I can't restore the iPhone archive because a certain file is unrestorable

Question

Hello everyone, I'm new to this Discussion Board I've been an iPhone 3GS 32GB user for over a year now, and I decided to make an account here and start this topic, because I've got a really serious problem... As the topic title can give you a hint on what is going on, let me describe everything in detail:
Not so long ago I had upgraded my iPhone with iOS 4.0 to 4.0.1 (I did that 1 day after the official release of the new version). 2 days ago, when I wanted to make a call, I came across an issue manifesting itself by iPhone nearly instantly showing "Call ended" and later on "Call failed", consecutively. It was happeninng so, regardless of whom I wanted to call. What's noticable is that I could send and receive text messages, as well as receive incoming calls, without any problems. Making some research on the Internet, I found out that similar issues had been occurring with the earlier versions of the OS. None of the solutions described (turning off the automatic date and time setting and so on) didn't help me, as well as turning the iPhoone on and off, trying to get into the DFU mode, and downgrading to iOS 4.0 (I couldn't downgrade anyway) which didn't help either. Not knowing what to do next, I restored my iPhone to the factory settings, losing, as obvious, all apps, text messages, contacts etc. along the way. After this restore I was able to make outgoing cals again but wanting to have all my text messages, I decided to load the newest backup onto my iPhone, and see what would happen. After loading the backup, I had all my contest back again but I was also again unable to make outgoing calls... (this proved that the issue was caused by some saved iPhone settings, or something similar, but not the iOS version itself). In this case I had nothing else to do, but to get back to the factory settings once again. As I cared abot keeping all my text messages, I read on the Internet the the way to save them is to copy the file called "3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28" from the backup folder. In the next step you were supposed to make a backup of the phone restored to the factory settings, and overrite the file in that backup with the one you had copied earlier (to spare myself any problems, I also copied the "31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442" file with the contacts). The problem turned out to be the fact that in the guide about all these files, there wasn't mentioned any information that you also should copy the following files: Info.plist, Manifest.plist i Status.plist (unfortunately, I found out about this fact later). I ompletely lost the rest of these files be deleting folders with the previous backup.
So now, when I put the files I had copied earlier to the folder with the new backup, I am presented with this kind prompt while trying to restore: "iTunes cannot restore "iPhone (XXX)" because some files from the archive could not be restored" (or something similar because, since I have the Polish version of iTunes installed, I'm not sure how it is put in the original literally). I've tried to restore these *.plist files with some file recovery tools. These tools do find these files from the same day (that is, the 18th), but they differ from each other by the time they were last modified (some are from 12:19A.M., others from 3:20P.M. etc.), as well as they differ from the 2 files I had copied by the same manner. I assume that these differences in time (as well as in checksums that I found out about) cause the backup to not be seen by iTunes when I put these revovered *.plist (along with the 2 files that I had copied) in the backup folder. The same result occurrs when I recover these files with the long names the same way I had recovered the *.plist files, and put them in the backup folder with these *.plist files.
I can't deny that I would really like to have all my text messages back.... Does anyoneone know how to import them back on the iPhone from that "3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28" file, because I'm getting really frustrated here I read it could be achieved by changing the *.plist files checksums if iTunes doesn't want to restore a backup the normal way. If this is the only way to do it (or if there are any other work arounds), please guide me on how to do it. I really need help

Answer 1

fep516 wrote:
Would you recommend upgrading again to Mountain Lion after the Snow Leopard upgrade?
Yes, Lion and Mountain Lion are a significant upgrade from Snow Leopard, and they fully support iCloud syncing.
First verify that your model number supports Mountain Lion (I'm pretty sure it does), then check how much RAM you have. Your model only comes with 1 GB (https://support.apple.com/kb/sp16), which is inadequate for later versions. Upgrade to 4 GB if you haven't already. The upgrade is a do-it-yourself project that will take 5 minutes if you are at all handy with modern electronics; you just remove the 1 GB DIMM and insert 2 2GB DIMMs. Here's an example of a memory upgrade kit: http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Modules-Macbook-KTA-MB667K2-4GR/dp/B001265GI2/ref =sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1362357462&sr=8-2&keywords=imac+memory+2gb.
This is not an endorsement of this vendor or this manufacturer; it is just a reference for the type of memory you need. (Not that there's anything wrong with Amazon or Kingston.)