Backup doesn't restore iPhone back to iOS6, BE WARNED.

I made a backup before testing iOS 7. I don't like it.
The backup will not restore it back to iOS6. It doesn't restore the iOS firmware from iOS7 to iOS6, only the settings and apps you've had during the backup are restored.
Is there a REAL way to have backed it up?

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I upgrade my iPhone 4 to iOS 7, but cannot restore the backup "error when restoring iPhone (-1)", anyone know what should I do?

I upgrade my iPhone 4 to iOS 7, but cannot restore the backup "error when restoring iPhone (-1)", anyone know what should I do?

That error often indicates a hardware failure.Try restoring a few more times. If it consistently gives you that error, make an appointment at the genius bar to have it looked at.

When restoring my iPhone, do I used Restore backup or just Restore iPhone

My iPhone has been acting up lately, so I talked to my service provider and they suggested I Backup and Restore my iPhone. I have backedup my iPhone and now I need to Restore it. Which Restore button do I use on Itunes? Restore Backup or Restore iPhone?

What do you want to have on your iPhone ? If you want the content copied back onto it then restore the backup, if you want the phone to be empty (i.e. factory defaults) then just restore iPhone.
Have you copied your purchases off your phone over to your computer's iTunes via File > Devices > Transfer Purchases ? If not then you should do that first, not all purchases can be redownloaded (e.g. audiobooks and ringtones are one-time only downloads ; other items are only redownloadable depending upon where you live and whether the item is still in your country's store).

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I have a question. I have been having problems with my iPhone 4 locking up. I wanted to try and restore it back to factory settings. It's still
running 4.0. Will it automatically update the os or just restore back to my last sync

The OS is not included in your iphone backup, thus if you restore your phone as a new device iOS 4.1 will be installed on your phone. Be sure an update to itunes 10.0 before you do so.

Can not restore iphone back to original setting

i can not restore my iphone back to original setting, when i try to restore my iphone via itunes, it shows "The iphone could not be resotore. An unknown error occurred(-18)." anyone can help me out to fix this problem??

Was your iPhone "hacked" or unlocked in any way?

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Hi,
I've recently upgraded to windows 7. My iphone crashed recently and I have restored it. It is now working but all my contacts, apps etc are lost, I assume because I had never synced the iphone since I got win 7.
Though I dont have my old XP computer anymore I do have got the old hard drive out of it, so I was able to go into it and copy the folder containing the backup (c:\documents and settings\USERNAME\application data\apple computer\mobile sync\backup\) so I have got the old backup but I don't know how to use it. The backup is a folder containing several .mddata and .mdinfo files.
Just putting the backup into the equivilent folder in win7 doesn't work so can anyone help me to do one of the following:
either - use the old back up to restore my iphone in windows 7
or - if the above is impossible or very complicated does anyone know how to read the old back up? I really just want the contacts which I can enter manually if necessary so I its possible to extract the contacts as text from the mddata and mdinfo files that would be great.
I'd be really grateful if anyone can help.

A 3rd party utility called MobileSyncBrowser allows for extracting this data from your iPhone's backup.
http://mobilesyncbrowser.com/
I suggest you start syncing contacts with a supported application on your computer as is designed and intended.

TS4036 iCloud backup doesn't have my back -won't restore

my iphone has been trying to restore from my icloud backu for the past 24 hours. took it to the apple store and they just made sure it hardware / phone was working. problem seems like it's on apple's end with the download. have no phone and don't want to lose my data so i'm hanging in there on the restore, but it has been 24 hours and the progress bar has NOT moved. like to restore my last iphone 4s icloud backup. have about 8GB to download.
any help is appreciated. -rick

Many users have lost photos while preforming a restore from backup or upgrading the iOS. Recall, only photos in the camera roll are backed up to iCloud. There is a way to turn backups for camera roll on/off, perhaps these users had camera roll turned off.
See:
Settings>icloud>Storage & Backups>Manage Storage, tap the device's name and on the next screen, be sure Camera Roll is turned on.
IMPORTANT...
Photos should be regularly synced to a computer (like you store photos from a digital camera) using either USB via iTunes (on a mac use iPhoto or Aperture to move them to an album) or using photo stream. If you have been doing that, then you can sync those photos back to your device.
If you haven't been saving photos except relying on iCloud to store them in a backup, then that is risky, as many users have discovered. I'm afraid I have no advice in this case - there is no "cure".

How to use an old backup file to restore iPhone 4s?

