iPod Touch slowing down
Today I noticed a feature of the iPod touch that I had not known before. It behaves like windows! I have had my iPod for a little over a year now and it seems to slow down and have more problems the longer I have had it… similar to windows. It all came close to a grinding hault last night, as it took 30 to 40 sections to get between the screens in the mail program. It seems that the mail program always ran a little slow, with delays switching between screens. With last night being unbearable I decided to do what I do to my windows XP machine when it gets slow, delete everything and restore it to its original software.
With iTunes this is made easy. After connecting my iPod and opening iTunes to my iPod menu, I told it to restore my iPod. It prompted me to back it up, which I did, and later asked if I wanted to restore it to a back up or just its factory default. I selected to restore to a back up. I left the computer and came back a couple hours later to see that the update and backup was done, and it was running lightning fast…. or just a lot faster. There was a noticable difference in speed of the mail application even from when I first purchased the iPod and it has continued to do well. Although my iPod was up to date, I think doing a clean restore to back up really helped resolve any issues that it had.
It’s awefully slow. Otherwise awesom device. Would pay to make it faster.