iPhone sync's Rating, but not Play Count

This doesn't work for me. My Recently Played playlist holds what's been played in the last two weeks, and all my playlists are synced to my iPhone. However, it did not tell iTunes about everything that was played last week. Now here's the bizarre thing - the Recently Played playlist on the iPhone shows everything that was played last week, but the one on iTunes does not. Also, to look at that playlist, I paused the playlist in progress, went to the Playlists page and opened Recently Played, but none of the stuff that has been played since I started the new playlist shows up. When I started a different playlist, those tracks still did not show up. That is clearly a real bug. I'll try to sync again (unfortunately, sync takes 10 minutes for some reason) and see what the story is then.

After sync, recently played did pick up the stuff I played this morning, but there is still a difference between the one on my iPhone and the one in iTunes. iTunes does not have anything played last week, while the iPhone does.

Same problem with my 3G. Sometimes play counts sync, sometimes they don't. I have not yet found any pattern. I am using smart playlists to synchronize unplayed songs, but on the iPhone, I am simply shuffle playing all songs, no playlist.

Latest iTunes (8.0.1.11), lates iPhone software(2.1) on Vista x64.

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http://pleasefixtheiphone.com/problems/view/4606

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I have updated iTunes to 8.0.2 and the iPhone 3G to 2.2 and this issue was not resolved... played a few random songs, synced and no luck. Play counts were not updated. How long until 2.3??

Firstly... I have submitted a bug request to Apple ( http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html). I think everyone who is experiencing this problem should do so.

This is a widely recognised issue on various forums and there has been no response from Apple (that I'm aware of) which is really disappointing. And this thread is NOT ANSWERED!!!

I have the problem with the latest firmware 2.2 and had it with 2.1. I've "manually managed music" as well as trying "sync checked songs only" but both have the same problem. It is sporadic in the sense that sometimes it's updated but most of the time it isn't.

I can't see why this should be so hard to fix. It's simply a case of the iPod/iPhone updating some sort of xml/DB with a count once half the song's been listened too and then syncing this to iTunes!!!

This is so frustrating!

FYI, I have found a repeatable scenario for my 3G. If I run the game Numba Lite and play it until it won't let me anymore (it wants me to buy the full version), it appears to reset the iPhone after presenting a pop-up asking me to buy the full version. After that, anything that has been played on my iPhone since the mast time I synced is gone. However, the Last Played playlist on my iPhone is still correct - it's just not synced to iTunes.

If I avoid running any app that causes the iPhone to reset, and if I'm careful to always return to the iPod app before starting a new app, then it maintains the memory.