Syncing contacts never finishes
I've been syncing my iphone now for hours. It is stuck on syncing contacts. Tried restoring and same thing. Getting fed up.
Okay, I feel stupid, but also irritated at the sync process. The hang up WAS that dialog box notifying me that more than a certain percentage of my calendar was going to change, asking if I wanted it to do so. ARRRRGGGHH! I couldn't find that box until I went to restart the computer. It is NOT an iTunes box. Therefore when I push F10 to see all the windows open in iTunes, it did not come up. It is a box in iSync, apparently. But I didn't even know there was such a thing as iSync. That's what program does the sync, but it does not show up in the dock, even when it's running. The stupid dialog box apparently doesn't stay visible during the whole sync process, so when I set it to sync and walked away, the box must have come up, then disappeared. The only way I can think to find it is to push F9 to show ALL windows open in any program.
So the moral of the story is if your phone seems to take forever to sync (never finishes) especially if it's sticking while syncing Contacts or Calendar, and no error message comes up telling you what happened, look for the box asking if it's okay to continue even though a lot is changing. Hit F9! Mine had been set to notify me if more than 5% was changing. My husband is the one that found it and he changed the setting so it only comes up if more than 50% is changing. I almost didn't come back to tell you what happened because I was embarrassed since I said right in my first post that this wasn't the problem. But maybe this will save someone from having to go through the whole restore process like I did.
On the bright side, restoring factory settings wasn't as bad as I feared it would be. It automatically asked and backed up all my settings as part of the process and all my aps and info came back without a hitch when I set them to sync again.
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Any suggestions on how to rectify this issue are appreciated.Hello jb2000,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535?viewlocale=en_US
Connect the device to your computer.
Open iTunes.
Select your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. If your device isn't visible in the upper right corner of the screen, choose Library.
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I'm trying to transfer contacts from my iPhone 4 to a Sony Xperia SP. I tried both from the iPhone 4 itself (which basically just uses iTunes) and from my PC (allgedly from Outlook, as my contacts are there too).
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Of course I tried to switch it off and back on again without much success.
I also tried to import VCF files into the phone, but Android is very bad at this task and it imports nothing (tried both DOS and UNIX end of line styles).
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Solved!
Go to Solution.To answer my own question: I just used Xperia transfer and selected contacts. That seemed to work just fine.
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When trying to sync, it never finishes. It says "waiting for changes to be applied" and sits there forever.
Hi, haroldfm2013.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Normally this message indicates system information changes being applied on the iOS device. However, this could be related to security software conflicts. I would recommend going through the troubleshooting steps in the article below.
iTunes: Troubleshooting security software issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3125
Cheers,
Jason H. -
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Love my iPhone, love my new Macbook Air.
First time I sync'ed the two my 600 contacts made it from the computer to the phone.
Now I'm syncing again a few days later and music syncs, video syncs, but if I choose to sync contacts or calendar it never ends. I've left it for as much as 30 minutes and nada.
No progress is shown as it is with music, etc -- just a barber-pole like progress bar that never changes.
I've tried checking the sync box that says "for this sync only replace the content on the phone" and it doesn't make a difference.
I've tried powering the phone down and back up and nothing.
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One thing to try is to open isync from your applications folder.
Once isync is open, click on isync at the top of the screen and choose preferences.
In the preferences, reset sync history.
After sync history is reset, quit isync and try syncing the iphone again.
If the issue persists, try creating a new user account.
Log into the new account and open ical and address book.
Put a test contact into address boo and a test event into ical.
Then open itunes, go through the initial setup and try syncing just contacts and calendars.
Make sure to merge data.
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