AppleMobileDeviceService.exe is hogging up to %50 of CPU

timothyfrombarneveld,

What antivirus program are you using? Does it have web filtering built-in that you know of? I'm thinking that your A/V program adds an LSP in the TCP/IP.

User "amandav2" posted a fix that cured it for me. It required going to a command prompt as administrator, then entering:

netsh winsock reset

After a reboot, problem gone...

I have this problem for long time, and the following worked;

Go to DOS command prompt

issue the following command: "netsh winsock reset"

Reboot your computer

"netsh winsock reset" fixed the Problem on my computer running Windows XP, but not on my laptop running Vista, anyone have any successful results? If so, how?

NotImpressed,

Did you invoke the CMD window with Admin privileges? This is a basic question, but I wasn't to make sure that's not the difference.

Yes, this was my experience as well the Winsock Reset was the fix for me, both for the CPU utilization problems and for the inability to access the Itunes Store.

Open Command Promt with Administrator’s privileges and run:

netsh winsock reset

then reboot Windows.

Thank you very much, that fixed it!!!

Can someone write down the steps a little more descriptively? I'm not savy enough to follow what the solution is here.

Thanks,

Ed

Thanks for that Mike - that article is actually more recent than the one that I had seen, although not really any more helpful!

Well said!

Problem still exists in ver 10.6.1.7. This fixed the problem. Won't know if it broke something else until I run it a while. Thanks!

I've had this problem with iTunes for ages (including current version, 10.7.0.21), and sure enough, the winsock catalog reset did the trick!

Awesome!

This is a serious issue, which I hope Apple are making a priority.

After years of iTunes working normally, after upgrading to the most recent version my Laptop fan started deafening me when the computer was apparently idle.

After looking through Windows Task Manager (I'm using Windows 7 64 bit) there was nothing listed as using the 13% of the CPU so I had to dig deeper.

I clicked on Resource Monitor and click sort by CPU usage, at the top of the list was AppleMobileDeviceService.exe using about 13% the only way to fix this issue for me is to manually kill the service, I right clicked it and pressed "end process" and even that took several seconds as though the process was hung.

I can't believe an update has not been sent out yet to fix this issue!

My anger at Apple over this has driven me off Apple a bit, switched my phone over to Android & started selling some Apple products because this is an infurating issue when all my hundreds or even thousands of dollars of content can ONLY be played on iTunes so it made me question how much more money I should invest when Apple can't even make the software work right.

Edit: If they do not fix this soon I may switch completely off from Apple and sell everything.

Message was edited by: Apersonfs

Apersonfs

Apple are not making this a priority. In fact, they couldn't care less about it. It has been an issue for a year now. See brianmorristech's post above yours and link for more info

This worked!

Though I didn't have that version, I used 5.2.0.6.

Thanks!