Question on iphone backup & restoring on another persons itunes.

I backed up my iphone on my sisters computer with all her files like music, photos, movies, & so on, because I have to get a replacement for a damaged phone
My question now is, when i come to restore the new iphone will all my phones entire data and files like contacts, photos, music, apps and so on still show up jusy like they did on the old damaged phone?

A back up stores many things if you would like to know what it stores this link will tell you:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946
Now whatever was on the iPhone when it backed up should return when restoring the back up of the old iPhone to the replacement.
In terms of content downloaded from the iTunes & App Store this content is saved to iTunes through a feature caled transfer Purchases. Now this can happen during a back up but might not have. If this content was tranferred to iTunes on your sisters PC then it should sync back to the iPhone after you restore from back up. If it does not sync back to the iPhone you can still redownload the content as all purchases paid/free are attached to the Apple ID the were downloaded with.

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IPhone Backup / Restore questions

Maybe this has been covered here, but I am confused about backing up the data on my new iPhone -
1) When iTunes says "backing up iPhone" before the sync . . . what is it backing up? Contacts? Music? Pictures? Applications?
2) What does Restore do? It seems to indicate you will lose all of your data on the phone if you run restore.
3) If I replace my phone . . . or Apple does at some point for a battery . . . will the Backup/Restore features in iTunes restore all of my contacts, music, pictures and applications to the new phone?
While most things with the iPhone seem pretty intuitive, this whole process has me confused.
Dave

The backup that is created and maintained by iTunes stores data such as most iPhone settings, email account settings, SMS messages, notes created with the Notes application, recent calls, call favorites, data created and stored by 3rd party applications, and photos captured by your iPhone.
No need to backup iTunes content since your iTunes content remains on your computer and should be included with your computer's backup.
Regarding contact information and calendar events, the iPhone is designed to be synced with a supported application on your computer. The exception to this is with an Exchange account or MobileMe account, which provides for over the air syncing with this data.
With Vista, you can sync contact information and calendar events with Outlook 2003 or 2007, or Windows Contacts for contact information.
A Restore completely erases your iPhone followed by re-installing the current firmware version. After the current firmware version is re-installed, you are prompted to restore your iPhone from your iPhone's backup (which is the default selection), or as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup.
This must be followed by a sync with iTunes to re-transfer data not included with your iPhone's backup such as all iTunes content, 3rd party applications, contact information, calendar events, bookmarks, and photos transferred from your computer to your iPhone.

Iphone Backup restore Help please

Does anyone know how to restore your backup after the "restore iphone backup" option is gone, Without having to restore the phone again

Turn the iPhone off by holding the top key then sliding to OFF.
The Hold the Home KEY only while connecting to iTunes.
The iPhone will then need to be restored and you can choose from where to restore it from. It should pop up when you click restore with the option. If not then hold Control or Option on a Mac while you click Restore.

Simple question about iPhone backups and password

I can't remember the password to my iPhone-backup in iTunes. But, phew, I haven't lost any data, as I have my iPhone with all data intact. So I deleted the backup in iTunes, and tried to start a fresh backup with a new password. But alas, that doesn't seem to be possible (it backs up, but doesn't ask for a password, and when trying to uncheck encryption I get asked for a password).
Does this mean iTunes now won't let me back up and retrieve the data I actually have on my very own phone? And does it mean that I now have two options:
a. Keep on using my iPhone, keeping the data on it, but without the ability to backup and retrieve the backups, or
b. restore and set up my iPhone as a new device, losing all my data

If you update you will not be able to go back to a previous iOS version. The iOS is not included in the backup. The following link gives details of what is included: iTunes: About iOS backups

Questions about iPhone backup?

