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Are you going to clean install or upgrade?
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from my personal experience, a backup includes everything on the phone. I do NOT sync with outlook and/or gmail and when i do a whipe data from within the iPhone under general settings and then do a restore from backup on in iTunes on my PC, I get all the contacts, sms, and notes, and game saves(i believe) from whenever i did the backup. The only reason you need to sync with outlook or any other is to match you email contacts with you iphone contacts. I, however, do not keep email addys in my iphone so I do not need it. If you backed up your phone before downloading and installing 3.0, you should have everything back on your phone that you did before os 3.0. No quotes on this, but I am fairly certain.
Soooo, it looks like everyone is getting confused in here.
Tell me if this is right....
When you install a new OS...it wipes the phone NO MATTER WHAT.
The restore part...happens after it installs the new OS, it either restores the phones previous settings using your last backup, or it doesn't.
There's no such thing as "upgrade". It always wipes the phone, it's just whether or not you want it to restore the settings from before you did the OS upgrade from a backup.
Is this correct?
Tell me if this is right....
When you install a new OS...it wipes the phone NO MATTER WHAT.
The restore part...happens after it installs the new OS, it either restores the phones previous settings using your last backup, or it doesn't.
There's no such thing as "upgrade". It always wipes the phone, it's just whether or not you want it to restore the settings from before you did the OS upgrade from a backup.
Is this correct?
This is what I believe to be correct. I set up as a new phone back when 2.1 came out and lost all my data so then I did a restore from backup and got all my contacts and settings back.
This is correct IF you are choosing to go the route of Upgrade, but if you choose to install as if its a new phone, restoring from backup defeats the purpose. Therefore in the case of one who chooses to do a clean install with no restore, you must have the contacts synced with some service or software on your computer in order to get them back on your device. Just to clarify again: Clean Install = No use of backup data, Upgrade = upgrade OS & restore original data using backup. Some ppl argue that upgrading and using backup data can cause the OS to be a little more sluggish. I'm not technically savy in THAT area, so I wouldn't know why that would be.
1) Download the OS 3.0.
2) Sync your iPhone.
3) Set it up as a new phone when asked.
3a) If there is no option to "set it up as a new phone," hit "Restore."
Now your iPhone is back to factory settings.
Won't that erase all your application-specific data currently stored on the iPhone?
I upgraded mine from 2.2.1 to 3.0. No trouble. It is working great.
Yes, setting up the phone as new, or doing a restore will erase your saved data in your apps (such as saved games). Many have reported no issues at all with simply upgrading, but there have been a few that say otherwise.
You can always do a Restore in iTunes, which will basically do the exact same thing as a clean install.
Wow. Well for clarification. I plugged in my phone. Hit check for update. Downloaded update. Installed update. Then phone booted up. iTunes did not ask me if i wanted to restore from backup or as new phone. Weird. Not sure if I needed to download 3.0 first or not. Is it possible to store contacts now that I have 3.0 and then do a clean install of the OS?
Yes, you can sync the contacts with a service (like gmail if you have it), then do a Restore in iTunes. Once complete, you can go back to the info tab, and choose the service where your contacts are stored and sync them back to the phone.
So the guy you just quoted...did he do an upgrade or a restore?
I did much the exact same thing to a guy's phone today....it never gave me an option to set it up as a new phone or restore or anything.
Thanks for the clarification. Seems like upgrading always causes *some* people headaches. If only there was a way to do a clean install and then restore application data.
Yea, I noticed the same thing on mine. It didn't give me an option to clean install, so it technically did a restore from backup. Once I noticed this, I just did a Restore in iTunes, and opted to not use any of my backups. I didnt really have anything that I would lose by doing a clean install, so I just went for it.
That would be ideal in my mind. We need a way to sync app date and notes, without syncing any of the older OS files.
I connected phone to computer and iTunes and clicked on check for update and iTunes did the rest. The only thing it asks was "Would you like to upgrade to OS 3.0?" and "Do you agree to the new T&C?"
Yea, like I said earlier, its not always asking you if you want to do a clean install, and if it doesnt you can always go back and choose to do a Restore, and not use any of your backups.
Yep. Figuring that out. I don't believe that a "clean" install is necessary as if it was then Apple would have thrown it in....at least you would think. I'll see how it goes and if it's laggy I'll try to restore it and see what happens.