iPod touch app stuck waiting to download

Recently had some app trouble when trying to download apps. They would have a blank icon and say "Waiting..." but would never download. Not able to delete or cancel download. Rebooted iPod, app still stuck. Reset all settings, still stuck.

Found a solution that worked:

• 1. You need to SSH into your phone and delete the /var/mobile/Media/Downloads folder
• 2. You can do this if you are jailbroken with iFile or unjailbroken with iExplorer

Getting my iPod touch to work with gtkpod

After upgrading my iPod touch to iOS 4.2.1, it didn't mount at all in Ubuntu 10.04. I found help here, and got the device to mount again.

However, gtkpod still did not detect it. Ubunut's help mentioned ifuse, but this blog provided the walkthrough I needed.

I installed ifuse:
$ sudo apt-get install ifuse
Created a folder for mounting the iPod, changed permissions:
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/ipod
$ sudo chmod 777 /mnt/ipod
Mounted the iPod
$ ifuse /mnt/ipod
And it worked! gtkpod detected my iPod touch and I was off and running.

When finished, "unmount" the ifuse mount with:
$ fusermount -u /mnt/ipod

As I didn't want to have to manually run ifuse / fusermount each time I ran gtkpod, I created a script to do this for me and saved it as gtkpod.sh:
#!/bin/bash

# mount using ifuse
ifuse /mnt/ipod

#run gtkpod
gtkpod

# unmount
fusermount -u /mnt/ipod
At a command prompt, change permissions on the file so it can be executed:
$ chmod +x gtkpod.sh
Then, you can either run the script via command line by running:
$ ./gtkpod.sh
Or, create a launcher on the desktop that runs the script (my preference).

Converting videos for iPod touch using Handbrake

I use Handbrake because:

1. It can convert DVD, flv, avi, m4v, mp4, etc.
   
2. It has an iPhone & iPod Touch preset.
   
3. It supports multiple CPU cores, so conversions are quick (if you have multiple cores :)
   

After conversion, copy files to the iPod.

Method 1

Use gtkpod to copy / sync. Copying a 40 MB file took about 1 minute.

Method 2 (preferred)

Copy files to the iPod using Nautilus and and copy the videos to the Videos folder. Copying a 40 MB file took about 10 seconds.

The only downside to using Nautilus to copy the videos is that they don't show up in the Movie Player! So, I use iFile to locate and open the videos. Click Video Player when it asks how you want to open the file.

iPod touch does not mount after iOS 4.2.x upgrade

After upgrading my iPod touch to iOS 4.2.x, it no longer mounted in Ubuntu 10.04.

Following the steps outlined here fixed the problem.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone#Device does not mount after iOS4.2.x upgrade


1. Add the new repository

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

2. In synaptic, find libimobiledevice0 and uncheck, check libimobiledevice1

3. Apply changes.

A logout / login or reboot may be necessary to allow the auto-mounting to work.

4. If you still have problems, and get TLS error messages when typing the command 'ifuse /media/iphone' in a terminal, rename the ~/.local/libimobiledevice folder to ~/.local/libimobiledevice.old or delete it.

Getting a new iPod touch to work in Virtualbox

Recently got an iPod touch. From the time I turned it on, the screen instructed me mercilessly to plug the thing into iTunes and wouldn't allow me to do anything else.

So I fired up Windows 7 in Virtualbox. After installing iTunes, I mounted the iPod, it was detected and iTunes opened. When I would try to restore the iPod, iTunes would begin the process, but it would never finish, always bringing up an error that, according to Apple's website was a USB-related issue.

I noticed in Virutalbox that the iPod would unmount during this process (no check mark beside it when right-clicking on USB icon in lower right corner). It would never re-mount, and eventually the USB error would come up.

So, on a long shot, I tried the restore again, this time manually re-mounting the iPod after it was unmounted from Virtualbox.

This time the restore began working. I had to manually re-mount the iPod a few times during the process, and it completed.

Now I've got a fully functional iPod touch that I'm using with gtkpod.