Itunes freezes if iphone is connected multiple times?
One of the many annoyances of my phone. Currently running windows vista with iso4 and the lastest version of itunes. For some reason I've found that when my computer first starts up my iphone connects to itunes fine, will sync, stay connected, everything is normal. But if I eject it and then attempt to plug it back in, itunes will freeze up and stop responding. I will then have to either close it via task manager, or unplug my iphone (as soon as phone is unplugged itunes resumes functioning normally). On the handful of occasions where I've waited out the itunes freeze, after 5-10 minutes itunes may start responding again but does not recognize my iphone and does not display it under "devices". During this time also, my iphone does not indicate that it is charging but indicates that it is connected (with the green battery showing up as my wallpaper). The only way to connect it again normally is to reboot my computer. What could be causing this?
Message was edited by: wellthissucks
Here is the fix:
1. If frozen iTunes is open and iPhone is connected, right-click the task bar and select Start Task Manager.
2. Click on the Processes tab.
3. Look for the process distnoted.exe *32 entry.
4. Right-click and select End Process.
5. iTunes will now unfreeze.
6. Close iTunes and disconnect iPhone. Wait 15 seconds.
7. Reconnect iPhone. iTunes will launch automaticallly like it should and your iPhone will begin to sync like it should.
There appears to be an incompatibility issue with Apple's distnoted.exe process and maybe 64-bit OS's. All I know is that this works everytime although there doesn't appear to be a permanent fix to this issue. You may have to repeat these steps everytime you reboot your computer or update iTunes.
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