Getting contacts back without activation-iPhone 3g
I am unable to restore my contacts because I recently switched companies I work for and don't have current phone service. I backed up my contacts in iTunes before the service went dead. So in order to try and get the contacts back I did a restore. I am dead in the water because in order to complete the reload from a previous backup you must have phone service. I backed up in order to try the retore so the SIM card is blank. It is not a software nor hardware issue, I simply want my contacts back. Is there a way to get them back without signing up for a new plan or hacking the phone?
Contacts are designed to be synced with a supported application on your computer. Did you have an Exchange account with your previous employer and you were syncing iPhone contacts over the air with your Exchange account?
If not, with XP you can sync contacts direct via the iTunes sync process with Outlook 2003 or 2007 along with calendar events, or with the address book used by Outlook Express.
With a non-activated iPhone, as long as the no longer activated SIM card remains inserted in the iPhone - the SIM card that was used with the iPhone when the iPhone was activated, you should be able to install a firmware update or restore the iPhone with iTunes if needed or wanted. I do this with my no longer activated first generation iPhone.
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How do i get my contacts back without syncing it with itunes?
How do i get my contacts back without syncing iphone to itunes
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Unfortunately you can't. You could try contacting Apple and asking nicely, but they're under no obligation to help you. If you can wait until fall*, when iCloud is officially launched alongside iOS 5, you can probably download them all again then.
The small print at the bottom of http://www.apple.com/au/icloud/ says "some music features of iCloud are available in beta now in the U.S. only"
I can't find anything which guarantees it will work outside the US after the beta, but it probably will. iTunes Match is definitely US only, for a couple of years at least until the legal stuff is dealt with.
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IPhone/iTunes music lost - how to get it back without having to pay again?
I have an iPhone 3Gs I am very frustrated and upset at the moment. I have spent a lot of money over the past year on downloading music for my iPhone, some of it straight to the phone and sometimes straight into iTunes.
Now I just upgraded to the 4.0 software and it has wiped all of my music from my iPhone except what I purchased on my iPhone that day. I have some of my music backed up on a harddrive, but there seems to be loads of albums missing still (I have all the receipts emailed to me).
Is there not a button that tells you which things you have purchased in iTunes so can just redownload them for free? It wants me to pay again when I have tried!
This is not fair! I don't understand why it wipes my iPhone every time I update the software. Please someone help me find my music and get it back on my iPhone?
Many thanks,
Shellythough slightly off topic, the following post by Zevoneer in this thread http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8794716 says it all:
Did you back up your purchases before you you reinstalled your system? If you erased your drive then the purchases will have been erased along with everything else. If you didn't make a back-up of your purchases to restore from (as you are advised to do) then I'm sorry to say that the policy on lost purchases is that you have to pay to download them again:
"Once a Product is purchased and you receive the Product, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage the Product, and Apple shall be without liability to you in the event of any loss, destruction, or damage." iTunes Store: Purchased content can be downloaded only once
You could try contacting the iTunes Music Store Customer Service and you might be able to persuade them to sanction a second free download. There have been occasional reports in the iTunes forum of this happening, however just be aware that they are not under any obligation to do so. If you click on this link you'll be able to email your query: iTMS Customer Service
If you have an iPod that still has the purchases on it the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
You might also want to check out these pages for future reference:
How to back up your media in iTunes
Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive
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If you bought them on your iPad then you will need to connect your iPad to your computer's iTunes and do File > Devices > Transfer Purchases to copy them over to the Tones part of your computer's iTunes library and you can then sync them to your iPhone - ringtones are a one-time only download, so you won't be able to redownload them directly on your phone.
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http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
worth looking at for the future to understand backing up etc -
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Contacts are designed to be synced with a supported address book app on your computer, and/or there are a number of free email accounts that provide for syncing contacts over the air in addition to syncing other data over the air such as with an Apple iCloud account, Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail.
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How do i get my contacts back on my iphone from icloud?
Look Here:
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If you do not have the contacts accessible on a computer, iOS device or service like iCloud then they are gone unless you can get them from your school's IT department.
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Is there a way to save th info from all the apps and still designate the new computer as his new primary one?
Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..
Backup iTunes to an External Drive
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
An Added Bonus is that you will have a Backup of iTunes. -
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