IPhone 4 with IOS 5 no longer appears as device

I have 3 iphones, 2 iphone 4 and 1 iphone 3g. I recently updated iTunes to get the new IOS 5. After I updated 1 of my iphone 4, everything worked fine for a couple of days. However, when I tried to update my second iphone 4, iTunes would not recognize it as a device, I tried my iphone 4 w/IOS 5, and the same thing happened, it was not recognized. I tried w/my iphone 3g and iTunes will sometimes recognize it, but not always. All phones are being charged when connected, so I dont think is the cable. I followed the troubleshooting instructions, but it did not work. Does anyone has any ideas on how to fix this? Its driving me crazy cause I cant sink my music. Thanks.

Just to double check here, are there photos in the Camera Roll? The only time the iPhone will show up in Windows Explorer is if there is content in the Camera Roll. If there is no content there it will not show up since there is no other file management that you can do from there. If there is content, try and reset the phone, will not do anything to data, by holding down the sleep/wake and home buttons together until you see the Apple logo and then release. See if that helps.

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