Updating iPod firmware without iTunes - possible?

Sumanji

Sumanji

Sumanji

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Hey,

Just wondering if this is possible? I did find one possible method here. I tried this with the latest iTunes 7.7 and there is only a file called AppleSoftwareUpdate.exe and it only provides me with updates for Safari and Quicktime, lol!

So is there any way to do this?

Cheers,

Suman

P.S. I have an iPod Classic 80GB with firmware 1.1.1
 
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Hi Marc,

I *think* the latest iPod firmware is 1.1.4 for this model. The pod was plugged in and detected as far as I can tell - it shows up as a "Portable Device" in device manager, and I can sync it with Winamp, so I guess it's all working...

Cheers,

Suman
 
Just installed iTunes and updated to 1.1.2 (which is the latest apparently).

Relatively painless, and I don't feel too dirty or violated for having had Apple software on my PC :p
 
I use Quicktime Alternative.

And using your method I mentioned in the first post, I extracted iTunes.exe only from the installer package (left out Quicktime and all the other junk).

Gives a warning message during install, but works a treat :)
 
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