OK-- sync iPhone over a network?

Is there any way to connect an iPhone to one computer, but have it sync with another computer over a network? The reason being that my wife's iBook G3 has no USB2 port, so we have to connect the iPhone to a different computer, but she needs to sync with her iCal and Contacts on the iBook.

what about bluetooth? i don't know much about the iPhone (still debating) but i currently use bluetooth to sync my phone with my G5 tower. anyone know if the bluetooth will work?

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Unable to sync iPhone over USB - MobileMe settings SNAFU!

I've been using my iPhone for about a month without enabling its MobileMe sync settings for my contacts, calendars and bookmarks. This was by mistake.
Now I would like to turn on those settings. However, when I try to do that I am told it will erase the existing contacts in my iphone. This is unacceptable as I have added new contacts in my phone over the last month and would simply like to merge them with the contacts on my computer.
The obvious solution is to sync my iPone with with my computer via USB and iTunes, then sync my computer with my MobileMe account, then enable MobileMe syncing on my iPhone and overwrite everything with the thoroughly updated info.
HOWEVER
This simply will not work. I can't sync my iPhone with my computer because iTunes keeps telling me that "Your contacts are being synced with your iPhone over the air from MobileMe." This is happening DESPITE the fact that I have turned off all of the MobileMe syncing options on both my iPhone and my computer. To be more specific, on the iPhone under HomeScreen/Settings/Mail,Contacts,Calendars/Accounts/MacIMAP - all of the sync settings are set to "Off." Moreover, under Homescreen/Settings/FetchNewData - the Push option is set to "Off".
All of this and iTunes still insists that my phone wants to sync over the air from MobileMe.
Why can't I convince my computer that the phone settings are off and thus enable USB synching??
Any help would be MASSIVELY appreciated!
And happy Thanksgiving, by the way!

You're welcome.
An IMAP account is specifically designed for this.
POP accounts are more common than IMAP accounts, but IMAP accounts are not being phased out - not by a long shot. Supporting SSL for the incoming mail server and outgoing mail server is up to the email account provider for the email account. Some POP account providers support this, and some don't. I've never accessed a POP account provided by an ISP that supported SSL or provided an authenticated SMTP server.
A MobileMe account is accessed as an IMAP account, and Apple supports SSL for the incoming and outgoing mail server, and the outgoing mail server is also authenticated.
You can access a Yahoo account as an IMAP account with the iPhone's Mail client only - not with an email client on your computer.
You can access a Gmail account as an IMAP account with any email client.

Sync iPhone over the air?

Hey everyone,
iPhone n00b here. Does anyone know if it is possible to sync the iphone over the air either via 802.11 or Bluetooth?
I don't want to have to plug it into my laptop every night.
Cheers

What are you trying to sync? And where does that content reside.
If you are sycning email, contacts, and calendars, then you can sync with Mobile Me "over the air."
If you want to sync music, podcasts or otner content stored in iTunes, then your computer that hosts iTunes must be turned on. WFI can be uused to connect but the compute must be running.

Syncing Iphone Over USB Hub

I'm having no luck connecting my Iphone to Itunes using my powered Belkin USB hub, so I'm unable to sync and I'm unable to upgrade to 3.0.
I'm working on a MacBook Air and am using vs. 2.2.1 of the Iphone software.
I require a USB hub because the Air has only one USB port and I keep all my itunes songs and aperture photos on a external (powered) USB hard drive. Both the external drive and my Iphone must plug into the USB hub.
Here's what happens... I open itunes... all my songs show up and play successfully. But when I plug in my Iphone, all I get is a twirling beach ball (in Itunes). ARGH!
Any suggestions? Thanks!

I don't think it will work on a non powered hub. Is it powered? you may need to connect to Air directly.
Good Luck
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How to sync iPhone to iPad games etc.

Does any one knowhow to sync for exemple angry birds from my iPhone to iPad? So i can play The same levels?
So when i quit on my iPhone i can play furhter on my iPad?

Not quite, data is specific to each device.
Unless the game itself offers that kind of syncing functionality over their network, I don't believe you can do it. Check with the game developer.

ICal / MobileMe To Dos & iPhone syncing over mobile networks: Solution!!!

