IPhone 4 spinning wheel problem

I have a problem with a constant spinning wheel on my iPhone 4 after power up. I cannot update the software although iTunes recognises the phone as I need to enter my 4 digit pin which I can't. It won't sync or back up to ensure I don't lose anything. I have tried several hard resets but it has not resolved the issue. Help! I haven't backed up the phone for a while and don't want to lose anything!

Mmmm ... just ran into the same issue for the first time
iTunes just sits there spinning & spinning for any length of time now.

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I am having trouble with computer freezing, spinning wheel. The only way to get out is to manually shut off computer and reboot.

The issue usually occurs when computer goes into the screensaver mode. When this happens, none of the keys are opperable and the round wheel/ball just continues to spin. The only resolve is to manually shut down the computer witht the button on back of the monitor/hard drive. Not sure if this is bad for the computer to shut down this way or not.
Computer Info:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name:          iMac
Model Identifier:          iMac11,3
Processor Name:          Intel Core i3
Processor Speed:          3.2 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache (per core):          256 KB
L3 Cache:          4 MB
Memory:          4 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed:          5.86 GT/s
Boot ROM Version:          IM112.0057.B00
SMC Version (system):          1.59f2
System Version:          Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Kernel Version:          Darwin 10.8.0
Boot Volume:          Macintosh HD
Boot Mode:          Normal
Computer Name:          Charles iMac
User Name: xxx
Secure Virtual Memory:          Enabled
64-bit Kernel and Extensions:          No
Time since boot:          24 minutes

I starting having this "colored spinning wheel" problem too! It started about two weeks ago and like the others, every time I go into my Yahoo mail, I get the spinning-wheel and the only way out is to "X" out of the site. Sometimes I can make it through a few notes, other times the problem starts as soon as I click on the first note. I searched google a few days ago and saw a response to this problem that said I should "uncheck" the 3 items in the "Auto-fill" preferences in Safari (Safari-Preferences-Autofill) and that should help. It did not. I also went in and deleted cookies, cache and history, but that didn't work either, or if it did, it only took a few clicks to experience the problem again. One of the times I went in to delete cookies I noticed over 100 cookies and other website data stored and I had only been on perhaps 2 or 3 sites (CNN, google and yahoo and perhaps Apple), and I never click on the adds. Don't know if there's any significance to this but I thought that was an awful lot of "cookies" for just a few clicks after previously deleting cookies. Also, I believe I have the latest version of Yahoo mail. I actually have 2 Yahoo accounts and the spinning wheel is a problem with both of them, same for my wife. Any help would be very much appreciated.
I have a MacBook Pro purchased last December with Snow Leopard 10.6.8, Safari version 5.1, an Intel core i5 processor, 4 GB of memory and a 320 GB HD with very little loaded on it.

On Safari.... Spinning wheel goes on and on and on

I have had a similar problem as maru with Safari. I continually get the spinning colored wheel everytime I open Safari. Sometimes it goes away quickly and opens, but other times it can go on until I do a 'force quit'.
I thought I would try the Disk Utility from the Panther Install Disk CD (as you suggested to maru). This is the problem I have encountered from that effort. Restart with Panther CD, open Disk Utility, then choose either the 'verify disk permissions' or 'repair disk permissions' and after running for about 5 minutes on either choice I get the following message. "Disk Utility has lost connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility." I did that two times from the pull down menu, then tried shutting down computer and restarting with Panther CD and trying the 2 choices of 'verify' and then 'repair' again, getting the same "Disk Utility has lost... " message.
I want to stop the long spinning wheel problem and can't find a direct answer to this problem in the "SUPPORT" area.
Dulany

