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It seems to connect fine to most other networks, but it's not auto-connecting to my linksys network at home. Help!

My AppleTV has suddenly stopped syncing with itunes, reporing a "non-responding" error and suggesting I check my firewall settings. It has worked perfectly for over a year, I have changed nothing just before this problem and don't run the firewall software. This is completely out of the blue. Powering down and restarting the ATV sometimes will allow a sync to occur which will start off as normal but will always hang at the last item being synced. If I cancel out of this and recommence syncing I get the original error. Have seen similar problems reported on forums but with no definite solution. Repairing permissions doesn't work. Evidently deleting the ATV from iTunes and reconnecting is fruitless too. I'm running iTunes 8 and the second last ATV update - don't want to do a full ATV reset in case I can't update - it currently won't connect to allow me to uodate now.

Any Help much appreciated. Very frustrating as it was working perfectly until a week ago.

Richard

Everything works great with my iPod touch, however, I cannot send emails unless I'm connected to my LAN at home. I can RECEIVE email while on any wifi network, just not send. I called Customer Support and they confirmed that I should be able to send any email as long as I'm connected to ANY wifi network.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions that might help? I do not have an email account with Yahoo, Gmail, etc. I have a POP account with a POP incoming mail server, and an smtp outgoing mail server. Maybe this can help?

If anyone needs more information that would help them answer, please ask and I will respond very quickly.

Thank You!

As many folks have noted, Outlook 2007 (and 2003, apparently) does not sync properly with the iPhone. Fewer than half of my appointments end up on the iPhone. No obvious rhyme or reason to what's missing. Apple has a FAQ for this (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.ht...), but this did not help me. Without calendar sync, the iPhone cannot replace my Motorola Q. So sad.

Apple Mail.app (default mail application on leopard) does not have an option to keep messages as unread when viewed in the preview pane. this is unacceptable and available in every other email application found almost anywhere.

Since upgrading to OS 3.0 for the iPhone/iPod Touch, I have noticed some horrendous memory management issues. Obviously, being the end user, I am not fully aware of the technicalities, but I do notice something is quite different. My apps and games HAVE enough memory to run at first, but something is lost as I am playing or doing something in an app.

Sure enough, when I launch iStat to see what changed, the memory was used up by the App I was just running before and I cannot get it back unless I reboot my device or free the memory with the aforementioned app. Now, I fully realize that apps and other functions are supposed to take up resources or memory, but this is ridiculous. The amount of memory used up seems to be greater is used up more quickly during usage of any app, and it does not come back at all.

Not only that, but I cannot end a process completely anymore by holding down the home button.

In contrast, when I used to run OS 2.*, I would start with roughly 48MB of available memory from a clean bootup. After running a game app and exiting to springboard, I would have roughly the same amount of memory STILL available. After launching and exiting native apps like Mail, Safari, and music player (the only "semi background apps" if you will), the amount of memory left was smaller, but not an irritating 3MB like in OS 3.0, compared to ~18-25MB on OS 2.*.

The games I run have unplayable lag and behaviors that ruin the entire experience.This doesn't help me in particular, since I beta test various games for different developers. I cannot be hindered or confused in my testing/reporting with a problem that is clearly the OS' fault rather than the App or its developer.

Please take a look at memory management issues on the older but still very relevant and widely-used devices like the iPod Touch 2G and the iPhone 3G. Not everyone is going to flock to the 3GS and its beefed-up tech specs, which I'm sure might make up or mask the issues I'm reporting.

My tech specs:

-iPod Touch 2G - 8GB
-Running the brand-new 3.0 firmware
-Not jailbroken
-Plenty of storage left (5.5GB now, since I tried and failed to restore from 2.* backup and lost my music and videos)

After updating my iPod touch (2nd gen.) to OS 3.0 I no longer get spoken feedback when using Nike+ iPod. Another problem I have with Nike+ iPod is calibrating faster workouts such as tempo run, fartleks, and intervals. If I calibrate to these runs the pace for my easy runs will be faster than what I actually am running. Doesn't Nike/Apple realize we don't run at the same pace on every run? There should be an option to calibrate faster running the same way we calibrate walking.