3G Never been synced before.

Question

My girl friend has a 3G that she has never connected to an iTunes account. She has had it for over a year and the OS has never been updated. It is runing very slow and the web browser won't work any more.
I have a 3GS and an iTunes account. I would like to create another account for her and sync it on my PC to update her OS but I'm worried that it will wipe the photos she has on her phone. Will it wipe them and restore it back to the factory default? Do I need to just plug it in and pull the photos off like it was a USB drive?
Any help would be very cool

Answer 1

This is what you need to do:
First, give your girlfriend her own SEPARATE login on your computer. By doing this, you insure that none of your and her data get intermingled. This will also keep her itunes account separate from yours...which is what you want. Once you've done that, proceed:
The photo sync is one way: computer to phone. You will have to use whatever image capture program you have on your computer to pull the photos off her phone. You can chose to delete said photos or leave them on the phone after you've pulled them off. After you've done that, proceed:
Set up her account in itunes, then:
1. Disable auto sync under preferences, in itunes.
2. Put one contact & one calendar entry in the appropriate programs on your computer, in her login, they can be fake, doesn't matter.
4. Connect her phone, itunes running, DO NOT SYNC.
5. Store>Authorize this Computer.
6. File>Transfer Purchases(To make sure her purchased content on the phone is in itunes).
7. Right-click(control-click if on a mac) the phone in the device pane, select reset warnings.
8. Right-click again, select backup.
9. Right-click again and select restore from backup, select the backup you just made.
10. This must be followed by a sync to restore her itunes content, which you select under the various tabs. You'll get a popup regarding her contacts & calendars, asking to merge or replace, select merge.
Sometimes photos in the camera roll can become corrupted or give problems in trying to import, i.e. your computer or itunes may not even see the phone. The photos most likely to cause this are one's saved from emails or downloaded through safari. If you run into this problem, delete the photos in her camera roll.