Well, I did something stupid.

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17 Jun 2013, 1:29 am

I'm having trouble restoring my iPod after updating the software from 4.3.3 to 6.1.4 (quite a long jump, I know). I sent it into recovery mode, then tried to restore it. Nothing.

This is what I wrote on the support community on the Apple website:

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Okay, so I got an iPod touch, 4th gen, 32gb, brand new and running perfectly fine two years ago. Used it for about six months, lost it, and finally found it again a month ago tucked away in my recliner. It was as dead as a doornail, but I had it charged up and ready to go in a few hours.

So I wanted to get a special app for my iHome, as well as spend all of my accumulated iTunes cards that were previously useless due to the fact that I had lost my iPod for a year and a half. The app store said I had to update to the current software to download anything new, so I did just that about half an hour ago, updating to the latest version of iTunes and downloading the new software for my iPod like I was supposed to.

Only when I applied it to my iPod, it went into Recovery Mode as expected, but I can't restore it! I've made sure there's no extra USB attachments in it, my firewalls are currently down to get around this stupid thing (just turned them back on because it wasn't working), and feeling like I just let all this money slip down the drain.

If you have any relevant advice, please help! I'm running on Windows 7 with the current version of iTunes (64 bit). Help!

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. :oops:

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17 Jun 2013, 9:05 am

This may not work but it's worth posting -- it's sometimes possible to restore an iPod to the previous OS and your previous settings, apps and content by going into your computer's Recycle bin and locating all the old files relating to that previous state. Every time you update your iPod, it puts everything into your computer Recycle bin and you can find it all there until you do any emptying. As long as you haven't cleaned up old computer files or emptied your deleted items, they will be there.

After that I forget how you get those back into iTunes, but I know I did it once some time ago and it did work for me. I had to search Google about it but that was how I found out you can do that. I found step by step instructions.

I can't guarantee you will get this to work too but it's worth mentioning.

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17 Jun 2013, 12:27 pm

Thank you, I'll give that a try.

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