Nothing new here the usual Ipod Touch is recognized as a camera and wont work on my 32bit Vista laptop. After uninstalling reinstalling, messing around with drivers, nothing im tired. The Ipod touch does work on my Xp desktop but its old and Id rather have my laptop and IpT playing nice together. I know that apple was lazy and basically used the same **** firmware as a the iphone. So heres to hoping Apple figures something out.
I've tried both ways (yorkwill and beebopp) but none works, it tells me I've installed something better that what I'm trying to install. I'm going crazy, I really need help with this, does someone know a reason why it doesn't work in my computer? I'm almost crazy! HELP!
Thankyou so much, had uploaded photos to my ipod touch 8 gig and when I plugged in ipod to computer itunes would see it but would be identified as a camera then computer shutdown. Trashed photos on ipod as suggested, bingo we are working again. Thankyou
Tried to do that, but once ipod plugged in it was recognised as a camera and immediately computer shutdown, found just deleting the photos from the ipod touch resolved the problem. RE-Installed the photos on ipod to confirm problem, it was so uninstalled photos and no problem since. Thanks for the info in any case. Cheers
Your a savior, I have tried all suggestions pulling my hair out for 2 days now, until your suggestion though slight variation you got me onto the right track thanks. Found my Ipod Touch as a portable device in device manager and forced it to update as you described and hey presto it is now recognized in itunes and is a removable disk rather than a camera now. Awesome thanks!
Was just having this problem (although iTunes recognized my iPod, I could transfer/charge, and the iPod didn't show up in "Imaging Devices" in my device manager.)
The AutoPlay box was just annoying. Deleted the two screencaps I forgot I had and problem solved!
Well, I have the same problem as everyone else here and tried everything mentioned in this thread but it did not help. Itunes does recognise my Itouch, and it syncs but the audio of my songs is totally screwed up. I would guess that these problems are related. Also, when I try to sync all of my songs at once, I get "the device timed out" errors.
To clear some things up my iPod Touch DOES connect with iTunes and maybe what I'm asking is not allowed by Apple to begin with. But when I go to look for my iPod Touch in my computer it comes up as a digital camera. I want to be able to store information on it like a flash drive. Is that even possible?
Ok so my PC has no problems recognizing the Itouch... but my itouch itself thinks it's a camera. Everytime I click the button at the top (which is just supposed to shut the screen off) my itouch flashes and clicks like its a camera...which is intriguing as I have the itouch that has NO CAMERA CAPABILITY. I have the most updated version of itunes...and come to think of it that's when it started having this identity crisis. I've restored it from backups, and just reset it and started from scratch. Nothing. GAH!
I have been searching for quite a while to get my iPod touch to work, and was having the same issue as everyone else. I tried your suggestion and it worked like a charm.
I tried all of these methods, re-installing itunes, turning on and off etc and it didnt work but I found a way that did!
Before I start I must say I use Windows 7.
- Firstly, open Device Manager (Start> Type "devmgmt.msc" into the search bar)
- Once open, go down to portable devices where your iPod should be listed as a digital camera
- Right click on it and choose uninstall
- Once uninstalled, disconnect iPod from the USB port and plug it back in
- Windows should automatically install device drivers
- It will install it back as a digital camera but this is okay
- Go back to device manager and under portable devices right click on your iPod again
- Click on update device drivers but instead of finding it manually on your computer as these other guides have been doing, search automatically using the internet
- If should find the correct device driver and install it back as an iPod, with the portable devices folder disappearing and in its place should be a whole load of USB controllers
