There is something that is interferring with my Apple Mobile Device Service froming staying on. I have done EVERYTHING down to uninstalling ang re installing all itunes and related products and making sure I covered all folders that my have goodies hiding in them. I can not get my iphone 4s or Ipad to show up. Help??
iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1, also Ipad 1
By any change, do you have Soluto software installed on the PC? (I've seen cases reported of that deciding AMDS is an annoyance, and relentlessly, silently, switching it off.)
B Noir,
No but I have McAfee Security center
Can you describe what's happening with the service in some more detail, please? Is it failing to launch if you try to launch it manually, for example?
Yes it fails to stay started. I haved tried manual and started it and Automatic and it says started but when i open itunes and plug in my ipad or iphone I get the same message. I called Dell and they could not help me with the software without a fee and no guarentee I will get the problem fixed. My Dell is only 2 months old and this just started a couple days ago.
What is the error message when you plug in the ipad or iphone?
The message is The iPhone (IPad) can not be used because the Apple Mobile Device Service is not started.
Also I search others with this issue and saw you answered someone regarding foxy proxy causing the problem and I just started using that. Is there a way to set it up on any web browser not using the foxy proxy extension(add-in) or its foxy video extension? Could this resolve my system stopping amds?
I was actually wondering about Foxyproxy overnight. But I'm used to that producing different error message symptoms. Still, it's been (literally) many months since I've done a FoxyProxy issue, so the symptoms may have changed.
By way of experiment, let's first try just uninstalling FoxyProxy. Does AMDS behave any better then?
I already got rid of the foxy proxy extension in Firefox and it did not help. The only thing left is the video utility and I went on their website and got some very complicated directions on uninstalling the video utility. I have not tried that yet since it is very intricate process. If that is all that is left then I can try that. But I need to find a place that foxy proxy will work. I found a way to just add the proxy without the extension/adding. But I am thinking it may be the video utility stopping everything up. :(
Let's try something else.
In Computer, open local disk C:\
Open the "Program files" folder.
Open the "Common Files" folder.
Open the "Apple" folder.
Open the "Mobile Device Support" folder.
Right-click on the AppleMobileDeviceService.exe file and select "Properties".
In the Compatibility tab, check "run as administrator" and click OK.
Restart the PC. Try connecting a device again. Do you still get the message?
No that did not work. I finally had to delete some info about foxy proxy video utility. Foxy proxy gave me the URL to help with it.
https://getfoxyproxy.org/proxyservice/manually_remove_foxyproxy_video_utility.pd f
🙂 Excellent news! Glad you got things working again, and many thanks for reporting back with your resolution.
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