Is your iPhone stuck in a backup?

My iPhone gets stuck whenever it tries to do a backup. It's terrible. I give up on it before it ever completed one. I'm partially to blame for this because I'm constantly installing free applications just to try them out. I finally got around to fixing my iPhone and I must say, it's nicer now.

Here are the instructions:

1. Disable auto-sync
2. Remove folders in Users/you/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
3. Under "Applications", uncheck the "Sync Apps". It's okay.. your apps are still there.
4. Sync. This removes all your applications
5. Check the iPhone to make sure that there are no residual applications. If there are, remove those. Sync again.
6. Install the applications back.

I lost a couple of recordings from my EccoNotes. I should have transferred them off before starting this. I couldn't tell you whether they were backed up, but EccoNotes provided an ability to FTP the files off the phone to the computer. Very handy. Too bad I forgot about the notes.