iPhone Passion

Every time I connect my iPhone to the computer, iTunes would start backing it up. And it’s slooow - really slow - at least half an hour of waiting.
There’s a fix for this, which I found on Zerologic: disable automatic iTunes backup, and only allow manual backups for it.

Here’s how to do it:

1. - Quit iTunes.
2. - Open Terminal.app
3. - Copy and paste this in, then hit return:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true

4. - Copy and paste this in, then hit return:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool false

5. - Open iTunes
6. - Plug in your iPhone (2.0 or 3G) and sync.

Now it finally looks more like in the good old days of the 1.1.4 firmware. Almost instantaneous sync. Hurray!

On my daily blog I wrote a step-by-step tutorial for upgrading and jailbreaking your iPhone to the latest Apple firmware, using the Pwnage Tool app.

The tutorial is in Romanian but feel free to use Google Translation Tools to read it in English.

Enjoy!