iPod The iPod Touch Discussion Thread, All About iPod Touch
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 Oct 5 2007, 01:17 PM
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Hey guys, I'm trying to get one from EpiCentre, Pavilion. Do any of you know the contact number to that store?
I've tried Apple Malaysia's store directory which doesn't have EpiCentre in it (Maybe it's only a reseller). Also tried EpiCentre's website in Singapore with no luck. Appreciate if somebody could help. Thank you. |
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Oct 6 2007, 06:58 PM
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Hi guys,
Thanks for the pavilion inforrmation. Got my ipod touch at MacStudio Lowyat after some peeps in EpiCentre decided to bluff me that the Ipod Touch stock never arrived. They were selling since Monday when I checked with my friends. Anyway got mine yesterday but it was faulty, a portion of the touch screen was dead. Just got a new replacement. Both units are week 38. So check it out during purchase before leaving to ensure 100% enjoyment. Cheers. |
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Oct 7 2007, 10:55 PM
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QUOTE(calvin @ Oct 7 2007, 07:43 PM) went to macasia 1u and stocks were not in yet ... sigh ! Try Lowyat MacStudio if your location is in KL. They just got a restock last Friday. The last I saw both variants are still abundant. Also try Fotokem, I saw average of 4 units per store. The Gadget store also carrying the new iPod. I think the availability is still healthy. Not many people know of the new iPod. They know of iPhone but not Touch cause I tried to send my unit for lamination and the lady couldn't recognize the product. |
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Oct 8 2007, 08:23 AM
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QUOTE(stringfellow @ Oct 7 2007, 11:18 PM) It's a glitch in iPhones as well as the iPod touch. In Coverflow mode, it is even included in the list "flowabale" but when you tap it , it only plays audio. Future updates should fix this. That is exactly what happened to my first unit. The lower right portion of the touch screen is dead. Try sliding to unlock by touching a larger area of that button. If you are able to access the keyboard, the I, K and M keys are insensitive too which confirms the problem. Currently no software restore is possible to fix the problem and replacements are the only option.Seems like you are getting the faulty iPod Touch just like the case that came up during the first iPod Touch launch in the USA a few weeks back. This is due to the sensitivity and misalignment of the calibration of the Touch , that you cannot reach the end of the "slide" to unlock your Touch. Go make an exchange immediately. It does come preloaded with images, mostly the white silhouettes with colored backgrounds. I've uploaded my own custom hires wallpapers into my Touch and iPhone. Bring back to the store that you bought from and do a one-to-one exchange. On an unrelated case, my second unit do have some glitches every now and then. Sometimes it is not able to do a sync. It'll always come back with a 'time-out' error. There's a workaround for this, go to the Device Manager (PC) or equivalent (for Mac) and lookup for Apple Mobile Device Driver. Then uninstall it and let it re-detect the Ipod Touch. It'll work as normal after that. Hope this helps. |
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Oct 8 2007, 02:55 PM
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QUOTE(Rysuke @ Oct 8 2007, 02:24 PM) I am one here! As I am studying in Australia, I have no problem streaming youtube videos to my ipod touch and it streams smoothly during the night but not in the afternoon where a lot of people would be using the internet.. It all depends on the signal strength and how close you are to the wireless router/access point. The further you are from the access point (theoretically speaking) the lower the available bandwith and effective speed. For those who have spotty wireless coverage on their respective homes, try purchasing an indoor high-gain antenna (50Ohm type from your respective router model manufacturer). Anything with 7dBi should be fine. Connect it directly on your router/access point's SMA connector and not through a coaxial cable to minimize loss. It works for me although a lot of people think that they're just an accessory. I think YouTube streaming performance on the Ipod Touch is a little slow. I can stream non-stop on my Vista PCs anytime anyday with minimum interruptions but that is not the case when Ipod Touch is concerned. Its very slow. Maybe the transmit and receive strength on the device itself is not as good as my other PCs. I did suspect if my firewall settings could be messing with it but a lot of forums ignored that as a potential problem. I'll try setting my Ipod Touch on DMZ from the router. See if there's any difference. |
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Oct 9 2007, 07:30 PM
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QUOTE(outside_alone @ Oct 9 2007, 05:44 PM) Thank you for the swift reply. I thought this discussion is useful for fellow touch owners so please keep it up (rather than "Yeay, i type this from my touch!" post). Hey,1. If i'm not wrong, all the photos are optimized automatically for your touch from the iTunes when you sync them up. So the photo's resolution should not be a problem. My photos are of same resolution as i snapped it with the exact camera with the exact settings. Not all of the uploaded photos on my touch show such glitch, only a few. I don't know what is wrong. 2. Yeah i always thought using the Quicktime is the best tool for videos on iPod but i haven't got the crack for the Pro edition yet... oooops  And wot?! You own both iPhone and iPod touch?! oh my gawd!3. Well, it isn't really any album art fetcher application but i google all my album arts, and paste it manually (Right click on the song > Get Info > Album Art). I think i found a temporary solution to it. Earlier i did not include an album art for all the songs in the album. What i do now is, i paste the album art in all the songs in the album & resync it and the album art now shows in the touch's cover flow view. Some of you might have noticed that in iTunes it is not necessary to paste the album art on all the songs belong to the same album. All you gotta do is to have one of the songs pasted with the album art, and the rest of the songs from that same album would acquired the album art, automatically  ** i hope i explained this well otherwise i'll give an example later **But what weird is before this, if i switch it to album view (tap on the album icon on the bottom dock), the album art (the tiny one on the left) does show. When i tilt it to the cover flow view, it went missing! 