What does restoring my iPhone do?

I just got my mom's old iPhone December 9th. So i added all my contacts into the phone. I have saved all the pictures i have taken in the main camera roll. So I hooked up my iPhone 4 to the computer, and daved all of the "Camera Roll" pictures. I wanted to get rid of the other folders my mom has but save them onto my computer. Whem iTunes opened up after i saved my photos from "Camera Roll", it said something about iTunes not being able to read my iPhone and that i needed to restore it. It shows the "iPhone Recovery Mode". Will restoring my phone from iTunes (when itunes told me to, not my iPhone) delete everything off of my phone from contacts to pictures?

If it says: "iPhone Recovery Mode". then everything is already gone from the iphone.
You need to restore it.
You will lose anything that you have failed to import/transfer/save to your computer.

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That means you have restored it to factory settings, wiping out everything that was on it. If you have a backup of the stuff that was lost, you can restore from that backup.

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or by using this program (there are others too)
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Sometime RecBoot will do it if the iPod was intentionally placed in recovery mode
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- For more inbfo on recovery mode see:
http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Recovery_Mode

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what does restor back up mean?/what does it do

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Wasn't the question "does restoring the iPhone reset the call time usage?"

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If it's backed up, it won't be gone.
Be sure you've transferred all iTunes media purchased on your phone into your computer's iTunes library.
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Make sure you've imported all pictures taken by the iPhone into your computer.
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A true factory unlocked phone will not lock up after an update. A phone that has been hacked to be unlocked with lock back after a firmware update. As far as the baseband changes, that would be dependent on what is in the firmware update. If the firmware has a new baseband, then yes it would update the baseband.

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If you haven't backed up your information on iCloud or anywhere for that matter, does "restoring your phone" basically mean you will never see your pictures, contacts, calendars, and texts again?
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See my reply in your other thread.

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Hi everyone
I haven't connected my iPhone to my computer/iTunes in over a year because I had computer issues that I just recently was able to fix. However, in the meantime I have purchased well over a hundred songs and over 50 apps. When I plugged my phone it, it gave me the following message:
"This computer has previously been synced with an iPhone or another IOS device"
and then it gave me two options:
1. Set up a new iphone
2.restore from back up of my Iphone (but the last back up was from May 2011)
I'm not too sure how to proceed and am afraid that if I restore from back-up, I'll lose everything that I've purchased from May 2011 to present.
This may seem like a really simple question but I must honestly say that I am stumped...
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

Hi Bhazel,
Thank you for taking the time to help but I was wondering when i 'restore from back-up' what happens to the new apps? And will it delete the info contained within the actual app itself?

What does restore do?

I haven't backed up my iPad, but it's forcing me to update to iOS 6. All it shows is the connect to iTunes picture when I try to do something with it. When I plug it into iTunes, it says I have to restore, but as i said, I haven't backed up my iPad at all. I'm worried what will happen if I restore it if I haven't backed it up and have purchases many songs, etc.

...as far as I understand, restore will get your phone back to 'factory settings', but only restore it with the latest version for the iPhone ie. doing it through iTunes they will only give you their latest version as far as I am aware. They dont allow you to choose which version software you want.
You would then have to use the last back up of your phone on iTunes to add your content (aps, etc) back to your phone.

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