3G signal active on "raw" restore - gone after backup

[JagoFletch]

Hi everyone,

I have had a good look on here and Google for a solution to this problem but no luck!

I have recently bought an iPhone 4, it isn't jailbroken and hasn't had a carrier unlock. I restored it as a new phone over iTunes and noticed that I had full signal, 3G was on and everything looked normal. However, after restoring from a previous iPhone 4 backup (also not jailbroken) from last week I have lost 3G signal.
My carrier (3 UK) can't help either.

The previous iPhone backup was from a phone using iOS 6.0, the restore was done using 6.0.1

Thanks for your help

 

[iphone46]

Hi everyone,

I have had a good look on here and Google for a solution to this problem but no luck!

I have recently bought an iPhone 4, it isn't jailbroken and hasn't had a carrier unlock. I restored it as a new phone over iTunes and noticed that I had full signal, 3G was on and everything looked normal. However, after restoring from a previous iPhone 4 backup (also not jailbroken) from last week I have lost 3G signal.
My carrier (3 UK) can't help either.

The previous iPhone backup was from a phone using iOS 6.0, the restore was done using 6.0.1

Thanks for your help

Unfortunately, you will have to start over because the backup is corrupt. If you have a backup before that, you may be able to use that. I had a very similar issue with my VZ iPhone4 when I got it where I was constantly getting cellular data errors(I was screwed because iCloud did not exist at the time and I only backed up once in a blue moon) and had to start over several times.

 

[JagoFletch]

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately I'm all out of backups from before the corrupted one.
I've had a good look online and the problem could be to do with the APN still being set to Vodafone (my previous network provider). There doesn't seem to be a way to change the APN settings in iOS 6 though. If only I hadn't updated the firmware! Downgrading to 5.x for a JB may have solved the issue.
I don't want to lose my text messages but that's all I'm worried about losing after a fresh start.
Is there any way to transfer texts from an old backup onto a new, stock firmware?

 

[JagoFletch]

*SOLVED*

For these specific problems the solution was to go to

Settings> General> Reset> Reset All Settings

Then wait 5 minutes.


I was only trying "Reset Network Settings" before. Hope this helps someone else. Cheers for the help.