HT1766 Manually restore data from iTunes to iPhone

My 64 gb iphone 5 had the sleep button defect, and it is being fixed free. They gave me a 16 gb replacement to use until mine is back from being repaired. I backed up my 64 gb to itunes before I let them send it in, but when I try to put everything on the replacement 16 gb, it is to much data and I can not find where I can manually choose what I restore (such as just contacts). That is what I need help with.
However, I want to MAKE SURE that if I restore (only contacts) on this lended iphone, that it will NOT overwrite my original backup on the 64 gb iphone because then I would lose the data that won't fit on the 16 gb. I set the lended iphone up as a new iphone to ensure that it should have seperate backup than my 64 gb iphone, but I wasn't sure if it would overwrite my 64 gb backup once I manually restored it.
If anyone could help, I would realy appreciate it.

No, you've got it right. I used the Restore feature in iTunes to wipe my iPhone. From there, i restored the latest backup (Last Synced- Today) as opposed to creating it as a new device. Now, I want to put the synced data that is in iTunes back onto my iPhone.
What I am worried about is that by pressing "Sync," the data in iTunes will be replaced by the data - or lack there of - on my device. Basically, I want to make sure that by pressing "Sync," my iTunes data isn't going to be deleted.
Thanks for all the help Dave, sorry this is so confusing

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Options I see is pay for some 3rd party software that can restore my contacts, texts, etc. Upgrade to ios7 and pray it doesn't break again. Get a new phone.
But I don't like any of those options. I want to keep ios6 until they make me upgrade it.
Anyone have any ideas???
Apreciate the help in advance.
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dejavuofa wrote:
Hello! I've seen a lot of threads about restoring via iTunes but haven't found my particular situation yet. So hopefully someone can give me some insight into my predicament. I updated my iPhone 4S with io7 and my wifi broke. So I got a new iPhone 4S with ios6 loaded on it. I want to keep ios6 until Apple can figure out how to fix the wifi/bluetooth chip running hot. I backed up my phone right before I swapped to the new 4S. But when I try to restore from backup it won't let me because the backup I did was with ios7 and it wants me to upgrade my ios6 to ios7. Obviously I don't want to do that only to have my new phone break again.
Options I see is pay for some 3rd party software that can restore my contacts, texts, etc. Upgrade to ios7 and pray it doesn't break again. Get a new phone.
But I don't like any of those options. I want to keep ios6 until they make me upgrade it.
Anyone have any ideas???
Apreciate the help in advance.
Darren
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