How do you plan to set up your iPhone 4?

How do you plan to set up your new iPhone 4?

  • Start clean from scratch

    Votes: 96 53.0%

  • Restore from 2G, 3G, or 3GS backup

    Votes: 85 47.0%
  • Total voters
    181
Aggie - Can you advise how to get the apps from iTunes app library back to the new iPhone without redownloading them all?
 
thehopscotch said:
My apps are already in iTunes...I'm trying to understand how to get those apps from my iTunes onto my new iPhone 4. I was trying to help my mom with this earlier when her 3G upgrade to iOS 4 deleted her apps, but I couldn't find where in iTunes to make the entire app library copy back to the iPhone.

Any advice?
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Go to iTunes and click on the phones listing then when the page pops up click on the apps page. You check which apps you want to install and then click apply and a sync should start! Good Luck;)
 
thehopscotch said:
Aggie - Can you advise how to get the apps from iTunes app library back to the new iPhone without redownloading them all?
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Well, assuming you have them in iTunes, you just sync them to the new phone. Make sure you right click on the old iPhone in iTunes and transfer purchases to make sure you have everything before syncing to the new phone. But yeah, sync….your….phone. :)
 
-aggie- said:
Well, assuming you have them in iTunes, you just sync them to the new phone. Make sure you right click on the old iPhone in iTunes and transfer purchases to make sure you have everything before syncing to the new phone. But yeah, sync….your….phone. :)
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Hmm...not sure if you saw my post earlier, but I was helping my mom update her 3G phone to iOS4 this evening and for some reason it kept her contacts, but it deleted all of her apps -- she wasn't too concerned since she's scheduled to get her iP4 tomorrow...but I thought it might be an issue tomorrow when starting with a clean phone too.

I told her to try syncing and she did...and she said the apps still weren't showing up on her iPhone, but they were showing up in the app library. (Granted, all of this was over the phone, so I have no idea what she was doing...but she said she synced multiple times and it didn't work)
 
I don't have an iPhone right now so I will be setting it up as a new phone but it won't be that bad because I have all of my contacts on my iPod touch and they're synced with Google so it's not that big of a deal. All I lose is my text from my old phone which I don't really care about those.

-aggie- said:
Always setup as new. If the texts are that important use iPhone Backup Extractor and SQLite Database Browser to save them somewhere. Game saves, you’ll just have to deal with until Apple gives users a way to sync these somehow.
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This is what I hate the most. Hopefully they implement this somehow into Game Center when it's released. Although it wouldn't really help for other apps that aren't games and don't use an internet connection like alarm clock apps or something.
 
I'll be restoring from the backup of my 3GS. I've got my 3GS all set up the way I want my iPhone 4 to look. So, I'm all set.

BTW, that's the biggest reason I installed iOS 4 on my 3GS.... so I could set it up exactly how I want my iPhone 4 to look.

Mark
 
Mark Booth said:
I'll be restoring from the backup of my 3GS. I've got my 3GS all set up the way I want my iPhone 4 to look. So, I'm all set.

BTW, that's the biggest reason I installed iOS 4 on my 3GS.... so I could set it up exactly how I want my iPhone 4 to look.

Mark
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Same. I've got everything ready to go. No way am I starting from scratch, I've got so much music... it'd take forever to drag and drop everything back in.
 
thehopscotch said:
Hmm...not sure if you saw my post earlier, but I was helping my mom update her 3G phone to iOS4 this evening and for some reason it kept her contacts, but it deleted all of her apps -- she wasn't too concerned since she's scheduled to get her iP4 tomorrow...but I thought it might be an issue tomorrow when starting with a clean phone too.

I told her to try syncing and she did...and she said the apps still weren't showing up on her iPhone, but they were showing up in the app library. (Granted, all of this was over the phone, so I have no idea what she was doing...but she said she synced multiple times and it didn't work)
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Then go to iTunes, and click the Apps tab when the iPhone is plugged in and make sure Sync Apps is check-marked.
 
-aggie- said:
You need to sync them with something. If you have a Mac that would Address Book; if you have a PC, it’s either Outlook (the best) or Windows Address Book (or whatever it’s called in Vista and 7).
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How would I go about doing so before it gets here? I have a Mac.
 
Restoring from my iOS 4 upgraded 3GS in order to retain texts and app/game saves. I look at it this way: there's nothing to lose by doing the restoring and seeing how things go. If it does not go well, just wipe and do a clean install. If all goes well, then you have everything transferred over and save a lot of time.
 
Can I restore from my 3.0 3GS backup? if so is could that be bad for the phone at all in any way? I just dont want to lose all of my pics which are saved in my backup and I don't know how to find them on my Mac if they're even there to be found.
 
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