Missing Iphone 3gs

What is the best app to locate a missing IPhone 3Gs? We have an app that tracked it within 400 yards but we need specifics. The phone had been found and the person seemed willing to return it however, the pickup point and time was miscommunicated somehow.

the only working app i called find my iphone
it's an official apple app and it only works if you installed and activate the service before
the phone was stolen
when the phone is stolen there are no legal options to handle this

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Hi Friends,
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Aditya

the only working app i called find my iphone
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the phone was stolen
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Somebody knows how to change the Iphone 3gs to 4s without missing my data?

I need to change my Iphone 3gs to 4s without missing my data,....Please I need help!!!

Just follow the directions here:
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I got an iPhone 3GS a couple of weeks ago and decided that see what the iTunes Store would be like on my phone. But I have looked everywhere, and I can't find the icon.
I looked on the Apple How To page and searched Google, but couldn't find anything on this. The Apple How To page did say that the iTunes Store is not available in some regions, but I'm in the US on AT&T, so I'm pretty sure that its supported here.
I do have the Apps Store Icon, and haven't noticed anything else missing.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

if you have all 11 pages filled in apps on the phone... it might have shoved off into the uncharted spaces...
try a restart... i find that if i'm using the dock at the bottom to move icons around i loose the built in icons from time to time... power down and back up restores them.

Contacts missing from Iphone 3GS after syncing

I synced my daughters iphone 3GS and then my iphone 3GS to the same itunes account on my pc. Most of my contacts were gone when I got done syncing but I had my daughters contacts. How do I get my contacts back? Ive synced my phone again to the same pc and it doesn't give me any options to fix my contacts.

I did set all my email contacts to be on the phone, and checked the iCloud. Re-synced the phone with itunes on my macbook. I have turned the phone off and left it turned off for 10 minutes and then turned it back on.
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I updated my husband's iPhone 3GS to iOS 5.1 just now, and a huge chunk of his photos are missing. I believe the last time this phone was synced with any library, it was his library on his old computer. So, of our two computers, neither would have been a good choice for updating, since neither could be considered the original one it was synced with. My question is this: when iTunes updates software, it backs up and restores first, so why were all of his photos not backed up and restored during this process? He had about 500-600 photos and now he only has 241. Also his playlists are gone, music was gone, a bunch of stuff is now gone. I had to put some of it back manually. Needless to say I am in a bunch of trouble for this - I have been bugging him for months to update his phone so we could iMessage each other. Now that I've done it, his phone is all F'd up.
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Sorry to hear about this but this has happened to me as well but I am not sentimental about anything and everything I need is backed up.
I not sure if it is on my system at all but I did notice if I restore from a backup that it brings it to a known state (e.g. Photos of that state) even if I did not actively chose Photos to be backed up. However I believe how albums was incorporated that somehow it affected how the camera roll behaved during the upgrade (hence missing photos).
Hence to repeat here is a link to a similar issue:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15630976#15630976
I hope this is not the situation that you are in so good luck. I hope there is a better answer for you out here :(

I synced my iphone 3GS with my Macbook and now some of my phone apps are missing. What did I do wrong?

I synced my iphone 3GS with my Macbook and now some of my phone apps are missing. What did I do wrong?

If necessary, see here for Download Past Purchases
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Many apps missing after upgrade from iPhone 3gs to iPhone 4?

Hi - I'm trying to troubleshoot for my dad who was lucky enough to receive the iphone 4 today. He says the majority of apps didn't transfer from his iphone 3gs. I did a screen share with him and he's right. The apps are on the old iphone 3gs but not showing in his apps library or on the new phone. Anyone else experiencing this? He did a full back-up and had already upgraded his iphone 3gs to the iOS4 software. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I had this issue but found the cause and solution.
When upgrading from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4 (initial connection of new phone to iTunes) and AT&T moved my phone number from the 3GS to the 4; the 4 told me to power cycle (and I think unplug). Since a power cycle causes the phone to disconnect & reconnect to iTunes, and since the first sync after plugging the phone in always does a backup, it did a backup of the blank phone settings (no apps), and therefore wiped out the checked apps in the Applications tab of iTunes. (Note: The apps' data did exist, so checking an app, syncing, and then running the app showed the data. Good news: Data's still there. Bad news: Any apps you skip will hold their old data, as opposed to when you delete an app and it removes the app data for you.)
After hitting Erase All Content and Settings on my old 3GS and realizing it only took a minute and not an hour like the original iPhone did running OS 2 or 3, and seeing how smoothly its reinstall went (loaded settings, rebooted phone, and loaded apps OK), and more importantly that iTunes kept the old final 3GS backup and used a new backup for the new iPhone 4, I tried it on the iPhone 4: I hit Settings, General, Reset, Erase All Content and Settings, then connected the phone. It asked which settings to restore, found my old phone backup (used date/timestamp to find right one); it then loaded settings (a few minutes), rebooted, and went right to installing apps. My phone was fine after that - all apps and folders were restored.

