Restoring photos from iTunes backup

I have an iPhone 5c and I just accidentally deleted 400 photos after iPhoto failed to correctly import them and I chose to delete them off the phone.
After this happened, I disconnected the phone. I did some research and saw people saying that I could get them back by restoring from a backup in iTunes. Seemed like it should work, since I had just backed it up 10 minutes earlier, before the failed import into iPhoto. However, when I plugged my phone back in, it automatically started backing up again and syncing, and before I could cancel the process, it replaced my earlier backup (before the photos were deleted) with a new backup (after the photos were deleted). When I choose "restore from backup," the only recent backup it will allow me to choose is the later one, after the photos are deleted.
Is there any way to access the previous backup and recover my photos?
Before you ask, I do not back up my phone to iCloud, so that is not an option.

If the device had been used as designed, pictures taken with the device would be regularly copied off the device to a computer for safekeeping. As such, there would be no need to recover them from a backup.

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I have tried this with 2 different OEM Apple cables, in 2 different USB ports, and even ensured that I had the latest iTunes (11.04, I did)... rebooted the iMac... tried the restore again.
The next step was to put the phone in DFU mode and do a new restore. Same results.
Anyone with any idea what is wrong? I would expect some sort of error message in the very least, but I’m getting nothing.
nothing works. She has lost photos, text messages, contacts (no iCloud backup) and game progress. And I am in deep doo-doo with my daughter.
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If you have a backup on iCloud, wipe your device and when you activate it you will have the opportunity to restore again from that backup.
better yet, if you have a backup in iTunes it will go a LOT faster to restore from there.
Verizon cxl'd the iCloud restore because it can take hours and they certainly don't want you to wait around in their store.

After resetting & restoring iPad from iTunes backup, I got A LOT of a problems

These might not me "A LOT :O" for you
But for me, I'm getting sorta mad that Steve Jobs is dead, apple went ⬇️DOWN
I have 2 problems:
Problem 1: after resetting and restoring from iTunes backup, i get all the settings back. But my apps didn't. If I download them, would I have my files back? Like my minecraft worlds? I had VERY important stuff
Problem 2: when I want to download a paid app like minecraft, and I downloaded it from the same apple ID, it doesn't say 'free', nor it has a cloud, But it says $6.99. Please help me. I have IOS 7.1.1.
Thank you,
Ab

[b]SOLVED[/b]
Answer for question 1: yes
Answer for question 2: follow these steps:
1) Log out of your apple ID
2) log back in
So hard

When restoring phone from iTunes backup can you choose what to put back on phone?

I got the iPhone 6 Plus and instead of restoring from iCloud backup I have to restore from iTunes backup, but I don't want to include my music just to have some more space left on my new phone. Is there a way to restore without my music??

Perhaps I've just confused everyone. In iTunes your media can be checked or unchecked. Unchecked items are usually not synced. By unchecking media in the library before restoring a device that was previously set up to include media it should be the case that no media is restored during the sync. Once the restore is complete you can then adjust sync options, recheck your content and sync your new selections. Since an entire class of media can be checked or unchecked with a simple ctrl-click this has the potential to speed up the restore phase considerably.
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Restoring iPhone from iTunes backup

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You should be importing camera roll photos anyway.

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dejavuofa wrote:
Hello! I've seen a lot of threads about restoring via iTunes but haven't found my particular situation yet. So hopefully someone can give me some insight into my predicament. I updated my iPhone 4S with io7 and my wifi broke. So I got a new iPhone 4S with ios6 loaded on it. I want to keep ios6 until Apple can figure out how to fix the wifi/bluetooth chip running hot. I backed up my phone right before I swapped to the new 4S. But when I try to restore from backup it won't let me because the backup I did was with ios7 and it wants me to upgrade my ios6 to ios7. Obviously I don't want to do that only to have my new phone break again.
Options I see is pay for some 3rd party software that can restore my contacts, texts, etc. Upgrade to ios7 and pray it doesn't break again. Get a new phone.
But I don't like any of those options. I want to keep ios6 until they make me upgrade it.
Anyone have any ideas???
Apreciate the help in advance.
Darren
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Man, that MediaRECOVER worked great from a preview standpoint! I not only saw my previously deleted photos from the last "roll" but also saw additional photos as well from earlier rolls. I wish I had this a few weeks ago...
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Thanks!!!
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