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Mar 15
Happy Pi Day!
Mar 14
I’ve already forgotten this tidbit once. So now I am making this note both to myself, and to maybe help someone on the entirewebs.
If your iPhone refuses to sync or backup through iTunes, it is likely due to one of two causes:
- The iPhone itself is actually having a problem. (I have not encountered this, personally.)
- There is something screwed up with the USB port you have it plugged into.
This can be a temporary software issue (as can happen when you unplug a device without officially removing it in Windows). But can also be an actual problem with the physical USB port. I have had both happen.
At first, after researching this problem with the knowledge floating around the web, I thought it was a problem with one of the applications, or of too many applications, etc. While it is true that removing all your applications may make this problem go away, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the applications that had the problem, but that there was more data being transmitted through the USB port that was wonky, and therefore the issue had more chances to rear it’s ugly head.
My solution to you, is to first try to relocate the iPhone USB cable to a new USB port, and then try again. But most importantly, because it is usually my problem, and I always forget:
Use a USB port that is directly attached to your motherboard.
It seems the iTunes helper dlls or whatever, that regulate communication between your Apple wonder and your system, are prone to stutter at most any wonkiness. Sometimes, if there is the smallest of hangups in your USB hub, it will simply kill the entire transaction and spit out error messages that make it sound to you as if your iPhone is kaput. Thank you, Apple, for learning such descriptive error messages from Windows 3.1.
fin.
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Mar 8
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Words cannot describe this escalating Rube Goldberg machine, just watch
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Mar 1
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Feb 22
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Austin Plane Crash
Feb 19
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Feb 15
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- LEDs »
- Glitch » mmo game from the founders of Flickr
- Futurlec »
- Axe Cop »
- Building a laser trigger for your camera »
- Robot is Happy »
- Pololu Robotics and Electronics »
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Feb 8
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- Computer program paves way for artificial pancreas »
- Fiveprime »
- Multi-Protocol Infrared Remote Library for the Arduino »
- Concurrency » multithreaded microcontrollers
- Camera Axe 3.0 » Camera and flash timing
- Guitar Fetish » guitar parts on the cheap
- time-lapse photos with Canon SLRs & Arduino »
- Google Earth Ocean Showcase »
- Freeduino » Index of Arduino & Freeduino Knowledge
- SparkFun Electronics – News »
- POV Display with Accelerometer »
- The Slav Epic »
- FlashZebra.com »
- Trend de la Creme »
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Feb 1
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- BBC – Languages »
- Babbel: Enjoy Learning Languages »
- Tell Me More » language learning
- Avvo.com » Find a lawyer. Free legal advice. Lawyer ratings
- Pure CSS Coke Can »
- Cross Processing | Create High-Contrast Photos »
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Jan 25
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Jan 18
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