Shall I restore as a new iPad then sync from iCloud?

I've been having a frustrating few days trying to get music, photos, books ey to sync after the software updates with absolutely no joy. Been getting loads of different messages via iTunes from stopped waiting for sync to start, to sync cancelled. My iPad does have nearly 1gb of yellow other content and I'm wondering whether to restore as a new iPad to get rid of this. My question is, if I do this and then can successfully sync, if I then back up from the cloud will my settings revert to including the yellow mystery content? Any views appreciated: it's becoming a real pain to manually load apps from the cloud one one by one after each unsuccessful restore and sync. ITunes is running on Vista and it's an ipad1. Please help.

Suggest you do this:
1. Backup iPad to iTunes or iCloud
2. Restore iPad to Factory Default (setup as new)
3. Update to IOS 8
4. Restore backup from iTunes or iCloud
Note: This way you get a clean install

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I assume that you will have to set up as new since it will not let you restore from the backup. Then after you set it up, you can restore from the iCloud backup. The backup should not disappear be use you are setting this device up as new. Your backup should still be in iCloud.
However, after you activate the iPd and update the software, you will have to erase the device in order to restore from the Cloud backup, that is the only way to get to the iCloud backup.
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Resolution
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Okay, this is interesting, because I was under the impression that FOR IOS DEVICES, contacts are NOT included in a backup, since they are already on icloud (in the contact database). And since you erased the contacts, then they are gone for good. One recommendation I've read about is, assuming you have a computer like a Mac also connected to the same icloud account, you can get the contacts back from a backup of the computer, like Time Machine. However, I don't know where you'd look for that file or files (even though the contacts are stored centrally on icloud, I'm guessing they are also stored locally in a cache file).
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Why start a new and very similar thread to your other one which you have not responded to (have you read the replies?)
I suggest that no response is made to this duplicate thread.

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iOS 5: Updating your device to iOS 5 or Later
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4972
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http://www.macworld.com/article/2010061/hands-on-with-ios-6-installation.html
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Tip - If connected to your computer, you may need to disable your firewall and anitvirus software temporarily. Then download and install the iOS update. Be sure and backup your iPad before the iOS update. After you update an iPad (except iPad 1) to iOS 6.x, the next update can be installed via wifi (i.e., not connected to your computer).
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