itunes 12 will not recognize iphone

Using Cronnix seems simpler than Terminal, but I'm still at odds on how to use it. When you say 'root' and 'usr' I'm confused . I assume you paste the command into the window designated and I can see how to insert the time intervals. If I can't figure it out I can always restart every other day or so until Apple fixes it.

Thanks a lot! This script solved my problem! It's easy to use and it's works. One more: you need to close iTunes before you are running script, then you can run iTunes again and connect your i-device to synchronize! Respect!

P.S.: Apple, you need new Steve Jobs!!!

yes, there is a option to select different user In the menu. Once you change it to root, it will show you the crontab that's enable under root user. You might have to modify it.

Here is a plist that works nicely to cleanly restart usbmuxd once a day at a specified time. Name the text file com.kikusbmuxd.plist. As Super User copy it to /System/Library/LaunchAgents and clear the attributes using xattr -c /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.kikusbmuxd.plist . Reboot or do launchctl load com.kikusbmuxd.plist .

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Label</key>

<string>com.kikusbmuxd</string>

<key>ProgramArguments</key>

<array>

<string>/bin/launchctl</string>

<string>kickstart</string>

<string>-k</string>

<string>system/com.apple.usbmuxd</string>

</array>

<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>

<dict>

<key>Hour</key>

<integer>12</integer>

<key>Minute</key>

<integer>34</integer>

</dict>

</dict>

</plist>

Hi,

The solution with restarting usbmuxd and mDNSresponder looks promising and easy. But according to

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-is-broken-and-what-yo u-can-do-to-fix-it/

10.10 does not use mDNSreponder, but discoveryd. So how can the solution reference mDNSresponder when it's not on the box?

Might that be why the solution doesn't work for me (WiFi syncing iphone to iTunes 12 on 10.10.1 MacMini), even if I restart discoveryd?

Still confused (not surprising 😉)

I can't seem to find any 'root' selection in the menu. I can see my User and System Crontab. When I click System Crontab, nothing happens.

My User shows up in the Cronnix window. Is that my 'root'?

Thanks for your patience and help.

If you're not sure what you're doing, perhaps you shouldn't be doing it. If you don't know what the "root" user is, you shouldn't be making system-level changes that can, if done incorrectly, b0rk your Mac in ways that you can't resolve.

With that said, put it in the system crontab. If it asks what user to run the command as, make sure the username is "root" (the "god" user for a *nix operating system).

Also, remember that this isn't the Cronnix support forum.

My recommendation to you would be to just kick usbmuxd every morning from Activity Monitor. That's a safe action that doesn't have you editing system-level instruction sets.

Select Open System Crontab it will show root user

Today I upgraded iTunes to version 12.1.0.50 and the issues seems to have been fixed. 🙂

I'd confirm that iTunes 12.1.0.50 did the trick here (Mavericks). Running since 3 days ago... CLOSE_WAIT connections < 10 all the time, everything connecting perfectly. Yay!

Make sure your hosts (/etc/hosts) file has not changed. Undue entries for any apple.com or verisign.XXX host can cause exalcy this problem.

Of course this is not your case, but some "crackers" often create ho host file entries pointing to 127.0.0.1.

strideh wrote:

Make sure your hosts (/etc/hosts) file has not changed. Undue entries for any apple.com or verisign.XXX host can cause exalcy this problem.

Of course this is not your case, but some "crackers" often create ho host file entries pointing to 127.0.0.1.

And some people post random garbage into forums to make noise. As long as you're making random, baseless recommendations, I would encourage you to also make sure that Mercury is not in retrograde, that you're standing on one foot when plugging in your iphone, and that you've recently blown your nose. Be sure to wear your tinfoil hat!

Host file entries pointing to localhost don't serve anyone looking to "crack" your system, my friend, and no one actually uses the word "cracker." Generally if you have an entry for something.apple.com pointing to localhost you've jailbroken your iphone and are looking to install older, unsigned firmware. You'll be running something locally that masquerades as Apple's signing server, in which case the entries are valid and need to stay there. This won't prevent your phone from syncing, and it won't create any of the problems described here.

Thanks for chiming in, though!

I have been battling this for DAYS AND DAYS. This is what I did and it works without a reboot, you don't lose your files and it is super fast. This is what I did and I was synching within 10 minutes.

Download and Install appzapper.com

Close iTunes 12

Open App Zapper (you do not need to purchase or register it)

Open App Zapper preferences and UNCHECK the box to protect Apple applications

Drag iTunes Application to the App Zapper window and zap away

Run software update and iTunes 12 will reinstall

Apparently apple has released a fix for this issue but it does not "fix" until you uninstall and reinstall iTunes 12

As for the "other" issue with the space where iTunes basically thinks you have no music on your device and tries to sync it all twice. Well once you get iTunes fixed you can either make a backup of your phone or use an existing backup and just reset your phone. This all worked for me perfectly.

Hope this helps.

Um...no. Don't use AppZapper. iTunes is integrated into OSX, and you have _no_ idea what this app does by blowing it away. You also don't know what _else_ this app does. Malware, anyone?

You may as well open terminal and run "sudo rm -fr /" and hope for the best! (Don't actually do that - it'll remove iTunes, but it'll also remove everything else until your computer crashes and you have to reinstall it.)

Among my many complaints about community support is the fact that there is no vetting of anyone as an expert. I don't take life advice from Joe the Homeless Guy, so why should I assume that every Tom, Harry, or (Richard) that posts to a forum has the faintest fracking idea what he's talking about?

Goat sacrifices are the way to go. Stuff always works better after you sacrifice a goat.

Worked perfectly for me. So I guess people will just have to decide for themselves. By the way, I am a Senior Systems Administrator, so I wouldn't really recommend anything that would hurt your computer (or that I haven't tried first). So no..I am not "Joe the homeless guy". Because I have also owned a Mac for about 25 years I think that probably shows I know a little about what the "frack" I am talking about.

But thanks for the advice.