Hello everyone and thank you in advance for any help that I may recieve.
I synced and backed my iPhone 4s via iTunes and then accidently restored it. I tried using the most recent backup to get everything back how it was right before the accidental restore, but it was not found under itunes. However, I was able to locate that backup in my files (library>application support>mobile sync>backups) but have no idea how to use that backup as the source to the restore. On itunes (under preferences>devices) I see some backups that were from a couple months back, which are someone useless considering I want the backup right before I accidently restored my phone. Is there any way to obtain the backup from my file onto iTunes so that I can use the file for the restore??
Thanks once again!!

Hi, I have seen that post before however, the iPhone I have didn't have a Sim card. It used a cdma/gap number I guess? It's the Verizon/Sprint version.

Damri Apple, iOS7 is failed, I want my iPhone back to iOS6!

iOS7 crashes my iPhone 4S frequently with no pattern. I can not use my phone normally, and missed several important calls.
Are there people bothered by similar problems?
Since Apple is not able to fix iOS7's failure at present, Apple should let users go back to the iOS6 if they want.
There is still a usable system in the world for my iPhone, iOS6.
Apple, let me UPgrade to iOS6! I just want my iPhone to be usable!

Other has beeen a problem for quite a while but I never had to resort to restoring the phone every two to three weeks. At this point "Other" is just the tip of the bug iceberg.
Music videos loaded on the iPhone would randomly show up with the iCloud icon indicating that they were no longer on the phone even though they were. The cloud icon would appear next to many of the videos, and would randomly change to other videos upon closing and reopening the Videos app.
All the videos played fine in airplane mode so I know they were all actually on the phone and not streaming.
Opening the iPhone’s music library in iTunes would show many songs marked with a circle comprised of a dotted line to the left of the name indicating that (according to the Apple senior advisor I was speaking with at the time) the songs had not synced properly. Again, they played fine with Airplane mode enabled so the info was wrong.
Most recently, while I was keeping an eye on “Other”, I noticed I had 2.8 GB of “Other” in use and 6.5 GB free. I deleted an audio book and replaced it with another and did a Sync. Well, “Other” and “Books” (print, not audio, totaling about ~350 MB) vanished and I had over 19 GB free. As I hovered the pointer over “Audio”, “Video”, “Apps”, "Photos”, “Documents & Data” and “Free”, I added all the memory used per section and the total was about 67.5 GB. Pretty neat for a 64 GB phone. Needless to say I was very pleased to have been in a screen sharing session with Apple tech support when that happened.
I’ve also found one movie and three TV shows in the videos app that weren’t selected to sync to the phone. Incidentally, deleting them showed that they were stored in “Other”, not “Videos” at that time.
Then there’s random App crashes and the once or twice the phone restarted on its own. With Sync this iPhone over WiFi checked, it’s been a crapshoot if the iPhone would appear under Devices if the iPhone wasn’t connected by cable. Sometimes yes, sometimes no, no discernible pattern could be ascertained.
Naturally I tried *EVERY* troubleshooting step suggested by the Apple techs.
So I have very high hopes for iOS 7.1. I’ve been using iOS since the original version and iOS 7 is the buggiest version and the first version that required a full restore every two to three weeks as part of regular maintenance. It’s gotten on my nerves and I hope that at least some of the problems have been addressed.

How do I install a backup to a restored iPhone?

I know it sounds like a very basic question, but it does get a little tricky.
To give you a quick run down of the situation: I am leaving the country tomorrow, and my iphone is locked to my carrier. I have phoned them and they said it would take up to 10 working days before my phone became unlocked, upon which I would have to restore my iPhone through iTunes for this to take effect (and losing all my data in the process).
So obviously I am going to be overseas when this happens, so what I would like to do (and hopefully this is possible) is take a backup of my iPhone before I go and put that on a USB stick, and then load it onto another computer for when I go to restore my iPhone overseas.
To put it in basic terms: Can I tranfer a backup to another computer and use it to restore my iPhone's data? And would would I lose, if anything, in the process? (I'm assuming my music and other media will be gone?)

You don't need to take your iPhone's backup with you to be used on another computer. Over the 10 days some of the data included with your iPhone's backup on your iPhone will have changed.
Disable automatic syncing for your iPhone. This can also be disabled globally with iTunes for when any iPod or iPhone is connected.
When connecting your iPhone to iTunes on another computer to do a restore with iTunes, before doing the restore - control-click on your iPhone in the iTunes source list and select Back Up.
When restoring, your iPhone will be erased and the current firmware version will be re-installed. After the current firmware version is re-installed, you will be promoted to restore your iPhone from your iPhone's backup, which is the default selection.

