IPhone takes 30 minutes to sync

Whenever I sync my iPhone, it takes about 30 minutes to finish, long after any new music or apps are transferred. Any ideas?

Try rebooting both the computer and the iPhone. Adding more RAM to your machine might also help.

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My 3G iPhone takes 6 hours to sync.

Every single time I plug my 3G phone in, I have to wait 6 hours for it to finish a backup and sync. How is this possibly acceptable and when will it be fixed?
I have the following apps installed:
Band
Banner Free
BeatMaker
BlackJack21
Bloomberg
Break: 99 levels
eBay Mobile
Facebook
Google Mobile App
Labyrinth Lite Edition
Last.fm
Now Playing
Pandora
PhoneSaber
Pianist
Sketches
SmugShot
SuperMonkeyBall
Tap Tap Revenge
Texas Hold'em
Twitterific
Other information:
iTunes claims that I have 2 applications that have updates available. But when I click the "updates" arrow, iTunes then claims there are no available updates (bug)
I have 83 megs of photos, 1.17 gb of videos, 700mb of audio, and 718.5mb of "other". 12gb free.
I've deleted every app on the device and reinstalled them one at a time from iTunes. Same problem.
I've nuked the phone back to factory and started from scratch. Same problem.
My phone has less than 2 gigs of data used. I can't even imagine what it could POSSIBLY be doing for 6 hours?! There is no reason in the WORLD backing up a mobile device (even if it was FULL to 16 gigs) should take more than 20 minutes over USB 2.0.
When will this be fixed?

well, ive spent an absolute fortune at itunes for my iphone, and....
sync: 9 hours
restore: 9 hours
no, i aint lying.... i have tons of stuff on my iphone.
its great when its all on and working, but ... ONE SINGLE UPDATE, and crash.... apple logo. (back to the times above)
sometimes, i dont even have to get an update, sometimes.. its trying to sync (via cable) a new app ive just purchased on itunes (on my laptop), CRASH... apple logo.
app list:
AirHockey Fingertip Sports
allRadio
aSleep
Aurora Feint: The Beggining
Band
Bejeweled 2
Billy Frontier
Brain Challenge
Brain Tuner Premium
BtBx (beatbox)
Bubble Bash
Cannon Challenge
Chimps Ahoy
Chopper
Conversion
cowabunga
Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart
Critter Crunch
Cro-Mag Rally
Cubes
CubicMan Deluxe
Dactyl
De Blob
Dizzy Bee
Enigmo
eWallet
Facebook
Face Melter
Fire Drop
Fizz Weather
Funky Punch
GTS World Racing
Hairball
iBeer
iDrum Club Edition
iFooty
ikick
iLightr
IM+
Imagine Poker
Imangi
iPint
Koi Pond
Labyrinth
Lucky 7 Slots
Moonlight Mahjong
MotionX Poker
Moto Racer/Chaser
Multiplayer Championship Poker
Ninja Adventure
Numba
Palringo
PegJump
Picoli
Platinum Solitaire
Platinum Sudoku
Pool
Reel Deal Slots
Remote
Rock Paper Scissors
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South Park Imagination Land
Space Monkey
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Super Monkey Ball
Tap Tap Revenge
Texas Hold'em
Toy Bot Diaries
Tris
Trism
Tuner Internet Radio
Vicinity
Whack the Groundhog
3-D Vector Pong
and will be adding 2 more to that shortly, funnily enough... when my iphone has finished its RESTOREEEEEEEEEEE

Synchronizing with Outlook Calendar - 16,000 entries takes 41 minutes to sync.

I'm trying to move to my new 8330 and leave my Palm Tungsten T3 behind. I've transferred all my data onto my new 8330, but when I go to sync the data, it takes 41+ minutes to finish a back up the 16,000+ entries on my calendar. I'm either stupidly missing a simple setting (either on my handheld or in the desktop software) that will speed the sync process up significantly or I need some other software other than Blackberry Desktop to get the job done.
Is there a way to speed the backup of all my data along? My T3 takes about two minutes.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Alright here I go for the 3rd time...
I'll assume you've already installed or are going to install Blackberry Desktop on at least one of your PC's. Once that's done and you have connected your BB to the PC via the USB cable, you can enter the Blackberry Desktop software and click on "Synchronize". Next click on the "Configure Tab", and then click on the "Configure Synch" button. From inside that screen, you have four options to determine rules of a back up: Calendar, Memo Pad, Address Book, and Tasks. You select one item, go through the set up wizard and set rules of whether you want data baked up or not. You also select if you will allow data from your desktop to overwrite your BB or vice versa, or both (my initial post was as a result of my being conservative and only allowing my desktop to overwrite my BB but not the other way around, and when I adjusted that setting, I got a 2 minute backup instead of a 1 hour backup.)
You can go back into this screen, click on the "Advanced" button and alter any of these settings, and make additional selections with things like whether you want the desktop to give a warning prior to overwriting data, or if you don't want any warning at all.
I'm sure this will help. Take care.

