You think BACKING UP takes too long? Try restoring... 3 hrs and counting

[fury]

Yeah, so, I had to scrap my Hackintosh with which my iPhone was paired... Dragged the files over here to Windows-land to transfer the iTunes library back over. The first backup was taking abnormally long, and unfortunately the computer blue-screened right as it was about to complete. (the genius I am, tried to change wifi card settings to get a signal so I could leech off some unsecured router in the vicinity...)

Restarted and completed the first sync just fine, and iTunes saw the data on the iPhone, but the iPhone couldn't see it (the iPod app just said "No content. Add some from iTunes") - I tried deleting the media and resyncing it, but still no go. So, there began the restore... at about 7:45am. It's now 10:45am, and the restore is still going on. This doesn't even include the apps and media, either, I bet.

[fury]

3 and a half hours... now to sync.

Updating applications... why? no idea... it put them all on there from the restore

4 hour mark: halfway through updating applications...joy

The weird thing I've noticed here... is that the "Sync in progress" lock screen hasn't shown up yet... I can use the phone. iPod says "Canceling sync..."

4.5 hours: almost done updating applications! yay!

Now onto media...Still no Sync lock screen...I have to admit I really wish syncs would go that way more often...not so much the taking 5 hours part, but the letting me use the REST of the phone while it's going on... especially if it's gonna take this frakking long...

[Smartmouf]

Might want to drop that celeron 333 and catch up with today's standards ;p

[fury]

Ah, the good old days of the celery. I remember hearing stories of getting 50% overclocks on those suckers with air cooling...I have one Celeron 566 processor in my chest o' hardware; never really used it...someone traded it to me for my old Voodoo 3 2000 PCI. He said he had it going at 850mhz on the stock Intel heatsink, no problem. I bought a BH6 board once to start building it into a system, but regretted it (already had a Duron 700 going at 1.05ghz anyway) and took it back. I think I was about 16 or 17 or so. Still as impulsive a buyer as ever (oh, so THAT'S how I got my iPhone)

[iChristian]

Restoring doesn't take very long for me at all. It only takes 5 minutes at most for me. I don't know why though..

[gotzaiPhone]

I am in your same boat. I think its a windows thing more than anything else. restores for my phone are quick, but the "restore from backup" are slow as hell and sometimes don't always want to work. I have not found a fix to the issue yet...