The iPhone 3.0 software update brought some great new features: search, cut and paste (at last) and background notifications. It also, for many users, brought a return to the bad old days of long, slow backups.
Everyone who upgrades their iPhone to a new OS will have a slow first backup, as the entire thing is redone from scratch. And having an automatic, mandatory backup is a good thing for a very lose-able portable device. But for me and many others, the bad old days of iPhone 2.0 are back, with some users waiting for hours each time they sync their device.
This quote from nancy_m on the Apple discussion forums:
14 hours and counting on my iPhone. It looks like it’s about 50% of the way there. I spoke to Apple Support and they said “this is normal.”
At this rate, I’ll be happy to have a backup by Monday.
Murariua, in the same place:
I have same issue, first backup after OS 3.0 upgrade took about 45 minutes, now regular backups take 5-10 minutes to complete. On 2.2.1, it was 2-3 minutes for a backup.
The problem is, there appear to be almost as many solutions as there users. Some report that deleting the ESPN application fixes things (we suspect this has something to do with the application using a lot of disk storage between syncs). Others have fixed things with a simple restart.
We have a suspicion, founded on nothing but speculation and some reading, that this may be related to applications which haven’t yet been updated to be fully compatible with OS v3.0. Stanza, the e-book reader, appears to be having some trouble:
Prior to installing Stanza and Shakespeare, my backup times were normal. After installing these two applications, my backup times sored… 4 to 5 hours….
After deleting both applications… my problem is gone… Backup takes a swift 20 minutes.
There are two ways this can go. Apple can issue an all-fixing update, as it did with v2.0, or applications will be updated one by one and the problems will go away. We’ll see which it is.
For me, my backups were taking around ten minutes each on a 32GB iPod Touch with around 23GB used. The problem? Encrypted backups. Tick the box on this new feature, conveniently placed on the first iPod page in iTunes, and I could happily enjoy slow, slow sync, every single time. Untick the box and wait for another full device backup and subsequent syncs are a lot quicker, although still more sluggish than we’re used to. Thanks, Apple.
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