IPhone 4 takes 30 minutes to sync

I have a 2GHz iMac running 10.6.6 and my iPhone 4 is updated to 4.3.1 and iTunes 10. I plug it in and it stays on updating and synching apps FOREVER! Please help, thanks!

How often do you sync. How many apps have large amounts of data they generate. And a big one, how many photos do you keep on your Camera Roll which is intended for temporary storage and photos are meant to be taken off on regular basis and if needed on the phone you sync back as an album instead?

Iphone takes LONG time to sync with iTunes?

Hi all,
I have and Iphone 3G with 8GB pretty much stuffed, I have only 200MB free and 1000 audio, 50 podcast video, 60 photo and TONS of apps..
I just check how long it would take to sync with my PC yeasterday... 10 hours... is that normal for a backup and sync? how can I speed up the process?
thanks

I'm having the same problem. It's definitely the backup portion. I located my backup folder, and it had over 20k files! I tried deleting the folder and backing up again, and have yet to complete a full backup (they're just too long - I'm constantly having to stop the process to take the phone with me). The latest one was 2 hours and only half done (with 8k files in the folder). I did have facebook and linkedin on the phone, so I've removed those and restarted the backup. It doesn't seem much different so far, but I think I may leave it overnight to see what happens. Could it be that the files (like caches or whatever) used by facebook and linkedin are still on the iphone even w/o the apps? How can I clean up my iphone w/o resetting it completely (I don't want to lose the data on there and I don't currently have a complete backup - though maybe after tonight I will).
Any other apps you know of that have this issue? I can't believe Apple just lets this type of sloppy file management occur.

Average Render Times for HDV? 1 1/2 minute takes 30 minutes

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I was curious if anyone has heavy experience with HDV render times or have a good resource to get average render times for HDV so I can make sure my times are close to everyone elses. I know HDV has a different GOP structure which makes render times longer, but it just seems to take for ever.
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To be honest, neither of your planned "upgrades" would improve performance all that much because you have too few drives and you will still have too little RAM. Premiere Pro CS5 still needs more than 12GB of RAM just to perform at its best. In addition, two drives (in your planned upgrade case, one SSD and one HDD) barely meet Adobe's stated minimum system requirements; Adobe strongly recommends more than three separate drives. (In your case, you'd need at least four completely matched hard drives in two (R)AID 0 arrays, with each matched pair in one array, in addition to the SSD.) And current AMD x4 CPU-based systems perform at least three to four times slower than a fast Intel-based system because the AMD CPUs do not fully support the SSE 4.x extensions that Adobe makes heavy use of.
As currently configured, you have a system that's at least 8 to 10 times slower than a fast, properly tuned Intel-based system. And even after you perform the so-called "AMD upgrade", your upgraded system will still be six to eight times slower than a fast mid-priced Intel-based system. And all that is due to the fact that you'd still have only two drives and too little RAM (IIRC you'd still have only 4GB of RAM and only a single hard drive for everything except the OS and programs even after the AMD-based "upgrade").

