Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, iPod Family, iTunes, Software Update
iPod Classic and Nano get updated to 1.0.2
iTunes has an update for the new iPod Classic and the new Nanos, and while the update doesn't have a description at all, MacRumors sez:- Improved CoverFlow
- Quicker menus
- And the much awaited video out fix, among a few other interface tweaks
At any rate, if you think it works better, then more power to you-- enjoy your updated iPod. As always, the update can be grabbed by connecting up your Classic or Nano to iTunes and hitting "Check for Updates."
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Quinn Banks said 3:13PM on 10-07-2007
The update does improve CoverFlow and menu performance, but calendar and contact stopped syncing on my brand new iPod nano. Hopefully Apple will have a fix for this soon.
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Galley said 3:46PM on 10-07-2007
The "playcounts and ratings not syncing if you have been playing games" bug has been fixed. Video output image quality is also greatly improved.
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Fernando said 4:10PM on 10-07-2007
Just updated mine, it froze like this: http://xs220.xs.to/xs220/07400/07102007231.jpg for a while but it unfrozed quickly, and the menus are indeed quicker, just lol'd at it freezing at the first play after the update.
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Greg said 4:16PM on 10-07-2007
1.0.2 fixes two more things (at least on the Nano) that hadn't been talked about before.
Podcasts and audible books would be skipped if they were in a playlist and were not completely unplayed. In other words, if you played a bit of a podcast or audible book in iTunes, put them in a playlist, synced the tracks and playlist to the Nano; when you played the playlist on the Nano, the podcasts and audible books in the playlist that had weren't unplayed would be skipped.
This is now fixed.
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Fernando said 4:19PM on 10-07-2007
lol, if you press "shuffle songs" and the rewind button really fast,
it will always give you a screen like the above one.
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Cycomachead said 4:54PM on 10-07-2007
Wonder if it'd be possible to put this on a 5/5.5G - I think there's some string of something that iTunes uses to identify iPods - maybe switching the identifier to the same one as a 6G would work? Unless of course, it uses the iPods serial number - then we have a problem.
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Cycomachead said 4:55PM on 10-07-2007
Wonder if it'd be possible to put this on a 5/5.5G - I think there's some string of something that iTunes uses to identify iPods - maybe switching the identifier to the same one as a 6G would work? Unless of course, it uses the iPods serial number - then we have a problem.
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yakov chodosh said 5:32PM on 10-07-2007
i think the hardware is completely new in the new ipods, which would make your idea impossible. anyway, if it could be done we'd have heard about it by now...
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William said 7:30PM on 10-07-2007
Almost bricked my Classic (160GB) while updating, error codes 1408, 1418 and 1430 appeared. I had to recover (even that caused new errors) and after two attempts of recovering, iTunes detected a "damaged iPod", only after that message iTunes was able to update and sync again... Lukely my iPod did not turned into a iBrick...
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Avri said 8:55PM on 10-07-2007
2 Bricked nano's for me. The first was yesterday morning. I did the update on my 3 week old nano and it got stuck at the splash screen (apple logo) after the firmware update. After a reset it synced with itunes and then got stuck again - reset again and it seems ok except it won't sync/connect with itunes at all. Put into disk mode and it connects but then the only thing it will do is restore .... and the whole process starts over!! I took it in to the local apple store and they verified the problem and swapped the unit for a new one - it was still on 1.0.1 so when (without thinking about it) I upgraded to 1.0.2 the same thing happened again........not really sure what to do now except rma it and hope for a 1.0.1 or factory 1.0.2.
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ralph said 9:19PM on 10-07-2007
tried updating my new nano and keep getting "disk is full screen" after itunes asks me if i would like to install the new update on my nano? i havnt got any full dics on my pc or my nano and after reading some of the above comments i wonder if i should just leave it as is?
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Matthew said 9:25PM on 10-07-2007
Just updated to 1.0.2, and some interesting observations:
-Menu performance is definitely more responsive.
-Coverflow may actually be more sluggish.
-Delay in album art on the 'Now Playing' screen.
Not to sound too overly defensive of my 160gb Classic, but the menu response was my biggest issue, so in the end, I call the update a success--
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Taylor said 9:43PM on 10-07-2007
The "Ask" option when you've got a video out cable has been around since before this update - I used a friend's iPod TV dock and when I went to TV out settings, I saw "On, Ask, or Off".
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Taylor said 9:59PM on 10-07-2007
More conveniently, all my compliations in Cover Flow are now grouped together, so I don't have 16 "Triple J Hottest 100"s, 1 for each of the artists on the CD.
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Paul said 11:19PM on 10-07-2007
This is the best iPod firmware update eeeeever. The speed difference in the menus on the classic is HUGE. I don't see too much difference in coverflow... I guess it might be slightly improved when scrolling quickly through many albums.
But the time it takes to display the main -> music -> artist -> album -> and song menus is about halved on my 80gb Classic.
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Paul said 11:19PM on 10-07-2007
I did notice it broke one thing, at least on mine - when I go to the Settings -> About screen, there is no way to get to the 2nd and 3rd pages.
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one2102 said 2:23AM on 10-08-2007
The reason they dont tell us they made it better is because they think it should have been perfect to begin with and if they make it better it wasnt perfect
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Mark P said 3:15AM on 10-08-2007
"More conveniently, all my compliations in Cover Flow are now grouped together, so I don't have 16 "Triple J Hottest 100"s, 1 for each of the artists on the CD."
Finally! This was annoying!
Are they also grouped on album artist instead of artist?
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stefan K said 5:24AM on 10-08-2007
And the Camera Connector is still not working...
What's going on?
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Sean Karns said 11:32AM on 10-08-2007
Any word on whether Windows iTunes and the Classic are playing well together after this update?
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