sync won't start

thanks that worked!

I had been having the same problem with my iPad 2, so I tried the following steps:

Unplug iOS device from USB

Clear multitasking tray (double click the home button and press and hold 1 app)

Turn off iOS device

Turn iOS device back on

Plug iOS device back in

Sync

Following these steps should make you capable of syncing.

For me, re-starting iTunes did the trick on a 1st Gen iPad with OS 5.0.1 and iTunes 10.5.2.

Thanks.

Now I can get on with my life! Solution worked well. For newbies, when one presses and holds an icon in the multitasking tray it and the others vibrate. Close each by clicking their red minus sign until they are all gone. They are just closed, but still on the iPad.

Many thanks!

Wow

Just had the same problem, closed and restarted iTunes disconnected reconnected the iPhone and it was the problem. This solution is more typical of Microsoft products but it works.

Thank you soo much! This took me 1 hour to figure this out so i checked online cuz i got stressed.🙂

same problem just started yesterday. Now it stays on waiting for synch to start and eventually gives up. Tried quitting and restarting itunes. Tried turning off iphone. Very frustrated - somebody help!!

was worth a try but did not work for me - any other ideas?

I also rebooted the laptop just for good measure and it worked fine. Thanks.

IT WERKED>> THANK YOU !!!!!

There never seems just one solution to a problem. Im my case, I simply changed the USB/iPhone cable and sync worked fine. Maybe because I initially used a iPad USB cable (which I really don't think was the issue) and maybe the iPad cable was defective (greater possibility). USB iPhone cables have a tendency to break more ofthen than they shoud.

Hope it works for you

Yve

Realise it's an old thread but it's the first one that came up on my search for a solution.

Tried all the suggestions but finally found a different issue : I was running two userids on the mac and itunes running on a different userid was locked up trying to tell me that it couldn't sync with this iphone (naturally because it was sync'd with this userid).

Once I shutdown the other itunes this userid was happy to sync.

I left the phone attached. I just closed iTunes and then launched it again and the sync started and completed.