iPhone 4S WILL NOT Backup!

[lgtw]

I've been having this problem for the last month as of today. My last backup is stated as August 16, 2012 (before I cleared all iPhone backups). I really would like to still be able to keep all of my previous data, should something go wrong with my iPhone 4S, or whenever I upgrade to the iPhone 5 in about 2 weeks to a month from today.

It all started when I removed about 1.5K photos from my camera roll, I noticed the problem while trying to sync my iPhone, and it was stuck on step 2 of 7, which is, backing up.

I've tried these possible solutions already, all with no luck:
-Hard resets to the phone (several times)
-SMC reset on my iMac
-Reinstalling iTunes (rerunning the installer while iTunes still exists on the Mac)
-Cleared "/var/db/lockdown"
-Deleted ALL previous iPhone backups to the iMac
-Using a different admin account

It's basically stuck doing this, causing the phone to reboot SEVERAL times an hour.

To be more clear, I am using iTunes 10.6.3 (25), and OS X ML 10.8.1. Both totally up-to-date.

 

[famous600]

Have the newest version of iTunes installed? That fixed the problem for me.

 

[lgtw]

Have the newest version of iTunes installed? That fixed the problem for me.

Pretty positive, I'm using 10.6.3 (25).

 

[verwon]

10.7.xx is out now.

 

[lgtw]

10.7.xx is out now.

On iTunes or Mac OS X?

Supposedly, iTunes is fully up-to-date.

I'm running OS X 10.8.1 right now.

EDIT: Okay, I see what you're saying. For some reason, my iTunes isn't showing 10.7, so I'm getting it from apple.com, I'll report back after I download!

 

[lgtw]

Unfortunately, the new iTunes did no fixes to help my problem. I'm not sure if my phone is corrupted, itself, or not.

 

[lgtw]

OS X 10.8 is running now.

I'm sorry? I don't get what you mean by that. I know 10.8 is out, I've been running it since the first of August.

 

[RandomKamikaze]

Do you backup to iCloud?

 

[lgtw]

Do you backup to iCloud?

Not currently. For the past 3 years I've owned any Apple product requiring an iTunes sync, it's always been through the computer. I was thinking about buying 10-15 GB of storage and starting iCloud, however.