Finally, time to upgrade my iPod Touch

Years ago, I had some bad experience running iOS 4 on my iPod Touch 2nd generation.  So I rolled back to iOS 3.1.x and also had it jail broken.  Since then iPad was released, and all my iOS needs was satisfied by that.  So I pretty much ignored my iPod Touch since then.

Recently, I dug up the device again, and found it still pretty usable.  The problem, though, was that there were a lot of stuff that I couldn't do on it, including:

• Not able to update software
• Not able to run a lot of apps (since most of them no longer support iOS 3.x

So I decided to give iOS 4.x one more try.  I updated the OS with iOS 4.2.1, which is the latest I can get, and probably the LAST OS that Apple will support 2nd gen iPod Touch on.  

So far the installation was pretty smooth, I even tried to backup, but later decided that I don't even want to restore since I don't want to accidentally restore some junk into the device.

I downloaded the firmware "iPad1,1_4.2.1_8C148_Restore.ipsw" and tried to do "Update" with iTune, but it kept giving me error message.  So I chose to do a resotre and everything seemed to work out EXCEPT at the very end, when it took forever to connect to iTune Store.  After a few trial, I finally got it working.

The user experience on the iPod Touch seemed pretty OK.  A lot of apps that didn't work on iOS 3.1.x works now.  All my saved game on PacMan Champion edition and Space Invader Infinite are all gone, but I don't even dare to restore anymore.  As long as Instacast, GoodReader, AudioGalaxy and Air Video work OK, I am good.  This is, after all, just one gizmo that I want to play with, and use it to get an experience of what it would be like to use iPhone.  And that's it.  Nothing more.