Ok, so for the last few weeks I have been having an issue with Win 7 (64bit) and iTunes – specifically the Apple Mobile Device Service (AMDS) not recognizing my iPod Touch 1G. iTunes would run and everything, but wouldn’t see the iPod.
I think* it had to do with a Visual Studio install on a Windows 7 64bit machine, but I can’t prove that. Here’s what the error log stated:
“Faulting application name: AppleMobileDeviceService.exe, version: 2.50.39.0, time stamp: 0×4a5d2d41
Faulting module name: RPCRT4.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0×4a5bdb3b
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0×00017ac2
Faulting process id: 0xd1c
Faulting application start time: 0×01cab4bb490e2909
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\syswow64\RPCRT4.dll”
Here’s how I fixed it:
I downloaded v.8 of iTunes, unzipped using WinRAR so I could install AMDS only. I uninstalled the newest version that was installed with iTunes 9.0.3, and installed the AMDS version from v.8.
Open up regedit -> go to \HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Apple Inc.\Apple Mobile Device Support
Under version change the value to 2.12.33.0
Restart AMDS and open iTunes and it should recognize your iPod and sync.
If this tip helped you, please leave a comment.