Resetting from backup

How can I reset my iPhone 4S from my backup , I started having problems sending messages when I upgraded to 7.0.04 IOS version. I just don't know how to fix it up . Could you please give me the steps on how to reset it from my backup. What if I didn't back it up with iCloud what's gonna happen? Is there another way of fixing it. Thanks for your support.

You can restore from backup using iTunes. What you cannot do is downgrading.
Restore using iTunes http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946

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I've had to reset my ipad to factory settings and restore from backup (have also got new softwear) my passcode is now not working - any ideas on the default?

i've had to reset my ipad to factory settings and restore from backup (have also got new softwear) my passcode is now not working - any ideas on the default?

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Receive = retrieve

After restoring from backup, iPad hangs after sliding to unlock-I have to reset every time to get it to work--Any fix?

I have a first generation iPad.
After having crashing issues I restored from backup.
Since restore, whenever I slide to unlock, it hangs for few minutes. Then I get a pictrue of the spinning circle but is doesn't spin---just hangs there--frozen.
I have to reset the iPad to get it to function every time (holding down the home button/on-off button).
Any ideas on how I can resolve this issue?

Seems to have something to do with the passcode. I turned the passcode off and now there are no issues.

Factory reset or restore from backup?

I tried removing a Windows partition the wrong way and I am unable to restore to a single partition. So I have the Macintosh HD and BOOTCAMP disks. The data on the BOOTCAMP disk was erased using Disk Utility. How do I restore to a single partition? Factory reset or restore from backup? My back up was from before I added the Windows partition but I have a gut feeling that's telling me this might not work.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
It looks lke you erased the Boot Camp partition. To delete it, try opening Boot Camp Assistant. If it can't delete this partition:
1. Open Disk Utility and select the hard disk at the top of the sidebar.
2. Go to Partition tab, choose BOOTCAMP on the bar and press - button to remove the partition.
3. Press Macintosh HD at the bottom right corner, so you will be able to drag it to the bottom of the bar, and press Apply.
4. The Mac OS X partition will be using all the space of your hard drive and the Boot Camp volume will have been deleted

Reset phone to factory settings to remove unwanted email addresses from autofilling. Now trying to only sync real contacts, photos, and apps from backup. HELP PLEASE! :)

Reset phone to factory settings to remove unwanted email addresses from autofilling. Now trying to only sync real contacts, photos, and apps from backup. HELP PLEASE!

All of this should be on your computer as you should be syncing regularly to your computer.. Just sync it back.
iPhone User Guide (For iOS 4.2 and 4.3 Software)

Itune forces to setup as new ipad or restore from backup?!

I have 3 ipads and 2 iphones in my house sharing the same apple ID, but when I tried to connect one of the ipads to itune on my PC, it only gives option to set up as new phone or restore from backup, either option would wipe out the data I already have on the ipad. All other devices can connect to itune without problems. Found another thread with the same problem, but the solution of logging on windows with different user does not solve my problem. Can anyone help? Itune has to be the worst and dumbest product from apple!

I too have this very frustrating issue. It worked fine 2 weeks ago.
I have two devices setup, and they have the same name, but that has never been a problem as one is a 5G 80GB iPod, and the other is an iPhone 3GS.
Now, everytime I plug my iPhone into my PC, iTunes comes up and asks me to restore.
Grrr... I have restored 3 times. I have also performed a complete iPhone reset and a restore... same thing, and I have no idea why.
Please help.
Thanks,
S.

I just got an iphone 6. Not all of my music was on itunes, so I logged in and instead of clicking set up as new iphone I hit restore from backup, thinking it only pertained to the music in itunes. Now my new iphone looks just like my old iphone and h

I just got an iphone 6. Not all of my music was on itunes, so I logged in and instead of clicking set up as new iphone I hit restore from backup, thinking it only pertained to the music in itunes. Now my new iphone looks just like my old iphone and has iphone 5 settings. How can I undo and get back to iphone 6 settings?

Settings/Reset/Erase all content and settings...
Recently I had to do the sequence above and when the phone rebooted, it came up as a new phone.

