SCOTIA SYSTEMS BLOG

Are you having trouble backing up you iPhone using iTunes?   If it’s hanging at step 2 of 5, this solution may work for you too:

1) Reset your synchronisation history

2) Delete all previous backups (C:\users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup)

3) Right click on command prompt and select “Run as Administrator”

4) run the command “netsh winsock reset”

5) As always, finish with a reboot!

Hope this works for you too!

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If you’ve been suffering short battery life on your iPhone since upgrading to iOS 5, you’ll be relieve to know that Apple has acknowledged the problem and promised to release an iOS 5.0.1 fix within a few weeks.

According to “The Loop”, an Apple spokesperson said:

“A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery life on iOS 5 devices,   We have found a few bugs that are affecting battery life and we will release a software update to address those in a few weeks.”

In the meantime, people are reporting improved battery life by disabling “Setting Time Zone” (Settings>Location Services>System Services).

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Is iOS 5 killing your battery life?   See our recent iOS 5 Battery post for a discussion of the problem

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