After ios 5 upgrade songs won't load into iphone4

After noting most successes posted in this thread had something to do with Options checked or unchecked in the Summary section, I just started trying different combinations and syncing. All of a sudden they all went 'black'.

i had sync my iphone 4 to my itunes account and after the sync my music files were greyed out and wouldnt play and on itunes it showed a greyed out sync symbol and wouldnt allow me to play them on my iphone 4 i sync them together numerous times and the songs were still greyed out i was doing this while connected to my computer via a usb cable so i unplugged it...i then went to my iphone 4 general menu and clicked itunes wifi sync it said will sync when my computer is ready i then replugged in my iphone 4 via the usb cable and the itunes wifi sync allowed me to sync now after hitting the sync now button my iphone automatically resumed the download and after a few minutes all my files turned black the sync was completed and i could listen to all my music from itunes on my iphone 4

just go to your iphone 4 settings hit the general button and go to itunes wifi sync and click sync now ....all of your greyed out files will finish sync and become black and playable.....i think the iphone 4 doesnt finish transferring the files on its own sometimes....but everytime it happens to me this method solves the problem!!

The new iTunes that was released recently 10.5 (141) has fixed the problem. None of the other things on this thread worked until this was released.

This worked for me and I didn't have uninstall/install, etc. etc. Geez Apple get your S together. this is the second time in 2 weeks that screwed up my iPhone. (the first upgrade took me 4 hours to fix!)

Thanks for your insight Peter. Saved me from hours of cursing!

yout thing worked for me tnx

Hi, i followed that advice on my 3gs and it transferred only 30 out of the 93 greyed out songs over..i even tried converting to 128mbps and still the same result..it converted back by unchecking the options section of the summary tab and still the same result. any other suggestions? why would you feel this happens?

Hi, i followed that advice on my 3gs and it transferred only 30 out of the 93 greyed out songs over..i even tried converting to 128mbps and still the same result..it converted back by unchecking the options section of the summary tab and still the same result. any other suggestions? why would you feel this happens?

What worked for me was unchecking sync "entire music library" and checking sync "selected playlists, artists, albums and genres" - then just individually checking everything. Resync - then presto everything appeared...

I took your advice Watchdis and it worked YAY!

thank you so much!

CASE: IPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1, not possibile to syncronize tracks (only a few). Others appearing in gray, but not active. I worked on that for 4 hours, cannot tell you angry i was.

So, this is how it WILL work.

1. Open itunes - click on your device when recognized

2. Go to Summary - check "manually manage music and videos" - apply

3. Go to Music - under your recognized device. Now you can select and DELETE all of your tracks from your device. Do it. Delete them all as long as you have a back up somewhere (in your library).

4. At the bottom of section "music" you will see "Autofill from" - chose the most reliable source (I used the folder "music" under Library). In case you dont see "autofill form", just open the page in a new tab (righ click on "music" - new tab)

5. Press "autofill". You will see your tracks comming back to life. In case you have "tones" with the same problem simply "drag and drop" them on your recognized device.

I hope these will help you, too.

I HAD THIS PROBLEM HERES WHAT I DID:

i read one of these replies that said, "it woke up itunes" and its true thats what you have to do, but not by adding an app. If your itunes is as out of wack as mine, you can tell it to sync your apps {deleting all your apps and replacing them with the ones in your library} but it wont do anything. Then eject the ipod in the process, then when you plug it back in, it should say that it needs to transfer all your purchases. Then you will see that it is actually syncing and its actually in your ipod now. And also try to turn your ipod off after all of this and when you plug it in again it will actually sync your music.

This is what worked for me. Just do drastic measures that wont do anything in reality because its not syncing your ipod in the first place. Stop it in the process by unplugging it. Then plug it in again. Then turn it off. Then plug it back in.

Hope this helps.

I got this issue on the first day iOS 5 was released but I solved it on the day by

Before this, it's advisable that you use "sync" checked songs only if you have the intention

To sync only selected tunes to your iPhone.

1. Make sure all songs I wanted are in the song library on the computer

2. Uncheck sync music and hit the sync button

3. After that's done, check sync and sync again

4. Works now and doesn't require further restores etc

But that also means iOS 5 doesn't work out of the box completely.

I had the same problem after getting a new iPhone and restoring from iCloud. Some purchased songs would appear grey or duplicate in the iTunes section of the device, and they wouldn't sync correctly.

I tried every possible quick trick, and nothing worked, except the manual managing option, which I didn't want to use.

What finally fixed everything for me was making a phone backup in iTunes (as opposed to doing it on iCloud), and then restoring the phone from that local backup.

I've read a lot about this problem and thought mine was this but here is what is happening with mine - maybe you can figure this out.

Out of the blue - my iphone itunes App turned purple. Now when I open it, there is no category for my music. If I select music, the list is the itunes store list of music, not my phone's music. under search, none of my music comes up, just the store music again. For the list there is NO PLAYLIST available at all to see. Nothing grey because I see only store music.

The list is:

Genius/Ping/Tones/Podcasts/Audiobooks/Itunes U/Downloads(empty).

I want the old itunes app back that had all my music.

ANY IDEA? i tried your thing about sync check/uncheck and after 2 hours of music syncing it didn't make any change in the end. Basically I can't find my music in the new app.

Help??

Mel