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The 20" iMac G4 DOES have USB 2.0
Authored by: jdownward on Jul 23, '07 04:19:37PM

To clarify, non-synching is not related to which USB port the iPhone is plugged in to (two iPhones have been tried). As the iPhone USB connecter is moved from physical port to physical USB port on the iMac, the location of the phantom 4th USB 2.0 port in the System Profiler listing moves around and while the iPhone is seen by the System Profiler as a 2.0 device attached to the phantom 4th (non physical port) USB 2.0 port, the presence of the iPhone is not seen by iTunes.

The combination of removing the 2.0 USB driver and reinstalling iTunes appears to enable the iPhone to Synch with the iMac G4. It correctly appears on a physical port whose location switches as the USB connnector is placed into different USB connectors on the back of the iMac. Perhaps just reinstalling iTunes would do that by itself.

However, I do know that a fresh install of 10.4.10 and iTunes 7.3.1 by itself will not enable iTunes to see the iPhone on either of the 20" iMac G4s (purchased 6 months apart) that we use at home or at work. If this iMac model indeed has a USB 2.0 port, on at least these iMacs, the port does not allow iPhones to sync with iTunes. A sample space of 2 certainly, however, does not rule out the possibility that iTunes 7.3.1 running on other OS X 10.4.10 20" iMac G4s will synch perfectly with every iPhone they see. Just not ours.



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