ITunes error message - iPhone contents cannot be read. IOS5 and iTunes 10.5
Hello,
I am having problems with my phone which is an iPhone 3gs. I have recently upgraded it to the ios5 software and since then my music will not sync to my phone. I have had some problems after this with iTunes not even loading & just freezing every time I try to do anything but now I have it loading and I get an error message coming up which says...
'iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPhone 'Danielle's iPhone'. Go to the summary tab in iPhone preferences and click restore to restore this iPhone to the factory settings.'
I was just wondering if there is a way around it? As the last backup I did when iTunes was working properly was before I updated the software on the phone so I don't want to lose things I've done in between on it. Maybe by uninstalling iTunes perhaps? I wondered too if anyone else was having the same problem.
I hope someone can help me,
Kind regards,
Danielle.
Oh also I must add...
When installing the ios5 software and the phone had then been restored from back up it kept coming up an error message that the restore hadn't been successful. I ignored this as everything was as before on my phone and each time I pressed for it to restore it again the same error message came up.
Danielle.
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