IPhone (3G) & iTunes freezing up!!!

Is anyone experiencing a desktop freeze (iMac) when iPhone 3G is connected to iTunes? This issue is REALLY ******* me off!!! Could this be an iTunes issue? Someone PLEASE point me in the right direction. The only thing I haven't done is RESET my iPhone. I heard a lot of people are doing that. I read some other posts on firmware (VERSION in General / About) for iPhone. It seems the 2.0 (5A347) is current. So what's the deal? I tunes is up to date, iMac software up to date, iPhone 3G up to date ... ***!?!?!
PS - Cursor is blinking but keyboard & mouse freeze. Bought iMac in late May - current aluminum (full) keyboard & mouse. HELP!

I searched the site - best advise so foar is to restore & get the new version stated above ... I already have that. - NOW WHAT

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i just updated my iphone and my itunes. so now when i connect my iphone to itunes it causes itunes to freeze. now there is nothing on my phone, and i cant even apply the back-up that itunes saved for my phone when i did the update. how can i fix this???

I searched the site - best advise so foar is to restore & get the new version stated above ... I already have that. - NOW WHAT

TS3219 Anyone experience the itunes freezing after upgrade???

I have just upgraded my itunes and when I plug my iphone the itunes freezes..does anyone know how to fix it...my OS is windows vista

For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down the page in case one of them applies. The notes below the box include tips on removing troublesome components.
The further information area has direct links to the current and recent builds in case you have problems downloading, need to revert to an older version or want to try the iTunes for Windows (64-bit - for older video cards) release as a workaround for installation or performance issues, or compatibility with QuickTime or third party software.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there also links to backup and recovery advice should it be needed.
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ITunes Freezing when podcasts tab selected

Since ungrading to iOS 7 when I select the podcast tab on my iPhone 5 iTunes freezes for several minutes sometimes.
This also happens when selecting podcasts to sync.
And all the podcasts sync to the phone even the ones unselected.

I had the same problem, recently I ran ONYX, restarted the iBook and tried iTunes for a podcast download. Being prepared for the freeze...gave it 30 seconds and all the backlogged podcasts started to download just like pre iTunes 7.2. Guess my iTunes is back to normal.
ONYX is freeware:
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/onyx_tiger.html
Hope this helps.
Cheers, SZ.

I'm having trouble updating my iphone 4 since i updated to 4.3.3 i can't update it anymore. right now when i connect it to my itunes, itunes freezes for about 5 minutes then says something like "could not load sync service" any ideas on what i shud do?

I'm having trouble updating my iphone 4 since i updated to 4.3.3 i can't update it anymore. initially itunes would let me go so far as downloadin the new software then an error poped up as soon as the download finished, and now when i connect it to my itunes, itunes freezes for about 5 minutes then says something like "could not load sync service, reconnect or try again later" any ideas on what i shud do?

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ITunes freezes on my macbook pro when i sync my iphone

Hi guys --
I've been following tons of threads to get an answer - can you help?
Out of nowhere, my iPhone can't sync with iTunes - whenever I plug in my iPhone, iTunes freezes, and I get the rainbow beachball. After a bit, I get a message that my computer is set not to allow synching -- do I want to allow synching? I select yes, and then I'm told this isn't allowed. When I select override, it's still not allowed.
Here's my specs:
MacBook Pro (2011, 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7), running OS X 10.9.4
iTunes 11.3.1
iPhone 5S, running iOS 7.1.2
Here's what I've done:
- repaired disc permissions, and restarted the computer (nothing changed.)
- followed every suggestion here (iTunes: May become unresponsive when connecting iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch) -- including installing updates to both OSs and iTunes, disabled sync (and iTunes STILL freezes), deleted every podcast I had from both my iPhone and laptop, and rebuilt my iTunes library following the instructions that they gave.
The only other thing I can think to do is to start a new user on this laptop, copy over my music (which is all backed up to an external hard drive, so no biggie - just annoying), and/or reformat my iphone or this computer. Would REALLY love not to do that. Any other suggestions or ideas?

Hi there,
I have the same issue as you do, this has been going on for quite a while now (2 months) and I have tried everything, including creating a new user - did not work. Perhaps you might have better luck than I did.
I really don't understand how this can just start happening for no reason.
If you have any luck I would be keen to hear how you fixed the problem.
Good luck!

