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- brandonrawks, on 08/29/2008, -8/+166I'm the guy that made the video. Yes, I use a lot of apps, and do actually use them. I would probably have fewer loaded at a given time if it didn't take so long to sync. One note though, the backup file is actually 848 MB, not GB. I'm sorry, I have fat fingers! And yes, a bunch of clocks. I thought it was a nice touch! :)
- inactive, on 08/29/2008, -6/+80Enough clocks?
- aceallways, on 08/29/2008, -6/+80To hit G instead of M your fingers would have to be the size of XL black dildos, just admit you mindlessly typed it, no one really cares.
- Raian, on 08/30/2008, -1/+69A massive rolling parallel computing process working to find the cure to Steve's mystery illness!
- bjdowns, on 08/29/2008, -2/+50Dugg for the clever use of Foreplay/Long Time.
- jazzmann04, on 08/29/2008, -2/+42What exactly is going on during these 8 hours? What's the phone/computer doing that takes so incredibly long to process?
- feliks2, on 08/30/2008, -2/+39Comment of the week for me, right here. XL black dildos, just out of the blue...
- Scopitone, on 08/29/2008, -2/+38Yeah, I just click to cancel mine.
"It just works...really ***** slowly" - supguy, on 08/29/2008, -9/+42Jesus christ..... mine takes about 15 minutes.
- zizzo, on 08/29/2008, -10/+43So nobody called him for 8 hours on his jesus phone? Loser
/sarcasm - FasmTrout, on 08/30/2008, -0/+31The pink ones only go up to size L.
- championchap, on 08/29/2008, -1/+25And mine takes upwards of 5 hours.
I say upwards.. because more recently i've not actually finished a full sync.
The backup usually gets to about 3/4 done after about 5 hours then it fails.
NOT happy. - Robart, on 08/30/2008, -3/+25Apple, it just works. It takes 8 hours.
I hate syncing the iPhone. Just let me drag and drop my stuff...PLEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEE! - DyceFreak, on 08/30/2008, -3/+17
@champchap
yup there's a windows equivalent, its called active-sync. It goes "da-da-ding" and its done. :P - digiguy, on 08/29/2008, -1/+14The new iPods and iPhone only supply USB. Apple dropped firewire and it won't work with firewire either
- eleazar123, on 08/30/2008, -0/+12I think he meant that as a figure of speech, not that his fingers are literally so fat that he hits 3 keys with every key press.
- tallguyg, on 08/30/2008, -1/+13Dugg for Foreplay/Long Time
and for proof that Apple is not perfect and godlike in every way. I would NEVER tolerate something that took that long to synch. Sorry, thats just me. - championchap, on 08/30/2008, -0/+11Doesn't work that way.
Phone calls interupt the sync process. - Zippo, on 08/30/2008, -1/+12I have two mail accounts, a ton of contacts, several days of music, a couple video podcasts, about 12 more applications... and mine's never taken any more than five minutes to backup... what the ***** do you people have on your iPhones?
- drewbudd, on 08/30/2008, -0/+10So you are saying if someone charged your $200 to not have friends, you would pay them? Or does it have to be Apple?
- Shiner6, on 08/30/2008, -2/+11Not that.
- asspants, on 08/30/2008, -2/+10 It just works.
- Elementix, on 08/30/2008, -1/+9Well, technically there was one digital clock in the background and another on his monitor :-)
- deadbaby, on 08/30/2008, -2/+10Strange... my 16GB takes about 10 minutes and that includes a 1GB smart playlist getting refreshed on every sync.
- championchap, on 08/30/2008, -0/+7Much less than that.
- inactive, on 08/29/2008, -2/+9Man, I would love to not get a phone call for 8 hours. If I had an iPhone, I could tie up my phone by doing long syncs and take a break once in a while.
This is a FEATURE! - zxcasd, on 08/30/2008, -2/+9@DyceFreak
its called Windows Device Mobility Center in Vista.... Activesync got renamed :P
better than iTunes now being called Freakishly Long Sync Program That Never Ends
or I Take UnNormal timES to sync - BrendanSheehan, on 08/30/2008, -0/+6To get back to those zippy sync times Brandon:
You have to disable automatic iPhone sync in iTunes preferences. Then plug your phone into iTunes and uncheck all your third party apps from the applications tab. Then click sync and apply. Then unplug your iPhone from iTunes and manually delete any stubborn apps that "weirdly" are still present (if you've installed over 20 apps and unchecked them I can almost guarantee some of those apps will still be on your phone, delete them by holding down and x-ing them out.
Then... restart your iPhone, check that all the third party apps are gone again, believe it or not, some more may be back, if there any delete them on the phone by x-ing them out and restart the phone "again". Likely this time they'll all be gone. Re-enable auto-sync of iPhone is iTunes preferences and then plug back in your iPhone - taking care to first delete the last iTunes back up to remove all that crap (bugs) that has caused this issue for you.
