A week or two ago, Apple released the 2.0.2 update for iPod touch. It took me many attempts to finally get it downloaded due, I presume, to heavy traffic at their servers. Now, when I attempt to install it, it starts backing up my iPod. When it gets about 20% done with that, I get a blue screen with a bunch of text on it that goes by too quickly for me to read. It then announces it is dumping memory to disk and restarts the computer. Anybody have any idea what is going on here? The 2.0 software downloaded and installed a couple months back with no problems at all. I’m running Windows Vista on a machine that is, otherwise, trouble free.
That’s fairly odd. It wouldn’t have anything to do with Firmware 2.0.2 itself. (That’s responsible for crashing your Touch. :D) I’d say the most likely culprit is iTunes – or more specifically, iTunes’ device drivers, and more specific still, the bit of the drivers that are responsible for handling the firmware upgrade.
My first suggestion would be to reinstall iTunes, which should reinstall the drivers.
Well, I got it done, but not as easily as I had hoped. I reinstalled iTunes, tried the update and had the blue screen/restart. Then, on the hypothesis that the back up process was what was making some bit of software shit the bed, I synced the iPod with nothing checked in iTunes; thus there was virtually nothing there to back up following the sync. It then updated to 2.0.2 successfully. It is now syncing again, with everything from iTunes rechecked. Re-installation of all those apps is taking some time.
Thanks for the help, btw.
Must be a Vista thing. I know the current version of iTunes has some synchronization issues, so perhaps they are exacerbated by Vista. I did do a backup of mine, but at a more opportune time (when I wasn’t performing a firmware upgrade), so it didn’t have to bother going through that BS again when I upgraded. (Or rather, I just cancelled the backup attempt.)
And just think, you’ll get to do it all over again in a few weeks with firmware 2.1!