iPhone5 and rMBP (Mavericks) won't connect

[Koing]

It keeps buzzing on and off like the buzzing when you first connect your iPhone to your laptop. But in my case it just repeats this.

I also get this message on the iPhone, below that flashes on and off as well.

"Trust This Computer?
Your settings and data will be accessible from this computer when connected@

I also have the this message on my rMBP.

"iTunes could not connect to this iPhone. This device is no longer connected"

Any ideas?

The same cable works with my C2D (10.6) and have been fine for over 5months since I had the iPhone5. I tried another cable but that didn't work as that was a cheap non apple cable. I'm pretty sure the cable I'm using is the official apple cable.

I'm going to try my dads 5S and his cable to see if that works.

I've also had various USB drives and a SSD connected by the USB port on my rMBP as well and they worked fine.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5523411?start=0&tstart=0

Looks like the cable I got with my iPhone 5 bought from ebay isn't an official cable so I'll have to try my dads cable.

Thanks guys,
Koing

 

[TheStu]

Did you clone your old system over to the rMBP? Or just copy over the files? If the latter, did you make sure to copy your iTunes library files over whole-hog? Your iPhone doesn't recognize your laptop as your old one (for good reason), and is asking if you trust the system. This may be complicated by the less than legit cable.

 

[Koing]

Did you clone your old system over to the rMBP? Or just copy over the files? If the latter, did you make sure to copy your iTunes library files over whole-hog? Your iPhone doesn't recognize your laptop as your old one (for good reason), and is asking if you trust the system. This may be complicated by the less than legit cable.

I copied all the directories across as the dam qnap TS 210 time machine borked itself with mavericks.

I used another lightning cable and it worked. I got a sync in and no issues but it still kind of went funny on the sync in that it didn't work a few times. I think time to steal my dads cable as he doesn't sync anything with it and only charges. Funny how the cheap cables worked with my Macbook from 2008 but not my rMBP

Apple making cheap cables obsolete

I'm going to get a Time Capsule as well for back up purposes. I use dropbox for my work files.

Thanks for the reply. The think the iPhone recognises it as the old one? I did get the click to authorise the computer message. The backup didn't didn't do anything out of place like remove anything. It just pretty much carried on from where it left off. Well it seemed like it?

Koing