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.
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! 🙁
Oh my God thank you so much this Ipod is like the only thing good about my life sad hu well I was starting to worry it broke yey thanks.
These directions worked. First the re-boot, then add the new version of ITunes and finally shut down PC and restart. Thanks for the help!!
thanks so much! i resetted my ipod and now it’s working!
Re-Installed latest version, and rebooted several, several times. Followed all the instructions and it STILL won’t sync.
I’m scared to try anything else, because my backup files have been destroyed thanks to Sharepod. I’m scared to lose my music/video files.
I really don’t know what else to do.
I have the ipod touch & i restored the whole ipod and now I can’t get any of the music from my ITunes to sync! I am so frustrated!
Lifesaver! Thanks!
omg the 1st one work for me….thank you soo much. i had the same prob. and i tried everything 2…lol the best!
Thanks. I’ve been frustrated trying to figure out why my ipod wouldn’t sync and resetting it worked like a charm.Thanks!
I’ve tried everything, nothing works, any new ideas?
i have an ipod nano 2GB and i have linux how do i get my ipod 2 sync to GTK pod manager cus it aint working pls help me
whenever i connect my ipod to my laptop, my itunes shutdown. idk what to do?!
THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!! i reset it and now it finally syncs. thank you very much
I have iTunes version 10. I plug my ipod into my computer to synch but it will not do my playlists. For example, if I check all the songs by Led Zeppelin it will load them but will not load the playlist of Led Zeppelin that I’ve made. Why?
Thank you so much i was very upset …now my IPOD is working fine and i was able to sync ! Thank you guys!
What if it still doesn’t work I tried everything from Restarting it and Downloading the newet version of iTunes and Reseting it Everything!! I need help seriously this is getting on my nerves
thanks so much absolute life saver 🙂
PERFECT! Thank you!! I thought my iPod was busted or that iTunes had come up with some janky update in order to force me to buy a new iPod. But this WORKED! Rock on. 🙂
i love you, it acually worked
I have an IPOD Shuffle so these instructions don’t work with the Shuffle.
My IPOD Shuffle won’t sync with ITunes any longer. A few days ago I had no problem with my IPod Shuffle 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 as well as different computer but my IPod still will not sync, help me please.
Thanks!
as above when i plug my ipod touch into my computer i with itunes iget the message that ipod wont sync and i need to reinstall latest itunes software. have done this 20 times in every possible way with no results. i even went into my config sys file as instructed and all it did was screw up everything.
Thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much.I was on the verge of throwing Evangelion (thats my İpods name) into the deep parts of the ocean. I reseted it and it worked.Yay! わーい！ Evangelion のために乾杯 !!
I had this problem for a year or more,but just thought it was broken.I bought a new cord for my ipod and that didn’t work until I saw this site and the part about rebooting it.It worked!!!!Thank you so much
Oh My Gosh Thank You Your A Life Saver!!!!! I Love You whoever You Are!!!!! I’m such an IDIOT when it comes to technology
If songs aren’t syncing but everything else is….make sure the songs are “checked” otherwise they will not sync if you have the “sync only checked songs and videos” button clicked. Good luck!
THANK YOU!!! THE RESET WORKED!
THANK YOU FOR THE QUICK FIX! I WAS ABOUT TO GO BY A NEW CORD.
what to do if ipod touch does not syncronize i all ready up date my itune and restard my ipod
i have i phone 4 and wont sink bubble comes uo micosoft scanning unable….
thank you!! thank you!! your brilliant 🙂
I TRIED it and it wont work..im stuck please help me
Nothing worked….. God this makes me and I’m sure other people really frustrated! Seriously, does someone know another option??? and it’s weird that you can’t restore your complete ipod. I have a ipod nano (4th generation) and only the settings get restored but it’s not that all of my songs get ditched. I’m scared that I have a virus or something… HELP
iTunes wasn’t completely recognizing that my iTouch was plugged into my computer. It was showing it was charging, but it was recognizing it as a device. Turned out I had a bad USB, luckily I had another one. This fixed the problem for me!
My iPod still won’t work. I have a iPod Nano 16GB 6th Generation and it only worked on the first sync. The second time I plugged it in it said the iPod was corrupt and it needed to be reformatted, and after I pressed OK the iPod never even turned on again. I have windows Vista on my computer, but I don’t think that matters.
Ok so I did all this but u see my iPod touch 4 g works and all but when I plug it into my computer iTunes freezes or if it doesn’t freeze then the sync iPod button is gray and I can’t click it can someone please help
I tried this over and over and nothing happened. I have a click-wheel iPod & got a new iPod touch for Christmas so I had to update iTunes for the new iPod. They both plug in and work on my laptop and now they don’t work at all. I tried to contact iTunes but they wanted me to sit on hold for 15 minutes and then pay them to tell me what’s wrong with the +$300 device I bought from them.
