A few days ago I had no problem with my iPod syncing to iTunes. I would connect the iPod to my computer as usual and it would appear under devices. But now my iPod won’t sync to iTunes, I tried updating iTunes and even different usb ports but my iPod still will not sync, help me please.
Try reseting your iPod. press and hold the center button and the top menu button for a few seconds until the Apple logo appears on the screen. This may take several tries.
Other things to try:
1.The iPod battery might need to be recharged.
2.Disconnect other USB devices from your computer and connect iPod to a different USB 2.0 port on your computer (not on your keyboard)
3.Restart your computer and reconnect iPod to your computer.
4.Download and install (or reinstall) the latest version of iTunes from www.apple.com/itunes.
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i trie a few times but it wont work
any other advice?
Added a few more things to try on the original article.
1) Dip the iPod into a bucket of peanut butter.
2) Cover in chocolate syrup (may become sticky)
3) Lick off residue
4) iPod should be automatically recharged and functional
5) Thank you and enjoy your iPod
hayle you ruined my ipod i hate you.
thanks for your help askabouttech.com your info was really helpful!!!! ; )
Thankyou so much!!! it worked i officially love you to death whoever made this website!!lol
My Ipod hasn’t been working for a while and then the suggestion of looking on the Internet was brought up to fix my Ipod. I tried several times but all of the websites gave awful, complicated advice. Finally, I came to askabouttech.com and after trying the technique provided my Ipod is as good as new! Thank you so much!
NOTHING IS WORKING!
help me please!!!!!!
I tried everything that this website offered and it DID NOT work. ugh this is the most annoying thing ever.
help me. I need NEW ideas
NICK, DID YOU HONESTLY TRY THAT
excellent, now it is working. You are a legend!
My ipod still won’t work and I got a new cable for it.. the computer is reading it but itunes won’t read it… Any more ideas please…
I had tried everything, I even called apple and payed money for them to try and fix it and nothing worked. But this helped! thank you so much!
P.S. Nick if you did that then you shouldn’t be aloud to use an i-pod
My iTunes gives me the message that it has synched and that I can eject the iPod. But when I check to see if the new songs are there, nothing has been added. What gives?
Just got a new hp desktop, had my music loaded into itunes and installed newest software version, though i would hook up my ipod to sync and it erased all of my music from the ipod, hooked it back up and it started to sync and stopped to say it couldn’t sync because their wasn’t enough space like the music had never been erased – any ideas?
I downloaded the newest Itunes on my computer and I use Limewire…. Worked before but now itunes won’t read my ipod!
I tried all this but nothing works! Can anyone help me please?
Except the one with the peanutbutter lol
mine wont work either, and i tried resetting it,
any suggestions?
See:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1684528&tstart=165
LILLY shut the F–K up and take it to apple. Dumb ass.
I brought an 8gb 3rd gen iPod touch only yesterday and the first time i tried to sync it worked. But now when i plug it in it will not sync. If i only charges. I have tries resetting it and icy doesn’t fix the problem
I get the iPodService Module (32-bit) stopped working and was closed warning, my computer reads the the ipod but itunes doesn’t. I have uninstalled and reinstalled itunes numerous times and restarted my ipod. none of those have worked, any ideas?
ok so mine is just say ”do not disconnet” when i try to sync it and its fully charged
help maybe ? :L
restarting my ipod worked! thanks! good luck to the rest of you trying to figure it out!
When my ipod touch started making suspicious beeping sounds every 10-15 minutes, I “Restored” it and fixed all the errors in the disk. Now it’s perfectly fine, the computer recognizes it, and it still won’t sync! Please help.
My iPod Classic wouldn’t sync with iTunes. Here’s what fixed the problem for me:
On the opening Summary page of iTunes, the page that you see when your iPod syncs with iTunes, there’s a checkbox labeled “Manually manage music and videos.” I removed the check, and checked the box below it labeled “Enable disk use”. As soon as I did that the iPod started syncing with iTunes. Several hundred songs (about 10% of my total) had to be resynched, so it took a while. Then everything worked.
So, I have tried every suggestion on this page…at least 3 times, in different orders. It still won’t sync from computer to iPod. I can get my iPod send purchased items to my computer. This is a new computer, I have Vista and XP on it. I have downloaded all updated, restarted computer, iPod and tried different ports and everything else posted here. Does anyone have any other suggestions? I did part of Bill’s suggestion, but I don’t have the “Enable disk use” showing, but everything else I have done. I still need help! Please. Thanks!
I was able to “grab and drag” the items into my ipod…and it works… so that is acceptable to me.
My iPod will hook up to iTunes for a second but then it disappears. It disconnects itself every time. Any idea why it does this? I tried resetting my iPod and it didn’t work.
Guys calm down I’m pretty sure Nick was joking lol
i had the same problem, after trying to reinstall and reset my ipod i managed to get it working by doing the following- go to edit on the main menu of itunes then devices then reset synch history, it seems to work after that!
Oh, man! Thanks so much for the good advice! My ipod wasn’t syncing and I was paranoid that I broke it. BUT it’s working just fine now! Thanks!
Well … my ipod kinda syncs .. it says ‘ do not disconnect ‘ for like 6 seconds then starts charging … after i look on my ipod and the new songs havent transfured :/
wow, the peanut butter didnt help at all!!! thanks a lot.
lalalala poor people,, think befor you leap,, and dont use a hammer on stuff like this,, noob!
i did this now it just says Do not Disconnect the Ok to disconnect… Thanks for ruining my last ipod guys
OMFG! Thank you!!! I just turned my iPod completely off and turned it back on and it automatically synced! iLOVEyOU!
well. mine has the same problem… im just gonna sell this metal block of poop.
wish me luck i wont get jumped for selling a broken ipod!
ahh thank you so much. i thought i lost my ipod forever. haha
Bills a genius.
I thought i was seriously going to explode and just have to live my life without music. Then i came across this awsomtasticle website. Nothing was working for me but bills helped heaps!
It got rid of all my songs, but i had them backed up so it all turned out just fine
mine says “ipod sync is complete”.but there r no songs in my ipod
My ipod wont sync. The computer recognizes it and so does itunes but everytime it goes to sync it brings up a window that says “autoplay” and is starts uploading calendars. Obviously its not supposed to do that. Does anyone have any new ideas?
Thank you! I just re-booted my ipod and then itunes read it again. hold middle button and menu, ipod will reboot!
Thank you
really helpful 
THANKS SOOOOO MUCH
X
I have just bought a 32 GB touch. Itunes won’t recognise it even to charge it. I uninstalled and reinstalled itunes, same problem.
Help!
Thanks to Bill…your advice solved my issue : ) Good luck to the rest of you.
Thanks, you solved my problem, restarted PC and reconnected
THANK YOU!!! it worked after restarting it twice… thought i was doing something wrong for the last 2 hours!!!
My computer recognizes that the iPod is plugged in, but iTunes does not and it is not able to sync. Does anyone know what to do in order to get iTunes to recognize my iPod?
This totally did not work!>:| duz anyone know any solution why an iPod touch won’t hook up to iTunes even though it chrges but doesn’t pop up under devices? Plz if anyone knows why it won’t hook up to iTunes canyou tell me!
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