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[Ivoryplum]

I dread hooking my iPhone up to the computer...
So much, that it's only done once a month (could this be causing the slow syncing?).
Anyways, it literally takes 2 hours for my phone to sync.
I don't have 2 hours to sit and wait for it to do this.

I'm just curious as to how long it takes everyone else?

EDIT: Also, I have the ability to send Apple my phones crash logs turned OFF.

[rknowlt]

I also dread hooking my phone to the computer. It takes forever just to update the music I have stored on it. Painstakingly slow.

[toomanyphones]

I download a lot of podcast, so i sync many times a day. It usually take less than a minute. A little more if i was away and have a lot of podcasts to add. I found it took a little longer when my itunes library was on a network drive.

[Ivoryplum]

I think it has to do with how little I'm syncing it.
If I synced more often, it probably wouldn't take so long.

Its still syncing by the way....
And it was syncing for 45 minutes before I posted this thread.

[Justin]

Syncing consist of backing up, syncing music, installing apps. After 1 initial sync future syncs shouldn't take long, unless you added 1000 new songs or something.

The thing that used to take forever was the backup...I think it just backed up everything every time. Now I think they've done something to do some sort of incremental trick or something. So if you send a bunch of text and email etc. during a month that backup is going to take some time. If you do it once a day it should take less.

[Ivoryplum]

Originally Posted by dizzy

Syncing consist of backing up, syncing music, installing apps. After 1 initial sync future syncs shouldn't take long, unless you added 1000 new songs or something.

The thing that used to take forever was the backup...I think it just backed up everything every time. Now I think they've done something to do some sort of incremental trick or something. So if you send a bunch of text and email etc. during a month that backup is going to take some time. If you do it once a day it should take less.

That'd be my problem then.
I text contantly throughout the day (probably 100 or so texts), and I rarely sync because I only do it to back up.
I'll just start doing it more often now....

[Stevie No-Wonder]

I sync every day (only because I'm charging anyway)... takes less than two minutes.

[Duvi]

Originally Posted by Stevie No-Wonder

I sync every day (only because I'm charging anyway)... takes less than two minutes.

Same... this includes back ups.

[Duvi]

Originally Posted by Ivoryplum

That'd be my problem then.
I text contantly throughout the day (probably 100 or so texts), and I rarely sync because I only do it to back up.
I'll just start doing it more often now....

I wouldn't think so... Do you have the latest iTunes?

I SMS more than 200/day recently and I get tons of email (mod for crackberry) and it doesn't take me more than 1 minutes majority of the time. It takes a little bit more if I download and add new apps.

[Ivoryplum]

Originally Posted by Duvi

I wouldn't think so... Do you have the latest iTunes?

I SMS more than 200/day recently and I get tons of email (mod for crackberry) and it doesn't take me more than 1 minutes majority of the time. It takes a little bit more if I download and add new apps.

I figured out though that its because I sync every month or so.
I don't use my iPhone as my iPod (I have one for that) so the music thats on my iPhone is my favorite stuff, and I just leave it.
The only reason I sync is to save my new apps to the computer and back up.