Hey here is the answer, and it’s a lot more simple. go to start. type ‘services’ click the top one under ‘programs’. Click on the ‘Apple Mobile Device Service’. Click ‘Stop the Service’. then start it again. now it should sync. (i have an ipod touch g4 so good luck)
Scroll down in itunes on the page where you sync scroll down to Options and check the box for Manually Manage Music and Videos. This may seem scary when it tells you that this will erase your ipod and sync it with your itunes but this is prob what you want. your ipod may have been connected to a different/older itunes library for some odd reason. this worked for me.
i did all that and still nothing! i don’t know what else to do! i accidentally erased all the songs on my iPod and now it won’t sync. it has no music or pictures and i don’t know what else to do!
Omg!! Thanks!! Now my Ipod finally syncs. THANKS PERSON! 😀
“The Mikster”, i tried doing what you said beacause my songs werent all syncing to my ipod, and not when i plug in my ipod,itunes doesnt even recognize it! my ipod doesnt show up in my itunes anymore, what do i do??? SOMEONE HELP!
It worked! Thank you for the tip!
also guys, this is what i did….
i restored my ipod you click on your ipod (on itunes) and you then click restore, and this will restore and sync it at the same time 🙂
Please can somebody help me.I bought a used 80 ipod classic.Sometimes i can synch sometimes i cant.Sometimes it will synch 100 songs more than other times.Im a grown man and its practicaly brought me to tears with frustration.I have about 400 songs downloaded and only 85 will synch.I seem to follow all the directions correctly with no luck.I bought it at a trading post so i cant return it.Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I am willing to pay somebody to fix my issue
Make sure the “manually manage music” box is NOT checked. Unchecking it will display a prompt similar to “Are you sure you want to, blah blah.” Hit yes, or accept, then it will tell you that it is syncing. Good luck!
my ipod nano got locked on accident and i dont know the code to it i dont have the original computer that it synced with and for some reason the computer i have not want recoignize it. ive tried restarting it and it dont work. ive tried putting it in disk mode and it still dont work. apple want help me fix it wht cna i do to fix please email me to help
ok so i have the iPod nano 1GB and when i plug it into my computer it connects kinda, itunes pops up and everything but it keeps saying on the ipod “do not disconnect” and its not updateing the number of times iv listened to songs and stuff and if i bought another song i dont think it would actually put it on the ipod and i dont wanna lose all my songs that i have on my ipod because alot of them are from cds and from itunes.
what do i do?!?!
The problem I’m having is with syncing my itunes. I had to restore my ipod, and now, even though I have over 9,100 songs on my itunes, only about 90 songs are syncing to my ipod. I have no idea why it’s doing this or how to fix it. Please help!
thanks man it works //:)
How would I do this with an iPod touch? It says its syncing but then it doesn’t.
Thank you so much for your help. yes all I did was plug my I Pod UBS.2 into another USB port and that fixed the problem.
oh my goodness thany you sooo much i tried the press and hold the centerer and menu meathod and it worked on the first time like a charm thank you soo much and also for your tie to help others
Okay i was pissed that my ipod wouldnt sync so i tried reseting it i did plugged it in and then it worked i just wanted to say this is my favorite site.(I’m not kidding) and also thankyou because with out my ipod im dead haha. THANKYOU!!!!!
it did not work i bin doin it 4 2 hours and did not work
Wow, I had the same problem. Did not know about the reset option. Thanks a lot, was a great help!
Perfect. My ipod would not sync since I updated itunes version and I was getting panic stricken. Funny how I am so dependent on this little gadget. I just never thought to reset it. Thanks so much.
ahh! soo clever! 😛 all my ipod needed was the usb port to be swapped!! durrhhh xD
I just had this problem, tried resetting the ipod and it worked 😀 yay! I was getting worried since my ipod is old and temperamental, thought it had definitely died this time XD it’s all good, thank you for the advice ^^
will resetting ipod touch cause me to lose all my music and apps? When I upgraded itunes to 10.4 64-bit. it wiped out my music and apps. ipod is now only place I have everything and itunes is telling me I can only synch the ipod to one computer. I have not changed computers so not sure why it won’t synch all my old stuff on ipod to library after I upgraded. Going crazy and don’t want to do anything that causes me to lose ipod music and apps as it is my only copy.
My I-Pod will not sync to my computer. It says that it is connected but then it just resets itself and then after a few seconds it says that it is connecting again. And it just keeps ding the same thing over and over. I tried what you said and nothing worked. It does not show up on my i-tunes that my i-pod is plugged in. I have tried two different cables and have tried 2 different computers. Is there something wrong with my i-pod??? Please help me out!!!
I had the same problem last night I plugged my ipod into my lap tap and it wouldn’t sink so i charged my ipod and restarted my comp then it finally worked.
I had the same problem last night I plugged my ipod into my lap tap and it wouldn’t sink so i charged my ipod and restarted my comp then it finally worked. I’m guessing it just needed to be chrged.
Okay so ive tried all of this & my ipod still wont sync or even show up on my computer, it does for a little but then disappears. Whats weird is that it works on other computers & other ipods sync with my laptop. Can anyone help me?
Finally a site with clear and concise instructions! Thanks for the resetting tips…they worked!
