Was restoring my iPhone 3gs but am unable to sync my contacts.
it keeps saying my iPhone is disconnected for some reason. The contacts however have got uploaded on the phone after serval attempts. I however am not able to sync the phone with the computer. Every time i sync it keeps showing the same error message. Also my sms es were not restored.
pls help
If you aren't already, try connecting the iPhone to the back of your Mac using the cable that came with it. You may also want to disconnect the other USB devices.
If that doesn't do it, check out this Apple article -> iOS: Troubleshooting USB connection
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i was restore my iphone 5 but last time itune show error (-1) so how can i solve this problem?
Error -1 indicates a serious hardware failure.
Try restoring the device again, try on a different computer. If the issue continues, take the device to Apple for evaluation and possible replacement. -
i restore my iphone 3gs but after that iTunes show a message there is a problem with your iPhone, help me please
Yes. Talk to whoever replaced the battery. Sounds like they broke something.
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I had to restore an iPhone 3GS, but the backup has a password that i did not put. What should i do?
I had to restore an iPhone 3GS, but the backup has a password that i did not put. What should i do?
If you have a corporate Exchange account set up on the phone, the administrators can requre encrypted backups. Try the password for your Exchange account.
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I just updated my iphone 3gs from ios 5.1.1 to ios 6 but i can't activate it because it won't let me. Now i want to restore it but itunes sais that i have the 3194 eror and i can't solve it. If anyone knows how to solve it please tell me.
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SIM card not accepting, hence can't process fruther
Hi @imobl,
You sound like an Apple support guy who hasn't been able to answer my questions.
To respond to some of the points you made,
- I did not ignore Ocean20's suggestion. If you has read my post, you would have known that I took my phone to the apple service centre where they tried this restore on THEIR machines. I am assuming that Apple guys know how not to block iTunes. So I actually do not understand your point about me trying the hosts file changes on my machine. Do you not believe that apple tested this issue with the correct settings?
- you also give a flawed logic of why the issue is a hardware issue. You mentioned that If I thought that the issue was with the software, i should try a restore and getting it to work. The problem is that my error (23), and many others comes up when the restore fails. And you would be astonished to know that not all errors are hardware errors. Sometimes even software errors prevent restores. Funnily enough Apple itself mention that 'in rare cases, error 23 could be hardware related'.
- all Apple has done so far is replicate the issue. I don not know how anyone can conclude that the issue is a hardware issue.
And by the way, I am not certain that this is a software bug. Again if you read my Posts, you will notice I only want a confirmation,/proof that the issue is hardware related as they mention..
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I've restored my iphone 3GS but screen has overlapping pictures
After restoring the phone, the picture of the connecting cable + disc + note symbol are still visible below the standard icons. The screen is also much brighter on the right hand side than the left.
Is the screen faulty or can this be fixed by making some sort of adjustment?
I've tried to adjust brightness, it makes no difference.
The phone is brand new, if it is faulty will it be covered by guarantee?
Thanks
SoniaIf you now have the device set to perform icloud backups (and not itunes backups), then most likely you lost the backup data. The real question is whether the Apple data like contacts have also been updated to the old data.
Here's a test to perform - using a computer's browser, log into icloud.com and go to the Contacts page. If they have changed, then the newer data is lost. Do the same with the other data pages, like calendars, etc. -
The phone has given me a 1015 error - unknown error has occured, during the firmwre comfirmation.
We have tired the tricks with holding the home button down for 10 secs etc, we have tried installing a number of different versions of itunes, but no joy.
We did do a backup of the phone before trying to sync it but can't re-install that either.
I have been told the only way to get the phone functional again is to re-jailbreak it, do a back up of that and try to udpate back to the apple IOS from there but the phone is not responding.
It turns on, and is in emergancy mode only, wehn I put hte sim in it's not recognising it, all it wants is to connect to itunes, which it wont do when you try.
I don't know what to do try next, at a dead end here.
I don't want a jail broken phone, I just want it to function like its meant to but at this stage I will settle for a phone that works at all.
Any suggestions,,,,,,,,, anyone??
Thanks for reading and considering my problem.Have latest version of iTunes installed and running. Also make sure you have internet access working and can access Apple websites. Also, make sure you don't have any entries in your hosts file referring to gs.apple.com....If your not sure about how to do that, go ahead and do the rest first. You can come back to that later.....Plug in phone. Put phone in DFU mode.(google put iphone in DFU mode for instructions) Then restore the phone in iTunes by highliting your device in the left column and click on the Restore button. The latest iOS version is 4.3.3. That's what iTunes will restore it to. When it's done restoring, iTunes will ask if you want to restore from a backup or setup as a new phone. I would use the Setup as a New Phone option. Once it's done, you should have a clean install of the iOS and an operating phone, as long as there are no hardware issues with it.
