Hack Allows you to Sync your iPhone with More than One Computer
Hack Allows you to Sync your iPhone with More than One Computer
When you try to sync your iPhone with iTunes library on another computer, you are prompted by the warning message seen in the screen shot below informing you that your iPhone is synced with another iTunes library and the only choice at this point is to either "Cancel" or "Erase...
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Nothing new here. This has been around since the iPhone first came out....
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THANK YOU SO MUCH. If this works, you're my hero. God knows how I hate apple for not letting me sync my iPhone both at home and at work. Apple: great gadgets, totally retarded software.
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i want to update my phone..
if i do this, can i update on the "new computer" without loosing all my data? i presume that when it updates, it will backup my phone so it won't loose anything... right?
i'm out of town and can't update with my original mac
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Doesn't work, cant find ID within the itl file.
I just moved my xml and itl files to the other computer without hacking em. That worked.
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how do i find that .xml? i went thru MyComputer/C:/Programs/iTunes... but i just can't find that .xml document...
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This hack doesn't seem to work on itunes 8.0.1 on PC's. I've done step by step as advised on the post and itunes keeps deleting the music synced from the first pc as soon as I try to sync music from a second PC. I tried replacing the .xml and the .itl files from first PC to second PC and that also did not work.
Any suggestions?
Any help is appreciated!
Edi
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This hack doesn't seem to work on itunes 8.0.1 on PC's. I've done step by step as advised on the post and itunes keeps deleting the music synced from the first pc as soon as I try to sync music from a second PC. I tried replacing the .xml and the .itl files from first PC to second PC and that also did not work.
Any suggestions?
Any help is appreciated!
Edi
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Damn man! Incredible. Worked for me on Itunes 8.0. The hex editor you use is a factor though.
Edi, try to use the hex editor that this guy recommended, because that was the diff. for me.
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On Itunes 8.0.01 there is 2 lines that have to modified in the ".xml", then it should work, did for me.
Thanks agian,
Rick Jamison
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On Itunes 8.0.01 there is 2 lines that have to modified in the ".xml", then it should work, did for me.
Thanks agian,
Rick Jamison
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GREAT! Works, wonderfully!
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Didn't work for me in iTunes 8.01. I'm downgrading to 7.6 to see how that works. Old versions available at http://www.oldapps.com/download.php?oldappsid=iTunesSetup7629.exe
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worked great. Thanks!
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Anyone know if this works with 2.2?
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Excellent. I just purchased a used iPhone and got rid of my iPod touch and I was really disappointed at not being able to synch music from both my home and work PC. This did the trick nicely using itunes 8.01. My iPhone is unlocked, jailbroken firmware 2.1.
Thanks!
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Believe it or not, but it still works even with iTunes 8.0.2.22 on Windows Vista. Thanks for simple but very useful trick.
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What can I do if my computer died, therefore I wouln't know the ID to replace it on the new computer?
Is that ID number the same as the iphone's o how can i do?
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which 2 lines do u have to mod?
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thanks for sharing the easiest way to do it metronome! i just tried the method you did and guess what...i got my iphone to work on my new pc ;)
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im wondering the samething as fronton79. I no longer can access the computer i originally synced my iphone and i spent hrs lookin through the iphones files to see if i could find the Library Persistent ID with no luck. im sure it has to be somewhere on the iphone otherwise we wouldnt have to copy the Persistent ID's to begin with right?? pls email me at aperez07@gmail.com if n e 1 has a solution
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Metronome - When you move the two files do you replace the xml and itl files on the other computer?
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This worked for me, except the apps. For some reason apps get removed from the New Computer if I try to sync it with my iPhone.
Solutions, anybody?
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It doesn't work. I did everything correctly. I changed the ids and replace it with the id that my iphone is originally sync with. When I plug my iphone in, it wouldn't allow me to edit it. I've done these steps before and it worked the first time. Unfortunately, the computers that I had my iPhone sync with were restore to it's factory settings. Can some help me?
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can't find the files did full system searches. cna't find any reference to them. pc's with itunes 9x
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This works! Don't worry. Just get yourself first the latest hex editor. That's the secret ingredient. My edit resulted in error at first. But with the latest hex editor, this worked like a charm! :-)
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youre an idiot. how is it totally retarded software? its to prevent illegal music sharing, and also apps. everything apple makes is outstanding engineering and the software is the best!
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Helppppp! anyone?! i've done all these steps above, n the msg bout earsing my datas stil pops up! wat i done wrong? does it work on iphone4 or...? wats the problem?
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i´m using the most simplest way i can imagine. backup these two files first from your 2nd pc: iTunes Library and iTunes Music Library.xml. then copy these two files from your 1st pc into the itunes directory. done. copy whatever you want from or to your ipad/iphone. cheers
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Has anyone had success with this on iTunes 10.6.1 and an iPhone 4? Or anything recently? I have not been able to make it work. Has the hack been patched, or am I doing something wrong?
