Endless "Finishing sync" message in iTunes

[James Steele]

Anybody get the seemingly endless "Finishing sync" message in iTunes? I have an iPhone 4 and it gets to the end and the message just doesn't seem to go away. The screen of the phone itself does not indicate sync is still happening. Ugh... I may just eject it soon anyway.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Can you hot the cancel sync button? Is iTunes and the phone software current?

[James Steele]

Can you hot the cancel sync button? Is iTunes and the phone software current?

iTunes is current. I just hit the little eject icon and it didn't complain. Seems fine. Nope... not current iPhone software and will never be. It's jailbroken iOS 6.1. Necessary not only because I like it that way and it's been that way for some time now, but I had the thing flashed to work on Cricket recently when I left Verizon. And yes, Cricket's data bandwidth leaves MUCH to be desired, but my monthly bill went from about $125 to $45, so for 80 clams a month, I'll bear with it.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Could it be detecting the jsilbreak?

[cuttime]

A common bug. I ran into this about a week ago. Just hit "sync" again and wait for the iTunes update.

[James Steele]

Could it be detecting the jsilbreak?

Nope... Apple is not (yet) that ruthless. Additionally they lost the legal battle and it's considered completely legal, although if you did it to a new phone it would void your warranty. The local utility, San Diego Gas & Electric, had an app that would refuse to run because the phone was jailbroken, which I thought was weak. What business is it of the electric company's right? They backed off of that though and it works now.

[James Steele]

A common bug. I ran into this about a week ago. Just hit "sync" again and wait for the iTunes update.

I tried running iTunes in 32-bit mode to see if that did anything. So far no good. I was concerned thought that iCal did not update with a change to an appointment I made in the phone. I've had iCal be sketchy like that before... also not recognizing repeating events... just the first day.

[James Steele]

Doh... major case of operator error on my part. iTunes forgot my prefs. Like WHO would want to sync their contacts or calendar? LOL Those were unchecked. Makes perfect sense. LOL

[cuttime]

Mavericks calendar and contacts syncing (don't know if this is specific to iTunes or Mavericks):
http://www.macworld.com/article/2057971 ... -dont.html

[cuttime]

This "finishing sync" bug has been fixed for me in the latest update (11.1.3).