Forever to backup iphone - original

I have the original iphone and its taking forever to backup the phone - after the 2.1 download. Anybody else having this problem???? thanks

not sure if it is the same problem or not -- while the back does seem to take a while, it does speed up if you can manage to let it run one full time. after that, however, you may find yourself in a similar situation: iTunes continually wants to restore my iPhone from the backup. every time I connect it!
any one find a fix for this?

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I have an iPhone 5 which i need to send to repair for few days. Device is fully backup with iCloud.
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What is the proper way to do this?
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Welcome to the Apple community.
Unfortunately if you migrate to iCloud the only thing that he will be able to use on your pre-lion mac is the iCloud mail account. You will be able to access your calendars, contacts etc at iCloud.com, but I suspect you already know that.

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So. The unopened iPhone. I wanted to connect it up and update it to the latest software. Then put it back in storage for backup.
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Is it possible to take an iPhone, update it and then go back to my main iPhone? My iPhone is an 8 gig version. The backup is a 4 gig.
Do I have to activate the backup iPhone if I connect it to iTunes to update? Will this screw up my ATT account?
Can an iPhone user go back and forth between iPhones?
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This should not be a problem but you must activate this iPhone with AT&T and iTunes to be able to use it and/or update it with any available Apple updates but this will or should be an abbreviated iPhone activation process of the original since you are using an existing AT&T SIM card that is already activated. This will have no affect on your AT&T account. If an iPhone is lost or stolen, the same applies.
Once this new iPhone is activated with AT&T and iTunes, you can switch the SIM card between iPhones and you can use your iPhone's SIM card with another AT&T provided phone or an unlocked GSM phone.

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If you get the error "Backup not successful" and you've tried deleting the last backup and trying to back up manually without luck, try the following test: Go to...
Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup>manage Storage, tap your device name in the Backups section, then look under Backup options. Turn off all apps from backup and then do a manual backup. If that doesn't work, then this post will not help. If the backup works, then go back to the app list and turn some on and try another backup. If successful, keep repeating these steps. If it fails at some point, then try to zero in on the one app that seems to make the backup fail. (I had this problem and found one app failing, probably due to a corrupt data file.)
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Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me find a solution to my problem.
When a backup is attempted, it starts off as if it's working, then stops and the following error message appears: "iTunes could not backup iPhone because the iPhone disconnected". But, the iPhone doesn't really disconnect! It must be some type of internal glitch.
The iPhone is a 3GS and I have mostly pictures and contacts, two songs, a total of 33 apps. The iOS is updated (6.1.6). I do not know if this phone was ever jailbroke. I have been able to backup this phone before, but cannot now. The last backup was 9/21/13, it is now 3/2/14.
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Also, I must say that although I am not a tekkie, I've seen many different types of various programs and I find that iTunes is not very intuitive...don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings, just my humble opinion.
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Hey Lawrence,
A big THANK YOU!! to you! Your suggestions worked!
Before I changed USB ports (more on that in a sec...), I employed one of your suggestions that you gave to someone else with the same problem...and that was to clean the connector on the bottom of the phone with a soft dry tooth brush. I couldn't believe the amount of lint that came out! Especially what was found in either end...had to do some very careful picking. (Almost enough lint to knit a small sweater!!)
Changing the USB port was the second and final step required for a successful backup. My computer is a laptop, and I did have a USB Bluetooth adapter (for another device) installed. I removed the adapter, plugged the iPhone into that USB port, crossed my fingers...and it worked!!!
Now if I can figure out the rest of this darn program, I might upgrade to a new iPhone!
Again, thank you very much Lawrence!
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It was released a bit later and had some fixes that were in later 10.2.0.x patchsets (and also had some different security settings). Maybe they should have gone with 10.2.1.1.
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Are there any other suggestions to try and resolve the error message I keep getting; 'itunes won't backup iphone, iphone disconnected'
Have tried suggestions on forum i.e resetting isync, deleting recent installed apps, hard reset, reinstalled Itunes.
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'itunes won't backup iphone, iphone disconnected'
Just doublechecking. In the course of your troubleshooting to date, have you worked through the following document?
[iTunes: "Backup could not be saved on the computer" alert message|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2529]

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It appears to be solved, I went into iTunes-Preferences-Devices and right clicked on the backup and clicked show in folder. I removed it to the desktop for safekeeping and then I just created a new back up. All seems fine now and I just threw away the old backup... must have been corrupted somehow. Hope this helps someone else.

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I have been backing up and syncing my iPhone 4s through Windows 7 for the past 2 years. I am running iOS 8.1 on the iPhone and recently downloaded iTunes version 12.0.1.26. I can no longer sync my contacts or backup the phone and get the following error:
iTunes could not backup iPhone because the iPhone disconnected
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I may have a work around/solution.
I had this problem when on iOS 8 beta 5. Now again on 8.1. I have found a repeatable fix, however it does require part of a working backup of your device. Not sure if it works with any device of the same type, but it does with the part from your own. Anyway:
Locate your current backup within Finder/windows explorer.
Go into the device backup folder (will be titled the UDID of your device) and cut the info.plist, manifest.mbdb, manifest.plist and status.plist files, and paste them somewhere else for storage just in case.
Now you need those same 4 files from a working backup of your device. Paste them into the backup folder where you just removed the others from.
Restart your computer and device.
Plug in and try backup. You'll notice the date of last backup on the summary page will say the date of the backup in which you took the 4 files, as this info must be in one of the files.
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I have kept a working copy of those files for use whenever this happens.
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