4. I turned it off as in i REALLY did turn it off (power down). I did both actually, put it to sleep and wake it again. Power down and power up again. It didn't work. Anyway i had an iPod Nano first generation which has got some scratches on it's chrome back. I was googling around to see if i could get it removed. Here is what i found, funny: Removing scratches with banana Other options including using Brasso (did i spell it correctly?), a metal chrome cleaner. I don't know if this works. Have not tried this personally but probably would wanna give it a shot. If it does work then cool. If it doesn't...all i gotta lose is a banana  I have not brought my touch to anywhere outta my house yet as i do not want it to suffer the same fate as my nano. Any pouch available yet for the touch?Found something fun too: Mac OS X icon on iPod touch And a 'glitch' on the iPod touch. I'm using the Golla case which costs me RM49. Its a very usable canvas case with dedicated compartment enough for iPod touch, one small compartment for earphones and a back zipper compartment for sync cable and other stuff. All in a small package. For the iPod touch itself I'm ordering the best screen ever for total protection. |
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Oct 10 2007, 09:22 AM
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QUOTE(outside_alone @ Oct 10 2007, 12:42 AM) RM49 for a Golla case it's pretty cheap! Mind to post some pix? I would also skin the chrome back just for extra safety Sure, here are the pictures. I bought one with a beige color and they look dirty (though they are new) so try choosing something with a darker color scheme. The Golla is available at All IT 3rd Floor of Lowyat. I saw one Golla open-concept stall in Pavilion too so you might want to try that for wider range of product. Hey will post pix as soon as i got my digital cam back...!! But yeah, post some pix of your touch and you Let's have a photo blog here...weeee!    Golla cases do look girly but for the sake of iPod Touch, hehehehe... you know... Anyway here is the URL link to Golla products: http://www.golla.com/index_flash.htm |
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Oct 10 2007, 01:48 PM
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QUOTE(lordsapt @ Oct 10 2007, 11:51 AM) wahhhh the golla case looks handy, where can i buy it from? Hey, I've already mentioned it in my last post. Its in All IT Lowyat 3rd floor and also Pavilion.  |
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Oct 11 2007, 08:27 AM
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QUOTE(dizz_my @ Oct 10 2007, 01:36 PM) ahaha.. yeah - done that. already load it till max. Yeah, the MAC OSX lite version on both the iPhone and iPod Touch are theoretically capable of adding 3rd party applications. But Steve Jobs locked the file system with the latest firmware update 1.1.1. All hope is not lost as some mac-related articles have spotted a provision of signed applications in the latest firmware too. So its a matter of time when this feature will finally be available. No promises though. but im looking for a software. sum other software.. like widget, notepad.. etc lorr.. At the mean time, the only operable applications are run through Safari in the form of AJAX web applications. But I read some hacker was able to take over control of the file system by manipulating the browser TIFF exploit. This is only a short term solution since Apple can patch this in the next update. Another more longer term solution is to simply hack the file system which is already in the works. Please refer to the following link: http://www.dailytech.com/Hackers+Break+iPhone+iPod+touch+Out+Of+Jail/article9230.htm QUOTE(Charlton @ Oct 10 2007, 09:51 PM) 8GB user here. So far so good. One feature tat I hope apple wud include in the coming firmware is to have touch to be detected as harddrive. I read somewhere that once the file system is hacked and taken control, you'll be able to enjoy this feature in the form of another ipod management software. This will eliminate the need to use iTunes every time you want to sync or add files from different computers.Hope this helps. |
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Oct 11 2007, 10:56 AM
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QUOTE(gregorian @ Oct 11 2007, 09:23 AM) need advise from expert here Hi,i can access the safari and itunes top ten but not youtube. when i tap the youtube icon, it prompts me something like i need to connect to iTunes to activate youtube. is it router setting problem or i have to activate the youtube via iTunes? appreciate your help.... thanks I did not encounter that situation before nor did I realize that I had to activate via iTunes to use YouTube. That shouldn't be the reason. YouTube just works after activating your iPod Touch with iTunes. It just works out of the box. Maybe you can try a reset? Or last resort, do a complete restore. Let me know of your situation ya. |
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Oct 12 2007, 05:39 PM
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QUOTE(Mike3300 @ Oct 12 2007, 04:09 PM) Get album cover at: http://slothradio.com/covers for album art, then assign to your songs by right click > info. Register is only thru iTunes. Btw, album arts assign by iTunes can't be viewed on other players. Manually assign does have the album cover view on any other players. Alternatively you can search it via Google (Images). Just type the album name and voila! You'll get a lot of hits from that. This is good if your album collection are mostly chinese ones. |
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Oct 20 2007, 06:40 PM
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Hey guys!
