ITunes won't recognize my iPhone 4, wants me to restore to factory settings?
I'm running iTunes 10.4 with an iPhone 4 OS 4.2.1. I tried to sync my iPhone but got this message:
"iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPhone. Go to the Summary tab and click Restore to restore to factory settings."
This is not a jailbroken phone, or anything like that, so I have no idea what's happened or how I can fix it. Or even how I can back up my phone at all.
I've also tried on three different computers, with the newest and an older version of iTunes (10.3), but I keep getting this same message.
What can I do?
Nope. You obviously didn't read (or didn't remember) the User Guide. I will include a link for you. If you use the iPhone as Apple recommends (so that you do NOT experience data loss), frequent backups are advised, as are synching contacts/calendars with an appropriate cloud service or computer-based contact manager like Outlook.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
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