Not many of you guys know. I’ve run into some major trouble with my iPod Touch 2G 8GB.
I haven’t been using my iPod Touch (or seen it either) for the past 3 months, but my Mom and sister have made it their primary gaming device.

One fine day, all panicky, my sister came in to my room and says ‘Bhaiya, WiFi does not work !’ – I was thinking it could be that it was disabled from SBSettings or the network settings have been corrupted somehow.

Had a look at it, navigated to Settings > General and saw that I see some gray-ed out text that reads ‘No WiFi‘. Panic mode 1 creeped in. Went to the ‘About’ section and saw that the WiFi MAC address says ‘Not Available‘. Panic mode 3 (yes, it was scary)

Hunted on a LOT of forums on iPod Touch Fans and some other forums and most of them could get it working after doing a network setting reset. I tried it. No luck.

I thought it was probably the jailbreak on the firmware 3.0 that was messing up, so I decided to erase my iPod and it’s settings and start fresh. The process took about 1 hour to get back to the ‘virgin’ settings, but still the MAC address was not available and WiFi would not work.

Searched some more on forums and I read somewhere that because of firmware 2.2.1’s heating issues (which somehow I never came across), the WiFi chip would have been fried
Elsewhere I read that an application called ‘WiFiFoFum‘ (as retarded as it sounds) (app store link), which shows a sweet-looking radar and the WiFi networks in vicinity – THAT messed shit up here.

I could not turn back and finally had to give it to the service center guys in Navi Mumbai at a Reliance Digital outlet (who are the authorized service center for all Apple products).

Went to the Reliance Digital Store today and they said that they have ‘Ordered for it’ – I am assuming it is a replacement (which, presumably, they did not realise that it was jailbroken, so YAY !). I’ve been asked to come again on Friday evening at about 9pm and check if it is here already.

Update [19 Aug 09] : So finally I got my hands on my iPod Touch 2g 8GB and I realized a couple of things:

1. The folks at Reliance Digital are too stupid to know what a Jailbreak is.

2. They gave me a brand new iPod Touch 2G 8GB instead of a refurb (except if Apple calls THAT a refurb)

3. The service was kinda quick and painless (unlike what I’ve read on a few websites)

4. If you need to get your Apple product serviced/fixed and there is no apparent physical damage, insist on speaking with Mirza at Reliance Digital outside Vashi Railway Station. Not that he is smart, but he is just stupid