Cannot sync old iPhone after restore.

I had to restore my old iphone recently because it had amnesia about itself and basically was deactivated. Now it works but will not sync my music or anything via iTunes. When I connect it, it prompts me to restore from backup, which it does, then it goes right back to that screen and asks which backup I want to restore from over and over. What should I do to make it able to sync again?

So now I have the same problem, can you please explain what exactly I need to do to fix that, I'm not sure if I have any other restore files, can't check right now because it's restoring;) and it takes forever...

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If you restored as new, without using a backup, and still only get an option to restore, there is a hardware problem or the phone was previously hacked (jailbroken, downgraded iOS, unauthorized unlock). Your only option is to take it to Apple or whoever provides iPhone service in your country.

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Download iTunes 11 from the Apple site and reinstall. The error message was quite plain in telling you what to do to resolve the error.

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Hi. Just tryed to sync my iphone and restore it by acsident. It wasnt my ariginaly and person who give it to me dosnt know itunes password. Wnen i put my pasword in for activate it, its tell me "cannot be used to unlock this IPhone" What should i do?
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RadaMoore wrote:
Hi. Just tryed to sync my iphone and restore it by acsident.
Hogwash, as such is impossible.
Doesn't matter though, as you won't be able to use this phone, & Apple can't/won't help you.

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Thanks for the question. I understand that you are having an issue with iTunes due to permissions. The following article is related to the symptoms you described:
iTunes: Missing folder or incorrect permissions may prevent authorization
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1277
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Matt M.

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My OS is current and up to date. No problems there.... Intel based iMac, relatively new....
But since i did the upgrade to iTunes 10.5 i cannot sync my iPhone. It's a 3gs. Oddly - my wifes iPhone will load and sync (it is a first gen iPhone, btw).
Neither device is, or evr has been jailbroken. mY iPhone was syncing perfectly until the upgrade to 10.5.

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