Transferring from iphone to computer

My father has just received an iphone from his grandaughter and it still has her music and photos on it, which we want to put onto the computer - plus we want to save his contacts that he has put on there already.
Then we can put the phone back to factory settings to get rid of unwanted stuff and put the photos, music and contacts back on.
However, he doesn't have an apple account to synch it onto the computer and the phone is still under his grandaughters account.
I am worried that in the process of changing the phone from her account to a new one, we will lose the music, photos and contacts.
What to do, what to do???

Follow these directions, & you will be OK.
Launch iphoto(if you have it), connect your phone & import your photos into iphoto, only the photos in your camera roll can be imported this way, without third party software, you will lose the rest. Before you connect your phone to the new computer's itunes, launch itunes and make sure you "authorize" this computer(Store, Authorize this Computer). Next go to Address book and enter one contact, it can be a fake contact if you like. Do the same with iCal, again it can be a fake entry. When you connect your phone to itunes & get the pop up message, cancel out. Now, go up to File, Transfer purchases from this ipod to this computer. All of your purchased content will now be transferred to your new computer(music & apps> you will lose saved data in the apps). Make sure that you select manually manage & not auto sync when your phone is connected.
Now, if you do the above you will only lose photos that are not in the camera roll & music you may have ripped on your own. If you want to keep this stuff, then you will have to purchase 3rd party software like "phoneview", there are others, you can google to find more.
Now you can decide what you want to do. When you hit sync, if that's your choice, make sure you select merge during the sync process for ical & address book.
Remember, the iPhone only supports syncing with one computer at a time.

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