New problems syncing

out of blue, when i hook up my iphone to the usb port to sync with my macbook, it sometimes doesn't sync.
this has happened the last few times i've tried. sometimes i reboot the iphone &/or the macbook and then sometimes it will sync, sometimes it won't. eventually, somehow, it responds after a few tries. no problem syncing my ipods.
i'm not a fan of resetting my iphone to it's original settings. the software on my macbook isn't the latest so everytime i get a new iphone or have to reset, i lose stuff, like my notes.
anyone else having this problem recently? any solutions/
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I've had the same problem, and just within the past few weeks (perhaps in conjunction with a new iTunes install). When I synch, it appears to complete with no errors, but my calendar has not synched at all. This consistently happens, not intermittant.
As a workaround, I used HELP-Diagnostics, and selected iPhone synch (bottom check mark only), and it ran through diagnostics (in an open DOS window), and then reported SYNCH was working fine... and it did synch my iPhone! But the normal synch still does not work. Go figure.
I'm not a fan of a full restore either, so would really like to hear of any other solutions to this problem.

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