My iPhone 4 Will Not Sync to iTunes.
Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I got my iPhone 4 the other day, and have reinstalled iTunes twice now on my MacBook, recognising and syncing with my iPhone each time, but disappearing on reboot. It's a shame no one seems to have an answer to this problem. I'll have to waste time in the Apple store now.
My wife bought a new iPhone 4 today to replace her iPhone 3. No sync, no charge. Went to the (cr)apple website and tried their troubleshooting tips. No joy. I even tried sync it to my macbook pro and had the same result. Latest version of iTunes, etc.
One issue someone mentioned online was that the phone needs a good charge. Battery indicator shows 3/4 charge but we thought, sure, plug it in the wall and see what happens. Well, 1 hour later on the iPad charger (high speed charger) and it still doesn't have a full charge. I think I have a brick. Ready to throw it through the (cr)apple store window seeing as no one has been helped in this thread and there appear to be no solutions online.
Way to go (cr)apple!
I was a bit rash in my last comment. The problem was resolved after I downloaded more software updates. After installing OS X Snow Leopard, I didn't realise there would be almost 2GB of software updates to follow, plus an update for the iPhone. Once I installed these, I had no problem.
I bought Iphone 4gs assembled in china....i can not sync it with itune...i have win7 ultimate (64 bit)...........please help me
spent 5 hours today as itune 10.4 and 10.4.1 disabled charging, syncing, and usb recofgnition of my iphone 4. Was in 4.3.2 fine until itunes upgrade. Phone was put in DFU mode when trying to restore as thought non charging was phone firmware problem. Now after 3 hiurs of trying to get it out of dfu and restored to 4.3.5 the issue is worse. went to apple and they said "sorry you have a hardware problem, want a new phone for $199". are you kidding me?! I pay $400 for this, have had it replaced twice due to malfunction and now due to a itunes upgrade i need to pay $199!!! what a bunch of crap and as everyone points out NO SUPPORT FROM APPLE ON THIS ISSUE! Thanks Apple for gracing us with your wonderful global dominant company, but when all we want is the crap to work you leave us hanging with your hand out for more $$$. Great!
until now, latest itunes 10.4.1 does not see iphone 4 problem still exists since 2010 and there is no 'apple customer support rep.' or 'apple genuis' what ever you called to answer this thing
Ok so I couldn't sync my iPhone 4s to my iTunes because i kept getting the "Mobile device has not been started" and I found this website which fixed my problem in 3mins. No uninstalling, no calling apple and no pulling my hair out. Try it out cus it rocks.
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My iPhone 4 Will Not Sync to iTunes.