iphone/itouch not showing up since itunes 10 upgrade

Apple iPhone iTouch iTunes 10 - iphone/itouch not showing up since itunes 10 upgrade


My son's iPod Touch and my iPhone 3G are no longer showing up in iTunes since I downloaded iTunes 10. I have windows XP Home Edition. Is anyone else having problems? Is there a way to go back to the previous version of iTunes?

iPhone iTouch
I finally found this so am able to connect my phone in iTunes 10.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1538

iPhone, iPad, or iPod is not recognized by Windows due to driver installation issues

Symptoms

When drivers required by a PC's USB interface are not installed correctly or are out of date, an iPhone, iPad, or iPod connected to this computer may not be recognized properly.

One or more of the following may occur:

• Device does not appear in iTunes
• Device cannot be restored in iTunes
• An exclamation point appears next to the device's entry in Device Manager
• iPod screen does not display "Do Not Disconnect" screen when connected to the computer (does not apply to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch)
• iPod is not recognized as a disk in My Computer (does not apply to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch)

Products affected

• iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and iPod (all models)
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows 7.

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Itouch batteries

iPhone - Itouch batteries

I have both iPhone and the touch. Lately I noticed that the touch's battery
hardly lasts a day. Anyone deal with this?

iphone itouch
The batteries are limited to so many charge cycles before they can hold a full charge so if it is a 1st gen that you have used and charged a lot, the battery could be going. If you are on earlier (2.1 or previous) or beta firmware there could be bugs that are draining the battery. If you have it set to Fetch a frequently or many accounts it could be using power, if you have the brightness turned up and/or not auto, it could be using the battery, etc. There are some many possible configurations, we (assume all) would need more information to help. Personally my touch easily outlasts my phone because I have everything set to manual, brightness is slightly lower, and I don't use it nearly as much.

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Yeah, but my ipod didn't last that long either. Right now there's really nothing that can be done other than carrying the charger with you. That's the down side to this otherwise great product. Not being able to change the battery out with a spare scks.