I have been after a solution to use the to do list in iCal on my Mac @ home and the MobileMe Calendar web page while at work & away from home AND have it sync OTA with my iPhone. There hasn't been a solution that I have found for this until now! I have tried Things and OmniFocus, but in my opionion they are both too bloated for my needs. I want a simple todo list with due dates, notes, priorities and URLs, that I can use on desktops as well as mobile. The iCal / MobileMe to do list is perfect for this, but until now there hasn't been a way to keep the same todo list on my iPhone and keep it in sync everywhere.
I now have a solution. Appigo recently launched a beta of their iCal Sync app for OSX. I downloaded & installed this to my Mac at home, and downloaded their iPhone Todo app. Great syncing between iCal and iPhone over my home Wifi network. Then, I thought, what is to stop me using this over the internet when I'm not at home? So I setup a domain with no-ip.org, which allows you to point a domain name at your home DSL router IP address and have it forward traffic to your home computer. Using a DNS solution in this way means you can dynamically update the domain name to change when your router public IP address changes (unless you have a static IP assigned with your ISP). So, anyway, I set this up to point at my router's public IP address, then configured my home router to forward a specific TCP port to my Mac. So when traffic arrives at the router from the internet destined for this specific port, the router forwards it to the Mac. I configured the Appigo iCal sync app to listen on a static port (the same one I configured on the router) and ensured both my Mac and router firewalls were set to permit this traffic.
So now, with MobileMe set to sync automatically, I can add/edit/delete a todo on my iPhone when I'm away from my home wifi network and it instantly syncs with iCal on my Mac at home, then that gets propogated almost instantly to MobileMe. Also it means a change to the todo list on my Mac or on the MobileMe Calendar web page will also almost instantly get propgated to my iPhone (next timne the Todo app syncs).
Brilliant! The perfect solution for me, and only costing the price of the Appigo todo iPhone app!
If anyone would like more detail on how this was all done, let me know and I can go into more detail.
Just need to find something similar for note syncing now, and I'll be sorted.

Thanks for the excellent information on Appigo ToDo and Sync. This is great way to fulfill the unexplainable absence of this feature from Apple's own application suite (MobileMe, iCal, To Do items).
I downloaded Sync and the iPhone app. Configuration was a snap. I'm still working from a trial membership of MobileMe...with this feature working I'm just about ready to pony up and get a full membership.

Data security with iPhone sync to First Class over Rogers network

I manage about 20 iPhones over the Rogers network in Southern Ontario. We use them to sync Contact and Calendar info to our First Class email system and to collect email via an IMAP connection to First Class. I've got some users concerned about data security when they sync their calendars and contacts and about the vulnerability of their email. Most of these concerns come from former BlackBerry users who felt their data was encrypted with a BlackBerry and now isn't with the iPhone. Oh ya, I've set up the calendar and contact sync by using instructions my Apple rep gave me. Basically you set up an Exchange account and leave out the domain name and the iPhone syncs with First Class perfectly.
Any thoughts?
Thanks

The iPhone's Mail client supports SSL for the incoming and outgoing mail server, but supporting a connection using SSL depends on the email account provider. If you control this, enable connecting to the incoming and outgoing mail server via SSL and require doing so when accessing the account with the iPhone's Mail client.
I don't know what security is included when connecting to an Exchange server via ActiveSync for over the air syncing for contact info and calendar events, but since this is used by businesses, the connection should be secure.

Is there any way to move a file or something from one computer to another that will let the new computer backup my iphone over wifi? I don't want to have to sync my phone to the new computer (my sons computer).

Hi,
I have my iphone 3GS setup to be able to backup and sync with my computer over wifi. But I want to be able to backup to my sons computer also.
The things is I don't want to have to sync to his computer first to do this. Is there a file or something I can move from my computer that is setup to his that would let his see my iphone over wifi?

If you don't have access to the old computer any longer, '''no'''. Unless you were using something like the Google Toolbar & Google Bookmarks or Xmarks, which would have your bookmarks in an online account that you could access. Firefox doesn't include an online storage feature for personal data, yet. That is coming in a future version.
If you have a friend at your old job maybe they have access to that old PC and they could export your bookmarks to a file and email that file to you.

Manually added tracks put my iPhone over capacity. Now I can't sync. Help!

I have a number of Audiobook I tried to sync to my phone. I could not find anywhere in the iPhone settings to choose to sync these (anyone know where?). So I manually added them by dragging them from iTunes onto the iPhone.
However they are very large files and put my iPhone "over capacity". Now whenever I try to sync I get an error message saying:
"The iPhone “Mr Shiney” cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the selected items (additional 7.38 GB required)."
But I can't unselect these files! They don't appear in the "Manually Added Songs" section of the Music tab. My phone is stuck in this weird state where I can no longer sync.
I have tried deleting the songs from iTunes. But this now just says the songs couldn't be found so I still can't sync.
Should I restore from backup? Won't I lose all my app content? Any ideas what to do?
My iPhone is a 3G on iOS 4.2.1. iTunes is 10.5.

Have you touched the "More" button (on the iPhone).
then gone to Audio Books.
Are they there?
I had an audio book still on my iphone, it survivedf the iOS5 update.
To get rid of it, I plugged iPhone into Mac,
Go to itunes.
Click on Iphone in iTunes.
Go to Books tab,
Scroll down, there is audio books.
Choose sync selected audio books,
And untick the ones I don;t want.
Dows this work for you?

When syncing iPhone with iTunes I get an iTunes stopped working and the network connection timed out message. I reinstalled iTunes and checked settings still no go.

When syncing iPhone with iTunes I get an iTunes stopped working and the network connection timed out message. I reinstalled iTunes and checked settings still no go.

