My iPod touch (1st gen) says No Wi-Fi, in the Settings!

I just restored it again, and it doesn’t say No Wi-Fi anymore, it just says not connected. Then when I go to the Wi-Fi settings, it gets stuck on Choose a Network…(with the circle twisting and twisting but finding nothing). On my Mac’s airport there’s my network and about three others, and the iPod can’t find them).

If I manually enter the name and WEP key of my home network, it gets stuck there too.

I think something happened when I upgraded to 2.2. I had 1.9 or something like that, and that’s when this problem first started. I could see the networks, but not connect t them. Then I was like hey here’s an update on iTunes, so I did it. Then it wouldn’t even find any networks (just gets stuck). Everything else works fine.

Aha! Progress has been made. After my next restore, all the networks showed up. I chose mine, entered the password, and it gave me a litle check mark. But the signal strength never showed up in the corner. I backed out of the settings and it said Not Connected. I went back into the settings and it wouldn’t find any networks and got stuck on Choose a Network… again.

And after the fifth restore it works…any suggestions on what might have gone wrong are very welcome bc I just wasted 4 hours trying to figure it out. Before I did this last restore, I spent about 5 seconds shaking my iPod out of anger until I started laughing at myself. I am very sure this is how the problem got fixed LOL

Well, seems like you can handle it by yourself…

2late I wish I could say you were right but The Weather Channel app just tried to get my current location then I was kicked off the internet and it’s doing the same thing again! What is wrong with this thing?!

I am now at a different locale. I tried to connect to the network, and it stayed connected for a good 20 seconds! Then it goes away and won’t find the networks anymore. Back to the same old problem!

Suggestion: Run screaming to the Apple store asap. I can’t find anything online and considering how many times you’ve restored, it sounds like a failure with the network (which is unlikely because your computer is connected) or a hardware failure in the iPod. Maybe the Wi-Fi antenna has gone haywire.