iTunes 9 on Windows 7 is a Bit Wonky When Synced with the iPhone
iTunes 9 on Windows 7 is a Bit Wonky When Synced with the iPhone
Posted 11/02/2009 at 2:10pm
| by Bart Salisbury
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The relationship between things Apple and Windows 7 has hit a small snag. It appears that version 9 of iTunes, when run under the 64-bit version of Windows 7, is having problems synchronizing with iPhones. Given the popularity of iPhones, and the necessity of iTunes for keeping it populated with music, apps, and video, this could be a bit of a problem.
Postings in the Apple discussions, which go on for six pages, report pretty much the same thing--no iTunes-iPhone syncing, with iTunes reporting an error code of 0xE8000065, which like many Microsoft error codes, doesn’t reveal a great deal. In a few other cases users are told MTB USB drivers can’t be installed. As MTB drivers are needed to move media back-and-forth, this makes sense, but it’s not clear what prevents their installation.
Some users have reported turning off Apple’s Bonjour software helps, but others have reported back that either the fix didn’t work, or was only temporary. Other users say they have resolved the problem by taking the drastic step of completely restoring the iPhone, deleting the iPodDevices.xml file, turning on C-State functionality in the BIOS, removing Bonjour from the system, and closing all programs before plugging in the iPhone. Given the scope of this fix let’s hope that Apple gets the problem resolved quickly.
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auron
November 02, 2009 at 5:35pm
I have been having the same issues with my ipod and Windows 7, iTines does detect the thing at all.
samiup
November 02, 2009 at 4:21pm
iPhone is one of the greatest gadgets ever, unfortunatly it ha sbeen made by one of the most proprietary firms ever : Apple and more unfortunatly can only be used with the most retarded/crippled/ridiculous software ever: iTunes
iTunes is not only having problems with win7, iTunes is notorious for not being compatible with anything at all, it wouldn't update my iPhone on my vista64 bit high end computer and its having problems running even on mac ffing books !
i would love to have an iPhone/iPod that can simply be connected using a freacking simple USB cable lie anything useful !
dag1992
November 02, 2009 at 3:55pm
It should be noted that this occurs especially on the P55 chipset, mine syncs perfectly fine on a X58 machine.
punditguy
November 02, 2009 at 2:49pm
QuickTime on Windows was always a buggy POS, and iTunes has always been a lousy media manager. (Ran into this one this week: No easy way to mass delete all the files that can no longer be found.)
I've gone through periods where iTunes doesn't acknowledge that I have an iPod plugged in. Windows knows it's there. iTunes is clueless. Reboot, nothing. Reinstall iTunes, nothing. Then, magically, it starts working again.
If I had a spare 3 bills, I'd go Zune HD and never look back.
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Preferred boot, but will give this Maximum PC thing a try.
Techrocket9
November 02, 2009 at 2:58pm
Enter the MPC Zune HD Contest.
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