Hi Dulany,
Sorry for the continued issues, with the spinning ball.
I never upgraded to 'Tiger' because I am not a network operation, nor do I design web sites, or wanted more 'bells and whistles'
No problem, I still run panther on my Flat panel, it works well,
there is no reason why you should have to Upgrade, if you do not need to or want to. there are learned users L4 here in AD, that still run 9.2.2, so no worries.
Just have to get sorted.
Read this before applying any more updates, there is plenty for our os, just follow the linksMac OS X Updating FAQ i have no doubt
H_S meant 10.3.9.
• Please try Safari in a test or other user account. If you do not have another account, please create one.
Go to System preferences/Accounts/Log in Options & use the [+] to add one.
This will help show if the issues is system wide or isolated to your user name account.
• Do you have any items/ Start up Items,, anything that uses the internet,
the more there, the more spinning
• Do you have
1) MS word
*Please note there is a security update for<a href=""http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3340484&#3340484> Office: mac x v mac:
2) do you use & have NortonAv in startups ( I hope you say no to this one!)
• System preferences/Energy Saver/ make sure that the box,put the disks to sleep when possible is NOT selected,
Setting the display to sleep is fine, but the disks to sleep, too soon will give you the spinning if set too soon.
• See this Mac OS X speed FAQ
Good luck, Please keep us posted, with any questions or ........
Regards,
Eme
edited by: Eme~

Massive IMAP problem, multiple iPhones - constant spinning wheel

A friend has had problems using email on his iPhone since he got it, and now after a couple of months of no problems, mine has started doing the same thing.
The problem started for him on a UK 1.1.2 firmware iPhone with an IMAP account. If you start from scratch, manually setup an IMAP account, it will connect and get your messages. However later, you will find that the iPhone email program is constantly showing the spinning wheel at the top of the screen (showing activity), not the symbol at the bottom of the screen. Worse, the battery rapidly runs down (because it is doing constant data transfers), and worse new emails do not reliably get through. This happens whether you are using GPRS, EDGE, or WiFi (does not make a difference). This problem still happens with 1.1.3 firmware. There is so much data transfer happening (or trying to happen) that the phone actually gets quite warm.
This week after a couple of months of owning my own iPhone with 1.1.3 firmware has also started doing the same thing. My main IMAP account is on a totally different server, running a different server application to my friends. However it also seems to happen with GMail accounts (using IMAP).
I am currently at home and I can see my WiFi (AirPort Extreme) base-station showing lots of activity and I know that no other WiFi devices are active so it is purely the iPhone. Turning off the email account stops the problem (and I can then see the WiFi activity stop as well) but that is hardly a solution. Also setting it to manual polling for email helps but again is not a proper solution. It is so bad that sending emails is very difficult as well.
Even though at the iPhone end nothing seems to be coming through, one can see the iPhone as a connected user at the server end (I have access to the servers, obviously not for Gmail though).
My friend has swapped his phone four times at the Apple Store and still has the problem, and as I said mine has started as well. Turning off and on does not help, resetting network settings does not help.
Apple Mail on a Mac (running both Leopard and Tiger), and other IMAP clients have no problems with the same IMAP accounts (for both of us).
Other Internet access like Web, Stock Widget, Weather Widget, even the iTunes WiFi store work fine. It is just email that is broken.

Pdobry wrote:
The problem is that Mail app in iPhone is trying to download message headers via FETCH command and does not handle properly response from IMAP server which does not support partial download of email headers. It starts asking for the headers in the infinite loop which quickly drains out the battery
More recent testing by myself reveals it is getting stuck on some messages when doing the 'message peek' to get the summary of an email. It gets the subjects fine (as the first pass) but then gets stuck on some emails when doing the second pass to get the summary. Apple Mail on a Mac does not (as far as I am aware) do a message peek so does not have this problem.
The two different makes of server I have seen this problem with do support this message peek command in that at least some of the time it is working with the iPhone.
I was able to get a debug level log which shows entries like this
\[02/Apr/2008 23:56:17\]\[48699904\] {imaps} Peek FETCH executed on message 0000ba58 in folder [email protected]/INBOX
\[02/Apr/2008 23:56:17\]\[48699904\] {imaps} Sent 1 fetch responses
\[02/Apr/2008 23:56:18\]\[48699904\] {imaps} Command 293 UID FETCH 47704 BODY.PEEK\[2.HEADER\]<1177.15207>
\[02/Apr/2008 23:56:18\]\[48699904\] {imaps} Peek FETCH executed on message 0000ba58 in folder [email protected]/INBOX
\[02/Apr/2008 23:56:18\]\[48699904\] {imaps} Sent 1 fetch responses
\[02/Apr/2008 23:56:18\]\[48699904\] {imaps} Command 294 UID FETCH 47704 BODY.PEEK\[2.HEADER\]<1177.15207>
The above shows two repetitions but it keeps on (and on, and on). Other occasions show this does work for other messages. If I deliberately arrange to get the iPhone to connect to get the latest messages I can see it get stuck on a particular message, and then even if I turn it off and back on and reconnect it will get stuck on the same message. If repeated on a later date then the contents of the inbox will have changed and the message it gets stuck on will be different.
As it seems to be linked to specific messages it was not a surprise that when this is tried on a practically empty email account the problem does not occur.
This has happened with multiple different makes of mail server (well at least two), multiple email accounts, multiple users, and multiple different iPhones (one person had his swapped four times). It does not happen with 'ordinary' IMAP client software, only with the iPhone.
Even if one for arguments sake assumes the mail server is at fault and is sending the iPhone garbage, the iPhone should only try a single specific email a maximum number of times (for example five), and then give up. This would prevent it draining the battery so fast and trying to cook itself (by constantly running its transmitter).

