Missing Apple Mobile Device Service

Hello I have had the same problem with my Ipod touch!!!!! Trust me I feel for you it took me quite some time to figure it out.
You need to go into your control panel. Then click on Add/Remove Software. Then go to Apple Mobile Device Support. Then click repair. This worked for me. It only took like 6 hours.

Good Luck!

I am also having this problem. I have tried to reinstall the mobile device manager several times without success - I still get the "mobile device service not running" message. I have also reinstalled itunes a few times without luck. Any more suggestions?

Try turning off your FIREWALL. Then go into SERVICES, locate your APPLE MOBILE DEVICE ....then hit START. It worked for me.

Ok I don't mean to sound completely lost but where is services? I'm getting read to take it back.

Disconnect iPhone and close iTunes.

Go to Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools.

Under Administrative Tools, Go to Services and look for 2 services.

Apple Mobile Device
iPod service

Both services should be started If they are not, start both of them.

Start iTunes and wait for it to finish loading.

Reconnect iPhone. It should see your iPhone

That did the trick for me. Now I am just watching it go through the restore process and put everything back. It remembered all of my settings.

hi

I had the same problem. My ipod touch would not show in itunes. Apple Mobile Device would not start. After about a month of trying everything to get it to start (reinstalling itunes etc. about a dozen times,even call in the geeks to no avail. I reset my firewall to default (original settings) and the service started right up.

Thanks for the help on that one. The problem i'm having now is that when I try and reinstall the moble support device I keep getting to updating component information and then it rolls back the action, with errors encountered during installer befroe the device support could be configured.

I'm about to go and take this thing back..

ok, i went to administrative tools then went to apple mobile device, hit start, it started up then stopped saying that some services stop automatically if they have no work to do

Try changing your firewall setting to default settings.

Ok I found a solution that is simple and worked for me.

1) Download the latest version of iTunes. DON'T RUN IT SAVE IT.
2) if you have antivirus software, i.e. Symantec, disable it.
3) Disconnect your internet connection
4) Run iTunes setup

After following these steps I was able to reinstall iTunes and my iTouch connected instantly... (make sure you have it unlocked when you connect it to the computer. I've very happy now. Happy Turkey Day....

i reset my firewall to default, but nothing happened same problem. when i try and start it says "The Apple Mobile Device service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts services."

i was getting the same message that you are. The firewall was my problem.
Sorry i couldn't help.

I have more or less the same problem with queensam. After uninstalling and re-installing itunes a few times I completely unistalled the mobille device program so now I cannot repair it.Any ideas how I can get it back?Thanks

It is the third day since I bought my iPod Touch and only one word sums up how I feel about the whole experience: frustration. Complete frustration.

Right from the get go, I learned that iTunes + Vista + Nvidia means I'll get the Blue Screen of Death every single time I try to boot iTunes on my laptop (which is the computer I use more often and where my media is).

Despite the fact that this problem has been reported as early as early June, Apple has so far released no patches or fixes to this problem.

Since I was so willing to own the device, I decided to try to fix the problem myself. After an entire day's research, I found out that I could manually update my Nvidia drivers and the problem would cease.

And it did. I can now use iTunes for more than 2 seconds without having my computer crash on me. That still didn't mean the end of my woes, since interfacing the Touch with a Vista PC seems like it just wasn't made to happen. The videos transfered to the iPod perform horribly bad, quitting randomly and/or crashing your iPod altogether. They are talking about the problem here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5844283

I decided to give up on using the Touch on my laptop altogether. So, I transfered all my files to an old XP-based desktop that I don't even use anymore. It was a big hassle, but I liked the Touch, what could I do?

It worked ok... for the first few hours. I soon realized that some videos would play choppy, and the audio sometimes doesn't sync with the images. I figured this is because some of those videos were converted on the Vista PC. So here I go reconvert my entire video collection (some 10gb) to the god awful .mp4 format that Apple insists in using.

But whatever, at that point I was still willing to do some sacrifices to be able to own the device.

After converting all my videos again, I try to sync them to the iPod and... SURPRISE - i get the Apple Mobile Device service error message mentioned on his thread. After trying all the workarounds mentioned here, I finally realized the inevitable truth: the iPod Touch is a bug infested, overhyped piece of hardware that I should never have bought in the first place. The lack of support from Apple makes me so insanely mad over this whole ordeal that I'm not only returning the Touch tonight, but I'm actually selling my old iPod Video completely out of spite. I had never considered buying a Zune before, and it's almost comical that Apple is the one that pushed me to that decision.