Ipod Touch 1G - bricked or not? Help

[The Amazing Atheist]

Sorry th3AmazingAth3ist, I have to disagree. Simply connect your ipod to your computer then click
restore. Not only that you get the original file, it will download at the fastest speed possible on apple servers.

maybe they didn't want the newest version? But thanks for your input

ok, I deleted the file and Itunes downloaded the same file 1.5. I also tried 3.12 and 3.1.3, all have same problem Error 1601. Tried different USB port and different computer. Same error. Anyway to fix the unit's internal memory

Did u do as shiftmaster said and tried updated it from the apple server?

if not then you mite want to contact apple...is it still under warrenty?

[cma371]

When Itunes says you have to restore, it recognizes it as an Ipod, but cannot report the serial number, version or any other info, it say N/A. This file must be corrupt. Anyone know how to access the files on the unit its self?

[ShiftMaster2000]

Don't worry its supposed to say N/A. Anyway,just got a brain wave, as a iPod 1g user I know that apple recently dropped support of the 1st gen on ios 4. Just thought that what if itunes 10 might have also dropped support of iPod 1g. In other words i think itunes 10 might be incompatible with your idevice. So I think you should try downgrading iTunes 0 to 9.2.1. Just confirm if you want to proceed so I can show you how.

[ShiftMaster2000]

On second thought, just searched "how to downgrade itunes" in youtube.