Failure to sync error 1156 after IOS 6 - how to remedy?

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Failure to sync error 1156 after IOS 6 - how to remedy?

Just successfully updated iTunes and IOS. IOS 6 now on iPhone 3GS. However, repeated 'failure to sync, error 1156'. What does this mean? What is the remedy?

iTunes 10-OTHER, Windows 7

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 11:43 AM

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mracole Author

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Sep 20, 2012 2:34 PM in response to mracole

Solved it! The move to new iTunes and new IOS clearly has a few settling issues.

Steps needed:

1. Sign-out of iTunes Store

2. Disconnect iPhone and switch off 'sync over wifi'

3. Close iTunes

4. Shutdown and cold re-start computer

5. Start iTunes

6. Dock iPhone and allow sync to take as long as needed (10 mins+ for me)

7. Force new sync and watch steps flow through

8. Sign-in to iTunes Store

9. Turn on iTunes Match

Complete ... fully working iTunes and IOS!

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Sep 21, 2012 8:13 PM in response to mracole

Thanks for the tips!

I had tried a few things on the phone, then saw your posts, and realized I hadn't done a reboot/shutdown of my computer yet since running into this issue with iOS6 and/or iTunes 10.7.

All I had to do was reboot the computer and everything on the phone was recognized properly again, and no error 1156 any more =)

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vitvit

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Sep 24, 2012 12:18 PM in response to mracole

Thanx, it works for me too!

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Anya88

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Oct 4, 2012 8:12 PM in response to mracole

I have iphone 3GS, so I was really hoping for this to work, but it doesn't resolve anything,

At step 6. sync doesn't initiate.

Procede to step 7. get an error message 1156.

I really regret upgrading to iOS6.0

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AndySeed

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Oct 5, 2012 5:45 AM in response to mracole

Thanks heaps, worked for me too!

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RDA55

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Oct 5, 2012 10:57 PM in response to mracole

I was having this problem and getting the same error code. All I had to do was sign in to my itunes account. I didn't know that somehow I had been logged out probably due to a recent OS update.

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Oct 20, 2012 7:41 AM in response to mracole

Thanks so much! This worked for me as well 😁

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mracole Author

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Oct 20, 2012 10:36 AM in response to laughingdurian

Great to know that this thread is helping so many folk!

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Oct 28, 2012 6:29 PM in response to mracole

Solved here too. The simplified steps I took:

-Signed out of iTunes Store (in iTunes on Mac)

-Turned off WiFi syncing (again in iTunes on Mac)

-Disconnected iPad from Mac

-Reconnected iPad to Mac

-Sync worked perfectly.

Strange, but...ok.

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Nov 25, 2012 6:04 PM in response to Mitch Cohen

Simplified steps worked here too! Was one step away from factory reset, so thanks for the tip!

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MY59EOS

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Jan 28, 2013 5:17 AM in response to WolvesDave

Hi,

I have been having the same issue. Win7 and iPhone4

The phone had the same sync issues as noted in this thread across both my desktop and laptop machines (both Win7 but different versions - Home and Ultimate)

I fixed it by syncing the phone to cloud (which meant my contacts etc. were copied to my iPad just in case they were lost)

Factory reset the phone

Resync from cloud.

The only loss of data were a couple of apps (which I restored very quickly)

It has been fine ever since.

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