Comments on: New toy: iPod Touch (2nd Generation)

By: Francisco Welington de sousa Lima

Francisco Welington de sousa Lima — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:57:39 +0000

I use debian 5.0 and bought the ipod ouch 32Gb second generation, but my ipod no work in my debian 5.0. I need help to make my ipod to be accept for debian.

By: ipotouch

ipotouch — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:07:39 +0000

Obviously from all these other reviews this is by far the most functional product out there, and I’m not disputing that at all, I loved my Ipod touch, but they have a ridiculously short lifespan. The kicker is that if you as much as sweat on it or expose it to rapidly changing temperatures (as is common in the upper midwest) your warranty is voided and your Ipod might not last long at all.

I just lost an Ipod touch due to moister condensation from taking it from 30 degree weather to 70 degree weather. That created enough condensation to trip the water marker inside the Ipod which voids the warranty and shorted out the screen. To top it off; that one was actually a replacement for another Ipod touch because the first one I got had a phone jack that broke within a month of normal use, and then this one had a faulty screen due to “water damage” and now Apple conveniently doesn’t have to replace it anymore.

Just read some of the discussions on Apples site about Ipods and water damage, it literally takes just one drop of water to short it out and void the warranty.

So if your getting one my advice is to live somewhere that doesn’t get too cold or put you in situations that allow moisture condensation to happen.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:44:51 +0000

Ted, have you noticed your copyright on the legal page of the iPod touch – for libuuid?

By: Steve Szmidt

Steve Szmidt — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:08:30 +0000

Sorry, I had not realized that code was different too. I knew there were some changes but not to what extent.

I posted to share my concern about the battery life.

By: Dette

Dette — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:22:21 +0000

How are you guys jailbreaking the 2nd gen iPod Touch? Thats what this article is about, the 2nd gen which I wasnt aware could be jailbroken.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:40:34 +0000

It appears to be due to sshd running all the time, keeping the wireless connected, thus eating up the battery.

It should however have disappeared when I ran Restore in iTunes. This is another oddity. Maybe it is due to some things being moved to a different location during the jailbreak, which prevents it from being deleted, that could keep the wireless going…

A good test would be to repeat the jailbreak, then restore back to default while using a tool on a wireless router to see if the connection is being kept alive after the restore.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:20:11 +0000

That is odd. I knew there were risks involved so I took my time before settling on iLiberty+, not wanting to brick it. All I know of is the other poster and me having had that result.

It would be intersting to hear what others might have done. Use of jailbreak s/w and so on. To try to develop a pattern to narrow down what’s behind it.

(OT, I’m really looking forward to ext4 going gold, as I’m sure the rest of the ext3 world is, no doubt. Thanks for your good work there!)

By: tytso

tytso — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:52:03 +0000

Steve,

Funny thing, I haven’t seen anyone else complain about decreased battery life when using iLiberty+. That being said, I haven’t been interested and I haven’t tried jailbreaking my iPod Touch, so I don’t have any personal experience about this.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:08:31 +0000

Eh, yes I did a jailbreak using iLiberty+. Which otherwise worked really well.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:04:58 +0000

There’s an interesting discovery that I made when playing with the iTouch. As soon as I got it I installed the hack that allowed me to add GNU apps.

It worked really well, except for one huge point. Which I did not really want to believe because it seemed too impossible.

The battery life drastically dropped to just a few hours (2-4). It did not matter what I installed, as soon as I had done it there was only one way to restore battery life, as I accidentally discovered, which was to send it back to Apple for battery replacement.

Except they did not replace it. Simply restored it to the original condition. Now I had done that too, I thought. Using iTunes I could wipe out my previous efforts and be back to the original condition. Well, that was obviously not correct as I had installed the hack and restored it a dozen times without recovering the battery life. The only thing that brought it back to some 20+ hours was a factory “rebuild”.

What looked to me to be a faulty battery turned out to be something entirely caused by the hack. Mind you I used iTunes to restore it and then used it for weeks with 2-4 hour battery life. I could just leave it sitting over two days and the battery was gone.

I don’t know what is different between what iTuned restore could do and Apple’s, but it certainly made all the difference.

Now I have settled in using it the same way the above author does, as it shipped. Certainly I loved the features I got when hacked but with that poor battery life it became close to useless.

Incidentally, I read a post from someone else who said that his battery life died too, but I figured it HAD to do with something else.