Disable or turn off your firewall, anti-virus, and all security software and try the download again.
Stedman

Iphone itunes match not working over cellular network. songs are grey but not playing. help

Need help with itunes match on iphone. seems to not play songs over cellular network. songs are grey but no access

Hi rulffers,
From your post I understand that you're unable to play songs from iTunes Match on your iPhone. To troubleshoot this issue please follow the steps in the article below.
How to troubleshoot iTunes Match - Apple Support
Have a great weekend,
Alex H.

IPhone 6 prioritizes poor 4G Connection over strong network extender 3G signal

I use the network extender due to poor coverage in my basement. I have spent multiple hours with both Verizon and Apple trying to figure out why sometimes my iPhone 6 won't connect to it, including a hard reset of the iPhone. I finally figure out that the iPhone 6 prioritizes getting a 4g connection, not matter how poor, over a 3g connection, no matter how strong. As a result, my phone will occasionally latch on to a weak 4g signal and not connect to the Network Extender. When I then get or make a call, the connection and voice quality is terrible. The only work around is to completely turn off LTE. This forces connection to the 3G Network Extender. Of course, I then forget to turn it back on when I leave the house. Are there any plans to provide some sort of a fix or a setting to make this more convenient?

PROBLEM SOLVED (so far). My wifes iphone 6 plus had the exact same issue. . .would keep going back to the weak 4G signal over the network extender.
To fix it, go into SETTINGS>CELLULAR>Enable LTE and set to DATA ONLY. . .NOT Voice and Data.
So far so good. . .only affects being able to make calls and surf the web at the same time, so if you don't do that much then you're not going to be inconvenienced too badly.
Hope it works for you! Also, if the iPhone 6plus is like my Note3, then it has 2 antennas, 1 that's hooked into 4G and the other one that's connected to the network extender. . .it defaults to the 4G signal, so it may only show minimal bars till you actual make or receive a phone call then it'll jump to the network extender signal strength.
Good luck!

HT1296 I'm trying to sync the calendar from my phone on the my new mac. the "sync calendars" blurb in iTunes says, "your calendars are being synced with your iPhone over the air from iCloud".. not nothing is happening. what to do? what to do?

I'm trying to sync the calendar from my phone on the my new mac. the "sync calendars" blurb in iTunes says, "your calendars are being synced with your iPhone over the air from iCloud".. not nothing is happening. what to do? what to do?

or even better on mac sign into icloud with same apple id under system preferences and icloud
they will merge automatically
Peace, Clyde

IPhoto does not sync with iPhone over USB anymore

I'm using iPhoto '11 (9.4.2) on OS X 10.8.2 and an iPhone 4S (now with iOS 6.1.2).
A few months ago when I connected my iPhone over USB iPhoto would start and do the expected workflow as it still does when I connect any other camera: Import the new images and delete them on the iPhone.
Since around I installed iOS 6 on the iPhone iPhoto will not start anymore when the iPhone is connected. When started manually it will show the iPhone but not recognize any new images.
I don't (want to) use Fotostream.
I have looked for other answers and the usually suggested restarting / resetting has not helped.

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Have tried changing libraries to backups on external but same result. They work but not recognized by other programs. All are named iphoto library

ITunes hangs when syncing large files to network attached drives, ideas?

I've done a lot of research on my problem and have come up blank so far. This is my setup and situation. I use a macbook pro and iTunes 10, but since I use a small SSD, I do not have much room to keep iTunes media on my disk. So, I use an external USB drive, formatted HFS+ J, accessible over my AirPort Extreme as a networked drive and am trying to keep my media there by setting my iTunes Media folder location to my "/Volumes/<drive name>/iTunes/iTunes Media" under iTunes>Preferences>Advanced. For the most part this works, but there are a few gotchas that are making this setup unusable.
The biggest problem is if I try to sync a large file (for example a 250MB app) with iTunes to my networked storage, the culprit almost always being a large iOS app in Mobile Application folder, iTunes will hang with the spinning color wheel, and in the toolbar shows "Not Responding". This also hangs the Finder. After this situation, I pretty much have to force quit everything and reboot my machine to get the Finder and iTunes back to health.
So, I thought that I would try keeping the iOS apps on my local drive and just move my music out to a network drive. But iTunes doesn't allow any granular configuration of the sort (big FAIL on Apple's part), and I've read up that iTunes does not play nice with symbolic links or else I would keep the iTunes Media location set to my local drive and symlink the Music folder out to my network drive.
So, given that 1) I don't have enough space to keep everything local, 2) trying to keep everything on NAS causes my machine to fail when syncing my iPhone or trying to consolidate my iTunes library because of large file transfers over the network making thing go insane, and 3) iTunes doesn't easily let you manage your library with symlinks, any ideas on what I should do?

i assume you are connecting wirelessly to the AEBS, correct ?
as a test, run an ethernet cable from your Mac to one of the LAN ports of the AEBS (you might want to turn off airport on your machine), then try again.
does the problem persist ?

OK-- sync iPhone over a network?

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