ITunes 10.3 takes a while to sync my iPhone

Hey everybody, I'm a Windows XP, iPhone 4 CDMA user. Over the past couple of days my iPhone has been giving me problems after I restored it. I was on the latest version of iTunes 10.2 and I got the 10.3 update, and then as soon as I downloaded it, my phone wasn't being seen by iTunes. I put it into DFU mode to try to restore it, it would then show up in my iTunes and then as it was "preparing to restore iPhone", it would say "it can't be found". I ended up trying a few more times with no luck, then I went onto another computer and it restored succesfully. However, now that I'm on 10.3, my iTunes takes FOREVER to transfer music. I also tried to transfer a copy of LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" and that took about 2-3 minutes to sync over, however when I transfered the video for the same song, it took about a minute or so, regardless of the 60+ mb size difference. The former is also true syncing apps that have less than 20 mbs of data in them. I then tried to transfer music from my sister's library to my iPhone, and that only took 5-10 secs that it would normally take. I thought maybe it might be iTunes. I went back on my computer and it still took that extra time with it.
For comparison, the other day I also sync'd my iPod Classic with my iTunes library, and for having about 77 gb worth of data on an external hard drive, that only took a few hours.
Right now, I'm uninstalling every Apple component I can from my computer. I'll install 10.3.1 and see if I have better luck. I'd like to see if I can find an installer of iTunes 10.2 and see if it's either my phone or iTunes in general. I know that's never prefered, but my options are kinda limited at this point.
I know a couple Apple people aren't exactly going to like that, but honestly, never release a beta without keeping the stable RC too.

Syncing shouldn't trouch you photos unless you have photos in a Photo Library album. These would be photos that were synced to your phone from your computer. If you do have any, you'll need to use an app like PhotoSync to transfer them to your computer prior to syncing.
If you prefer to backup your camera roll photos prior to syncing, open iTunes and go to Preferences>Devices and check "Prevent...from syncing automatically". Then connect your phone to your computer and import them as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.
Then, to minimize data loss, follow the steps in this user tip: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141. To follow the steps, first open iTunes and go to View>Show Sidebar. Also, Transfer Purchases is now located in File>Devices.

Iphone takes forever to sync

My iphone takes about an hour or more to sync usually. It stays on "syncing contacts with 'Iphone'", mail accounts, and calendars for like 20-30 minutes a piece. My guess is because of my .pst file being so large. (10gb) yes i know it's huge, but i need most of everything in there for business. Is this what would be causing it to go so slowly? or is it just slow on vista? (or vista 64-bit)

Check this link.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296
The syncing of contact information, calendar events, and bookmarks is bidirectional with the iPhone and the supported applications on your computer - by the definition of syncing.
The process is called syncing with iTunes but not all data is synced by the definition of syncing. Some data - such as iTunes content and pictures transferred from your computer to your iPhone is a data transfer process only as part of the sync process. Contact information, calendar events, and bookmarks are kept synchronized.

I have poor/no service on my iphone 6 in places that I do have service on my old iphone 5. Takes 10 minutes to send text and webpages will not load but load within seconds on the iphone 5 and forget making a phone call. How do i resolve this issue??

I have poor/no service on my iphone 6 in places that I do have service on my old iphone 5. Takes 10 minutes to send text and webpages will not load but load within seconds on the iphone 5 and forget making a phone call. How do i resolve this issue??

Hey kristiac,
Thanks for the question. If I understand correctly, you have no service on the iPhone. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help the issue.
If you can't connect to a cellular network or cellular data - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a good one,
Mario

I am trying to get my apps on my iphone and when i click sync it says backing up files and it takes hours for it to go up but it says can't finish back up wat do i do

i am trying to get my apps on my iphone and when i click sync it says backing up files and it takes hours for it to go up but it says can't finish back up wat do i do

dplum12
What computer operating system is your Premiere Elements 12 running on? Did you have the opportunity to update 12 to 12.1 Update yet using an opened project's Help Menu/Update? If not, please do so when you get the opportunity.
For now I will assume that your computer is Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 64 bit. Please try the following suggestions to overcome your Premiere Elements Sign In issue.
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2014/04/pe12-premiere-elements-12-editor-will.html
and, if you get any messages about Internet connect and the computer clock, please review the following
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2014/04/pe12-sign-in-failure-connect-to.html
Please let us know the outcome.
Thank you.
ATR

Why does it take so long to sync my iphone?

I am syncing my iphone and it takes mad long when syncing the bookmarks, what are the bookmark? why do it take this long?

8 hours later and it is reading "finishing sync" which I believe is past Step 5 and I have no idea when the "finish" will occur and am afraid to disconnect/interrupt the sync. The current version of itunes (11) is installed and syncing Microsoft Outlook (about 400 contacts, calendar, etc) for the first time. What should I do next besides wait?

ITunes 9.2 Causing Continual Reset after 5 minutes of Sync

iTunes 9.2 causing continual reset after 5 minutes of syncing. This never happened with earlier versions. The iPhone basically reboots and takes a very long time to execute that reboot.

