I have a new iPhone 4S that is 2 days old. I got it because my old one (6 months Old) starting loosing it's charge 5 days ago. the new one is now acting like the old one. I want to dump everything and start over from scratch but don't want to loose contac
I have backed up all my photos which was important to me. I dont mind loosing everything except my contacts.
I did a restore yesterday but that didn't help.
Contacts are designed to be synced with a supported address book app on your computer where your contacts should be available with or without an iPhone or any cell phone which can be lost or stolen or damaged beyond repair.
In addition, there are a number of free email accounts that support syncing contacts over the air not involving your computer or involving it in addition to such as with an Apple iCloud account, Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail.
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I decided I had to have the space because I only have an 80 GB drive (C) and my music files occupy 52 GB of that (ITunes accounts for 2/3 of that 52GB total for some strange reason)
The new hard drive (F) is an HP Simple Save and that program backed up all my C drive information (including ITunes).
Then I followed the instructions I found on this site. I went in, identified the new folder, consolidated the files and nothing. When I restarted ITunes I got the screen above
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I am at my wits end with ITunes. My first IPod was a gift (my seond I had to buy after washing my first) but ITunes has been nothing but trouble the whole time and now this!!!!!!!
Can someone please help me????????????? I like my IPod, I on't want to have to get rid of it and buy an MP3 player that works with WindowsMy Library files are still on the C drive as the instructions said to leave them there
While it is implied that I can move ITunes music files off my C drive to make more space
Quote: "If your hard drive is nearly full after loading all your music and other media into iTunes, or if you just want to move all those music and media files to another hard drive on your system, here's a way to make the move while retaining all your playlists, ratings, and play history."
In fact I now see that ITunes Help seems to suggest something different. I got here by pressing the question mark while in the pop up box for "Edit, Preferences, Advanced"
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Hide
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since morning today i have been running the iphone 4 with safari icloud sync turned off. i also left bookmarks sync from itunes off. i unplugged the charger at 100% charge at excatly 10 am. i am on 86% at the moment and its 5.30 pm. however i had to plug in the phone to my macbook for 3g internet access at about 91% which got it charged back to 100%. that was for about 30 minutes. so i guess i would had been at around 75% if i hadn't done that.
so i think people are right about the bookmark causing battery drain thing.
tomorrow i am gonna try with the phone rebooted and charger to 100%, with no location service running in the background, just when the app is running, and with all bookmarks deleted from my iphone. if i have to use 3g off my iphone i would use wifi personal hotspot. usually all this use... a few calls, some internet access, whatsapp, maybe a few pictures, and music for say about 2 hours should still leave me 40-50% battery by night, after 16 hours of use. if that goes well, i might have saved my self restoring the iphone to new.
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Message was edited by: WoildbillI just spent several hours dealing with this when switching to a new PC. It was extremely frustrating as I knew my files were on my external HD but no matter how many times I copied my old iTunes folder over the files were still missing...because dummy me had forgotten to "unhide folders" on my new PC and my old files were actually stored in a hidden folder created long long ago.
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1. Look in iTunes Advanced Preferences to see where iTunes is saving files. (Edit, Preferences, Advanced)
Example: C:/Users/Woildbill/My Music/iTunes/Music
2. Ensure you are able to see hidden files - Control Panel, Folder Option, View, Show Hidden Files
3. Use Your Computer's Search Function to Locate the Missing File (Start, Search, type name of song - I started my search in "My Music" folder but be sure to expand to entire Computer if not found right away)
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5. Use Windows Explorer (right-click start) to navigate to the location of the file. It is likley your other missing files are in the same location.
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Connect your phone to computer, and sync like this. Check the boxes for the playlists, artists, albums you want to sync. Then click Apply. If you have enough space on your phone, you can choose Entire music library.
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So after i use my iphone and set it down, it shuts down like when my phone is out of battery when i am at like 90%. Then i gotta plug it in and it will turn on but then i have no phone signal. So then i reset it and its fine. Then it happens again. Please Help.
Hello Joecal18
Check out the Power/Battery section of the iPhone hardware troubleshooting guide below. If it continues after that you may need to restore the iPhone and test it as a new device.
iPhone: Hardware troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2802
Use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414
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