WTF is up with the iPhone Backup process that takes over 1 hour for me with 33 small apps? It is extremely excessive and has to start over completely when it is interrupted by a phone call....wtf?
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JTrain23
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Same thing happened to me last night. I was doing the initial setup in iTunes. I am pretty sure it has something to do with the apps. What I did today was plug in to iTunes.... when it started syncing I slid the "canel" bar on the phone and synced the contacts manually.... That was the only thing I wanted to sync at the time.... Hopefully they (Apple) can shorten the process.... We'll see.... 🙄
t0mat0
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< 2 minutes per installation. You able to do 33 manual installs on your computer in a normal user fashion? If it's excessive, then do a few at once, or just leave it overnight, and you can get a big backup done too...
ha! funny, i was going to post the same thing. WTF is up with 'backing up' before syncing the phone? mine takes maybe a minute or two, but still, that's an annoying wait. i don't get why 2.0 has to do this especially if none of my apps change?
I finally came across how to skip the backup process. and it only took 28 seconds to sync afterwards. (I let mine do a full backup once before I did this)
Quit iTunes, go to terminal and paste
to re-enable the backup, just change true to false.
http://gizmodo.com/5029121/how-to-disable-iphones-backup-process
Quit iTunes, go to terminal and paste
Code:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool truehttp://gizmodo.com/5029121/how-to-disable-iphones-backup-process
mavis
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Thank you indeed! On my twenty-third restore now; those hour-long backups (which I was never actually able to restore from) were a major pain.
Thank you indeed! On my twenty-third restore now; those hour-long backups (which I was never actually able to restore from) were a major pain.
It just occurred to me that you can put your iPhone in Airplane Mode to avoid phone calls that might interrupt the long Backup process.