My iphone 3gs won't sync with itunes and shows error message ( im on macbook pro lion 8.1)

Can someone help me? Im very thankfull !

Hey! So I had the same thing happen.  I went to my phone settings and restored it.  It said no information or data would be lost.  After I did that I plugged it into my laptop and it started to sync like it usually does.
Hope it works for you too!

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