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IPhone 3GS doesn't want to sync my contacts over iCloud.
I have a newest iOS version, I can turn off and turn back on iCloud syncing but it doesn't help. It's pretty frustrating as some contacts that I have in my mac doesn't appear in my telephone. I have this problem for long time already. Last time I was visiting I read somewhere here that new update for iOS will solve it:) I think I had two since then.
I have been using the AC adapter. It's been pluged since yesterday evening and it doesn't get pass the white Apple screen, I have also tried to restart it and nothing either. I tried to restore it but it doesn't have enough charge for my computer to recognize it. I'm stumped
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i was updating my iphone 3gs , but error occured while itunes was updating firmware. it asked me to revert back to backup. it is in recovery mode. now when i am restoring , again eroor is there while updating firmware part . (1015) . please help what to do . or manually download a update
same thing happened to me. my phone is unlocked. did you have any luck.
please send info.
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HT201210 I have got error number 11 on itunes when trying to restore my iphone 3gs, please help.
Please help, I am trying to restore my iphone 3gs, but i keep getting errors like 11 which is not listed in this site and i alos get error 1 and -1. please help.
Did you manage to fix the issue?
I have exactly the same issue as described above : I installed the update 5.1.1 on my iphone 3GS and since then, I can not turn it on anymore. In Itunes, I get an error 37 when I am doing a restauration and it stops.
This error has nothing to do with firewall : I tried to restore the phone on several computers, including in an Apple reseller and it did not work anywhere.
I spent several hours on phone with the hotline from Apple which arrived to the conclusion that it is a hardware issue, but the phone was working perfectly fine until I installed this update! -
i had recently followed orders to restore my iPhone 3gs (iOS 6.1) from a question on apple support. However it was working fine before that, it's just that my phone didn't have signal. So it said to restore my iPhone and now it says that the Activation server is temporarily unavailable and when i plugged it into my mac, it said that i ddn't have a sim card installed. What can I do to fix this besides bring it to the store? it also bugs me because this answer was supposed to work but it just messed my phone up even more. This has already happened once and i had to take it to the store. What should I do to fix this? Thank you so much for all answers. i really appreciate.
no so i dont know what happened
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hi, I was trying to update my iPhone 3gS but when I turn it on again iTunes send me a message that says error 3194 occurs, please help me!!
If the screen shows a plug going to itunes, then you have no choice, It's in recovery mode. You'll be given the chance to restore from a backup either from itunes or icloud.
I assume when you got the message to update (was this for the ios or update some apps?), that was before the device when dead. At any rate, doing a restore does not change the ios. -
While syncing my iphone 4s, its saying unable to sync and restore to factory settings. But, My iphone 4s is factory unlocked. If I restore to factory settings will the iphone get locked to the carrier again.
vamsi Pothugunta wrote:
While syncing my iphone 4s, its saying unable to sync and restore to factory settings. But, My iphone 4s is factory unlocked. If I restore to factory settings will the iphone get locked to the carrier again.
It all depends on the definition of "factory unlocked". If the phone was purchased directly from Apple and the receipt says "Unlocked" then updating or restoring it will leave it unlocked (Apple never uses the term "factory unlocked" as there is no such thing; phones are unlocked at activation time). Similarly, if it had been locked to a carrier and the carrier authorized it to be unlocked, and you went through the unlocking steps they provided, it is permanently unlocked.
Unfortunately, a lot of the phones sold as "factory unlocked" were actually unlocked by hacking in the "factory" in the basement of some shop somewhere. These phones at best will become locked to the original carrier if restored, and in the worst case will be permanently disabled if restored. -
Im trying to restore my iphone 3gs to its factory setting at the same time updating to a newer version 6.1.2. while restoring, itunes states"We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activition at this time." i cant open my phone, what does it mean
99.9% of the time, the cause of this issue is the fact the phone was jailbroken/hacked to unlock it for use on networks other than the network the phone was originally locked to. Apple maintains a database of officially unlocked iPhones, and when Apple's servers detect phones such as yours, activation stops & you get the message you got.
So, either get a sim card from the carrier your phone was originally locked to, or get it officially unlocked, because it appears that it was not officially unlocked.
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