HT4946 cannot find itunes backup on my PC (win xp). want to move over to external hard drive to restore from backup bc PC not enough space

i just restored my ipad2 to iOS 6.1.3 yesterday. i have been trying to restore from backup, but i keep getting error messages from itunes (running latest version of itunes) that says there is not enough space to save the backup on the computer. i have tried clearing up as much space on my PC (windows xp), but there is still not enough room. and ive tried disk cleanup on my computer and resetting the ipad and running it through recovery mode (as some articles sugggested it would help with restoring after failed attempts). i read on another question in the apple support discussions that someone just moved his whole backup folder into his external harddrive and then he was able to restore from backup.
the backup is definitely saved on my computer (itunes confirms that), and the backup folder is supposed to be here \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\, but im still not finding it with that file path. i get as far as "username" and then i dont see "application data" and so on. but when i try searching that file path in google chrome, i find it and i see it, but its strange that i cant find it in the "docs and settings" folder in my C drive.
please help! i just want to be able to move the backup folder to my external to restore from backup. thank you in advance!!

Thank you! I was able to find it. Im sorry, i have a few follow up questions. Does the iTunes have to be running from my external as well to do the restore from backup? And if so, how do I move iTunes to external and run it from there? Also, I just copied over the "backup" folder (last part of that file path to my external, is that enough, or did I have to copy it starting from the beginning (docs and settings and so forth)? Lastly, when I select restore from backup in iTunes, would it automatically know that it's the copy on my external to restore backup from? Or do I have to delete or do something with the original file path in my computer?
Thank you!

Used iTunes to restore from backup and the Apple ID that shows up is a very old one

I have an iPhone 4s. I recently lost all of my contacts for some mysterious reason. I personally think it's a conspiracy by Apple to force me to upgrade to a new phone. Anyway, I hooked my phone up to my computer (Windows 7) and from iTunes I went to Devices, Restore from Backup. I know that within the last few weeks that I backed it up onto iTunes but I cannot figure out from the newest iTunes how to find it. So I restored the backup but it backed up from November of 2012 (I am only assuming this because the most recent pictures that are in phone are from that date). It did restore my contacts from 2012 but there are no recent contacts in there plus I lost all my photos from November 2012 on. Which is no big deal. My problem is that the Apple ID that is showing up is from a very old account. The e-mail address is no longer even valid.I tried to delete iCloud from my phone so that I could put it back on with my new Apple ID but I cannot remember the password of my old id. When I go to reset my password for my old id and the security questions come up the first thing it asks for is my date of birth. When I put my date of birth in it says:
The authentication information provided does not match our records. Please verify your personal information and try again.
I know that I did not enter the wrong birth date when I first set up that account. So now I am stuck because I cannot get any further without that date of birth. I HOPE SOMEONE CAN HELP. PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
PS-Not sure if this matters but I also upgraded to iOS 8 directly before I did the Restore From Backup.

Hello risenhauer,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
To reset your Apple ID password without knowing your security questions or have access to the email account, you will need to contact Apple Account Security in your country. Links to contact can be found in the article below.
Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security
Take care,
Alex H.

I try to open I photo and I get the message, your iPhoto library is damaged...please restore from backup. But i din't made backup copy. How can i delete previous library and work wrom the new one?

I try to open I photo and I get the message, your iPhoto library is damaged...please restore from backup. But i din't made backup copy. How can i delete previous library and work wrom the new one?

Try this (assuming you're using iPhoto 12): make a temporary, duplicate copy of the library and try the three fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your Home/Library/Preferences folder.
delete iPhoto's cache files that are located in your Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.
reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding the the Option key. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
Fix #2
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library.
Select options #1, #2 and #6.
Fix #3
Rebuild the library using iPhoto Library Manager as follows:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
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HT1766 i am trying to restore my iPad from a backup. I do not get the option of restoring from backup.... I only get restore to orginal settings?

