Itunes cannot sync apps to iphone3

Itunes cannot sync apps to iphone3

I also got this message when trying to sync my 3G iPhone. I followed several suggestions found here: tried restarting everything, then changing automatic updates in iTunes. I  also tried the "scan for hardware changes" suggestion, but nothing worked.  Then as per the above posters, I also went into iTunes, selected Apps, and went to the bottom right to get App updates. A list of needed updates appeared with the icons, and as they updated, the icon would disppear, until I was left with   "SoundCloud".  It appeared to update fine, but the icon remained. I clicked "get update" a couple of times on the icon....it would update but the icon stayed on the list.   I tried to sync after this and still got the error. . Then I then deleted SoundCloud from the phone, and the sync worked fine.  SoundCloud was reinstalled on my phone during Step 4 of the sync. Hope this helps!! 

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