My iPhone just took 50 whole freak'n minutes to sync, is steve trying to get one good last look at my iphone before the update tomorrow?? Anyone else experiencing this?
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My iPhone just took 50 freak'n minutes to sync
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I got the screen of death a few days ago. I restored from my last back up of 8/30. It literally took about five hours. After that, it didn't even restore properly...or something weird. iTunes was only giving me the options to restore from backup or set up as a new phone.
even though I just finished a 5 hour restore...
even though I just finished a 5 hour restore...
I just synced for the first time in about a week and it took over an hour! Never had that happen before.
You joking????!?!?!!!
(100% serious) My iPhone 3g is STILL syncing as I post and it has been doing so for 4.5 hours now.
(100% serious) My iPhone 3g is STILL syncing as I post and it has been doing so for 4.5 hours now.
This command will change a hidden setting in the iTunes preferences that will force it to skip the backup process EVERY TIME.
1.*- Quit iTunes.
2.*- Open Terminal.app
3.*- Copy and paste this in, then hit return:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
4.*- Open iTunes
5.*- Plug in your iPhone (2.0 or 3G) and sync
It will take a few seconds, assuming you don’t have a ton of music or podcasts.
Changing the ‘true’ in step 3 to ‘false’ will re-enable the backup feature.
Courtesy of http://www.zerologic.com/site/page/pg4047-as131-pn_Disable_iTunes_iPhone_backup.html
iTunes was only giving me the options to restore from backup or set up as a new phone.
even though I just finished a 5 hour restore...
Click "Set Up as a New Phone" - it will still have everything from your restore on it. Process complete.
It takes a while when you add a lot of new apps to the iPhone, or stuff for the apps. For example, loading 400 MB of data into Airsharing caused my next sync to take 45 minutes. But after that it was back to 1 - 2 minutes. Also, if you cancel a backup (by clicking the "x"), you corrupt the backup. And the next time sync the backup will need to start anew, and therefore will take a looong time. So don't click the "x" unless you mean to never backup.
The two annoying things I hope they fix is the fact that the backup corrupts, or at least needs to start from scratch, the time after it is cancelled. Also, if you get a call during the backup it automatically cancels, and then naturally, needs to start from scratch the next time it backs up.
The two annoying things I hope they fix is the fact that the backup corrupts, or at least needs to start from scratch, the time after it is cancelled. Also, if you get a call during the backup it automatically cancels, and then naturally, needs to start from scratch the next time it backs up.