IPhone 3GS wont restore, missing music

Nothing but problems with my new iPhone 3GS
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Then attempted a restore - but it gets stuck after downloading the software update while verifying the restore with apple. The message is Unable to restore - unknown error.
So I now have an iPhone which is unusable and stuck in recovery mode.
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Im now very disappointed and back to using my old nokia until I can get this sorted out - any suggestions.
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Isaac

An update:
Spoke with the iPhone technical support today who found that the error message my iTunes is generating is because iTunes cannot connect to the apple server - which is strange cause i've always been able to use iTunes normally. Suggested that I open ports 80 and 443, and check I can ping gs.apple.com (which I could).
Opening port 80 was difficult. After setting the port forwarding on the router (and even placing it in a DMZ just to be sure) the port was still not open and because of leopards firewall required being manually edited in terminal with:
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sudo ipfw -q add 20 allow tcp any to any 80 out
However doing the same with port 443 (and turning back to my mac off - which I think normally listens on this port) I was still unable to open this port.
iPhone support thinks its a problem with the mac firewall seeing I cannot connect to their servers (despite being able to use and download etc from the itunes store), imac support thinks its the ISP, and my ISP thinks its either of the apple products - they assure me that the only port they close at the ISP end is port 25 and with the computer in a DMZ then its not their issue.
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tried the suggestions above
-holding down sleep/home, then home etc
-connecting whilst holding down home
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-deleting itunes application and the AppleMobileDevice files then reinstalling
Either way, and after a half day of googling, an aspirin, and being handballed around between apples various support departments i'm still back at square one with an iphone / paperweight "unable to verify restore with apple - unknown error (3014)".
Hope someone has some suggestions - apple is clueless about this it seems. Im sure there must be more people with an iPhone stuck in recovery mode having the same problem.
Apple suggested that I take the phone back to Vodafone in NZ and have them restore it - dosnt fix the problem though. This happened on the second day of use - probably going to happen again - and what if I need to do another restore sometime?
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Isaac

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The basics from the manual are:
Restart
Reset
Restore
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

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Hello, my first post here, so please be nice
I've got iPhone 3GS with OS 3.1. recently i purchased Sennheiser MM 200 bluetooth headset. After few days i'm quite safistied with it, about everything works, part from forward/back buttons on headset, even voice control works.
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I can answer the call with headset's buttons, but is there a setting or something, so it wouldn't ring from the phone? Of course i can but it to silence mode, and that works, but am i missing something?
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.timppa

Hello Duplatee and welcome to the Apple Discussions.
The above-mentioned behavior is normal; at least, that's the way the phone rings when I am listening to music as well. However, I don't find it curious that the phone doesn't automatically mute, even when it's transmitting a ringtone to your headset that's already in your ear... I could also mention a couple of reasons why it shouldn't, but that's like more of a philosophical chat, rather than plain support, so I'll be off for now.

3.0.1 Update crashes iPhone 3GS

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The steps you already took were the correct ones - reset, restore from backup, restore as new phone. You could always try them again, but a Restore with set up as new is the 'ulitmate' troubleshooter - if that doesn't correct the issue, it's usually time for a replacement phone. Unfortunately, you've learned a hard lesson there, although I don't see how Apple screwed you - it's no secret that the iPhone warranty is valid only in the country of original purchase (as a little research on your part would have shown).
See how much money you saved with your eBay purchase? Next time buy the phone from Apple or an authorized UK carrier.

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