my iPhone works again, without resyncing my music
September 3rd, 2008 | by amarfresh |so here is what i did to get my iPhone working again. it has been good since the evening of my last post… almost 5 days.
I took suggestions from an iPhone support post at apple.com (which I cannot find.) I was able to make my 10+GB of music reappear and all my apps working. Here is what I did to get my apps and music stable without totally wiping (this time):
1) Transfer Apps from iPhone to iTunes
You can right-mouse on your iPhone in iTunes to do only this.
2) Resync Selected Apps
Make sure to uncheck all your apps. This seems to force iTunes to deinstall the app from the iPhone. At this point I noticed several apps which were not deleted from my iPhone and some which never were syncd with my iTunes. I deleted those from my iPhone manually.
3) Update all apps on iTunes
For a long while iTunes was reporting that I had several updates pending for apps. However updating them never made it go away. iTunes always told me that all my apps are up to date. What to do?
3a) Clear app update notification
I created a folder on my desktop and dragged all my apps there. Then I deleted them in iTunes. I dragged the apps back into iTunes one by one. Eventually I found a few which would make the update notification reappear. Delete those apps and redownload them via iTunes Store.
4) Resync apps
Only select the apps you really want and resync.
I hope this is the last time I need to do this. Let me know if it worked for you too.