Updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 and have now lost all my contacts, messages, photo's etc? HELP!!
Hi guys,
I have just updated my iphone 4 to iOS 5 and have lost everything!
I did a back up prior to the install and have the latest version of iTunes. I completed the install and went to retrieve the back up via a restore, I selected the latest restore, it thinks about it then comes up with the following error message: "File is corrupt or not compatible with this phone"
I was also perviously using Mobile Me for instances like this, though my accont has recently expired and I can no longer access it, all my data was stored on there. Annoying!
Can anyone help? Be a huge help...
If you made a backup in iTunes before upgrading you can access the data with iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor.
Can be downloaded from here: http://supercrazyawesome.com/
This helped me getting my Notes back after the upgrade to iOS 5.
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