ITunes freezes / will not open / will not sync / will not detect Iphone

I am having numerous problems with iTunes. A few days ago iTunes began to freeze after opening, or not open at all. If it did open, it would not detect my iphone and would freeze when I plugged it in.
After reviewing these forums, I completely un-installed and re-installed iTunes, Quicktime, all the Apple Support applications, and Bonjour. I had to do this several times. I also ran anti-virus software, registry error software, disk-error checking software, with no results. I also ran a system restore to a date when iTunes was working. Eventually I got to a point where iTunes would open somewhat reliably, although slowly. However it would still not detect my iPhone, would often freeze after I connected my iPhone. Additionally, all of my audio files (music and podcasts) would not be detected by iTunes, and their associated libraries would show as empty, however the files were in the correct location on my hard drive.
I do not know what to do from this point...I have un-installed and re-installed iTunes upwards of a dozen times now, that can not be the problem. To the best of my knowledge, this problem began happening at random; I did not install any new software or make any changes to my system immediately prior to these problems occurring. Right now, after another re-install I am back to a point where I can't even get iTunes to open. Any help would be appreciated.
My System info:
Computer: Asus Notebook UL50VT/UL50Vg Series
OS: Windows 7 Home premium
iTunes version: iTunes 10.1.1 for Windows 64-bit
iPhone: 4.2.1
Please Help!
Thank you

Try this open your music app and access the store from there first, once done then you can go to the iTunes store app, try it and see if it works

When I connect my iphone to itunes it freezes, if I try to open itunes when my phone is already plugged in it doesnt open, help?

Hello community, I seem to be having an issue with itunes.
Upon opening itunes everything works fine. But the second i plug in my iphone, itunes freezes and wont respond.
If i already have my iphone plugged in and then try to open itunes, a type of beveled outline in the shape of the itunes page appears, but of course thats useless.
I have reinstalled itunes twice, restarted computer twice and nothing seems to work... please help me out!!

nevermind this, the faulty usb cord was the culprit.

Whenever I connect my iPhone 4s to my Windows 8.1 pc with iTunes 10.6.3.25, the iTunes freezes.

Whenever I connect my iPhone 4s to my Windows 8.1 pc with iTunes 10.6.3.25, the iTunes freezes and the only way to proceed is to kill the task under task manager. I have uninstalled iTunes following the recommended order and reinstalled numerous times but still freezes when I connect my iPhone. It works fine when I connect my phone to another pc (Windows 7). What else can I try?

Whenever I update iTunes it gives me the following error:
The application was unable to start correctly (0cx0000142). Click Ok to close the application.
The file in error is DifXInst64.exe.
Thanks for any more help available.

Itunes freezes after I plug in my 4.3 updated Iphone.

I updated itunes to the most recent version and then updated my iphone4 to version 4.3. Everything seemed to have finished and worked ok until I went to try and sync my iphone again. I open itunes and it works fine but as soon as I plug in my iphone itunes frezes and my iphone never shows up. As soon as I unplug the phone itunes works fine again. Same with the iphone, as soon as its not connected everything works fine but when I connect it itunes freezes and in task manager it says that itunes is not responding. Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you,

Here is the actual solution. This was making me crazy too.
Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes (8.0.2)
Plug your USB cable into your computer.
Turn your iPhone off by holding the power button down until you see “slide to power off”. Do as instructed.
Now press and hold the Home button while reconnecting the USB cable to your iPhone. After iPhone is connected it should power on the device.
Continue holding the Home button, you will see the Apple logo appear and then finally a “Connect to iTunes” will be displayed, now is the time to release the Home button. You will then see the following image:
After this DO NOT RESTORE YOUR DEVICE!!
Unplug your device and turn it off holding the power button only.
Now start your device again, it will start up like normal.
Now plug it back into your computer.
Itunes should see it as normal and not freeze anymore.
Good Luck!

ITunes Freezes when connecting iphone 4 or ipad to my Vista computer

Everything had been working just fine on my Vista PC up until the new Itunes update was installed. Now, whenever connecting either of my devices, an iPhone 4 or my iPad 64GB 3G, the device appears on the left column in iTunes, but nothing updates, and not only does iTunes freeze, but the entire computer becomes largely unresponsive. (I can move the pointer, but that's about it.) Task manager cannot be activated by Ctrl-Alt-Del, and I need to do a hard shutdown of the computer.
I have tried disabling and (briefly) uninstalled my antivirus and firewall software, subsequent to scanning for viruses and malware (McAfee). I tried removing the library files, in case some aspects of the library became corrupted. I have also examined the support forums and tried some suggestions, but the problem remains.
The only recent change to my computer has been the iTunes update (unless Windows Vista updated in the background, not sure...)
iTunes itself seems to work just fine, so long as I don't attempt to connect a device to it.
Help! Thanks in advance everyone...
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Thanks, but this had no impact on the problem. And the "repair" feature didn't seem to do anything.
Would appreciate knowledgeable of the extent of this problem chiming in too - would love to hear if there are any workarounds.
Is there an easy way to get older versions of itunes? I'd like to try removing and reinstalling one of the older iterations of itunes that actually works.

ITunes freezing when trying to sync iPhone 5.