Is anybody having problems opening Jpegs attachments on iPhone 4s sent in email?..imap , mac, and exchange accounts are affected. I get a spinning wheel or it bombs out!!..Help

Is any body having problems opening Jpegs sent via email as attachments. iPhone 4
I can't open and get a spinning wheel or it bombs out!..Help!! It affects iMap, exchange and mac accounts!

Solution for me was changing the "Load Remote Images" setting, shutting down and restarting the phone. The old messages with problems reloaded with all attachments accessible.
Background: I began having this problem recently with PDF, jpeg,vcf files and apparently now, all attachments as well as email with html links are coming through with no attachment or as empty email. This was a new problem for me. I have been backing up to the cloud, but not using a cloud email account. I have multiple accounts on the phone, six of them actually and have been set up this way for over a year without problem. Some are imap, some pop, none are through exchange.

IPhone 4s unresponsive stuck on the spinning wheel of death.

Hi,
My 4s has gotten progressively more unresponsive for the last few days. It worked flawlessly for two weeks or so, but the last two or so days have seen it getting weird.
Symptom 1 appeared 2-3 days or so ago: Facebook started getting freezy. 50% of the time it would take after opening it would take 15-45 sec to become to finish loading and become responsive to touch commands.
Symptom 2 happened 2 days ago: The phone froze for 15 or so seconds, went to black screen, showed the spinning wheel of death, and then rebooted to lock screen very quickly.
Symptom 3 happened 4 hours ago: The phone was searching for the carrier when I took it out of my pocket. Other iphone users in the room had perfect reception. I solved the problem by turning on airplane mode briefly and then turning it off again.
Symptom 4 happened just now: I was playing music, paused with the earbud control, switched to a different set of headphones, pressed play on the lock screen and got no response. Realized the phone was frozen. It stayed that way for 2-3 minutes, went to black screen and the spinning wheel of death, but then the spinning wheel of death froze as well. It has been in this state for the last 20 minutes.
I will be happy to post time-stamped photos of the locked up phone if anyone needs proof.
A hard-reset solved the problem. For now.
Any advice on what this could be? A software setting? An app interaction?
Any advice on if I should return the phone and get a different one?
Thanks!
--Jason

Hey sorry to hear about your frustration.
A couple of things.
First, Facebook is known for causing issues on iPhone. It takes up a lot of memory and has been known to crash a lot. It has gotten a lot better with time and updates but can still cause problems. I tend to manually quit it from the App-switcher/multitasking tray.
Second, the reception issue you mentioned ("Searching", lack of data connection) sounds like it might be similar to some of the reports on this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3511559?tstart=30#3511559
Personally, I've been having the same problems on my 4S with reception as well as Siri being unavailable in spite of having 3G and being able to make/receive calls.
Thirdly, now that you mention it, I have noticed lack of responsiveness to touch input at times. Sometimes when my phone is locked, I'll press the home button or the wake button and it will take quite awhile before the phone reponds amd the screen turns on. Sometimes it doesn't at all and I have to press the button multiple times to get a reponse.
So, yes, many of your issues sound familiar. Unfortunately, I think I share some of them with you.
One thing you might want to check is what software version you have. The most recent is 5.0.1 build 9A406. If you have 5.0.1 build 9A405 you're not running the most up-to-date software. In that case, update by backing ul and restoring from iTunes (sofware update on the phone will not show the update; it has to be done via backup+restore in iTunes). To check what version you have, go to Settings>General>About. Scroll down and check what it says under "Version".
I hope that helps somewhat.

