Long Backup time during

The same thing is happening with the original iPhone when connected to itunes, it backs up every time as part of the sync process. It never did this before upgrading to 2.0 firmware

I am having the same issue.
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Same deal here... Must be a 2.0 bug. Takes longer the more data on the device. It was tolerable when I had no music, but once I added a few GBs, it got REALLY SLOW - 30 MINUTES OR MORE. PATHETIC...

Apple needs to set it so only the databases and prefs are backed-up on the app side of the iPhone. There should be no reason for a full, long backup everytime the iPhone is connected.

I've also got a problem where my iPhone is saying it has 7.08GB of capacity and not 8GB, I can't remember if that's normal or not as I know hard drive specs always are higher than formatted capacity.

7.08GB sounds about normal due to the hard drive specs and obviously the size does not include the actual iPhone software which is more than likely over 200 megs now.

Zenatrul

someone pointed out that if you click the "x" when the window says backing up it will skip the backup. which means your phone isnt backed up, but it speeds things up.

Baron, I agree with you. Why should iPhone want to back up everytime you connect the cable ? I mean all the data is on the computer anyway. My back up is about 2/3 done and I started about 3 hours ago !! If I'm lucky and get no phone calls to disturb it, I might get it done in about 5 - 6 hours !! it's ridiculous. I do hope Apple sorts this out. Otherwise I really like this phone.

I'll try that next time (clicking the "x") - but the point is the iPhone has never behaved this way in the past and if that's the "new" way, then a dialog should pop up or something to notify us that backups are optional if indeed they now take orders of magnitude longer to complete than they used to.

BTW, I would post this to Apple as a bug, but that's a waste of time since they NEVER, EVER communicate the status of what you submit and everything I have posted in the past (e.g., cut & paste capability) has been blown off.

Clicking the (x) works. I only back up when I make major changes, like adding or removing apps, email accounts, etc.

Same problem here! I can seem to pinpoint what causes it, but it's definitely more often than pre-2.0...

Hopefully they see these and fix it!

ugghhh... This is ridiculus...hours every time I unplug and plug back in...

The more apps you add the longer it gets...I erased all apps and my backup is 3seconds...before it was 2hours...If you add apps one by one and unplug and plug back in and sync it will back up again getting longer and longer with each app...
It is really messed up because all the apps combined are a very small amount of memory, yet it takes forever...Something is obviously screwed up!