I was attempting to update my ipad to the newest OS system and it crashed... I came back with it saying that it had an error and did not update. Now I only get the iTunes logo on the ipad witht he usb cord picture.
I have gone into iTunes & it says I have to do a restore. But it does not give me the RESTORE from Backup option. Only the Restore to Factory Settings. Is this normal?
Thank you for any help you can give me.
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Marrtin S wrote:
Hi I am trying to restore my iphone from the itunes back and it is asking me for a password, I don't ever remember putting a password in. how do i get the password reset?
You can't get it reset; if you could there would be no point in having it. If you have an encrypted backup there are two ways this could have happened:
You checked "Encrypt Backup" in iTunes at some time in the past, either intentionally or by accident
You have a corporate MS Exchange account and your Exchange administrator installed a security profile on your phone that requires the phone'a contents to be encrypted. This, in turn, requires the backup to be encrypted for obvious reasons.
In either case you were prompted for a password the first time you backed up after whichever of these happened. So think about what you might have entered for a password at that time. Fortunately you get an unlimited number of tries. Other threads on this subject have shown that it is always a password known to the user, so it wasn't something made up by iTunes. Also, everyone who has figured it out has found it to be a different password type, so try your Apple ID password, your computer's login password, your WiFi password, your corporate domain password, etc. And try passwords that may have been changed since your first backup. As a last resort there is a professional password cracker available, but it isn't cheap - it's targeted at the law enforcement market - from Elcomsoft. There are also some scam password crackers available that don't actually work and possibly steal your information. It's likely that a developer of one or more of these will post a response with a link (possibly hidden) to their "product". So before clicking any links you might want to install the Web of Trust plugin that keeps track of scam sites and warns you. http://www.mywot.com.

How to create new database from backup.

Hi !
i have backup of a database, i do not want to restore, i want to create new database from the backup.
i am using oracle 11g xe.
yours sincerely

If the Location of the datafiles is similar to that of source database then you can consider below steps
Create Oracle Service using oradim
set ORACLE_SID=NEWDB
oradim -new -sid NEWDB -intpwd passwordofthesys -startmode M
Connect to the RMAN
rman>rman target /
restore spfile/pfile and control file from backup
rman>restore spfile to pfile '_localtion of the initNEWDB.ora_' from '_location of the SPFILE Backuppiece_';
rman>startup nomount pfile='localtion of the initNEWDB.ora';
rman>restore controlfile from 'file location of the controlfile Backuppiece';
rman>alter database mount;
Catalog the RMAN backuppiece of source database
rman>catalog backuppiece '_location of the rman backuppiece of source database_ ';
resotore & recover database
rman>restore database;
rman>recover database;
open the database with reset logs
rman>alter database open resetlogs;
rman>create spfile from pfile;
rman>shutdown immediate;
rman>startup;
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If you have access to source database then you can clone using below rman command:
+rman target _<source database>_ auxiliary _<new database>_+
rman>duplication target database to _<your new database name>_;
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If the location of the datafiles and logfiles are different from source database then you need to add db_file_name_convert and log_file_name_convert to the pfile before starting the recovery process.

How do i restore my pictures from backup

So my old phone is dead and my pictures are on my backup with Verizon Wirelesss. how do i save them to my computer?

You can try a restore, but read the added comments below. To restore, Settings>General, scroll to bottom and tap Reset (delete all files on device). Then attach to iTunes and following instructions to setup. Along the way you should have the option of restore. Choose which backup to use.
Warning...
Many users have lost photos while preforming a restore from backup or upgrading the iOS. There are no solutions to this in most cases.
Photos should be regularly synced to a computer (like you store photos from a digital camera) using either USB via iTunes (on a mac use iPhoto or Aperture to move them to an album) or using photo stream. If you have been doing that, then you can sync those photos back to your device.
If you haven't been saving photos except relying on iCloud to store them in a backup, then that is risky, as many users have discovered. I'm afraid I have no advice in this case - there is no "cure".