Then, and only then, plug back in your iPhone, let it sync (should be lightning quick with no 3rd party apps). And after synching is complete recheck the apps you want on your iPhone in the apps tabs and click sync and apply. This sync should take quite a while for 20+ or more apps, I would suggest doing 6 at a time.
Eventually...... when you have your iPhone back in action with all the apps you want, unplug and re-sync. This sync (or perhaps the next) will start to take about 2 minutes.
Trust me, I have looked into this, this is the only solution to clear out the garbage.
Note: I wouldn't bother using the iPhone's app store to buy any more apps, use your computer. There's a bug in the app store app (and/or the OS) on the phone which is the cause of your long syncs in the first place, and if you download on the phone you'll be back to those "very long" sync times again. We'll just have to wait for a fix for that I suppose.
Synching for me now takes about.... (testing) 2 minutes, with 32 apps installed on my 8GB first gen. 2.0.2 iPhone.
Good luck with it!
This process worked perfectly for me. - n8o8, on 08/29/2008, -5/+11Apple has such a great backup system with Time Machine, why is the iPhone backup SO NOT?!
- screwtheman, on 08/29/2008, -2/+8I have a question for you: did you have an iPhone EDGE before the 3G and migrate over to the 3G?
I'm just trying to figure out what could cause this. I have a 16GB and it was my first iPhone. I have about 30 apps on it and never jailbroken. It takes right at 3 minutes to sync and back up. I've got about 8.5GB free on it right now. - championchap, on 08/29/2008, -0/+6Everything.
It should be incrimental though.. so when you backup only changes that have been made to contacts.. new photographs and text messages, etc should be saved. Not the stuff that was backed up previously.
However.. for some of us the iPhone seems to just be reading a newspaper on the tiolet. - TVarmy, on 08/30/2008, -1/+7This is surprising. Apple clearly needs to change how they do it in the next firmware update. I'd expect this from a generic piece of junk, but I consider Apple like the BMWs of computers. I love their products, and I am a Mac user. I'm not bashing them, but they screwed up big time, and they should have fixed it within a week or two of the thing coming out, or probably in the beta testing.
- billjimbob, on 08/29/2008, -1/+7Mine takes a good hour, and seems to get longer pretty much every time.
- brandonrawks, on 08/30/2008, -0/+6This is a brand new 16Gig 3G, but with the same data set on my old EDGE iPhone it takes the same amount of time.
- brandonrawks, on 08/30/2008, -0/+6Exactly right. I put it in Airplane mode so as not to interrupt the process. Good eye, Monkeymad2!
- btschul, on 08/30/2008, -1/+7Just hit the "x" next to the thing that says "backing up ipod" and it will skip the backup and just do the sync.
- brandonrawks, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5Everything is local, on both the iMac and the Air, plus I tried it on an XP machine with the same results. And yes, I can honestly say I use that many. Maybe not all in one day, but since it takes so long, I keep them all on there.
- threemagic, on 08/29/2008, -1/+6please reset your sync services..
- deadbaby, on 08/30/2008, -2/+7Cool. Good to know. If you ever want to have some sort of micro-SD card swapping competition I'm in. 4 seconds is pretty good but I think, with enough practice, we can have a good competition.
- etruscan, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5I'm not sure what I'm doing differently than you folks. Backup happens on just about every sync attempt, and it takes about 30 seconds to a minute. I have about 15-20 apps installed, but no music or video... maybe that's the difference. Once it took about 3 or 4 minutes. I'm not sure why... but never 15 minutes or longer.
- vstro24, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5yeah mine takes about 15 minutes or less and i have 5 pages of apps. i have a pc and im on 2.0 if that matters.
- retrac1325, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4The article said he tried several cables and several computers
- monkeymad2, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4Think i saw that he had it in airport mode with Wi-Fi turned on...as to not interrupt i suppose
- Mono1ith, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4Paste this in terminal:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true - freqk, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4Better.
- logandurand, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4I'm pretty sure he was referring to direct file transfers, which Apple does not allow, preferring that customers use their own sync utility.
- Seidoger, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3^_/_^
- brandonrawks, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3Not a hardware issue, again, with the same data set it does this on 2 EDGE phones and the new 3G.
- championchap, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3Any Windows equivalents?
Or am I being stupid and missing something obvious? - spankaccount, on 08/30/2008, -1/+4Something is seriously wrong with your phone/cable/iTunes library. I have six GB used on my iPhone and it's done in minutes.
Looks like you had to play with your cable a little to get your phone to connect - I would think a bad USB connection might cause something like this. -
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