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App screens + folders messed up when I restore from backup

Discussion in 'iPhone' started by J.C, Aug 4, 2010.

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  1. J.C, Aug 4, 2010

    J.C macrumors 6502

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    I recently upgraded to an iPhone 4 and set it up as a new device rather than restoring from a backup. Since then I've restored from backup several times in a bid to fix my atrocious battery life. Each time I do I find my Apps aren't restored where they were when i last backed up. Most (but not all) folders are deleted and the Apps are spread about randomly.

    Any ideas why this happens or how to get around it?
     
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  2. ratman2356, Aug 4, 2010

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    Mine did this when I rebooted my phone. I had my phone about 3 weeks and one day last week noticed that one of my icons was not showing up, just the name for it. I did a hard reboot? where you hold down both buttons and let it boot back up and it dumped all my folders and spread all my apps across 10 pages. 2 days later my phone died. Would randomly reboot and went hours at a time where it would not do anything at all. Took 5 attempts to restore to default via itunes but that still didn't help.

    I took it in to genius and they said it had minimal water damage on bottom sensor and gave me a new one. (FWIW I did not get it wet or drop it. Only possible water it could have gotten was from sweat in my pocket as I work outside and it's very HOT here.)
     
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