IPhone 3G with 2.1 firmware lost all music
Hi,
My details:
Mac OSX 10.4.11
iPhone 3G with 2.1 firmware
iTunes 8.0 (35)
Before anybody replies and says this has already been solved, I would like to say the following. I have searched forums and the internet for this. Many different sites recommend different ways to fix (some very complicated ways). However, it also seems clear that iTunes with firmware 2.1 fixed this problem. However, that is exactly what I have and yet it still happened to me. So, 1, I thought I would throw this out there that their fix did not actually fix it (at least for me) and 2, I was hoping for a once and for all clear (hopefully easy) way to fix this. And specific to this new version. Please read the exact sequence of events that lead to the problem.
I just got the iPhone about 2 days ago. I plugged it into my mac for the first time today. I sync my contacts, calendar, Applications. I then copied a whole bunch of my music to the iPhone. Everything was working fine. While the iPhone was still plugged in (charging) I created my own ringtone out of an MP3 song I have by converting it to AAC. After renaming the file to .m4r so that iTunes would recognize it as a ring tone, I re-imported it into iTunes. All of a sudden, all the playlists under my iPhone in iTunes disappeared.
I looked on the iPhone, and all the music is gone. In iTunes it still says that the space is used.
Has anyone else had this on the 2.1 firmware?
Does anybody know of an easy solution?
Thanks.
I've just had this happen with 2.2. My iphone has been upgraded for a few weeks now and things were so so. (as much as an iPhone can be I guess). I have used the ipod feature heaps, but went to play recently and my iPhone says no content yet out of 14.4 gig capacity I only have 4 gig left I can only assume something has screwed up..
Now the dilemmas start, plugged in to itune and says cannot read iPhone. Please restore. So I tried and now Im getting the same bullhits error 9 I got when I upgraded. It took over 4hrs to get the upgrade to 2.2 firmware to work when it was released, looks like Im up for that again.
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