Upgrading from 3gs to IP4

I have a Iphone 3gs and a Iphone 4, I want to be able to restore all my settings from the 3GS to the 4, is this possible?
I tried to retore to the Iphone 4 and it tells me it is to new a hardware, I will hate to setup everything again, hopefully someone else has experienced this.
Thanks...
...Mike

msbutton27 wrote:
I have a Iphone 3gs and a Iphone 4, I want to be able to restore all my settings from the 3GS to the 4, is this possible?
I tried to retore to the Iphone 4 and it tells me it is to new a hardware, I will hate to setup everything again, hopefully someone else has experienced this.
Thanks...
...Mike
I believe it is possible but I've seen people reporting odd issues when doing that. Personally I would just manually transfer over stuff than copy a 3GS backup to an iPhone 4.
Dave

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