The infamous iPhone 2.0 backup time can be reduced dramatically with the help of this tip published by the geardiary. Essentially, it involves the disabling of an option which sends crash and debug information to Apple. Following these simple steps could reduce the backup time:
- Plugin your iPhone or iPod touch and right click on the device on iTunes
- Click on Reset Warnings
- Next time when you connect your iPhone/Touch you’ll be asked whether you want to send diagnostics messages to Apple. Disable the “automatically send” checkbox and say Don’t Send.
- Plugin your iPhone again and you will notice some reduction in the backup time.
After following the above steps, I was able to speedup my backup time from 25 minutes (Yah, 25 minutes) to a very acceptable one minute.
[via BGR]