Why won't my itunes sync to my iphone?

My daughter gave me her iphone 3. My computer recognized the iphone, says it is synching the iphone with itunes but when I open the ipod icon in the iphone it shows no music and states "no content". What am I missing?

I've had my iPhone for 2 years. I had the same problem and it would backup the phone but would not add new music or delete music I wanted to remove. After completely erasing the phone and restoring to an older backup (1 month old) it finally allowed me to sync and added all the music and apps. It just took a couple hours the first time. I have synced a few times since then with no problems. Not a great solution but it seemed to work.

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Hello alexandreak,
It sounds like your newly purchased music is not syncing your your iPhone. I found a couple of resources that I think might help with this.
One thing you may want to consider is downloading the purchased songs directly to your iPhone. You can find the steps to do that in the section titled "iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch" in the following article:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
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iTunes 11 for Windows: Set up syncing for iPod, iPhone, or iPad
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12313
Additionally, it is important to note that songs with a cloud icon next to them in iTunes are streaming from iTunes and are not on your computer. For these songs to sync to your device, you will need to clck on the cloud icon to download the song to your computer first.
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