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When you get your iPhone 4s are you setting it up as new phone?
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As a backup.
I'd like to keep all my texts. I'm weird like that. Deciding to delete them all would be a big decision, I guess if I notice it's slowing my phone down I would maybe need to make that choice. I have multiple contacts with thousands of texts each and it doesn't make any different whatsoever.
That's why I loved the Facebook idea of integrating their messaging systems with texts and emails to create a history of your interaction with that person. It's just a shame it's not very slick in reality.
I'd like to keep all my texts. I'm weird like that. Deciding to delete them all would be a big decision, I guess if I notice it's slowing my phone down I would maybe need to make that choice. I have multiple contacts with thousands of texts each and it doesn't make any different whatsoever.
That's why I loved the Facebook idea of integrating their messaging systems with texts and emails to create a history of your interaction with that person. It's just a shame it's not very slick in reality.
Shouldn't cause any issues. I've done it before with no problems.
Yes but as already mentioned they should already be in your iTunes.
Regarding myself I'm going to set it up from a backup as I don't want to lose my texts, game saves and other important data. I've always done that with all my iPhones.
Fresh install for me.
Hate losing my old SMS and it's a major pain having to re-select/install all my apps and sort everything back into folders, but as I had to do a fresh re-install about 3 months ago when my iPhone 4 went a bit haywire, the prospect is easier to face than it was back then when I had 2.5 years of SMS to lose.
The reason I'll do it is that if (ok, when) my 4S crashes, I don't want that thought in the back of my mind that it might just be due to some old glitch I've just re-introduced from a previous backup.
Hate losing my old SMS and it's a major pain having to re-select/install all my apps and sort everything back into folders, but as I had to do a fresh re-install about 3 months ago when my iPhone 4 went a bit haywire, the prospect is easier to face than it was back then when I had 2.5 years of SMS to lose.
The reason I'll do it is that if (ok, when) my 4S crashes, I don't want that thought in the back of my mind that it might just be due to some old glitch I've just re-introduced from a previous backup.
On Wednesday put iOS 5 on your phone. iCloud will save your contacts and pics. Then when you get the new phone, use iCloud to put those back on. Works great.
Am i wrong in thinking that once the iOS5 is released (10/12/2011) and installed on the older iphone, all the data in apps (progress in games, etc), will be backed up to the iCloud. So, even if i do a clean install on my 4S, wont i be able to pull all the apps with their data back from the iCloud onto the new device?
I thought the whole purpose of iCloud and backing up your phone in iTunes was so that you didn't have to start from scratch. I will be updating my phone on the 12th with IOS5. When I get the new phone I think we can set it up from the phone and not in iTunes.
Remember: Those of you doing an upgrade swap with your phone carriers, make sure you call them or go into the store before activating and setting up your new 4S.
Remember: Those of you doing an upgrade swap with your phone carriers, make sure you call them or go into the store before activating and setting up your new 4S.