I am iPhone novice,so i have some questions about iPhone Transfer included iTunes.
1. Only back up iPhone files via iTunes?
2. iTunes just can back up address list and calendar?
3. i want to back up plug-in,patch,application program,game ect, how to operate iPhone backup?Anyone can tell me simple&professional tutorial about iPhone?Or introduce a good iPhone Transfer like or better than iTunes.
Appreciate your detailed answers! Thanks in advance.
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iTunes is required to transfer iTunes content from your iTunes library on your computer - music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, 3rd party apps, and selected photos from your computer to your iPhone. iTunes also serves as the sync conduit for contacts and calendar events between your iPhone and the supported address book and calendar application on your computer.
iTunes creates and maintains a backup for your iPhone which is updated by iTunes as the first step during the iTunes sync process. The backup does not include all data on your iPhone. The backup does not include any iTunes content - music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, or 3rd party apps. All iTunes content on your iPhone should remain in your iTunes library on your computer and the backup doesn't include any photos transferred from your computer. All photos transferred from your computer should remain on your computer as well.
This link provides the data that is included with your iPhone's backup.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Turn on Photostream in your system preferences > iCloud settings.
Assuming iPhoto is up to date, turn on photostream in iPhoto preferences.
Photos in photostream should start to sync with your Mac.

How can I copy the iPhone backup files to another iTunes Library?

I'm changing to my Window laptop from a PC. I want to copy my iPhone backup to the Library in the laptop. How can I find those backup files? I don't want to lose my apps and everything, you know.

This article will tell you where your iPhone backup is stored on your computer:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946 iTunes content is NOT part of the iPhone backup. You can either copy your iTunes library to your new computer, or you can re-download your purchased iTunes content(except ringtones) to your new computer; http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527

How do i get iphone backup files to show in itunes?

Hi.
Ive recently had to start using another computer due to a component failure, and as a result managed to wiped my iphone of its original contents during an update on the 'new' computer. I have my old hard drive connected to this computer via a docking station, and can access all the files on it with no problems. I've deleted any itunes stuff on the 'new' computer so that the only apple/itunes stuff is on my old hard drive, but when i launch itunes, its not like it was when i left it. no music loaded in library etc. not a major issue as the music is all still on the hard drive. My issue is with the apps and back ups for my phone. I can view the folders with the back ups in, but they wont show in itunes. I'd love to restore my phone back to how it use to be.
Can anyone help me out, as i'm at a brick wall with my knowledge level.
thanks in advance
Dave.

You can open an alternate library by holding down shift when starting iTunes.
A GUID is a Globaly Unique IDentifier. I this case I the backup folders appear to be named bunch of numbers & letters probably meant to be unique. If your original library opens properly (and you haven't wiped the device) then you don't need to worry about restoring the iPhone backups from the previous system.
There's another GUID buried in the iTunes Library.itl that identifies your old library as the "home" library for your device. If you try to connect the device to a new library, even if it has all the same content, iTunes will want to wipe the device and start over. Not so much a problem for media but you might lose app settings. Best if you can connect properly to your old library, otherwise restoring from a preserved backup should restore your app data.
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Encrypt iphone backup does not appear at iTunes

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I do an encrypted back up to my iPhone4 4.2.1 and upgrade to 4.3.3 and when i complete the upgrade i did not find the encrypt iphone backup at iTunes
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IPhone Backup To External Drive with iTunes 11

I'm trying to backup my iPhone 5 to an External Drive since my Macbook Air does not have enough space for the backup. I'm using iTunes 11.01 and OSX 10.8.2. I've tried holding down the option key when opening itunes to create an itunes library on the external (succesfully) yet i still run into the same "not enough space" message. Any suggestions on how to change the backup location would be much appreciated.

I'm trying to backup my iPhone 5 to an External Drive since my Macbook Air does not have enough space for the backup. I'm using iTunes 11.01 and OSX 10.8.2. I've tried holding down the option key when opening itunes to create an itunes library on the external (succesfully) yet i still run into the same "not enough space" message. Any suggestions on how to change the backup location would be much appreciated.

Iphone backup / restoring!!

Hi guys,
wondering if someone could help.
My Iphone and a few others are all backed up to the same itunes account.
Is it possible for example, that if somebody else gets a new iphone device, they can restore my last backup (backup my iphone created) onto there new device? Or would it ask for the apple ID in which the backup was created? Or a passcode or something?
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.

