Resetting iPhone and Backup Files?

If you reset your iPhone will the backup files stored in the iPhone app be deleted?

It is unclear what is happening, after numerous resets, my IPHONE stils at the apple logo and goes no where... I am distraut by the fact that I am experiencing this problem, and have yet to place a phone call! UGH
Note: I did the resent (menu and off/on simultanous hold), I have done the restore.. and now where to go!
Help anyone!

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I think, according to this thread, you're between a rock and a hard place- you won't be able to access your backups. See this thread:
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On Monday I have upgraded from iPhone 4 to iPhone 5. I have setup the iPhone 5 as old (not new device) and restored all settings and data
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iPhone 4's backup files , both on iCloud and my laptop, have the size of 236 MB. iPhone 5's backup file size is only 58 MB.
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Your question is interesting. I don't really know the answer, but if that happened to me, I'd be delighted!
After all, you're saying everything is working just fine, and yet your new backup is 25% the size of your old one. I would view that as the backup is being done a whole lot more efficiently, with old junk having been discarded.
I would be really upset and concerned if the backup size went the other way -- if the new backup was 4 times the size of the old one.
Basically, you will find efficiencies in storage used on your iOS device if you restore it. I suspect you're seeing similar efficiencies here. Given everything is working fine, it sounds like cause for celebration.
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I had to restore my iphone after a software update and now my music itunes folder states "no content". I'm heading on vacation tomorrow and really want to be able to access my itunes.
please help.

I just did a restore to factory settings from the phone last night and it worked. Don't know for how long, but it straightened things out.
History..Apps started crashing, then lost music, then phone bricked. I did the restore which took forever. I did not downgrade to a lesser version of itunes. I then deleted all apps from itunes and my files. Phone worked great again and then I started adding some of the apps (I had alot but only brought back about 6). Then after about a week or so I added more apps and everything worked great. All apps were reinstated from itunes not the phone. The update I did on the apps was from itunes. And that was when the problem started again. I did note that after the update, the apps were spread across 3 pages. I didn't have enough to cover two and I think that may be the problem. I started noticing some songs had no volume while playing, some apps would crash. I figured it's just a question of time before the whole phone goes south again. Last night I deleted the apps that weren't working and upgraded to itunes 8. Some of the remaining apps were crashing now and still spread over 3 pages. So before going nuts with another restore I did a reset to factory settings from the phone. It bndled the apps back onto two pages and they were all working just fine. So far anyway. We shouldn't have to go through all this nonsense but maybe resetting to factory settings is a quick solution. I didn't lose any contacts, just had to reset the weather app for my town and reinstate the wifi password and a couple of other password protected apps. So before doing a restore, try resetting the factory settings.

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If it was a simple case of backup corruption, the phone itself would have been fine after the update. The fact that both the phone and the backup show the same exact symptoms seems to indicate that something in the update possibly installed itself prior to the backup. I hope this information makes it's way to Apple engineers. The Sr. tech person "Josh", wouldn't discuss that as a possiblity.

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One thing I have found when updating both phones earlier...is that for one phone I already had ALL apps updated on iTunes AND iPhone prior to the upgrade of iTunes and the iPhone OS 3.1
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On phone 2...The apps where up to date on iPhone only...Not in iTunes...when I upgraded iTunes and then updated all apps, after it was done it forced me to re authorize my itunes account...(it didn't do that for phone one) Then after that was done and I clicked sync...it told me that 11 of the apps on iPhone were not updated because they were not authorized...even though I had just authorized the iTunes account...I chose from the file menu "transfer purchases from iPhone" and then the 11 apps did properly show up in iTunes and all was well...

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