iPhone Backup and iOS4

Is there any way in iTunes that I can stop it backing up my iPhone each time I dock it.

With about 14gig of music on there, it takes forever.

Also, is iOS4 out today? Need to check it out and if no real improvement, will not been moving onto the iPhone 4.

Edited by NaNook (Mon 21-Jun-10 15:21:04)

You could change this setting in Preferences.

http://scrn.in/m/d1b9eaa180ee4561b226df53b5af9eae.png

Check the "Prevent iPods, iPhones etc from syncing automatically"

Matt

Not sure if iOS 4 is out today but it IS worth the upgrade.

Have been running it since the first beta and I would upgrade it as soon as you can.

Matt

Hmn, I would like to sync automatically though and just leave backing up as elective

Ta, will keep a watch for it today.

With your phone connected to itunes, right click on your phone then click on reset warnings. this usually makes the back up quicker. The warnings are what itunes sends to apple, however has been known to go corrupt and take ages for your phone to back up.

One other thing, as far as i am aware, a back up will only save your settings, photos, sms, etc. Your music & apps are taken care of during the synch.

For instance, just the other day i loaded ios4 on to my missus's phone and ended up wiping everything. I lost over 800 photo's and believe me, she wasnt too happy that evening.

My mate showed me where the backups are stored (edit -->Preferences --> devices). I think this is the same place where you can change your settings.

p.s., i may be wrong also

just seen uno's link, so it is the correct place.

Edited by Mitchy_mitch (Mon 21-Jun-10 15:28:53)

Hmn this is very odd then. It usually takes around an hour or so to backup the phone.

Did the reset warnings bit and it is still chuntering along so will see on my next docking.

There's something wrong with your setup. I haven't noticed that mine takes long at all. Sync and backup together probably take under a minute.

After I installed IOS4 I had to restore the last backup. That was a full image of the data, and that took under ten minutes (8GB iPhone 3G). BTW, I didn't lose any photos, songs or other content in the process as far as I can tell.

Backups should be incremental these days, so they should only backup the changes since the last backup which don't normally take long ... unless you are still on the first version of iPhone OS, which wasn't incremental, and *did* take forever.

Try deleting all your backs in the screen shown, running a full one and then re-syncing. See if that runs quicker.

Matt

Good point alan - it might be worth Nanook checking that he has got the latest OS. Like you, mine takes just a minute to sync and backup.