How do I restore specific items from backup?

Hi
My phone had no reception, therefore I went on iTunes and backed it up then restored my iPhone to the factory settings.
The recetion problem got fixed, but when iTunes asked me to restore my backup files on to my iPhone, so I did. then the reception problem came back on again. from here, it's obvious something in my backup files is making this problem happen. I then restored to factory settings again, but this time I set it up as a new device.
now the question is, since the restore from backup function restores everything including the problem, how do I get specific things from the backup files?
and also what exactly is backed up when you choose to backup the iPhone, does it backup things like photos and videos etc.?
Thanks in advance.

bbfc wrote:
Not true - i don't sync my contacts with another service; they are restored from backup when needed. You can sync them with a service, like Outlook, Google etc, but most people do not know how to do this, so they just use the iPhone backup.
I'm not sure about "most people", unless most people don't read the manual, which gives very clear step-by-step instructions on how to sync contacts (and calendar) to either the cloud or a computer application. Or they skip the manual and look at the screen, which has a checkbox and dropdown to sync contacts to a computer application.
I can think of no reason to NOT sync contacts to an application or cloud service, as the iTunes backup is notoriously unreliable and is easily corrupted.
But you are correct that contacts are included in the backup.

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