I had similar problem with my Ipod touch on win7 os. Itunes would not detect the ipod unless I uninstalled Itunes and installed it again but then it worked only for one time only. I tried all kinds of things to repair this and nothing worked until I changed the antivirus software from Comodo to Avast and now the problem is gone and I’m very happy.
wow easy as that…..thank u!!!!
I’ve spent all day tryin to figure out how to download music to my Samsung phone and now tonight onto my sons ipod!!!
thank u, thank u, thank u!!!!
it really seems like a fix but it worked!!!
I have 139 songs on Itunes and 981 on my iPod touch but when i click sync it says preparing to sync and then determining apps to sync then says its done. When i go to “my iPod” and go to music and click sync all music it says all my music on my iPod will be lost and my music on the computer will be put on my iPod how do i get the music on my computer on my iPod without deleting all my music on my iPod?
nothing worked
I recently lost all my Notes after a sync so ticked the box to I ticked the box in Devices to prevent the automatic sync. My intention was to try and restore the notes from my last backup. This was some months ago. I’ve now tried to sync my Iphone with my laptop but the phone does not register on Itunes at all. So I can’t try and restore the backup or sync. I’ve uninstalled Itunes, and reinstalled it. I’ve restarted the Iphone and the laptop. The automatic sync is authorised on the laptop. Is there something I should do on the phone settings to get my laptop to see the Iphone?
I’ve tried everything- resetting ipod, restarting laptop, use different lead, use different USB port but it still wont connect. I plug it in and it charges but doesn’t appear on ‘My Computer’ or iTunes. Can anyone help?
Just put my iPod into a computer that didn’t have iTunes. I installed it and now i want to put the music on the Pod to the computer. When i click “sync” it just writs “synchronizing” extremely fast and after that nothing has happened. I don’t want to reset and lose all my shit. Any suggestions?
In my situation, I just got a new computer. It says that my iPod is synced with another iTunes library and can only be synced with one at a time. This won’t let me transfer my purchases to my iPod or let the songs I purchased off of iTunes be put on iPod. What do I do?
i have the same problem, but when i reset my ipod it corrupted all of my apps and i had to delete them all 🙁
I tried everything u said and my ipod still won’t show up on my laptop or on itunes. I switched the usb port and it showed up for a sec saying new device installed, then a sec later is said something like device install unsuccesfully. My cord works cuz i plugged it n2 an adapter n the wall and it worked. This all started happening after itunes updated itself a few days ago. Does the new update not work with an ipod clasic or something?
Resettting my iPod worked right away!! I have been struggling with this all week. All of a sudden my iPod was not recognized by my computer when it always had been before, and this fixed it immediately!
@Alex, i’m having the same problem. And they are saying ‘erase and sync’. Ummmm, i don’t want to erase anything! Does anybody know what i should do??
SOLUTION that worked for me.
I would recommend to anyone…
I torched my computer. Got the usual messages about ‘cant sync w/o erasing your ipod and putting the blank iTunes library on it’ message.
Windows Vista 32…
DOWNLOADED SHAREPOD:
http://www.getsharepod.com/download/
INSTALLED IT.
Connected Ipod to computer.
Closed iTunes when it auto launched.
Unzipped the SharePod dir that I downloaded.
Ran SharePod (no installation was necessary).
SharePod auto detected my iPod.
CLICKED THE COPY TO COMPUTER BUTTON…
which copies the whole shootin’ match to your computer.
chose a directory that i wanted it all copied to.
chose a format
(genre – artist – song – track) or
(artist \ album \ song.mp3) etc etc
CLICKED THE CHECK BOX “IMPORT MY MUSIC TO ITUNES”
CLICKED THE OK BUTTON
it did the copy and finished.
OPENED ITUNES
(side note – after torching my computer back to factory-new my iTunes library was blank) (see left side of iTunes, at the top it says LIBRARY / Music…it’s completely blank after torching your computer and reinstalling)
Now, however, when I opened iTunes my formerly BLANK iTunes library was full of WHAT WAS on my ipod.
I went (my ipod) further down on the left side,
went to the top middle of iTunes and
changed from the Summary tab to the Music tab and
clicked the check box for Sync Music.
DONT WORRY:
IT STILL ASKED if i wanted to “ERASE and put this library onto your ipod” – I said Sync Music (not cancel) figuring that since what is now in this library was what was on the ipod – it should be OK to erase the ipod and put on it what WAS on it.
HTH
Herb
Don’t forget to hit APPLY.
Then don’t forget to SYNC.
(Forgot a few items there – sorry.)
Herb
None of these options worked for me, but when I used the sync feature rom the “file” tab on iTunes, it finally synced.
Thank you so much!!!!! I was so frustrated, almost did an over dose on chocolate. All I had to do was reboot my Ipod and I didn’t know which two buttons to press. So thanks for the image for the visual learners!! 🙂
I tried every thing then realized that after resetting the Ipod, I needed to check the sync box in each separate section, Music, photos, podcast, etc. While your ipod is connected, highlight it in ITunes, the go through each section.