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I have an ipod toto itunesuch. When I start the unit up it goes into the Hello, hola screen and then asks for wifi connection password. I put thst in and then the screen says, “your ipod touch cannot be activated because the activation server cannot be reached. Try connecting your ipod touch to activate it, or try again in a couple of minutes.”
Then it says, ” if this problem persists, contact Apple Support at apple.com/support.”
Make sure your iPod isn’t stuck in repeat–which is what it sounds like. The repeat icon looks like a circle or oval made up of two arrows that indicate the song is looping–basically stuck in an endless circle.
now if that’s not the case…
Not sure what model you have, try a hard reset by holding down the Sleep/Wake/Power button and the Volume Down button until you see the Apple logo appear on-screen, then release.
If your model doesn’t include those buttons, take a look at how to reset, hard reset, or force restart your iPod model–these are all terms for the same thing!
Just like when you install the iPhone SDK, or prior updates to iTunes, you often need to restart the computer before the iPhone will appear. This is not a new issue.
My ipod touch did not initially show up, and then froze in use a little later. Rebooting the ipod took much longer at the Apple logo than usual, to the point I was thinking I would have to let the ipod run out of power and try again after a recharge. It still failed to show up on either my MacBook or my iMac. As others have reported, a reboot of the Macs seems to have solved the problem.
I have an ipod toto itunesuch. When I start the unit up it goes into the Hello, hola screen and then asks for wifi connection password. I put thst in and then the screen says, “your ipod touch cannot be activated because the activation server cannot be reached. Try connecting your ipod touch to activate it, or try again in a couple of minutes.”
Then it says, ” if this problem persists, contact Apple Support at apple.com/support.”
I had a question. My IPod will not shuffle songs anymore; it plays the same song, unless I touch the forward arrow. Is there a simple fix?
Hi Bob,
Make sure your iPod isn’t stuck in repeat–which is what it sounds like. The repeat icon looks like a circle or oval made up of two arrows that indicate the song is looping–basically stuck in an endless circle.
now if that’s not the case…
Not sure what model you have, try a hard reset by holding down the Sleep/Wake/Power button and the Volume Down button until you see the Apple logo appear on-screen, then release.
If your model doesn’t include those buttons, take a look at how to reset, hard reset, or force restart your iPod model–these are all terms for the same thing!
Just like when you install the iPhone SDK, or prior updates to iTunes, you often need to restart the computer before the iPhone will appear. This is not a new issue.
My ipod touch did not initially show up, and then froze in use a little later. Rebooting the ipod took much longer at the Apple logo than usual, to the point I was thinking I would have to let the ipod run out of power and try again after a recharge. It still failed to show up on either my MacBook or my iMac. As others have reported, a reboot of the Macs seems to have solved the problem.
Powercycling the phone and the computer seemed to do the trick for me as well.
Mine fixed when I restarted the computer after iTunes 9.1 install