My BestSkinEver total body skin for my iPod Touch arrived yesterday! For those of you cracking heads thinking of what protection solutions to use while still maintain the overall slimness and originality of the iPod Touch, this is it. Check these pictures yourself. I've applied them as soon as I got hold of them. And after more than 24 hours, this is what it looks like:     The skin costs USD$5.99 excluding shipment which should comes out to less than RM30 and it'll take 7-10 days for the mail to arrive as this is normal postage. In my opinion this is many times better than those cut-to-fit films sold on mobile stores around town. These are pre-cut ones and the material is more versatile. Because they are pre-cut, the round edges are protected as well. It doesn't interfere with the original screen and you don't loose touch sensitivity as well. In fact, the grip is stronger now and you could do pinching easily. The best thing is, no more worries of finger prints! Cause it doesn't catch them as easy now. Its supposed to be scratch free too so it'll last for the life time of your iPod Touch. Application is easy enough, just follow the instructions and better, there are YouTube video guides floating around. It'll take some training the first 30 minutes before you catch up. Of course, this is for those adventurous enough to try as it involves wetting your iPod Touch a little during application. So for those of you interested, there's a thread in the Bulk Section bringing these BSE to Malaysian folks but its temporarily closed (Not sure of current status). Best Skin Ever USD$5.99 introductory price (skin only) http://www.bestskinsever.com/ Invisible Shield USD$24.95 An alternative product but more expensive with lifetime warranty (comes with full application tools) http://www.shieldzone.com/ |
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Oct 20 2007, 09:18 PM
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QUOTE(prazole @ Oct 20 2007, 08:57 PM) bro u should have bulk in.. i would definitely get one! Haha, sorry I couldn't. Because the bulk owner has negotiated an exclusive deal or something to bring in BSE at a more affordable price. I think better go through him or you can actually order them yourself. They do shipping worldwide but not utilizing courier services though so there could be missing mails.If you order more than 3, they ship for free so you can get a few friends from over here to order together. |
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Oct 20 2007, 09:53 PM
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QUOTE(Gilthoniel @ Oct 20 2007, 09:28 PM) jailbroken my 1 hour old iTouch! Go to www.iptouch.co.nr and register yourself as a member to view their posts. There are a lot discussion regarding 3rd party applications. The iPhone apps require manual installations, just follow their instructions. Other apps can be installed straight from the Installer App.My only question is where do I find the original iPhone apps... I've been cracking my head over this one for hours! Hope someone can help me out... string? Cheers! |
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Oct 21 2007, 05:44 PM
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QUOTE(Mike3300 @ Oct 21 2007, 12:47 AM) I hope that there will be a jailbreak kit soon that does not use any WiFi on the touch. Seriously speaking, I anticipate one in the future. Right now the jailbreaking method takes advantage of the Safari browser TIFF exploit. By causing a buffer-overrun, we gain access to the file system (by opening up a hole). This method requires the WiFi connection because we need to access a site pre-programed to do this to Safari. Apple will very soon patch this 'security exploit' on its next firmware/software update and we'll be forced to do a restore on our iPod Touch and kick it back to jail again. Thats if Apple is kind enough to give us that choice and not the one that happened with iPhone.As I stated in a earlier post, this jailbreaking method will give the 'tweakers' a first hand opportunity to survey the entire structure of the iPod Touch/iPhone operating system and find a better solution to make this jailbreaking a more permanent one. I suspect this future solution will forgo the WiFi requirement. Cheers. |
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Oct 21 2007, 05:56 PM
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Anyway a quick heads up, I was at the EpiCentre, Pavilion this afternoon and I spotted iPod Touch screen protector for sale already! These are full surface screen protector and not the 3.5" sized ones.
