Comments on: Quick Tip: Speed up iPhone sync times (not by disabling backup)

By: Ahmed tanim

Ahmed tanim — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:42:11 +0000

Try this one:

To do so, please do the following in an administrator user:
Windows Vista and Windows 7: Right click All Programs and choose Accessories > Command Prompt. Choose to open as an administrator.
Windows XP: Click Start > Run and type in cmd.

2. Enter the following command:
netsh winsock reset

this may solve the problem…

By: dorian

dorian — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:21:00 +0000

my phone has been backing up over night!!! still not even at 10% of the bar…. i hate the day i got the iphone….

By: Rach

Rach — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:18:01 +0000

my phone took 4+ hours to sync i did that and i took like 5 minutes. THANK YOU!

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:57:11 +0000

I've got the same issue. It used to sync quickly, now it takes HOURS every time I plug it in. Since my wife and I share the same itunes account, multiply that by two phones and we have real issues. What is going on? It didn't used to take long at all.

By: miked

miked — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:51:25 +0000

Syncs regularly take an hour or more because of the backups. I seldom have more than 80 pics in the camera roll.

By: JenL

JenL — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:41:12 +0000

Mine's been backing up for the past 4.5 hours.. and counting…

By: JSteve

JSteve — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:23:36 +0000

I am currently Syncing my 3G, and it has taken over one hour now…and it is still backing up. Agony.

By: i-phony

i-phony — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:21:16 +0000

In reply to brandonsteili.

I'd point out that there are several iphones on the market now. /sarcasm…
SO, I'll let the millions of iphone users out there get the troubleshooting done for me, & us savvy iphone users who hunt down fixes for problems like slow phone backups can enjoy quick reboots.

By: brandonsteili

brandonsteili — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:03:07 +0000

In reply to H Division .

You know … I don't know if this is even an option anymore since this post was quite some time ago (almost a year) but for the sake of argument let's assume that it is. I think my original point still stands. Maybe not so much for sending diagnostic information to Apple for the OS itself, but they also collect diagnostic information about application crashes. This information can prove to be invaluable for application developers since things happen once an application is out in the field that you could never imagine happening when you're building an application. Without this diagnostic information its very difficult for developers to nail down where and when application crashes are occurring once they app gets onto your phone…

So again, while I really don't recall being asked this anymore – I still wouldn't recommend stopping sending the info to Apple. Apple fixed the slow sync issue a long time ago… so the few seconds you lose in the overall sync time isn't worth what value you lose by having your favorite app continue to crash a lot.

By: H Division

H Division — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:22:43 +0000

In reply to Brandon. chill out brandon. I doubt that "nobody is sending diagnostic information anymore" I think you need to stop and this about side effects again.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:17:18 +0000

According to a few things I’ve read 7.7.1 fixes this issue… anyone else seeing that kind of result?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:15:45 +0000

I guess I’m just not having (knock on wood) the same issues… my sync’s take less than 5 minutes on average. Most are 1-2 minutes.

By: Vanel

Vanel — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:15:20 +0000

@Brandon, you’re point is valid, however it takes too long when you just want to do a simple sync, for instance, the only thing I really sync with my PC is my contacts, sometimes I just want a quick sync to make sure my contacts are backed up at home if I lose them for whatever reason, this shouldn’t take a long time.

By: aggieman

aggieman — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:00:57 +0000

Brandon, while you have a good point the backup on the 3g is taking an agonizingly long time. If the Apple engineers don’t have a clue about the bugs of the 2.0 software at this point then Apple needs to do some serious house cleaning.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:36:01 +0000

And while this may benefit your sync times… is it worth the extra couple minutes here and there when you basically stop sending crash information to application developers and Apple?

Everyone bitches all day long about how crap-tastic the 2.0 software is … but exactly how is Apple supposed to identify the issues if nobody is sending diagnostic information anymore?

Too often people don’t stop to this about the side effects of their actions…