Spinning wheel in Photos tab when syncing iPhone or iPad with iTunes

I can't be certain when this started, but when I attempt to sync both my iPad and iPhone photos through iTunes, I'm not presented with any options, just a spinning wheel that never finishes loading. I've looked in multiple discussions with similar problems but none of the solutions seem to help. So far, I've tried:
Different USB cable.
Creating new "dummy" libraries in both Aperture and iPhoto (local disks, not on network disks).
Rebooting
Restarting devices
Permissions repair
Repairing permissions in the Aperture library
Rebulidng the iPhoto database.
Deleting the iPod Photo Cache inside the Aperture library (which doesn't seem to get rebuilt)
Updating the software.I was using 10.9.2 and 11.1.5 iTunes, but upgrading using the Mavericks public beta hoping that would fix it. It did not.
In iTunes, going to File-->Home Sharing-->Choose Photos to share with AppleTV brings up the same spinning wheel.
Deleting all kinds of preferences, com.apple.itunes, etc.
Oddly enough, my wife's user account which has its own iPad and iPhone synced with its own iPhoto library is doing the exact same thing.
I've spent hours on this and have no idea what else to do. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you!

I think I fixed it thanks to the answers here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/10331322?messageID=10331322#10331322?messa geID=10331322
It involves reloading the iLifeMediaBrowser from the Mavericks installer.

After iOS5, iPhone 4 shuts down and hangs with spinning wheel

This has happened twice so far. I'm not aware of any particular action that causes the problem. I know in both cases it happened while the iPhone had a good charge. Next time I looked at it, the screen showed the spinning wheel one normally sees during shutdown, but was stuck there.
I'm surprised I'm not seeing this on the forum already. Anyone else?

You're not alone Jason. I've been having this problem after the second update for iOS5. My Iphone had been working great and I became very attached to it. Maybe you and I are the only ones to have this issue?
For any future posters, I continue to have this problem after:
- restoring my phone as a new device (not restoring settings\data from backup)
- refrain from downloading any apps
- ensuring apps are turned off when not using them
This is affecting my job now where I'll probably have to buy a cheap phone to ensure my clients can always get a hold of me. If you're reading Apple....please help us.

MacBook freezing ,constant spinning wheel, Internet problems

My Macbook has been freezing and running extremely slow since Saturday, i was using logic pro and recorded alot the next day is when all the problems began,it constantly has the spinning wheel which makes completing task increasing irritating and time consuming, I've been trying to update my software to see if that would fix everything but I can't even connect to the App Store it keeps saying It doesn't have a connection but I'm more than positive I have Internet cause I'm using it on my iPhone. I'm starting to fear that all of these problems are related to each other in some strange way. I have a clean my Mac app so I'm sure I have space due to the fact I just deleted a lot of data. I tried the activity monitor also when it's idle it dosent jump or anything but when It freezes and everything resumes working I notice the activity monitor has maxed out,or so I assume, and then the spinning wheel occurs. I know my Mac is one software update behind but now since all these problems are occurring I can't access the App Store to update it. I want to just reset everything but I no longer have my disk I'm not really sure what to do I was so close to completing my project. Any advice will be greatly appreciated

Back up all data immediately as your boot drive may be failing.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CSeq "I/O error" | tail | open -f -a TextEdit
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Normally the window will be empty. If you get output like this:
kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error
the boot drive is failing, or there's some other hardware fault in the storage subsystem.

