Issues with Syncing

My old iPod broke so my dad just gave me an older iPhone 3G of his to replace it. I've been using it as an iPod without a sim card for months now. I just did an update of the software and now iTunes refuses to let me put songs on it, saying simply "There is no SIM card installed in the iPhone you are attempting to activate." I'm not trying to activate anything, I just want to put songs on it like I was. Somebody help please.

Updating the software sets the iPhone back to its original state - and it needs the SIM to reactivate. If your dad has the original SIM card, you can probably activate it using that, and then give him it back.

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HT1535 has anyone had issues with syncing music? i can no longer sync any of my music that was already on my itunes to my phone for some reason???

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All of the bookmarks on the desktop have vanished, but are still in my sync data and have no problems being viewed on the other paired devices. This also tells me that the issue isn't the sync server and is something unique to the desktop machine.
I am hoping that this won't require a reinstall, but if all else fails, it is an option. I will try to attach a log file once i have submitted the question.

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Issues With Syncing With Outlook Calendar, Please Help...

Windows Vista
DM 6.0 (latest Version)
BlackBerry Bold 9000 4.6 (Latest version of 4.6 before it came 5.0)
Outlook 2007 Calendar
I am currently have a Intellisync Issue with syncing with my Outlook Calendar.
When I try to go and set it up, it asks me which way I would like to sync (two ways, from BB to outlook, from out look to BB)
When I click on next, this error message comes up. Then the program just crashes and then I get back to the DM 6.0 software.
Anyone can give me pointers on trying to fix this.
Thanks!

FIRST click on “reset settings” (if it is grayed out and does not allow you to reset; just go to next step) Click on Configure settings; check off calendar; as soon as you check it the next screen just pops up It says select a device application; then scroll and select Microsoft Outlook; Click Next and then pick which way you are going to sync If it is the first time just use One way sync from outlook to device. Click next; Click transfer only future items selected; click next then finish; Should see the final screen with top box out of three checked off. Click ok Click sync at bottom right of page. I found that if I went to slow (since I was making this sheet) that I would get the error message sometimes. I would just start over; FIRST ALWAYS RESET SETTINGS; then just follow all the steps again . Then should sync Once it is finished you will be back where you started from It is a good idea to click on Reset settings now before you close out. When you go in again click follow the steps from the top of the page. FIRST click on “reset settings” (if it is grayed out and does not allow you to reset; just go to next step) Click on Configure settings;

I am having multiple issues with syncing my iphone calendar and outlook There are often 1 hour time differences in the entries on the 2 devices and sometimes events that have been amended are not updated on iphone I mostly enter items on my laptop

I am having multiple issues with syncing my iphone calendar and outlook calendar on my laptop
I mostly enter the original items on my laptop
There are often 1 hour time differences in the entries on the 2 devices and sometimes events that have been amended are not updated on iphone

This sounds like an error in Time Zone support. The time zone needs to be the same in Outlook as well as the phone.

Issue with synced videos

I have a 120 GB Classic, and some of the videos I have synced do not play completely. The iPod lops off the last minute or two of each file. It's not all the files, just certain ones.
Rebooting/resetting the iPod didn't work.
Deleting and reinstalling the files in iTunes AND the iPod, then re-syncing, in iTunes didn't work.
Resetting the "end time" in EACH file didn't work.
I'm out of ideas. Anyone else care to take a crack at it?

Okay, I don't know if this will help anyone else, but I figured out MY issue at least. It turns out it wasn't an issue with the iPod at all, it was an issue with the programs I was using to convert.
Apparently, there is a SLIGHT difference between an straight MPEG4 format and an iPod format. There were two different settings in my programs. One for an MPEG4 and one for an iPod (and before anyone asks yes I did try to use the "convert to iPod" function in iTunes, and it said it was already in the proper format).
Once I re-converted the files into the "iPod" setting they all worked just fine. So I guess if you are converting home movies, etc. for your iPod, double checkyour programs. There may be a seperate setting for iPods.
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Latest 12.1.1.4 itune updates has issues with syncing to iPhone 6 Plus

I was one of those folks wary of upgrading to iTunes 12 at first but once I did I actually liked it. I especially liked the fact that my frequent syncing problems seemed to have gone away.
Sadly, these problems came back with 12.1.1.4. For the life of me, the latest iTunes version would not recognize my iPhone 6 Plus or it did but when you tried to apply a sync, it lost visibility of my phone.
In exasperation I tried to get the older version from the Apple Website but for reasons that boggle my mind, they no longer had the 64 bit version of 12.0.1. Only the 32 bit version which would not install on my 64 bit Windows 8 OS.
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Has anyone come across this issue with 12.1.1.4? I am staying pat with 12.0.1 until Apple fixes the issue.
I know that bugs will happen in software but given the level of importance of syncing ones phone, this really is a feature that needs to be rock solid. Not only that, but the older versions of the software really need to be properly available on the Apple Web site.
Ian

Hello Mirochi,
I am sorry to hear you are having these issues with your iPhone 6 Plus. If you continue to have issues with a looping Trust notification, you may want to try resetting the Lockdown folder, as outlined in the following article:
iTunes: How to reset the Lockdown folder - Apple Support
If you have further issues with your iPhone not being recognized in iTunes, you may find the troubleshooting steps outlined in following article helpful as well:
iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch not recognized in iTunes for Windows - Apple Support
Sincerely,
- Brenden

I am having issues with syncing my calender and contacts

I would like for the changes that I make on my iphone to be primary. I have sync issues with the calender and contacts. New contacts get erased and some contacts are doubles as well as email addresses. My calender entries have been erased on sync. Can someone please help???

