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xX_D4rkW1ng_Xx

Hello, folks.

I've got a iPod Touch 2nd gen, running iOS 4.2.1

the default safari browser no longer can look up most sites. frogfind.de/ identified my browser as Apple Safari 5 (Mac)

Is there a browser that will work on this mp3 player?
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europa · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2026 2:36 pm Post subject:

Because of how iOS is, any browser will use Safari's rendering engine under the hood. Even so, however, no web browser will help you because of how old your iOS version is, not to mention how old your hardware is.
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xX_D4rkW1ng_Xx · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2026 3:32 pm Post subject:

parasquared · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2026 9:40 pm Post subject:

at least with my experience with iPhone OS 3 on a 1st gen Touch, most websites won't even render properly on the device. it's usually way too small, since the browser won't resize anything for you, and there aren't really any websites nowadays optimized for old phones
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europa · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 2:50 am Post subject:

teedeeaye · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 8:54 am Post subject:

Best sticking to music with this one, I reckon. At a push maybe some video content downloaded from iTunes. I got one c. 2010 from my Mum and it suffered unbelievable abuse until 2021 when the screen glass cracked. I've still got it though - I may fix it someday.

Moved to a 5th gen Classic about 2019 time as I was (and still am) not exactly strong on the idea of the iPod being much more than a very good music player.

So in a very roundabout way, using it for music is likely the best choice. Smile

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europa · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 2:35 pm Post subject:

My primary iPod is my iPod 6.5g, which stores my entire iTunes library. I believe the Touch models can do HD video out of the box, but I don't know how much luck you'll have playing modern HD content on them, yeah.

Given how big my iPod is (120GB), and the fact it can be upgraded if I ever wish to do so, I do also store pictures on there as well (mostly in case I want to show off my photography and happen to have the iPod on-hand), and I do keep some television shows and the like on there, but there are certainly better ways to do both things, even if you don't want to put them on your phone (I, for instance, also have said television shows on my PSP's memory card, which is probably a better viewing experience anyway given it has a larger screen).
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teedeeaye · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 5:56 pm Post subject:

I think you're right about HD video on the Touch. It's been so long since I've used mine I can't remember, but I had the Muppets vs Queen doing Bohemian Rhapsody on it. Very Happy

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europa · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 10:02 pm Post subject:

I never owned a Touch but I remember the message saying my iPod couldn't support HD video and looking up what models could support it.

Also The Muppets' "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a favorite song of nick99nack's! Wink

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parasquared · Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2026 1:48 am Post subject:

as mentioned before i own a 1st gen Touch, which... has gone missing somewhere. seriously don't know where it is. but i basically only used it for music videos, since the internal storage is only 8GB and my music library is significantly larger than that. and since i have those Apple 30-pin Composite cables, i can play them on my TV or whatever
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VCSMaster · Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 12:07 am Post subject:

Oh man, this is a perfect chance to give Whited00r a try, which is a really ancient crusty project that did a pretty decent job at making iOS 4 behave like iOS 7 (which was relatively new at the time). The iPod Touch 2G has specific support, last I remember.

That's how I used my 2G at the time, at least Smile

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parasquared · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2026 10:41 pm Post subject:

i honestly didn't even know Opera Mini had an iOS port, and that would definitely get around the "you can't run other browser engines on iOS" issue, kinda. all of your traffic gets proxied through an Opera server (which i don't even know how they're still up but whatever), and i'm not sure if it's still using Safari for that but it would at least let you visit websites with HTTPS i guess?

since all the traffic is being proxied through Opera's servers, i would definitely be weary of running it (especially considering what Opera as a company is nowadays; definitely don't do anything "important" with it if you can even pull that off in the first place with its apparent lack of JavaScript)
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xX_D4rkW1ng_Xx · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2026 10:02 am Post subject:

Checking back in, and uhhh, i appreciate the help, sadly as of now i don't really have the tools for that...

However, i found an oddity? Not sure if i can even call it that- it's about the search engines.

Google? throws up error 403.
Yahoo? throws up "Cannot Open Page" error.
Bing however, ACTUALLY let's me use the search function in Safari!

But...that's about the end of it, images don't load, i use as hell can't go onto websites...
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