iPod Touch Wi-Fi Grayed Out or No Wi-Fi

Just came along few same questions in my email regarding iPod touch Wi-Fi Grayed out bar or No Wi-Fi (Wireless) at all. Well I do feel your pain, because it happened to mine not too long ago. After 5 minutes of research I found this to be helpful, at least in my situation was

1. Go To Settings
2. Click on Safari
3. Go bit down and click Clear Cache, Clear Cookies, Clear History
4. Hold the Top (sleep/awake) button until you get red bar to swipe it
5. Swipe the red bar to the left (iPod Touch should now turn off)
6. Then Hold the Top (Sleep/Awake) button until you see Apple logo
7. Wait until front screen displays
8. See if that fixed it.

In most cases, this will do the trick. Another suggestion for you I have is to, reset the iPod Touch you can do it many ways, one way is to do it from the Settings and another one is via iTunes.

Hope this helps, do let me know in commenting section below.

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iPod Touch Does Not Remember Wi-Fi Password

Quick iPod Touch on why iPod Touch might not remember your Wi-Fi Password. Basically when you connect first time to your router via iPod Touch, your iPod Touch should remember WiFi password, but sometimes it does not. And that sometimes is when you set it to WPA-2 WPA encryption. For some reason it has problem and mostly I have noticed that with later firmware's than 3.0.

 

To fix it, just go to

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rjoris/wpapsk.html

Type in your WPA password, site will give you HEX characters.

Type HEX password in your iPod Touch when asked for your network login, and it should remember the password this time.

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20% of Failed iPod Touch Wi-Fi Connection is Because of MAC Address

In one of my post’s I wrote that I will help with Wi-Fi and since 2008 I had over 2500 emails received. 20% of those emails were iPod Touch Wi-Fi failed Connection due to MAC Address. So just to be clear: MAC is not PC it’s Media Access Control which is basically unique (ID) identifier of your device.

PC’s have it, Smart Phone have it, iPod Touch has it too…etc…

WEP Key can be easily hacked for those that want to hack your Wi-Fi network, so router companies added nice feature called MAC Filtering.

When you Enable or turn on MAC Filtering and add only your MAC Address of iPod Touch or PC or Mac …your router basically will only allow THAT device to connect. So when hacker let’s say crack your WEP (Wireless Encryption Key) they still can’t connect because MAC Address of his PC is not allowed to connect.

Which brings me to the point of 20% of iPod Touch Wi-Fi connections failed due to MAC Filtering being enabled yet MAC Address of iPod Touch has not been added.

To obtain MAC address of your iPod Touch go to Settings > General > About (I think), sorry don’t have iPod Touch with me so I am just writing this from feeling where the MAC address is located on iPod Touch.

(I will update this with correct info)

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Quick iPod Touch WiFi Troubleshooting Tip

I found out that in most cases wifi is not working on iPod Touch due to DNS problems. To troubleshoot Wifi , go to Settings> Wifi> Go Into Network settings (Your Router) and click on static

Add DNS from OpenDNS.com
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

I receive at least 5 emails from people getting wifi to work and in most cases changing DNS setting works.

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Ipod Touch Wireless Troubleshooting Mistakes

So far I received over 450 emails to help people troubleshooting Ipod Touch Wifi. And most common mistake was the WEP key mismatch. Itouch users instead of placing 26 character (128bit) long key they put windows-mac user password, email passwords, and passphrase.

Another most common mistake was connecting to some WiFi Router that isn't theirs. On many occasions I asked "Is the router you are connecting to, yours or your neighbours?"

Always check broadcast SSID (in router configuration page) before connecting to wifi via Itouch.

I totally understand that some or most people do not know much about WEP keys and I don't blame them! I blame Apple for putting so little information on how to use Ipod Touch or connect via WiFi.

Again if you need any help with your Ipod Touch , don't hassitate to email me

ilovetoargue at gmail dot com (by the way i do not love to argue)

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Ipod Touch Wifi Troubleshooting via Email

Since January of this year I have received 294 emails regarding Wifi problems that multiple ipod touch users had. From 294 emails I managed to fix 233 ipod touch devices and 19 was faulty and needed to be returned.

Other 42 Ipod Touch either did not get any responses back after I sent them an email or just couldn't get it to work.

Most problems occurred:

• Wrong password Input (Admin password vs. Wep Key)
• 64Bit Encrytion vs 128Bit encryption
• Did not Release/Renew to obtain new IP
• Did not restart modem/router to acknowledge Ipod Touch

Some other problems:

• Email did not work
• Sync with iTunes
• Safari constantly crashing
• Jailbreak was not installed correctly
  

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Ipod Touch Wireless Problems

Image via WikipediaI wrote on two posts about Ipod Touch wireless problems and I must admit that people really have problems connecting. So here is my 3rd edition of Ipod Touch WiFi Troubleshooting.

