ITunes 10 no longer recognizes my my iPhone4, wants me to set up new iPhone
My iPhone4 has been synced with my computer several times over the past 6 months. When I plugged it in today to upload new music and update to OS 4.2, it tells me "this computer has previously been synced with an iphone or another ios device."
It also says the last backup is from my iPhone 3G from over a year ago. Bogus! Obviously I don't want to wipe out everything on my iPhone just to update the OS, but I should be able to sync as I please no problem, right?
I did some research of my own and couldn't find a solution.
Please Help!
This has happened to my regularly with my iPhone4 since launch day and my iPad. In both cases sync will work once or twice and then it gives that same message and claims not to know the device. Redoing the whole thing which completely screws up apps/folders gets it working again but then after maybe a month or so it won't work anymore. Not sure if it's tied to ITunes app updates or IOS updates but I tried many things and once in a while rebooting the computer and the IOS device worked but other times it did not. My new Android tablet is working flawlessly in this regard but it's only a month or so now so I'm holding back on judgement... that said the USB input on the other device and SD card slot have sold me pretty hard so if it keeps syncing fine that will be my new "iPad" but I'll keep the phone till end of plan.
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