I am having the same issue, itunes is 'stuck' syncing with my Apple TV for hours and hours, no new content is viewable or playable, yet the previously synced items are still available, as well as my music library and photos.
I've tried rebooting the Apple TV, as well as my Mac, the network is working just great in all other aspects. (airport extreme base station router)
It seems that every time I update to the latest Apple software, I experience problems.
Updated to the latest Safari and my entire network went completely 'screwy' for days then just magically started working fine again. (this happened last time Apple released a new version of Safari)
Now I have the latest itunes, and suddenly this strange sync problem with my Apple TV.
Very frustrating, and equally mysterious how these problems just seem to 'fix themselves' after a few days (sometimes weeks) after updating Apple software.

Hopefully someone can help.... I have an Iphone 5 and want to create a music video playlist on my phone so then i can play through my apple tv... but when i make a playlist in itunes and try to add it over to my iphone it wont let me sync the playlist...?

Hopefully someone can help.... I have an Iphone 5 and want to create a music video playlist on my phone so then i can play through my apple tv... but when i make a playlist in itunes and try to add it over to my iphone it wont let me sync the playlist...? I have already added the music videos to my iphone so that is not the problem.... i cant seem to figure out how to make a playlist for them... IE: to make the videos play consecutively in the order i want without stopping after each video and gong back to the list.... this is what i have had to resort to make it work....what i want to do....is be able to make a playlist of videos on my iphone 5....take my apple tv to friends houses and with wifi....set up apple tv and play videos at the party and not have to stand by with the remote and find a new video to play stopping the music between the songs/videos....very annoying....and have spent over 4 hours one day and an hour and a half today on the phone today with a sr. advisor with apple and they have no clue.... this seems sooooo simple.... please somebody that really knows how to do this....i will be indebted forever...............
Mike

Thank you for replying. Yes I deleted the old email address..

How can I resolve an issue where webpages take several minutes to download? Other computers working on the same home network take not time at all.

Firefox would not load webpage despite there being an active internet connection to the computer. I know this because firefox loaded on another home computer without any issues. I reset the ip address on the computer in question through cmd.exe and this helped the issue to an extent however it take several minutes to load webpages. I can also advise tha Internet Explorer suffered exactly the same issue and it gave me an error message early when unable to load webpages, that a remote firewall may be blocking the connection. It suggested to configure the firewall to allow connections thru TCP port 80.

Hello ,
Can you please post your ADSL stats by following this direct link; http://192.168.1.254/index.cgi?active_page=9116 << it only works if you have a Home Hub 2.0+ and remember to type your password in.
Also we need a speedtest Use this link http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9354/c/346,4740,5520 as it will also help you diagnose and give you a list of solutions afterwards, it does incorporate the http://www.speedtester.bt.com one though as well.
It sounds to me that you have a low profile, with your stats we can see if you've been having disconnections which makes the exchange raise your Noise Margin to try and increase your stabibility, but at a cost of speed, it may have been that your sync speed has recovereed, but not your IP Profile.
Here are some helpful (I actually did find them helpful!) tips from BT: http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/35079 up to you whether you want to read those tips, because I did actually find them helpful.
Can you comfirm that you have no noise on the line. Really a test by dialling 17070 and pressing option 2 for the quiet line test should be completed in the Master Socket with no other devices connected to the line. ANd also do you have a master socket with a split faceplate that you can unscrew the bottom half, if so behind there is a hidden 'test socket', it disconnects all your internal wiring so just to make sure its not a fault inside your premises.
Regards Edd
Check your Line
BT Speedtester

IPhone 3GS will not fully sync with iTunes 9.2

Just installed iTunes 9.2 (twice) and I cannot complete a sync of my iPhone 3GS. It seemingly stalls at Contacts or Calendar (varies on each attempt). Prior to this, my syncs would be speedy fast (less than 5 minutes.
Any ideas of what I can do to fix?
Thanks in advance

I was sync'ing fine with iTunes version 9.1.2 and then I allowed Software Update to download and install 9.2.
Then iTunes downloaded iOS4 and did the install/restore process on the iPhone. Somewhere after that I get the message during the sync process "The iPhone (my name) cannot be synced. A duplicate file name was specified".
I deleted all the backups listed in iTunes, I unchecked the Sync box for everything so that the phone is basically empty, no Apps, music, movies.
It still won't sync.
Any ideas?

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