TS2776 Having difficulties syncing. the sync starts but doesn't get past stage 4 - any clues?

Using itunes with multiple devices. Having huge problems getting synced past stage 4 on my iPhone 5
Has anyone got any tips to get synced?

Turn off calendar, contact, and bookmark syncing, and see if your phone will complete a sync of the audio and video files. If this works, it means that you probably have a corrupt data record in one of those databases. Contacts would be the obvious choice, given that that's where it hangs up.
Try turning on each of those (bookmarks, calendars, and contacts) one at a time and syncing. One of those will probably cause it to hang up again, and then you will know which is the problem database.
Once you know which database is causing the problem, you can deal with it in two ways. You can delete the most recent record additions (if you remember what they are) and see if that fixes the problem. Or you can overwrite the data for that particular database on your iPhone using the appropriate selection in the Advanced box under the iPhone's Info tab in iTunes. If you choose the second method, any changes you've made to that database on your iPhone since your last sync will be lost.
Good luck.

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hot sync appears to work but doesn't transfer info! Options    dee20002
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I admit, it's been awhile since I synchronized. Just did so, and all appeared right with the world, the handheld made the appropriate noises and showed the appropriate actions and same on the computer (XP, connect as always have through USB). In other words, they appeared to "talk" and said they were synchronizing. But my data (like important calendar entries) is simply not there. Nothing. Nada.  Nothing recently added.
I tried repeating it several times. Yes, I have the system set up so that desktop overrides handheld.  So what's up? Used this a lot in the past, never had this happen.
Thanks for any help.
Using XP and the original hot sync that came with palm and that I've always used--no changes. Help????
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