Error 8288 when upgrading my first gen Ipod Touch to IOS 3.1.

Keep going, I'm rubbish with tech but I got there in the end if I'm honest I'm not even sure how! U can download 10.3 I couldn't tell you how to do it of the top of my head but if you search the forums u will find it! Sorry that's not much help! I think that I typed in google how to download 10.3 for my iPod first generation and I'm sure it took me to a forum telling me how to do it. Good luck!

This upgrade will not work on iTunes newest version 10.5 Yuu need to get something lower. Read my complete reply in IPOD TOUCH UPGRADE discussion for full answer or find it under my profuile. It will erase your media as it restores your ipod to 3.1 but all the apps work now and we are HAPPY 🙂

The library does vanish in the process but that is a 1 min fix. All you have to do is to rename it with .itl See directions here. Very easy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMT0XFxJLrY Good luck!

I too had the same issue. This is how I resolved it http://www.parkhi.net/2011/12/error-8288-ipod-touch-upgrade-ios-31.html

I have the same problem... I don't know how to fix it or get my money back :-(

Iyesha, for getting your money back, just get in touch with Apple Support and they would do that promptly, if you haven't downloaded that as per their records. Regarding fixing the problem, solution is already posted above

It seems that downgrading is the best option to download 3.1.1. You can download the iTunes version 10.3 from the link below:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1103

I just wasted over 4 hours of my life attempting to get this update THAT I PAID FOR to work on my iPod Touch THAT I PAID FOR and I am still getting the 8288 error message. I have uninstalled and removed every trace of Apple and iTunes software on my machine over a dozen times and now my wife is upset that I am still awake trying to do this. SO... My biggest question how is Apple not satan for allowing hardworking, paying customers to purchase a defective update for $4.95 and offer no solutions to this problem that everybody seems to have encountered over the last SEVERAL MONTHS. I guess since we are all 1st generation iPod touch owners we should just bend over and buy another new product. All I wanted to do was play a little Angry Birds on New Years Day, which I also PAID FOR. Thanks for nothing Applemunchers.

@wilderambo: I too had the same issue. This is how I resolved ithttp://www.parkhi.net/2011/12/error-8288-ipod-touch-upgrade-ios-31.html

As I wait patiently for itunes 10.3.something to install I ponder on why Apple just don't say it is impossible or something like we'll take your money anyways when you try and install ios 3.1.1 when having itunes 10.5 installed.

Can it be that hard ?

Not sure the enterprise market would wait months for such an obvious flaw to be fixed or at least made well known to its users.

And as I watch the installer tell me there is 1 minute to finish for the last half an hour I will now surf to find problems with installing 10.3.1 on snow leopard, and perhaps consider just giving up and ask for a refund for the applications I have purchased that gave no warning about not working with ios something. Sure all this is great for latest ipod touch, but no support for 1g ipods. Why not declare them unsupported like say G5s with dud capacitors.

I have also had the same problem. It has occured on the same date, October 17, 2011. It will not let me complete the download. Please help me, I want use the apps but I can If can't update the software....