Why Iphone (old) backup gets priority over (more recent) MobileMe Sync?

My Iphone crashed and had to restore it.
As my Iphone backup in Itunes was a month old, I seemed to have lost all the new contact/ical/safari info I had accumulated in the meanwhile.
I obviously do not sync with Itunes as often as Mobile Me does. It however seems that the iphone (one month old) info got priority over the more recent Mobile Me. Is there a way to avoid this to happen?
With MobileMe I obviously do not really need and want to sync the iphone with itunes except to backup the phone settings.

I've had to add my MobileMe account many times, since I end up restoring my iPhone a lot. I setup MobileMe to sync my contacts, calendars, and bookmarks with my macbook as well, so even if something happened to Apple's servers, my data is still safe. I do not backup that data in iTunes though since it's being synced over the air via MobileMe. If you go into the Info Tab of the iPhone section it will tell you if it's being synced via MobileMe.

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You see only one backup in the Time Machine window because Time Machine has deleted the older backups to make space to do the current backup.
Time machine needs some working space to do its backups, and so backing up a 500GB drive onto a 500GB time machine volume is not ideal.
However, I do essentially the same thing, and what I do, when I have this problem, is exclude things from the backup.
First off, figure out what you changed. If you moved things from one partition to another, then that will cause a backup of the size of the thing that was moved. This may be why you have a large backup.
When I have this problem, I exclude large things that have changed recently from the backup. This makes the backup smaller, and means that there is less working space needed. I do this until I get a successful backup. Then I remove things, one by one, from the exclusion list, and back up after each one.
So, for instance if you just put 4 new folders on your drive, each of which s 20GB of data and they are named A, B, C and D, add all four to the exclusion list, do a backup, then remove A from the exclusion list (leaving B, C & D on it) and do a backup, and continue like this, adding 20GB of backup data each time until none of the new data is on the exclusion list and you get a completed backup.
Another possible issue, if you use multiple partitions, is that Time Machine may be keeping an obsolete backup of a partition that you previously reformatted. To see if this is the case, go into time machine (The universe interface) and go back to the most recent backup it shows. Click on your computer and see what partitions show up-- are any of them old ones that have been reformatted and renamed? You may be storing a duplicate backup because Time Machine does not realize that the disk that went away isn't coming back (because it has been reformatted as a different partition)
You can right-click on these items and remove them from your backup by sleecting "Delete all backups of...." This will free up space as well.

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Hi guys,
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Welcome to the discussion area, Julian!
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You may want to experiment with the placement of the AirPort Express to see if you can improve the speed on the network. Most users place the AirPort Express much too far away from the main router.
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So, you wind up with a strong "low" signal if the Express is located too far away from the main router.
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I'm trying to backup my 3GS as part of updating to the latest version of iOS
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Wish it had helped my problem..... couldn't use the winsock reset as even though already an administrator telling me to elevate status. Right clicked - no option to run as Administrator.
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I currently have two iTunes accounts, one linked to my old Hotmail email and the second one is connected to my MobileMe. At the moment, all purchases done with my iPhone are linked to that Hotmail account, which I'm trying to close down.
Is there a way to copy/move/merge the information in the hotmail account, and switch it over to my MobileMe account?
Many thanx in advance

First, I don't think simply closing the e-mail account means that you must close the iTunes account. The e-mail address is simply your ID for the iTunes Store account. (And I believe you should be able to change the e-mail address associated with the account so that you still receive receipts, etc. This seems to vary, though. Some users are able to change this while others are not.)
Second, this question has been asked before, and the general response has been that it's not possible. But others have suggested contacting store support. You can reach them here: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/. Also...the following link has a question about consolidating Apple IDs. It might prove useful: http://support.apple.com/kb/HE37

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Hey Stein119,
I was having the same problem, I did this: Reset - turn the phone off and on again. and that fixed it.
check out this thread for more info
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4394618?tstart=0

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I was always able to recieve photos in SMS messages on my Android phone on Sprint. On my FirefoxOS phone on Simple, I cannot. I did contact Simple Mobile. This is their reply:
> Upon further review of your account, our system shows that it is provisioned in our system. Program your APN (Access Point Name) Settings for your Internet and Multimedia/Picture messaging to work using the following values:
>
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> • MMSC: http://smpl.mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
>
> Please be advised that updating the APN settings of the phone does not guarantee that MMS (Multimedia/Picture Messaging) will work. MMS is dependent upon your phone model's limitations.
Those are the settings I already had. Per Ralph, I tried [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046517#c12 adding MMS Port and Proxy settings]: under Settings > Cellular and Data > Message Settings I added
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Hi. I bought my iPod Touch 4th Gen last 2011. I've used it for my day-to-day music listening. And over time, I notice that the earphones that come with the iPod touch becomes sticky and it feels like it has some kind of wax that coats that cord and eventually easy to break. This earphones are already broken as of now.
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I had an iPhone 4S, I attempted to change the password to my Apple ID, something went wrong (I don't know what?!) and I couldn't reset the password as I'd lost access to my registered email address.
I registered a new apple ID and all was well till I bought a new iPhone 5 back in September, the music from my new ID came across but the music from my old ID obviously didn't. I'm not very technically minded at all, so I ended up just using my old phone as an iPod basically.
My brother in law had a look at it for me a few weeks ago and somehow managed to change my old ID account details to a different email and password that I can now access, so all of my music I had downloaded on my old ID is now on my new phone along with the music I've downloaded on my new ID.
Now I have just bought a new laptop (windows), I downloaded iTunes, signed in on my newer ID, music synced all fine, but even when I sign in my old ID I can't get my music synced from my old ID?
I'm sorry, I know it's complicated, but if anyone can follow what I'm asking, and then knows how I can get all of my music, new and old, to back up to iTunes on my laptop, I'd be really grateful.
Thanks in advance.

Hi EnJayOhh,
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I think this article may help you out.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
If you need any help keep posting!
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Got it. I had to export and then drop the photos back in the album. Lost all the notes i had put on them, but at least now they show up in the album in iTuens and synch to the iPhone.

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Looks like there's a general problem across the US and UK at Apple's end. I've not been able to connect since this morning and there are loads of threads on here about the same issue.

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If it's corrupt, generally it would be lost.
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Also, if the old 4S was running a more recent software version than the current 4S, that may cause the issue however usually iTunes tells you exactly that.
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