a 1 time upgrade fee to the 1st generation touches for software enhancements/upgrades. My son had an original Touch and chose to pay that fee to upgrade/add software.
you need to get your ipod touch jailbroken, that's for sure. after you get it jailbroken, you can also do another modification you can hack your touch to be able to play 'hacked' apps. these 'hacked' apps can be downloaded via torrent or other hosting websites, and you can just drag them into your itunes and transfer them to your touch. these apps usually cost money on itunes. you can get countless costly apps for free and put them no your phone. the iphone/touch is totally worth it if you get it jailbroken and hacked to use cracked apps. look it up on google.
Apple charged you 10 bucks to upgrade the software on your itouch, not itunes. I upgraded mine a couple of weeks ago. Without the upgrade, I couldnt add applications.
If you had to pay money to download a new version of iTunes, you didn't get it from Apple. If he already had Apps on his iPod Touch, he wasn't paying the upgrade fee. If he had Apps in iTunes (that were not on the Touch) but still had the first generation of iPod Touch software, he was. But, yes, this is almost certainly what the upgrade was. The original iPod Touch was never meant to use Apps. When they came out, Apple offered it as an optional upgrade to 1st gen iPod Touch owners. Apps are treated as information like any other on an iPod Touch. That's why the info about 'em is all still there. iTunes should keep what Apps you've downloaded to a particular computer when you upgrade to a new version of iTunes. blathersby whistles innocently. Just as a warning, hacking your iPod Touch and using cracked apps can potentially cause major headaches. You lose some features and would void whatever warranty you had. You also have no guarantee the Apps you download wouldn't interfere with each other or contain malware. These aren't the same Apps from the App Store. Many of these are Apps that developers tried to get in the store but couldn't for one reason or another. Ouch.
Yeah, I was talking about that $19.99 upgrade that added programs/apps like email, weather, stocks and a couple of other things.
Those came on the iPod Touch. The only paid upgrade Apple has ever put out is the 1.x - 2.x firmware upgrade.
