Accessory is not optimized for this iphone

I have iphone 4 and for almost a year I have used a Sylvania docking station to charge my phone at night and to also play my music through the speakers on it then all of the sudden I got the message "This accessory is not optimized for this iphone"  I went to the apple store and they said I needed to update the latest software to my iphone.  I did the update to OS5 and icloud which was a nightmare finally got everything restore and I still got this message when I try to dock my phone.  I can use other ipods in it so whats going on any ideas ???

In the iPhone 4 and newer they built in some hardware checks. Official, authorised apple accessories have a bit of hardware which identifies themselves to the iphone. Non official units dont have this and thus the iPhone presents a 'nag' screen. It shouldnt stop it from working but its basically apples way of making you buy official stuff by nagging you.
If its started lately, it could be a problem with your docking station.

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