Backup of iPhone takes around 2 hours!

I would suggest that, if you haven't send feedback to Apple about this issue, you do so. If everyone puts in a complaint, then maybe they will sit up and take notice. I know I've tried everything and even after sitting through a 4 1/2 hour backup last night, it was still corrupted and therefore useless.
The link to the feedback page is: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

This is still happening to me with FW 2.0.1

The idea to put it in airplane mode is an excellent one. 2 hours into the backup sync and about 60% done with the backup, I wish I had done that. Luckily few people call me instead of email me 😉

Shanesnh wrote:

Apple please, if this is the only reason the backups take this long, SEND THE DATA TO YOUR SERVERS AFTER THE ACTUAL BACKUP!

It's not what is causing the slow backup times, but it's definitely something that helps slow down the overall sync process. It would be a good idea for Apple to perform the sync, wait until it ends, and THEN say, "Would you like to send us your crash reports?"

DaleKKiller wrote:
I would suggest that, if you haven't send feedback to Apple about this issue, you do so. If everyone puts in a complaint, then maybe they will sit up and take notice. I know I've tried everything and even after sitting through a 4 1/2 hour backup last night, it was still corrupted and therefore useless.
The link to the feedback page is: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

My guess is that they already know about this, since someone else said that he/she submitted a bug report and was told that it was a duplicate report. Your idea is still a good one, however, and I have already submitted my own report to Apple, referencing this discussion, and another one on the same topic. If many people submit bug reports to Apple, they might actually do something about it more quickly, which seems to be the main problem right now.

Loren Ryter wrote:
This is still happening to me with FW 2.0.1

So far, no one has stated the firmware update has helped. Several of us found that the iTunes update to v.7.7.1 helped. Others have not been as lucky.

For me, everything would be, more or less, fine, if Apple would find a way to NOT corrupt the backup when the user cancels it. Since canceling can come in several forms (a phone call is one of them), it's a real breakdown of the process when corruption occurs simply because a backup is canceled.

Just had same issue after upgrading to 3G iPhone re Unknown Backup problem/date.... solved it by deleting iTunes & all hidden file date... reloading & then restoring iPhone!Shows correct backup date/name. Hope that helps

As my iPhone is actually working fine, I don't really want or need to restore it. This all seems to be a lot of hassle to create a backup that (touch wood) I won't actually need. I'm reluctant to actually delete iTunes as, apart from this backup issue, there are no problems. I'm just going to sit and wait in the hope that Apple eventually takes notice of what its customers are saying and fixes the problem.

Thought this was funny and that you guys would like it:

"Why it takes an iPhone so long to sync"
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1138.html

Thanks for putting a smile on my face Dennis, I'm totally convinced that my iPhone is actually doing that and spending far too much time at the bar which is why is always goes wrong!

All right, to start I have one of the fist 16gb''s phones, and I updated and updated to 201 and had a problem, namely with apps, and when you take your phone, and get frustrated and stop it, YOU CORRUPT IT. once you have a corrupted backup you're going to get increasingly problamatic backups cubed to the number of apps you've filed the phone with. Music and video up and down very very fast, apps will backup and when you do a restore it downloads the most recent and then intalls it, alphabetically, then pictures and music and all that.

My solutiuon, Sync your stuff to mobile me, contacts, bookmarks, all that, then flatten the phone and restore from the once backups that's most likely ok, the one that apple did when you updated your phone to 201. DELETE THE OTHER BACKUPS, pull your contacts and stuff synced to mobile me and you have a nice fully functional device - and it fixed bluetooth for me!

I'm typing this as fast as I can so if I've dropped a word or two I'm sorrry but you get the idea

I hope this gives you an idea of what the deal is, I did this all at the Maul of Amerika Apple Store, it took 3 hours to debug, oh, and they found something wrong with my MacBook that they fixed in 7 hours, the fix of the fix took 7 DAYS. I almost died.