Computer doesn't recognize iphone

[flyingember]

I'm betting that corrupt drivers are the problem for most people.

I would like to know how many people having this problem jailbreaked their phone and made lots of changes to see if that's a common item or not.

 

[StinkyPeas]

everyone who is having this problem please try this A computer that is running Windows XP cannot detect a USB flash drive, an Apple iPod, or an external hard disk drive i was having the same exact problem and has seemed to fix it! for now...ill report back after some tests

 

[StinkyPeas]

So for me this worked like a charm if u have xp running give it a shot

 

[dooks88]

OK, just pulled my original iPhone out of the desk to try and fix it again. My old iPhone does not recognize the usb connection. It will charge on usb and wall power. The phone is stuck in "Connect to iTunes" mode. I tried all methods in this thread (I have a Mac). I am beginning to think I have a bad 30 pin port. Anyone know where I can purchase a replacement port? Willing to try anything at this point. I want to fix this issue and sell my old iPhone to help fund my iPhone 4 purchase.

 

[kzm]

I am having the same problem! It used to work fine. Same charging issues and pc issues.

 

[Dorkerosito]

I had similar problem where pc recognized iphone but iTunes for some reason was saying it was a new phone. I was forced to aet up phone as new when it wasnt. There was no back up to use.

 

[Dorkerosito]

Any idea as to why it would do that? It was the iPhone 4.

 

[vyz]

hi, i'm sorry for digging this thread up, but my 1st iphone 8Gb has just had the same issue, i cannot connect to my PC with any methods, sometimes i cannot use the home button, too.
but after about 1 day power down, PC recognize it normally, and doesn', and does.
i really confused right now, any one have the same issue?

Hey...
I have been having the same iphone problem as u had, from couple of weeks...!!
It would be really appreciated if u can tell me wat u did to rectify the problem!!
Thank you...

 

[Snowleopards]

Phone or computer connector faulty.
Try to connect your phone with other computer.

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[uberspeed]

So for me this worked like a charm if u have xp running give it a shot

Thank you! Not sure if this helped or not but I figured it couldn't hurt, much. Caveat, if you have other OS's installed make sure you create a backup of this key, you can restore it afterwards. Don't panic when say your Mint installation goes haywire.

For the sake of posterity: I actually had flaky usb connections and charging was impossible for me so I came upon this thread in my searches. After removing the usb drivers, a few iphone resets and reboots then using Google's iPhoneBrowser (backing up pics but worth mentioning since I have a sneaking suspicion it might have helped), boom! A sync later and it's charging on usb again. Hopefully this helps others searching in the future to solve their usb charging issues.

 

[donjason]

It happened to me, and a restart to the laptop solved it.

 

[Jayhoffa]

iTunes has been acting funny, and I did not update to 10.1.1

 

[allenmobis]

How to not Sync iPhone 4 when i plug it in?

I pointed out that I had not downloaded the correct new version of iTunes to my laptop machine. It is a is a Vista 64 bit machine and i downloaded the 32 bit version of iTunes. When I downloaded the 64 bit version, I was able to sync perfectly. I had to go to my device and choose all the items I wanted to sync within each available tab, i.e. music, photos, podcasts, etc, but it worked like a charm. Be certain to look at a back-up prior to doing this when i discover that a number of of my items wouldn't sync and did a recover to take every thing back through the backup.

Hope it will help anybody else who may be encountering this problem.

 

[Bel]

I was having the same problem and fixed it just by going into the device manager in the control panel and clicking on "portable devices" and then update driver software in the iphone driver tab. A couple of minutes and it was working fine.

 

[iRandom]

I've had this problem before with my iPod. What I did was uninstall everything having to do with iTunes. Then reinstall iTunes and it should work.