Yeah, I'm curious why your backup takes so long. Mine's never taken more than 5 minutes max, usually it's just a couple minutes. There was a time when my backups slowed down to like 1hour+, and it was very frustrating. But then I learned it was because I had AppSniper installed and there was some problem with it that made backups take for ever. They added an option in AppSniper to "clear icon cache", and if I did that before syncing my backups were back to a couple minutes. So I guess I'm asking the people who's backups take forever, do you have AppSniper? Also, does being jailbroken have any effect on backup times? I'm perched on the jailbreaking fence right now, and am gathering information
My backup takes quite awhile also. On my Dell, damn...it took really long. On my Mac, it takes maybe...20 mins? Somewhere around there, still way too long. I don't have AppSniper though. I would think that being JBed would increase backup time, simply because technically you're adding things to your device. But Imo, I think you should just JB, its definitely worth it. When I'm playing around with my friend's iPhone I always think how weird it feels to be using a non-JB device.
oh, I guess it's because of the number of apps you have then. Never thought of that really, I'm not one of those who have 200-300 installed..I have 52 btw how much space does your backup take up can you check? nope
Huzzah for the slowdown in games! I am looking forward to having a chance to play some of these things! And regarding long backups: I've got 497 apps loaded at the moment. My backups usually take 5-10 minutes unless I don't sync for a period of time. I know of two things that cause long backups. 1) Backups are incremental, which means the more changes saved on your device, the more stuff that has to be backed up. If you download new apps and/or play a bunch of them and save scores, that will slow things down the first time that data is backed up. 2) More small files take longer to transfer than fewer large files. This is true in any case, but there are certain apps that save a lot of little files, and they really slow down the backup. SID Player used to give me 45 minute long backups until the developer changed their file saving scheme from upwards of 4000 data files (the entire High Voltage SID Collection) to one database file. I guess a third thing that could come into play is if the USB bus is busy on your computer (or you're using USB 1.0) that could slow things down, but I'm guessing that is probably not the case here.
I don't think that's healthy (To the OP). iPhone games are fun, but if you couldn't go a week without using your iPhone at all and not help but feel sad, depressed or bored, you might have some underlying issues you should focus on rather than some videogames.
I believe my problem is the amount of apps I have, and the amount I play/work with/ customize every day. I'm not a one game kind of guy, I play a bit here and a bit there. I write stuff in mobile office and all so I think it's just because their are so much. It is definitely faster on my mac now but I think that is the underlying issue.
agreed... i left my itouch at my friends house last week and im dying from boredom... been playing old games like starcraft and counterstrike to fill my time up... sighhhhhhhhhhh
+1 wow I'm with you man, if you would refer to my sig for a second, you already know my horror story. Please shut the iTunes store down for a month god -.-
If you have a lot of apps, jailbreaking is the way to go for categories alone. You get to have folders. I have three games folders. Platformers, Puzzles, Others Has not impacted my backup time. I loved my iphone before I jailbroke it, now I love it more.
So, never cared about that and know nearly nothing about that topic, but what's the big deal with jailbreaking?
Good post here, I agree. In my experience jailbreaking does not have any impact on the amount of time needed to backup. The biggest deciding factor is the amount of time between backups, as far as I can tell.
pick up running with scissors: pre-season. It's new, unique and might fill the void. having said that, if you have no iPhone, maybe go for a walk. if you need creative ways to be unbored outside, try striking up random conversations with strangers. It's hilarity at its best.