How to flush apps from iPad2 using a "Restore from backup"

When I receive an iPad back from loan (library environment) it frequently has additional apps loaded by the borrower, over and above the small set of apps that we provide when the iPad is checked out.
If we reset the iPad (Settings/General/Reset/Erase All Content and Settings) and then restore from a canonical backup, the iPad is rendered "fresh" with no evidence of the previous borrower and ONLY the small set of apps that we provide.
However,
If we simply restore from the canonical backup, without the reset, the evidence of previous use is limited to just the additional apps that the previous borrower installed. In effect, the iPad contains the union of our standard set and the previous borrower's additions. All the data, media and settings (even defaults such as iCloud and Store IDs) are removed. The iPad is "fresh" except for the additional app or apps.
The simple restore from backup is much faster than the reset+restore and would be preferred.
Manual inspection and removal of borrower-installed apps is too time consuming.
Looking for a procedure that would force the app list down to only the one in the backup...
Any comments?

=> ex_spy_guy
Thank you for your prompt and thoughtful comment.
The library is institutional but is not publicly funded. Our policies are not traditional, therefore.
We wished to give the early patrons the ability to experiment with apps of their own discovery that they provision using credentials that they already have or that they create for the purpose. We have no record of their credentials and they do not have the Library's credentials. We never attempt nor allow the iPads to be sync'd on our duplication station. I agree with almost everything that you are saying but:
- we loan a "fresh" iPad that has been restored from a tightly controlled (never sync'd) backup
- we are returned an iPad that contains the initial app set + user settings, media, bookmarks, history etc. + one or more apps that the user has installed using his own credentials
- the iPad is connected to iTunes (on Lion) with automatic sync disabled
- we control-click on the iPad device name and restore from backup using the virgin backup mentioned above
- the restore takes 10 seconds or less since no new apps nor media is added
- the resulting iPad contains no user settings nor data but does still contain the app(s) that the user added
- if the iPad is reset to remove ALL non-firmware apps and then is restored from the same image, the users apps do not appear, just as one would expect. This takes 10-12 minutes with the app set that we currently provide. We find this burdensome for frequent use but it's perhaps necessary...
It surprises me that the users' apps survive a "Restore from Backup" process.
Unlike a traditional disk image (OS X .dmg for example) the iPad restoral "image" (~Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/) contains no binaries. It's just a manifest of XML files in a folder and describes what .ipa binaries should be loaded from the iTunes library. iTunes does not, apparently, exclude (delete the encryption key of) binaries that are not provisioned in the manifest. Everything else gets zeroed-out of the iPads but not the foreign .ipa files. Is this a feature or a bug?

Trying to restore from backup of IPhone 4 onto New IPhone 5 - Message "ITunes could not restore the iPhone because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone that is being restored".

Hi
I'm trying to restore from backup of IPhone 4 onto New IPhone 5 in iTunes but getting message:
"ITunes could not restore the iPhone "iPhone" because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone that is being restored".
I've repeated the backup of my old phone but I'm still getting the same message.
Any ideas please?
Ger

I just spent 3 hrs with AT&T tech support. No visual voicmail! i wiped phone 3 times, reset. everything no visual voicemail.
I can access it through dialing holding down 1 then enter password, bu t Visual voicemail is DEAD. ATT says apple has major bug and fix won't be out until OCT 5th.
If you Google it it lights up like a cristmas tree! Verizon is also inodated.
1. Fake Map app usless Apple is fixing it though
2. Batt is a joke, last like 2 hrs
3. No visual voicemail
4. Face time on ATT no longer works on cellular data per apple design.
We need Steve Jobs!! he would have fired somebody for all these mistakes.
Nopw i am locked into crashing my car because i have to type in numbers to here voicemails.
Come on Apple send us a rebate or a Iphone 5 that meets the specs stated on the box and advertisments.!!
We love Apple and dedicated, but this one is a joke.
Not to mention you jacked us all being locked into 2 year plans with Verizon or ATT.
No face time unless i buy a Bucket of 5 gb over celluar? give me a break Take care of us apple Buy ATT and igve us unlimited plans with facetime and data you got enough money!

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