an iphone has been detected but could not be identified properly

Same issue... with the iPhone 4s

Same here with the iPhone 4.

Same here, iPhone 4s and iTunes 10.5.0.142 Windows

I am having same problem. Have latest itunes 10.5 on windoes 7. Shows all my devices (iphone 4s, iphone 4 and ipad) all on ios5 in device list even if not connected and displays following message intermittently.

"An iPhone has been detected but could not be identified properly. Please disconnect and reconnect the iPhone, then try again."

I have to kill itunes and restart the application. When connected via USB, all devices are synched properly though. It is just irritating why itunes think the iphone is connected when it was not.

Same issue with Iphone 4 and Ipad2 -- both with iOS5. A wee bit frustrating.

I have the same issue. I am using windoze 7. It is common to all my iPhones and my latest generation iPod touch

Same issue with iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPad.

Check that the driver for the iPod/iDevice is installed in Windows. Right-click on My Computer -> Manage -> Device Manager. Make sure there are no USB devices with ? or ! next to them.

If there is, try right-clicking on them and uninstalling and then rightclick on any item in the list on the right side -> "Scan for hardware changes" and let it try to find the driver.

Fixed this problem yesterday by this method with a 6th generation iPod shuffle.

I am also experiencing a similar problem. The popup error window reappears repeatedly, but I can make it go away after clicking on it. Sometimes is takes 10 or more times, but it will go away for awhile.

Additionally, iTunes doesn't seem to recognize when a device is no longer connected via wifi, e.g. someone takes an iPhone or iPad out of the house. iTunes appears to be trying to reconnect to the device, and if it's selected in iTunes the process will eventually fail after several minutes, but iTunes is unusable while it tries to reconnect to the device.

Wifi sync enabled on all devices.

2 - 3GS iPhones, iOS 5.0.1

1 - iPad v1, iOS 5.0.1

1 - iPad v2, iOS 5.0.1

iTunes v10.5.0.142

Windows 7

Me too!

2 - iPhone 3GS , IOS 5.0.1

2 - iPad 2, IOS 5.0.1

iTunes v10.5.1

Windows XP, SP3

Same problem for me!

3 iPhone 4S - IOS 5.0.1

1 iPad v1 - IOS 5.0.1

2 iPad v2 - IOS 5.0.1

iTunes v10.5.2.11

Windows 7 Family Edition SP1

And iTunes is sometimes (too often) lagging ...

Boring...

I FOUND the solution. It was painful and time consuming but it's fixed the problem 100%.

I removed all Apple software from my PC. ALL OF IT.

Then I rebooted.

Then I ran CC Cleaner to remove any leftover Apple entries from the registry.

Then reinstalled iTunes and the problem is GONE. All of my problems (with iTunes anyway) are gone.

So it's a bit radical, but for me it worked. Luckily this doesn't affect your library, so reinstalling iTunes puts you right back where you were, but everything should now work!

Good luck!

Am with Windows, how do you run CC cleaner?

Do a google search for cccleaner. It's a free utility for windows. Run the registry scan and then remove any left over entries for Apple software. Be careful with it though if you let it remove everything it finds for all other programs you could cause more trouble. Just look for any Apple entries and only remove those.

You could try removing the software through the control panel add/remove programs, reboot and then reinstall without messing with cc cleaner. You'd probably be ok with that. If your not familiar with the registry don't mess with cc cleaner as it can cause more problems than it solves if your not careful.

Well... strike that. I thought it worked, but two weeks later, we'r back to the same issue. Every night same error message. Very frustrating. I think I'll just go back to manually synching... or buy a mac. That's probably the only real solution to this problem 🙂