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Oct 21 2007, 06:00 PM
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QUOTE(Shanks @ Oct 21 2007, 05:56 PM) OK, you guys will probably kill me because the answer may already be in here somewhere but... I think there's a newer version touchFree. Try this one http://www.slovix.com/touchfree/I finally decided to try and jailbreak my Touch. Worked well enough with Touchfree 4, but having read somewhere that there was meant to be another programme which also installed the iPhone apps for you, I then tried Touchfree 6. Then, my Touch claimed to have only 300MB capacity for some strange reason! OK, managed to restore, after a serious scare, so what's the easiest way of going about this. I can go down either the Mac or PC route. And if there is a method that will automatically place those iPhone apps on the Touch for me too, that'd be great. Any suggestions? The version number is 0.6 I had that strange problem before and you only need to do a restore to recover. Then try again. Make sure you have .Net 3.0 installed, iTuneshelper, iPod Server killed and the Apple Mobile Device deactivated from within services.msc (Windows method). |
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Oct 21 2007, 10:06 PM
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QUOTE(Mike3300 @ Oct 21 2007, 05:58 PM) Yeah, hopefully there's a kit with less hassle. Just install the software, plug iPod and wait for the process to end. Yes, I did. I used Basher's fix at first but I felt the summerboard installations (even after manual install) were a little spotty on the UI performance. It jerked a little when you switched from menu to menu. Then I get intermittent crash on both summerboard and some applications even with the proper procedures followed.Current jailbreak processes still suck. davidmak, you jailbreak yours already? So I tried touchFree 0.6 which did the trick. Now like everyone else I have standard iPhone applications, eBooks, PDF viewer, ApolloIM, etc. You should seriously try it. I know if you're new to it, it'll kinda put you back a bit. But hey, most of the of screw ups can be easily restored. There are currently no way to brick it. Well statistically speaking. QUOTE(Shanks @ Oct 21 2007, 06:05 PM) Thanks, davidmak. Used touchfree 0.6 which was what started the whole scary experience and from which the iPod touch was almost unable to recover. Too scary. I did have everything necessary installled, and the other processes shut down. Not sure what went wrong, but am a bit weary of trying again. I kinda had encountered that problem too. It happen when touchFree or Basher's fix were not responding because it reported to be waiting for my device even though its already been connected. When you quit it, you'll get a 300MB free space which you cannot recover unless you restore.Added on October 21, 2007, 6:06 pmThe mac method with iJailbreak looks a little more straightforward. Trying it now. Added on October 21, 2007, 6:33 pmMuch better. Nice and easy with iJailbreak on the Mac. If I'm not mistaken, there's an app somewhere in installer which can be used to enable Touch users to add/edit calendar events. Anyone remember the name, and the section of installer that it can be located in? That problem is due to the Apple Mobile Device driver installed in the device manager (for Windows). I don't know if thats a bug or something. But I had to disconnect my iPod Touch, uninstall the driver, and then reconnect the iPod Touch to let Windows re-detect and re-install the driver. Then run the program with the necessary iPod services disabled. That should do the trick. If you're running on Vista, try XP. Also kill your anti-spyware and anti-virus applications and disable your firewall if any. Hope this helps. |
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Oct 22 2007, 08:11 AM
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QUOTE(AtMostFear @ Oct 21 2007, 11:40 PM) really? damn I just ordered one from bestskinsever.com yesterday and it'll only arrive in about 10 days. No, you did the right thing. The screen protector as the name implies, only protects the screen which is the least of our worries. What you need to protect is actually the back as it is prone to scratches. Once the BSE is applied, let it cure for about 24-48 hours. Then you enjoy the protection for many years to come.  QUOTE(dragna @ Oct 22 2007, 03:37 AM) How much does it cost? If I'm not mistaken, its about RM29 or RM39. Sorry I couldn't get this accurate as I couldn't remember exactly.QUOTE(calvin @ Oct 22 2007, 07:53 AM) i think i need the back protector more than a screen protector for the touch.. Yes, you're right. The back is more important for the shine hehehehe! |
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Oct 22 2007, 12:25 PM
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QUOTE(lordsapt @ Oct 22 2007, 09:37 AM) haiz now oni screen protector comes out, the back of my ipod touch is already fill with scratches The BestSkinEver, Invisible Shield, etc all have their products ready for iPod Touch within weeks into the launch. It was available since September. You can order them via the internet and wait postage from US which will take 7-10 days. Total price is around RM30 but DIY application. btw what are the skins for?i used touchfree to jailbreak mine, it only take 7minutes to jailbreak and for the applications it only took around 4minutes. nice and easy morgan: yo boss!!! got any idea where i can download more apps mar In fact, a screen protector was for sale on the same day iPod Touch was launched in Malaysian stores but they only protect the standard 3.5" screen and not the entire surface. I think BSE or equivalent serves its purpose better. This a total body protection (almost). Go back a few pages and you'll see my thread regarding my BSE application on my iPod Touch. |
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