AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe
By Apple Inc. (Signed)
| Version: | 17.818.5.2 |
| MD5: | f5f7442f5537df61b57f7a52a74c14de |
| SHA1: | feaf8dbd64b4dc38cb24ac47f5b300014064a8d5 |
| SHA256: | 37ec0a658df9ff1a67ce00597114b3c3ca2f749b5aa6560f8b48ff2a8b3236b0 |
What is AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe?
This is the bootstrapper/helper portion of the Apple MobileDeviceHelper iTunes sync. AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe is installed along with the latest version of Apple iTunes and is used to sync your iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPod or iPad with iTunes when you connect your device to your computer. If you are running Windows XP, before the installation of Service Pack 2, this service was required for use with the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service.
Overview
AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
iTunes.exe (iTunes by Apple Inc.). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Apple Mobile Device Support published by Apple Inc., Apple Mobile Device Support from Apple Inc. and Apple Mobile Device Support by Apple Inc.. The file is digitally signed by Apple Inc. which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe |
| Publisher: | Apple Inc. |
| Description: | MobileDeviceHelper |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\apple\mobile device support\applemobiledevicehelper.exe |
| File version: | 17.818.5.2 |
| Product version: | 3.3.0.0 |
| Size: | 36.78 KB (37,664 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Apple Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Sunday, May 17, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, June 26, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows Console |
| Entropy: | 6.396113 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Apple Mobile Device Support is required and used for the synchronisation between an Apple mobile iOS devices (iPod, iPhone or iPad) and a PC through iTunes. If uninstalled, your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch may not appear under Devices in iTunes after you connect it to your Windows PC. Apple Mobile Device Service runs as a Windows service (Apple Mobile Device Service (AMDS)) regardless if the user is running a connected Apple application...
Users who wished to sync their MobileMe data with a PC had to download and install Apple's MobileMe Control Panel. To install, the user first had to download and install the latest version of iTunes, and then install MobileMe Control Panel. After installation, the user signed into the control panel using their username and password, and could control sync settings for contacts, calendars, bookmarks, and iDisk settings such as public fol...
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.05259395% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.02315912% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02943483% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 56 ms/min | |
| User CPU time: | 5 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 824,646/sec | |
| Context switches: | 3/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 5.13 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 4.66 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 4.65 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 5.13 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 77.79 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 80.37 MB | |
| Working set: | 4.65 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 10.75 MB | |
| Page faults: | 9,837/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.43 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 4/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 1.21 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 10/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 2.53 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 217/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 3 | |
| Handles: | 149 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 4 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 4 | |
| GUI USER count: | 1 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 1 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | High |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\common files\apple\mobile device support\applemobiledevicehelper.exe" --pipe \\.\pipe\30175460134961329637663568 --parentpipe
- "C:\Program Files\common files\apple\mobile device support\applemobiledevicehelper.exe" --pipe \\.\pipe\3017448187270310668822408 --parentpipe
- "C:\Program Files\common files\apple\mobile device support\applemobiledevicehelper.exe" --pipe \\.\pipe\30179213566453631234614796 --parentpipe
- "C:\Program Files\common files\apple\mobile device support\applemobiledevicehelper.exe" --pipe \\.\pipe\30177777-33214410848612548 --parentpipe
- "C:\Program Files\common files\apple\mobile device support\applemobiledevicehelper.exe" --pipe \\.\pipe\30161962506966811130154600 --parentpipe
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | iTunes.exe (iTunes by Apple Inc.) |
Threads
Averages
| AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.11642242% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.02328448% | |
| User CPU: | 0.09313793% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,846,875/sec | |
| Context switches: | 4/sec | |
| Memory: | 44 KB | |
| MSVCR80.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.02335351% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.02335351% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 323,100/sec | |
| Memory: | 620 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
45.45% |
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| Windows XP Home Edition |
36.36% |
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| Windows XP Professional |
18.18% |
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