Ipod touch is recognized as a camera

I had the same problem on XP and simply updated itunes to its newest version.

i have the same problem. my ipod touch wont even charge off my coputer and is not recognised by itunes! i plug it in and nothing happens. i open itunes and there is no ipod recognized at all! HELP!

I have the same problem too. What should I do?

i m having the same problem as well.

Since more and more people are having problems, it was already answered in one of his posts earlier.
I had this same problem too.


GO to www.apple.com
Then iPod + iTunes
Then UPDATE your current version of iTunes.
Plug your Touch back in
And it should be fixed.
IT worked for me.

Unfortunatly uninstalling/re-installing iTunes and all doesn't always seem to work. We had the same issue with the ipod touch being recognized as a digital camera under windows xp. We tried just about any recipe listed by apple or others with no success.
In the end what works is to just force the drivers on what windows thinks is a camera, i.e. to ‘update’ the device to use the correct driver. There are some hints on how to do this already listed on this forum, but I’ll try to give some more detailed information:

1. First off you need to have iTunes installed and the ipod touch plugged in
and recognized as ‘something’ e.g. digital camera (it shouldn’t really
matter what it’s recognized as, but it needs to be found by windows).

2. Search for usbaapl in the C:\WINDOWS system folder:
o open windows explorer (e.g. Right-click Start and then click ‘explore’)
o right-click the WINDOWS folder and select ‘Search’).
o type in usbaapl and hit Search – try to ignore the dog!
You should find the driver info in a sub folder of
C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRVSTORE e.g. C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRVSTORE\usbaapl_A65621D65F5B7507DD7B22331826547BDD2D206B
Remember that location (either leave the search box open or copy the folder
name into note pad – you’ll need it later)
If you don’t find usbaapl.sys, usbaapl.inf etc. then your drivers have not
been installed with the iTunes install and you’ll have to reinstall iTunes.

3. Locate the ipod-camera device:
o Open the device manager, e.g. using Start > Control Panel >
Performance and Maintenance > System > Hardware Tab > Device Manager
o Look for a device called ‘ipod’ - if your ipod shows up as
‘digital camera’ it will be under something like ‘imaging devices’.

4. Update the driver:
o Right click the ‘ipod-camera’ in device manager and click on
‘Update Driver’ – the Hardware Update Wizard will open.
o Check the ‘Install from a list or specific location’ then click ‘Next’
o Check ‘Search for the best driver in these locations’. Un-check
‘Search removable media’ and check ‘Include this location in the search’.
In the text box below type (or better copy and paste) the folder
containing the ipod driver information found in step 1 (in the example
above it was C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRVSTORE\usbaapl_A65621D65F5B7507DD7B22331826547BDD2D206B),
then click Next.
You should now see something like ‘Apple ipod device driver’ or so. Continue
installing that device. Once the driver has been installed the ipod will come
to life and iTunes (if you have it open) will show it.

Hope this helps. Please add comments to the instructions above if you find variations that work for you.

Thanks as my new Itouch now works. I have been having the same problem and your suggetions (with one change) fixed it. I found the updated drive file in C:\windows\system32\drivestore\FileRepository\usbappl.inf

This should be a sticky. I was about to return my touch. It worked on day one and since then i could not sync it. Thank you so much to the guy that posted the driver update and how to fine them etc. Thanks.

i did the driver thing and now my iPod will charge, but still it wont connect to iTunes

i have an ipod touch and a windows vista pc - everyhing works great with my ipod.
saying that i have had trouble with my printer and webcam drivers, it seams to me that vista has a problem!

had the same problem and after 2 hours on the phone with a guy from apple,he passed me over to a responsable tech person and been told it s not working with Windows Media Center (XP PRO) and according what he said it's not plan to do anything to change it.and I can just forget it... he just propose me to send the Itouch back...I m just lucky it does work on my old laptop but it stay quiet annoying!

There is an apple document that details a troubleshooting list:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306640

In particular:

o Is your iPod charged (it won't be recognized unless it is charged)

o Does it show up correctly under system devices (under USB devices!) and is it using the correct drivers (the one's you just installed) - if not, then you still have a driver issue (also, if you had an older version of iTunes installed and then upgraded to a newer version, you may still be using the old drivers from the first install)

o Is the 'Apple Mobile Device' service running? If that is not running, iTunes will not know that the iPod is there.

If you go through that list you should get a pretty good idea what is going wrong. That is not to say that there are issues with the iPod/iTunes that are beyond drive/device recognition.

All that assuming that you are not using the Windows Media Center edition, since that apparently does not support the iPod.

I tried the changes suggested above and immediately below, but unfortunately my PC still thinks my iPod Touch is a camera.

In device manager, it still appears under "imaging devices" and despite trying to update the drivers as suggested in this thread, I've had no success. I don't have a .ing folder in my drvstore folder, or the subfolder of the drvstore folder that is mentioned in one of the other threads. Am tempted to give the **** thing back to Apple as I've had it for 4 days still not got it to work.

ITunes does not even recognise that the device is attached and the Touch device itself is incapable of showing any screen other than one that suggests I should insert the USB connector (which is already connected...).

Any other ideas please?

Try uninstalling all the drivers and iTunes, and then try reinstalling everything from scratch. Or just get a mac...