I'm at my tethers end.
Last month I had my iPhone replaced at an Apple store, as the battery on my old phone was draining unusually fast (100% to 0% in 2 hours on standby with nothing open). This replaced iPhone has been slightly tempermental, but I have tried to ignore these little glitches (brightness jumping randomly from 100% to the lowest setting for no reason etc (it's not on auto).
The biggest problem I'm having it trying to sync my phone with iTunes. It will not sync my music, often freezing at particular songs, meaning I would have to restart my entire computer for it to work again. Deleting these songs would work for it to continue syncing, but no sooner would it find another song it did not like, which would play on any other media software and had no problems whatsoever with my old phone. It then decided to start freezing on 'downloading safari safe data', so I took steps for it to stop doing that (advanced on safari etc). Now it keeps freezing on step 5 of 5; waiting for changes to be applied. Frankly I'm absolutely SICK of this, as I'd like to get some music on my phone at some time, and now I can't even make any alterations to my phone.
I've tried..
*Restoring my iPhone ( which went awfully because my backup dissapeared, meaning I had to restore with a months old backup. I triple checked that my backup had worked but when it came to needing it *poof*.
* Checking Winsock providers.
* Converting back to older versions of iTunes.
* Restarting my computer a million and one times.
* Deleting 'problem' songs, but now I can't even reach that stage of syncing.
PLEASE HELP. I'm so frustrated with this. I've always been a loyal customer to Apple but frankly I get sick of always having problems. There's not been one apple phone which has not stopped working within warranty and needed a replacement. When we're paying this much for a phone we expect it to actually WORK.

This problem is quite common, but I have not been able to figure out what causes it. My best bet is that it's a USB issue, and I have found a workaround that makes synchronising possible when all else fails. For the record, I have tried all of the potential solutions on these forums without lasting success. Here's what worked for me.
(Windows 7 32bit, iPhone 4S, iTunes 10.6.1.7)
First of all, make sure you have a good wi-fi signal in the region of the PC you are syncing with. Then -
1) Start iTunes.
2) Connect phone via USB.
3) Left click on phone in iTunes.
4) On the Summary page check "Sync with this phone over Wi Fi"
5) On the phone go to Settings>General>iTunes wi-fi sync
6) Tap on Sync now.
The phone should sync via wi-fi, even though it is connected via USB. It didn't seem any slower to me than syncing via the cable, and more importantly it worked, and the backup went smoothly. I've tried it several times now with no problems.
Also, if you have a lot of apps you need to synchronise or you are re-arranging the app windows using iTunes you can sync in the normal way from the PC if you do it immediately after the wi-fi sync, because iTunes does not run the backup again. It probably won't run two backups within a few minutes of one another.
It's all a bit of a fiddle, and Apple/MS needs to get a fix for it, but if this method works for you at least you have a good backup should you flush your phone down the toilet!
Good luck!

ITunes freezes and doesn't recognise iPhone

Hi, I've got an issue with my iPhone 3G running on iOS 4.0.1. Everytime I connect it to my PC (running on Windows 7 32-bit), iTunes freezes for a few minutes and doesn't recognise the device. I've been searching for the solution for a couple of days now and have found the following thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1141495&start=75&tstart=0
Fix provided by BeeBopp work for me but only until I reboot my PC. Then I have the same situation - having iPhone connected to PC, iTunes freezes and doesn't recognise the device - so I need to go to Device Manager and update the drivers manually even though they seem to have been installed correctly (I have Apple Mobile Device on my list before I update the drivers), but I need to point Windows to use the drivers from
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers\usbaapl.inf
I have already tried:
-completely removing iTunes and its configuration files
-reinstalling iTunes (the newest available version)
-removing iPhone from the devices list and reinstalling Apple drivers
Nothing works - everytime I reboot PC, I need to update drivers manually.
Do you have any idea what's causing that? Thanks

Hello cn12,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
iTunes: May become unresponsive when connecting iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3219
Best of luck,
Mario

IPhone connected to Mac, iTunes freezes when selecting PODCASTS tab

So I upgraded to iTunes 11.1 and iOS7 (running OSX 10.8.5) and my podcasts and smart playlists did not sync. (I do not use the Podcats app because I have so many podcast-related folders and smart-folders.) Every time I click on the PODCASTS tab when the iPhone 5 is connected iTunes freezes and I have to Force Quit the app.
I've fixed permissions, run Disk Utility, restarted... nothing helps. This seems to specifically be an iTunes problem.

So I just spent an hour restoring my iPhone, then restoring from backup (40Gb filled in a 64Gn iPhone takes a while). Very interestingly, I watched all my podcasts get copied into my iPhone but they are not accessible from the Music app, nor are they found when doing a Spotlight search!
I downloaded Apple's Podcast app and they seemed to appear there (couldn't tell for sure, app is confusing and it was accessing Wifi so I diodn't know what it saw, or if it was fetching files). But of course that app has no smart folders and accessing new podcasts and podcasts based on time-length is impossible.
Oh yes, after the restore I tried clicking on the Podcasts tab and iTunes froze up again....

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The following troubleshooting document may be worth a try:
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