You can encrypt the backup which will force entry of the correct password before a restore. More information in iTunes: About iOS backups

ITunes won't recognize iPhone (3G), restored with another pc and worked once but not anymore, help please

- I changed a new case, battery and a headphone jack, after that iTunes didn't really wanna recognize my iPhone
- I've had the same problem earlier too, before ^that
- I have the latest version of iTunes
- I've tried to remove all USBs and reconnect iPhone many times, and rebooted both PC and phone
- I had the error 1611 while trying to restore on my PC -> I tried on another computer, worked
- my PC's iTunes recognized my iPhone once after restoring but not anymore
This is really annoying, I would be so thankful if you can help me.

+ I have reinstalled my iTunes.

CAN THE IPHONE BE RESTORED FROM ANOTHER COMPUTER?

I plugged in my iPhone to my Windows 7 computer through the USB port.
iTunes ran and I proceeded to update the OS. This failed. Not Apples fault.
Rather, it's Microsoft's fault because there's a bug in their last Windows update where it disables USB ports.
The bug is: if I plug a device to a USB port, it's not recognized at all (nothing happens).
If the device was already plugged in when I turned on the computer, the USB port works.
However, if I then unplug that device and plug it back in, it doesn't work.
The USB where my iPhone was plugged in stopped working because I think the iTunes update turns the USB
port on and off.
Since the OS did not get installed, iTunes told me I must restore my iPhone to the factory settings.
That did not work because of the USB port problem. I could not even turn on my iPhone. It was totally non-functional.
I then went to my sons computer and did a restore, but because all of my data is on my computer,
I lost EVERYTHING. Or is it lost? I copied the music\itunes folder from my bad computer to my sons computer,
but when restore ran, it did not recognize this data, instead it recognized my sons iPod data.
My Question is: Is there a way to copy the iPhone data on my stricken computer and transfer that to my sons
computer where I can then do a restore using that data?
Can I just manually copy a folder from the broken computer to the good computer?
Thanks.

Actually, never mind. I was able to get the procedure for using the terminal to format partitions of a specific size, and found out that the EFI partition is automatically generated when partitioning the drive, so I only had to create a 400 MB Recovery partition (although I couldn't get it smaller than 528 MB), a 900 MB OSBoot partition, and the rest as Media. Using Disk Utility, I recovered the downloaded disk image to the OSBoot partition, reconnected the hard drive, plugged in the AppleTV and let her rip.
Flashing question mark gone, although for some reason it initially booted in recovery mode, where I was supposed to be able to restart, run diagnostics, or restore firmware to factory resets. Diagnostics ran fine, but I was not able to restore to factory resets. Nevertheless, when I restarted again, the AppleTV worked fine. I even downloaded a couple of updates, viewed some trailers, etc.
This was fun! Thanks for your help!

Questions about iPhone 3G restore

Hi,
Sorry if this has been covered in other posts....I searched but couldn't find the exact answers I was after.
I have recently upgraded to an iPhone 4 and I'm selling my 3G. I restored the unit from within the phone settings as I didn't want to upgrade it to iOS4. I had previously unlocked the phone through the carrier legitimately. As it currently stands the phone now requires connection to itunes and an active Sim card to activate the unit (just how I wanted it). The questions I have are:
1) What firmware will the phone now have? Would it have restored it back to the original firmware provided with the phone, or will it still have 3.1.3 that was on the phone before restore?
2) Will the phone still be unlocked after the restore?
Thanks in advance for any help!

1) What firmware will the phone now have? Would it have restored it back to the original firmware provided with the phone, or will it still have 3.1.3 that was on the phone before restore?
It will have the current signed firmware from Apple, which is 4.0.2 if you retored recently.
2) Will the phone still be unlocked after the restore?
If officially unlocked to begin with, yes it will still be unlocked.

Can't get into Notes after iPhone backup restore

I restored from my iTunes Backup on my PC, however, I still cannot get into 'Notes'.
When I press the 'Notes' App it starts for a second then closes on its own.
The restore didnt fix my problem.
Do i have to 'reset' it, or something.

If you are trying to restore and you device shows an image of a USB cable and connect to iTunes then carefully follow the steps in this article. You may need to do is several times http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808

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