Spoiler alert! Updating to iTunes 9.0.2 will break your ability to sync media to the Palm Pre. Apple has thwarted those wily webOS programmers at Palm for the third time this year.
Palm has been duping the Apple software into thinking its Pre smartphone is an iPod. One of the selling points to the Pre was how easily existing iTunes users could sync their media files with the device.
You can sync your Google calendar with your iPhone over the air. These steps require iPhone OS 3.0 firmware or newer. Before you proceed, backup your iPhone contacts and calendar by syncing with iTunes.
You can sync your Yahoo calendar with your iPhone over the air. These steps require iPhone OS 3.0 firmware or newer.
Could a healthy smartphone rivalry turn into all-out legal war between Palm and Apple? The Palm Pre has been found to sync effortlessly with Apple's flagship software iTunes by tricking the software into thinking it's an iPod.
The Pre is due for release on June 6th, and Apple is widely expected to release the next generation of its iPhone later this summer. Apple watchers are waiting to see what response, if any, the company will make to the revelation concerning the Pre's iTunes syncing capabilities.
On Mac:
Open Finder and run iSync from the Applications directory. Select Preferences from the iSync menu and hit the "reset sync history" button.
On Windows:
Open iTunes and choose Edit -> Preferences. Select the Sync tab and choose to reset sync history.
Numerous iPhoneFAQ readers have reported that iTunes will fail to sync data to their iPhone while reporting the cause as an "error remapping record identifiers." Though this error most commonly happens when trying to sync mail, it has also been reported during attempts to sync calendar and contact data as well.
This quick and easy fix works well for the vast majority of users:
Open iTunes, disable mail (or whatever the failed sync type is) syncing, apply, close iTunes.
Now reset your sync history:
If you're having a problem syncing your contacts to/from your iPhone and are receiving a message that indicates an error occured while pushing data to the iPhone, here is a possible fix:
On Mac:
Open Finder and run iSync from the Applications directory. Select Preferences from the iSync menu and hit the "reset sync history" button.
On Windows:
Open iTunes and choose Edit -> Preferences. Select the Sync tab and choose to reset sync history.
This has been shown to resolve the "pushing data" error for most people.
A few weeks ago, it was reported by Mac OS X Leopard beta testers that Leopard's mail included notes feature akin to the Notes program on the iPhone. The optimistic, and somewhat logical, hope at the time was that notes on the iPhone would sync with notes in the new Leopard version of Mail. In fact, note syncing was even listed at one time in Apple's feature list for Leopard. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.
According to a review of Leopard published by ITworld, though the Notes in Leopard and on the iPhone make look the same, smell
We've been getting numerous reports of users, who have attempted to sync their iPhones after the latest iTunes updates (7.4.x), finding that iTunes shows space on their iPhone occupied by something specified only as 'Other'. Often, this space may be only small amounts (a few megabytes), but we have received reports of 'Other' taking up as much as 4 gigabytes.
Unfortunately, scouring available information sources and speaking with Apple hasn't led to any type of easy resolution.
