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iOS 5 looks exactly like iOS4 - don't understand what the hoopla was all about

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ecowarrior

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Nope, although this is an ipod touch, not an iphone. It says 'automatically sync with itunes on your computer when your ipod touch is plugged in to power and connected to wifi'.

which means that it would only be useful to me if I had plug-ports for the ipod around the house, which I don't.
 
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adztaylor

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ecowarrior said:
Nope, although this is an ipod touch, not an iphone. It says 'automatically sync with itunes on your computer when your ipod touch is plugged in to power and connected to wifi'.

which means that it would only be useful to me if I had plug-ports for the ipod around the house, which I don't.
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Wireless sync works great for my iPad 1 wifi so I assumed it would work for the iPod Touch too. It isn't just an iPhone feature.
 
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MacManiac76

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ecowarrior said:
Nope, although this is an ipod touch, not an iphone. It says 'automatically sync with itunes on your computer when your ipod touch is plugged in to power and connected to wifi'.

which means that it would only be useful to me if I had plug-ports for the ipod around the house, which I don't.
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The key word in that phrase is "automatically". You can initiate a manual wi-fi sync at anytime by going into Settings->General->iTunes Wi-Fi Sync and pressing the Sync Now button. You do not need to be connected to power in this case.
 
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TC25

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ecowarrior said:
the big feature many of my friends were looking forward to was wifi-sync, yet you can't do that unless you're plugged in and your mac is on. rather pointless if you already plug your ipod into your mac to sync.
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iOS6 will allow synching with a Mac that's powered off. :rolleyes:
 
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globalist

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ecowarrior said:
Nope, although this is an ipod touch, not an iphone. It says 'automatically sync with itunes on your computer when your ipod touch is plugged in to power and connected to wifi'.
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That's for automatic wifi sync. You can however wifi-sync manually at any time, without being plugged in, as described earlier. Provided you're not low on battery.

Your homesharing issue is most likely related to your network/firewall configuration.

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tc25 said:
ios6 will allow synching with a mac that's powered off. :rolleyes:
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:d:d:d
 
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ecowarrior

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Maybe that's the root of my complaint then - seems odd though that this ipod insists on it being plugged in (it's a 4th gen model too).

Shame.

As for others shooting me and the OP down, what I'm saying is that for me at least none of this has met the hype that has been put on it.

Sure it's got new features, but apart from a very few, for ME they are either not useful or not obvious. Having had it for a day or two now, I'm still scratching my head over what it's going to do for ME. I'm sure other people feel differently.

As for it being free, well yeh, but Apple didn't do this all for our benefit, they want to tie us in to their ecosystem, and this won't do it for me hence they need to add more features over time.

Go on, prove me wrong, tell me what the killer feature is....

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MacManiac76 said:
The key word in that phrase is "automatically". You can initiate a manual wi-fi sync at anytime by going into Settings->General->iTunes Wi-Fi Sync and pressing the Sync Now button. You do not need to be connected to power in this case.
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Wrong again - the sync button is DISABLED because my ipod isn't plugged in to power.

Maybe this is just an ipod thing.
 
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ecowarrior

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TC25 said:
iOS6 will allow synching with a Mac that's powered off. :rolleyes:
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Ah but perhaps the true cloud concept would allow for that! The point being that if you subscribe to podcasts (for example) then the cloud itself could at least make them available to you on any device you have.

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globalist said:
Your homesharing issue is most likely related to your network/firewall configuration.
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Turned off all firewalls, nothing doing.

When I enable the home sharing it appears in itunes on the left, but when I click 'Done' it disappears again.

And the Apple Remote app on my ipod can't see any home share.
 
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Moccasin

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I have some sympathy for the OP. i initially had a sense of "is that it?". That said, iMessage will come into its own when I'm abroad and messaging friends who live outside the UK. Notifications are great.

I think the real benefits will start when 5.1 is released and it just updates itself overnight from a delta update rather than an hour of synching etc.

I'm thinking of starting using twitter again too so that's a win for them!
 
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ecowarrior said:
Wrong again - the sync button is DISABLED because my ipod isn't plugged in to power.

Maybe this is just an ipod thing.
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I'm not wrong on this. If everything is setup properly (i.e. enabling the option in iTunes device summary, iTunes being open and not ejecting the device from within iTunes) all will work properly as I stated.
 
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For some reason the wifi synching checkbox does not show up on my summary in iTunes
 
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ecowarrior

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MacManiac76 said:
I'm not wrong on this. If everything is setup properly (i.e. enabling the option in iTunes device summary, iTunes being open and not ejecting the device from within iTunes) all will work properly as I stated.
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Starting to think you're right. sync doesn't work, and home sharing doesn't work. Got to be related. Have reset ipod to factory settings, cleaned and reinstalled itunes, turned off firewalls. Still not working though.

I think I'll go shout at the cat for a bit....
 
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threezero

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ecowarrior said:
Maybe that's the root of my complaint then - seems odd though that this ipod insists on it being plugged in (it's a 4th gen model too).

Shame.

As for others shooting me and the OP down, what I'm saying is that for me at least none of this has met the hype that has been put on it.

Sure it's got new features, but apart from a very few, for ME they are either not useful or not obvious. Having had it for a day or two now, I'm still scratching my head over what it's going to do for ME. I'm sure other people feel differently.

As for it being free, well yeh, but Apple didn't do this all for our benefit, they want to tie us in to their ecosystem, and this won't do it for me hence they need to add more features over time.

Go on, prove me wrong, tell me what the killer feature is....

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Wrong again - the sync button is DISABLED because my ipod isn't plugged in to power.

Maybe this is just an ipod thing.
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notification center imo. you can argue that it should of been there in the first place but yea to me thats the biggest feature. not that useful for a ipod touch i guess...
 
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ecowarrior

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ha ha ha ha ha ha (etc)

fixed it! had 'wireless isolation' switched on in my router.

turned that off, remote now sees my home share.
 
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dave420

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bndoarn said:
Why do you have to buy unlimited messages now because of iMessage? You don't even need a texting plan at all to use it.
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What I think he is saying is carriers like AT&T got wind of iMessage, and now the only option for texting plans is unlimited. So even if iMessage significantly reduces the number of messages he sends, he is still stuck with the unlimited plan since that's the only option if he sends 100 texts a month to people not on iOS 5.
 
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