First read this two posts:
Ipod touch wifi troubleshooting
Ipod Touch WiFi (Wireless Troubleshooting)

If you read these two posts and still have WiFi problems, go ahead send email to ilovetoargue AT gmail DOT com. I will try to respond to your emails within 24hours.

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Linksys Wireless and Ipod Touch

Here is quick tutorial how to get your wep/wpa key and troubleshoot your ipod touch wireless with linksys router.

First we got to figure out what is your ip address of the router by default it's 192.168.1.1.

If not, go to any of your working PC's go to Start>Run: Type in CMD, Command Prompt should come up , type in ipconfig and check out what your Default Gateway is (your router ip)

In browser type in router ip for example: http://192.168.1.1/

If asked for password by default: admin (no username)

Once you are logged in go to Wireless and then Wireless Security, you will find your WEP WPA keys or passphrase (write that down).

Here is how mine looks like:


Next go to your ipod touch settings click on Wireless, double tap on your wireless and first enter WEP/WPA key if that didn't work, try passphrase.


Don't forget to read:

Ipod Touch WiFi (Wireless Troubleshooting) Part 2

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Ipod Touch WiFi (Wireless Troubleshooting) Part 2

Since yesterday I received 29 emails JUST regarding Ipod Touch Wireless Issues. So I thought I’d give it another shot.

First if you haven't read this post please do Ipod touch wifi troubleshooting

As some of you know I used to work for a Technical Support, Wireless and Internet Connection Cable Company, therefore I know every single trick to get you online and that's what I’m here for.

Here are some other tricks to get you connected with your Ipod Touch:

The method with restarting modem/router and turning back on ipod touch didn't work?

How about this!

Turn OFF every single PC, turn off your cable/dsl modem, turn off your router and your Ipod Touch. Got it? Cool!

Now turn on your Modem first wait till it syncs (30-45sec), Turn on your router wait till it syncs with modem (30sec), then turn on your ipod touch!

There is one difference between turning OFF your Ipod Touch and Sleep Mode.
Sleep Mode is when you click on the button on top and Ipod Touch is off, well I wasn't talking about that.
To TURN OFF your Ipod Touch you have to HOLD that button for about 5-7sec and then move the red bar to the right. To turn it back on repeat the step above by holding button for 5-7sec!


Hope this helps if not please email me at ilovetoargue AT gmail DOT com and I will try to help you personally!

P.S. I will be moving this week to my new home and I will not be able to respond to you right away so don't feel like I don't care about you all!

I will create a video on how to connect to your wireless connection so you have a visual of what you can do your self and why stuff does not work.

So please subscribe to my RSS feeds or Email Notification on Top Right Menu.

Thank you.

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Ipod touch wifi troubleshooting

Most popular post on this blog is about ipod touch wifi (here) and I would like to give you couple of tips and tricks how to troubleshoot your ipod touch wireless connection.

First what you want to do is connect to your wireless connection .

Click On Settings>WiFi>Turn WiFi ON. Make sure you are connecting to YOUR wireless connection , check what is the name of your ssid(wireless name) on your router.

Before you connect to your wireless connection check if your connection is secured or not. To do that follow, the steps above once you found your wireless.
If there is a LOCK image that means your connection is secured, from this point you want to get that WEP or WAP key from your wireless router.

Connecting to your wireless network with Ipod Touch

If asked for password enter your WEP or WAP key and click on Join button, wait few moments and then see if you are connected. Test with your safari browser.

Can't connect to wireless network?

Few things you can check:

Did you get an IP address from your wireless router?
Unplug the power from your router shut down your ipod touch. Plug back in your router first, then wait for 1 minute and then turn on your Ipod Touch.

You are not getting an IP at all?
Are you sure you are connected to your wireless router?
Does your router have MAC address filtering On?
Did you enter correct Password (WEP-WAP key)?

Few more things to check...
Does your homepage work?
Did you try yahoo.com google.com ebay.com etc?
How about your YouTube do you get any videos?

Visit Ipod Touch Forum For Troubleshooting WiFi - Post Question and get answer by others and me as well.

If all above troubleshooting steps did not work for you PLEASE email me at:
ilovetoargue at gmail dot com and I will help you get online.

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iPod Touch Wi-FI (Wireless Issues)

I checked apple discussion board for ipod touch saw many wi-fi questions. So I thought this is not a trick but it is a tip on how to setup your ipod touch for wireless.

First ask your self do you have secured or unsecured wireless connection?

If secured:

1. Go to Settings
2. Go to Wi-FI
3. Click on Your Wireless
4. Punch in your WEP key
5. Connect to it.

If NOT Secured
Follow all steps above except no.4

If you have problems connecting with your Ipod touch to your wireless please comment bellow and I will resolve your issue by answering as well. Or email me ilovetoargue at gmail dot com

UPDATE 09/11/2009: Please check this post:

Great Tutorial by MWD

Ipod Touch WiFi (Wireless Troubleshooting) Part 2
Ipod Touch Wireless Problems

Visit Ipod Touch Forum For Troubleshooting WiFi - Post Question and get answer by others and me as well.

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