Here's how I reinstall my iPod Touch from scratch

After I restore the iPod Touch, I did the following:

• NEVER recover from the Backup. It does not save your jail-broken apps anyway. Shitty waste of our time.
• Install Installous based on this link.
• Setup Sync rest of the other items
• Install apps

However, there's something (maybe some songs or some setting that seems to upset the iPod Touch, and thus not only the sync takes forever, but songs and podcast did NOT show up on iPod Touch. I had to un-sync Podcast and Music, twisting by enable and disabling playlist to get it working. Very very strange indeed.


By trial and error, I found out that for some reason the jazz music by Julian Lage and ambient muisc "Kulturkantine"really update the iPod Touch when automatically syncing them from a playlist to my iPod. By the way, I am now switch back to trying automatically sync as much content as possible, and see how everything goes.

Keeping on getting the "Updating Library..." screen such a strange new thing to me.

Somehow it seems like the problem is on a playlist called "For iPod Touch" that seems to be causing trouble. Honestly I am still doing trial and error right now.

Found out that there maybe times that the Library takes seemingly FOREVER to update, and I learned that eventually it will come out of darkness and start showing again. So as long as I see "Updating Library ..." instead of a blank screen, it should be fine.

And it's obviously that my 2nd gen iPod won't be able to handle multitasking well since I tried messing with the Touch while copying ipa to the iPod Touch. things get very very slow. So basically Apple really does try it's best to keep the user experience well.