Date/Time Problem Results In Spinning Wheel

My mom's eMac recently was shutdown during a power outage, and came back with the date/time reset problem (I'm familiar with this when my battery comes loose on my iBook).
Only problem is, if I try to launch System Preference or Open Date & Time I get the spinning wheel that doesn't allow me to reset the date/time. On top of that, I can't seem to get anything to launch right now b/c it seems Finder is what's getting the spinning wheel. The only thing that launches is AIM (which is on autolaunch), but it can't be accessed at all from the computer (though it does show up as signed on when I'm signed on to AIM at work).
I've tried a force quit to relaunch finder with no results, and have also blasted the PRAM and tried the instructions for resetting the PMU (if I'm doing that right).
One thing I can across is the possibility I need to replace the internal backup battery. Could that be the problem, or have I run into soemthing much more serious.
Any help would be appreciated.

Hello! A power outage often damages the disk's directory information. Boot from the install disc ("c" key down at startup with disc inserted) and right after the language screen navigate through the drop down menus to the disk utility and repair the disc. Run the repair multiple times if it reports errors until it doesn't report errors. Tom

After upgrading to yosemite on my macbook pro the spinning wheel does not go away.i have reset the SMC and PRAM but the problem still persists

After upgrading to Yosemite on my macbook pro,the spinning wheel doesn't go away.I have reset the SMC and the PRAM but the problem still persists.Can anyone please help

Try starting in Safe Mode
OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
Try booting to Recovery and repairing the startup disk
OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
Reinstall Yosemite
OS X Yosemite: Reinstall OS X
This is the Mac Pro desktop forum. I requested your post be moved to the MacBook Pro laptop forum.

I try to reset iPhone 4 to "erase all content and setting" but it stuck on spinning wheel, help please.

I have read things that can help me such as this:
wjosten
This solved my questionRe: Spinning wheel after 'Erase All...'
Jul 8, 2011 1:44 AM (in response to khosra)
Something has gone wrong, on a 3GS, the erase of all content setting should take but a minute or two.
You will have to force the phone into recovery mode:
Turn the phone off using the Sleep/Wake button, then the slide to power off. If you are unable to do that, press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time. When your phone turns off, release the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons. Then, leave the USB cable connected to your computer, but NOT your phone, iTunes running, press & hold the home button while connecting the USB cable to your dock connector, continue holding the home button until you see “Connect to iTunes” on the screen. You may now release the home button. iTunes should now display that it has detected your phone in recovery mode, if not quit and reopen iTunes. If you still don’t see the recovery message repeat these steps again. iTunes will give you the option to restore from a backup or set up as new. In your case, select NEW.
and when I try to put it to iTunes it give me a message saying" The iPhone software update server could not be contacted." PLEASE HELP. I just got this iPhone 4.
and also when I try to updated it like a month ago it won't work.

Sorry, you said I need to take it to the Apple Store to help me with the iPhone before I posted that. What do they mean:
Additional Information
The “hosts” file may also be blocking gs.apple.com.
Select the hosts file (normally you can find your hosts file at C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC).
Click the Edit menu, and choose Copy.
Then, click the Edit menu again, and choose Paste. There should now be a duplicate of the hosts file named "Copy of hosts" (Windows XP) or "hosts -Copy" (Windows Vista/7).
Drag the original hosts file to your desktop. If Windows needs your permission to continue, click Continue.
Drag the "Copy of hosts" (Windows XP) or "hosts -Copy" (Windows Vista/7) to the desktop.
Right-click "Copy of hosts" (Windows XP) or "hosts -Copy" (Windows Vista/7) and choose Open. You may be prompted to choose the program you want to use to open this file. Double-click Notepad.
When Notepad opens, click the Edit menu and choose Select All. Then from the Edit menu, choose Delete.
From the File menu, choose Save. Close Notepad.
Drag the "Copy of hosts" (Windows XP) or "hosts -Copy" (Windows Vista/7) file from your desktop back into the original location. If Windows needs your permission to continue, click Continue.
Right-click the "Copy of hosts" (Windows XP) or "hosts -Copy" (Windows Vista/7) file, and choose Rename. Type "hosts" (without quotation marks) and press Enter.
Restart your computer and try connecting to the software update server.

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