Anyone having their iTunes freeze whenever trying to "backup iPhone"?

I was having this problem earlier, as it would freeze about 1/3 of the way through the backup process. I kept looking for a solution but I couldn't find much. Finally, I deleted all of the apps on my phone and it worked like a charm. I hear that Facebook and ESPN Scorecenter sometimes cause this problem alone, so you might try deleting those 2 first if you don't want to delete all of them. Hope this helps!

Yes! My iPhone will not sync past the backup process. Appears to hang about 66-75% of the way through. I don't have Facebook or ESPN installed. Trying to see if I am just being impatient or if it is really hung... Actually after about 30 minutes of backing up the sync completed. May just take a long time since it was the first backup since upgrading to 3.0...

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