Check the parameters in your email account against what is recommended by your email provider.
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > account
Have you contacted the support contact at your email provider?

Issue with syncing music.

Hi again, New problem
This time after getting Itunes to read the contents of my iPhone, it willnot sync my music.
Apps, Photos and Videos sync but music and ringtones won't.
All my songs are checked boxed to sync, under sync music entire library isselected (around 7.5gb) and The iPhone knows they are all there, it even showsthem all there in blue on the capacity bar. but as soon as I hit sync, it goesthrough the steps, backing up etc. BUT when it gets to the determining tracksto sync, it doesn’t sync any music and the sync is then completed and mycapacity bar at the bottom of the summary page has no blue audio at all, can'teven Sync one song or ringtone.
Now to recap, I had recently had an issue with my iTunes not reading thecontent of my iPhone 4. I bit the bullet and downloaded iFunbox even though myiPhone is not jailbroken, and navigated through to remove the itunesCDB file, ithen had to remove all content from my iPhone as all my stuff was coming up asother in the capacity bar. so I manually deleted all my music, photos etc.
So I am assuming that I must have deleted a wrong file or folder in theresomewhere for now I can't add any music.
I have removed all music from Itunes and manually added them back in butagain. no such luck.
Any help would be much appreciated and thanking you in advance.

can anyone help with this please? im at my wits end trying to make this work.

ITunes 11/iPod Nano issues with syncing

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every since I bought a windows 8 computer, having same issue; if I stop; restart it will get one more track, but I have over 20000 tracks; I even manually converted all 22000 tracks from mp3 to m4a and still didn't fix. it would take days or months to sync 22000 songs manually this way. If you search online, there are free alternatives to itunes now to sync your ipod and I think I may be leaving itunes if the issue isn't resolved in next week or two. I am seeing the official response from apple seems to be they have no intention at this time to make itunes compatible with windows 8.

Having issue with Syncing Events from Iphoto to Apple Tv

All of a sudden I have multiple events of the same title but different amount of photos when i try to sync my photos to apple tv. Iphoto is fine, nothing is changed but when I go over to itunes to sync I see like 10 different Events with same name. EVERYTHING is multiplied but there is no rhyme or reason to it. !!!!! Apple has done some system/app updates but they are so frequent that I don't ever pay attention to what is being updated I just click to allow the process. I believe this occurred after one of the updates, I have 2 Apple TV's AT1 and AT2. AT2 is a nightmare to begin with because it was constantly getting kicked off the network but now that isn't the issue. Now it isn't showing current syncs which doesn't make sense because I thought this one streamed everything directly. Either way---APPLE TV is having issues and I can't get my EVENTS straightened out, HELP!!!!!

I've also noticed this started happening... Its something with iTunes, because both my old Apple TV's and my iPhone and iPad all show multiple events for the same event... Lots of them! So many its hard to tell what to sync now. When I click on any of my devices photos tab in iTunes they are all exactly the same. Not sure how to fix it...

Issue with syncing bblink calendar + group events calendar into outlook 2003

Had a BB Curve OS 7, and I was able to sync my default calendar AND my BBM groups calendars in one single sinc.
Now, I have the Q5 OS 10.2.1 and I can not find for the life of me, how to sync my device calendars (personal and BBM Group Events calendars) onto my pc using Outlook 2003.
Called my carrier and they don't even know what to tell me. Can someone point me in some direction please!
PS I would also accept a solution using a cloud calendar (Gmail, Outlook.com...) I just want ALL calendars to be visible from my PC with one combine calandar view.
2014-02-22 UPDATE: Just installed BBLink 1.2.3, same issue.... No solution yet!

The OS7 calendar sync ONLY sync's the default calendar. Unless you merged your BBM group calendar entries (you would have had to move them to the default calendar using a special, and little known, documented procedure) into your default calendar you couldn't have had the BBM group calendar sync'd.
Regardless, the BBM group calendars will not sync to Outlook in BB10.
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Issues with Sync

When attempting to Sync my iPhone 4S, iPad, or iPad2, some movies/music sync while for others I get an error
"iTunes could not copy "movie name" to the ipad "John iPad" because the file could not be written".
I can sync via wifi without issue.
Had no issues at all syncing devices up until the past week or so and now it appears on all of my devices. Help!