HT201210 how to restore iphone back to os 6

I have updated my iphone 4s to new os 7 and I did not like it so I like to restore back to old os 6, please let me know what to do,
Liyashka

As always, there is no legit way at all to go back.
Sorry

I recently updated my iPhone 4s to ios6, and lost 1200 odd contacts. I have a backup from about 4-5 months ago avaiable. Can I add/update contacts from the back up rather than restore which i assume will literally delete any new contacts added...?

I recently updated my iPhone 4s to ios6, and lost 1200 odd contacts. I recently sold my macbook air and also my mac book pro, so have no recent backups avaiable. I have a backup from about 4-5 months ago available on an external hdd as a time machine backup. Can I add/update contacts from the back up rather than restore? The reason i wish to do this is because in the update i didnt lose any messages, so all of the people i have met and networked with since that last update those many months ago, i have in my messages listings. They are all unidentified numbers at present but over time i will be able to work through the messages and based on the conversation recall who each was with. Also, yesterday, some two weeks after the update had left my contacts list entirely empty... a vast majority just reappeard, though all of them are without any phone numbers, all just emails or facebook contacts. This is the work of facebook not mac/ios6 isnt it...? Any help here would be greatly apprecaited. I am about 2 days from flying to canada and having those contacts would make life a lot easier.

You should be syncing your contacts with an app on your computer or cloud service (iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, etc), and not relying on a backup. If you haven't been doing this, start now and then restore your old backup. You will then be able to sync the new contacts back into the phone. However, you will lose all messages, etc newer thant the backup.

While updating my iphone 4s to ios6, I had to restore it. Now every time I connect to itunes, I get the "Set Up Your iPhone" window with the set up as new iphone and restore from backup options. After the restore, I got everything except my apps back.

While updating my iphone 4s to ios6, I had to restore it. Now every time I connect to itunes, I get the "Set Up Your iPhone" window with the set up as new iphone and restore from backup options. After the restore, I got everything except my apps and music back. Do I need to set the phone up as new again?

Hi Vidbrent,
If you are having issues updating or restoring your iPhone, you may find the following article helpful:
Apple Support: If you can't update or restore your iOS device
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808
Regards,
- Brenden

My question is about the 'Restore Backup' option on iTunes (Not 'Restore iPhone'). So, if I click on Back Up Now, then 'Restore Backup', would that go through the process of erasing everything on my phone as new then restore whatever iTunes has backed up?

My question is about the 'Restore Backup' option on iTunes (Not 'Restore iPhone'). So, if I click on Back Up Now, then 'Restore Backup', would that go through the process of erasing everything on my phone as new then restore whatever iTunes has backed up?
I do not want this to happen, as with previous experience iTunes doesn't restore a mirror of what the iPhone was when it was backed up as is the case with iCloud backups.
What I am trying to do is, as I've found a method on Youtube, there is an application where I can delete all the multimedia saved in my 'iMessages' so clear up some space. As doing that manually through the phone would take a lifetime. The method is to backup on iTunes, then using the backup created, importing that into the application then deleting the messages through that then restoring the phone using that amended backup.
So back to my question, would restoring through 'Restore Backup' just restore the backup internally or would it flush the entire phone and then restore the backup? And if it does so, what would be lost in the restore?
Thank you all,
Fahmid

iCloud should overwrite your phone with the data stored in your account, preserving your newer data. However, to be sure I would go to Settings>iCloud and turn data syncing to Off before restoring the backup. Then, after restoring the backup, turn the data syncing back to on, and when prompted about Merging with iCloud, choose Don't Merge. This will ensure that the data in your iCloud account overwrites the data on your phone (which is your goal).
Also, you don't sync text messages with iCloud so you will end up losing your more recent messages when they are overwritten by the backup.

After updating my iphone 4 to iOS6 the screen will periodically black out. i have to shut it down 2 or 3 times to get it to come back on correctly. any idea on a fix. i have done a restore and that did not help

After updating my iphone 4 to iOS6 the screen will periodically fade out to black and will not come back up. I have to shut the phone off and back on 2 or 3 times to get it to come back on. I have done a restore and that did not help. any ideas? is this happening to anyone else?

did you restore from backup or as a new device? Restore as a new device. Before you add any apps to it, use the phone with just the iOS-installed apps. If it's fine, slowly add a few purchased apps back at a time. Do this until the offending app is found.

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