ITUNES WON'T START BECAUSE OF APPLE MOBILE DEVICE NOT STARTING?
What does this mean? I just updated to the latest version and downloaded about 40 songs off of itunes and when I went to go plug my iphone in , it says '' This iphone cannont be used Apple Mobile Device is not started''? What on earth does this mean? Please help!!!
Iceman50,
Apple Mobile Device is a background service that helps iTunes communicate with the iPhone or iPod Touch.
This article discusses how to restart it:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307078
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.
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