Try this:
Make sure you have the Notes as you want them in Outlook. I recommend exporting your Notes file to a .pst file as a backup just in case anything goes wrong while you're experimenting. I always do this when I set up a new sync.
Make a full backup of your BB with Desktop Software.
Use Desktop Software to delete ONLY the Memo data base on the BB device.
Now do a two-way sync. If all goes well you should be back in business. If things don't go well you can always import the Notes .pst file you made back into Outlook.
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Issue with sync'ing Google contact: how to sync only contacts in My Contact

I tried to sync my Google contacts on my PC to iPhone using iTune: Info->Contacts, select Sync contacts with "Google Contacts" from the drop down list.
However, I am only allowed to select "All contacts" as the choice. The "Selected groups" radio button is grayed out and cannot be selected. As such, all the contact info in my Google contact are synced to my iPhone, which include all the "garbage" contact info Gmail has cached, e.g. all the e-mail addresses from whom you have received e-mails from, including junk e-mails. I only want to sync contacts listed in "My Contacts". But looks like this feature (sync only Selected Groups) is not enabled or yet to be implemented? Can somebody confirm this, i.e. feature not enable vs. some config issue on my part?
Does anybody know if there is a way around it?

OK. I have just figured out how you can sync the contacts only in My Contact subgroup using Google sync over the air.
The procedure is described in detail at Google Help:
Google Sync: Set Up Your iPhone or iPod Touch for Google Sync
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252
I followed the steps there and it synced all my contact in My Contacts subgroup within a minutes.
However, I then edit a few contacts in my Google contacts just to see whether it will be synced automatically to my iPhone. So far after about 5 min, it hasn't happened.
So I am wondering how often it gets updated (or pushed) and if there are other settings I can twig this (I do have the setting Fetch New Data set to Push)?

Having issues with syncing 23.98 HD video to 24fps audio

Hello everyone,
I'm working on a feature that was shot on the Sony EX3 at a frame rate of 23.98NDF (1920 * 1080 HD). I am trying to sync it to audio that was recorded at 24fpsNDF with a sample rate of 48khz and a bit rate of 24.
When I merge the two together the audio seems too slow for the video. I checked the metadata of the video clips and it reads that the onboard mic was recording at a sample rate of 48khz and a bit rate of 16. Could that possibly be an issue?
I've search the FCP manual on what to do as well as a couple of forums but I have not found a real solution to my problem. If you could please help me out by either explaining what I should do or sending me a link as to where I can find the answer I am searching for I would greatly appreciate it since time is of the essence for me.
Thank you,
Ian

First,
Kick the one that made the decision to work this way.
Second,
Kick him again...
What happens is that BWF does NOT hold timecode, but 'samples after midnight'
This means that TC 00:00:02:00 is written as 96000
(Your sampling rate is 48000, times two seconds is 96000)
But DF and NDF do not run at the same timebase. (NDF TC runs slower, but note the actual video does NOT)
From memory you can import the BWF with another setting than your project, perhaps that'll save your butt.
My advice, go to Andreas' site (www.spherico.com) and look around there.
He has written a lot about the subject, and your answer must be there.
hth,
Bouke

Issues with syncing with Yahoo! calendar

I have had my Palm Pre on Sprint for about two months and initially enjoyed its capabilities, particularly layered email accounts, contacts, and calendars. I use Yahoo for email, contacts, and family calendars. For the first month I had my Pre, everything synchronized fairly well - I was able to input events on my Yahoo calendar and on my Pre calendar and they would sync without issue. Within the last two weeks, I have been unable to access my Yahoo calendar online; Yahoo has said they are aware of the issue but offered no solution. I also realized that while I can see my daugther's calendar, I can no longer see my son's. I have tried removing my yahoo accounts on my pre to try to reinstall but am unable to remove the accounts to begin with. So in a nutshell, my issues are these: 1) I am only able to see limited layer's of my Yahoo calendars on my Pre and 2) I can no longer see my Yahoo calendars online.
Has anyone else had these issues? Is there anything else I can try? This is frustrating as I have abandoned my paper calendar and rely heavily on my Palm for organization. I previously had a Centro and never had any problems. I am beginning to think that the Palm is not the "step up" I thought it would be. Thanks.

Hmm..I just got my new Pre 1 week ago and do not seem to have this issue. Just to double check, I tried to create an event in Yahoo then wait a few minutes for it to appear on the Pre--all OK. I did the reverse, entered it on the pre, waited about 2 min and there it was on the Yahoo cal. -- all OK.
I do know that the reminder alarms from yahoo will not sycnch to te Pre (the Pre uses it's own preset reminder) and did find 1 time that when i created 2 or 3 reminders in yahoo, the event DID NOT show up on the Pre...but this happened just 1 time but perhaps this is the culprit.
As for the other users calendars, I cannot comment as I do not have sharing or a similar situation.

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