Iphone 4 won't sync music

I shattered the screen of my Iphone 4 and it started having other hardware issues so I was happy when my dad upgraded and gave me his old 4. I backed everything up from my phone and "restored from backup" on my new phone. This worked for everything but my apps, which was annoying, but I could live with it. I then redownloaded all of the apps I needed and synced my iphone with itunes. This deleted all the music off of my new phone and replaced it with my dad's music. We don't share a computer or an itunes account so this is very weird. I've tried syncing multiple times, with various options selected; sync entire music library, sync selected playlists, artists, songs, etc, sync only selected songs, and whatever else I've found on the apple forums. Nothing is working. The bar at the bottom shows that it's going to put 8.34gb of music on my phone, but after I sync no music is there. This is very frustrating and this has yet to be addressed by apple. I'm not going to be purchasing another iphone with my upgrade because of this issue. But I do want to fix it until that time. So what to do?

I hope you got it working, but in the event that you didn't:
I had this exact same problem. I tried it once and had to cancel the sync because the "loading" bar at the top had stopped looking like it was moving. Also, iTunes read "application not responding" when I went to check it, so I force quit. I tried again a little bit later. Same thing. This time I waited ten or fifteen minutes and it finished up just fine.
I have an external hard drive that contains all of my music and I suspect that may have been contributing to the slowdown/near stop of the program.
In conclusion, I would recommend waiting to see if it works (try half an hour if you have to), and I bet that clears it up. Hopefully this helps!

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cutwright 93,
I have a 4s, and I've had that problem, too. I've tried every method mentioned on the boards. If Ellips's suggestion didn't work, try this, and please let me know if it worked:
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hello
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