Manual Backup to icloud?

Hi,
Ok so I manually backed up my iphone last week using the cable and iTunes method. A few days later that iPhone broke due to water damage so I bought Samsung (i know, I'm a traitor!). Now I can sync all my old data onto the samsung via icloud, is there anyway of transferring my last backup stored onto itunes and put it into icloud without using an iphone?
I hope this makes sense!

You can't put and iTunes backup in iCloud, you can only create an iCloud backup by backing up an iOS device with the data on it. You would have to restore the backup to an iPhone, then create an iCloud backup on the phone.

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Oh, duh...my bad. It says that photostream syncs when it gets back to your wifi. So it does not use 3G to upload new pictures. Thx for the direction to the answer?
I am surprised that this info isn't more prominent in the ICloud support documents...
Thx again,
Tim

How do I manually backup to both my pc & icloud via itunes?

When I plug my phone in and open itunes, there's a backup section with both icloud and my computer listed.
I want to be able to make a manual backup in both places (you can't be too careful! :-).
I can freely checked either my computer or icloud, and then click the sync button, but I must be missing something else.
What are the relevant Settings that must be selected on the phone?
Does the phone have to be on/active?
What do I need to do in itunes to back up first to one place and then to the other place?
I'm not getting prompted to enter my icloud login/pw--is that a clue to what's not working...

Well, t'uh! (insert apple rant here)
Maybe someone will come by later and explain that bit to us. At least for now, I can mostly do what I want, although it's rather awkward and kludgy.
Thanks for the info, both of you, I appreciate it.
(still grumbling about the apple universe under my breath ;-)

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I have pasted the old iOS instructions below.

I was wondering the same thing & finally found the answer. If you Go to Settings > iCloud, there is now an entry on the list of clickable items called 'Backup.' It's below the toggles for what you can include in backups. The default is 'on.' If you click on the Backup bar, you'll see the most recent backup info & the option to 'Backup Now,.' It looks the same as before, it's just in a different location - instead of having the Manage Storage & Backup Now in the same place.

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I thought the OP was asking how to switch between the cloud and the computer for backups but maybe I am wrong.

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Same here, restored, completed manual backups which always end up with could not complete.
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If I backup to icloud can I still manually backup too?

say I just want icloud to backup sms, contacts, bookmarks.
but my apps will probs go over the 5gb so I want to manually backup those?
how does that work?

amanda_89 wrote:
say I just want icloud to backup sms, contacts, bookmarks.
but my apps will probs go over the 5gb so I want to manually backup those?
how does that work?
your apps do not count against the 5GB. Neither does Photostream or your purchased books,music etc.
What counts against the 5GB is the devices cameraroll , the OS backup and the documents from icloud-enabled apps. For example I use 300MB out of the 5GB, and that's from a 8GB iPod with hundreds of pictures and 2GB worth of apps on it.
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Hello ZshanTChawdhry,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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I am an IT guy here helping 10+ iPad and iPhone users upgrading to iOS 5. I have finished the first two devices, by the following steps:
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I too wondered how you remove apps from iCloud. Judging by the quantity of questions, comments, suggestions and replies (some rather rude) there is a clear need for Apple to make their literature a lot clearer. The page describing what iCloud backs up refers to "app data" as an item which is backed up. To the uniniated this might mean the app program but it seems not. The app is "bought" via iTunes or the App Store and details of your purchase (free or otherwise) is held there separately on the server.
It would be nice however to be able to remove the reference to junk I have downloaded and decided I don't want so that it doesn't appear on the purchased apps listing! Apple please note this.
It must be remembered that Apple products come pitifully supported by manuals "out of the box" on the assumption that it is so easy to use the product that no explanation is needed. They forget that most buyers of Apple products (me included) don't know (and don't want to know) how they work, so when something is not obvious they are required to plough through Lord knows how many web pages of "knowledge base" material until they find an answer.
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I am helping a client's iPhone 4S (iOS 5) to back up his data to his 13.3" MacBook Pro (Mac OS X 10.8.2 with updates including the latest iTunes v11 without iCloud). We told iTunes not to automatically synchronize when connected. We did tell it to manual back ups from iPhone to MacBook Pro, but we only saw it back up iPhone's apps. Calendar, Contacts, etc. do not get updated on MacBook Pro's software. We don't want to synchronize. We just want to overwrite iPhone's data to the computer. Did we miss something or is there a bug in this manual backup? My client only updates his data on his iPhone and not the computer.
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randers4 wrote:
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I have received a second (new) iPhone 4S (let's call it "4S2"), and want to use it instead of 4S1, so I thought I could iCloud backups to transfer everything from 4S1 to the new 4S2. I made a backup of 4S1 in iCloud, then switched on 4S2, and in the initial setup procedure, chose "restore from iCloud backup". But in the available backups, only appear those of 3GS and ipad, not the backup of 4S1.
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Excuse me, I forgot to include that I read this discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17838682#17838682
so it appears that one probable cause is, the backups from 4S1 are made with iOS 5.1, and the new 4S2 has 5.0.1. I have read documentation from Apple, and found none stating that the backups were incompatible between different iOS 5 versions.
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