Monday, August 4, 2008

iPhone 3G 2.0 How to Disable iPhone Backup UG!

Finally it's over. Thanks to a message board post i've finally turned off this stupid iphone backup crap. I got a 16 gig iphone cause i knew i was going to easily fill it up with music, pictures, apps etc. So it's pretty much floating aroung 15 gigs right now full. And everytime i plug it in, itunes wants to back it up so that takes about 5 hours each time and i feel bad stopping it cause i don't want to break anything, but turns out it's all good

see below:
Gizmodo.com How to Disable iPhone's Backup Process

relief is finally here ladies and gentlemen!!


  • you don't really need to disable it: here's the solution: it's a setting you chose when you first set up your iphone which does not normally pop up again. Here is my step by step guide to undoing what most of you with slow backups did and making your backups take about 90 seconds on average. the thing that's making everyone's backup take an hour plus is that your sending your crash reports to apple everytime you backup This is an option that you clicked on your very first sync that you will now change: to prevent long delays in the backup process (it's NOT due to Apps, it's due to sending long, long, really long, log files of errors/ debugging info, very, very, slowly,to Apple it seems for many users at least, including myself with over 18 apps) If it starts to sync stop it right away by clicking the x (top middle of itunes). Then go to devices click your iphone so the middle window displays the iphone info and uncheck the "automatically sync when this iphone is connected" you'll find it under the summary tab of your iphone if you're not already there. Then unplug and re-plug your phone back in. in itunes, right click on your iphone select 'reset warnings' click on sync you will then see a dialog box indicating: "Your iPhone contains diagnostic information which may help Apple.....etc..." click on the check box "do not ask me again" (so that this should be permanent, unless you click on 'reset warnings' another time) (if you click on 'Show Details" the computer should open the directory containing all the error logs, I wouldn't delete them, but perhaps you could even flush these out by deleting, but I'm not sure what if any risks that could cause) Here is the solution: click on 'Don't Send' That's it! enjoy a nice fast backup, and a nice fast sync, all within about 2 minutes, if fully loaded for it all to finish. Just like Mac OS X, the iPhone generates crash reports when things go wrong. These files are sent back to your computer whenever the iPhone is connected and synchronized with iTunes. In Mac OS X, they’re located in /Library/Logs/Crashreporter/MobileDevice/ You might find a variety of files here with different prefixes that end in .crash. For instance, files that start with: “Maps” indicate a crash in the Google Maps application “MobileSafari” indicate a crash in Safari for iPhone

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