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How often do you restore?
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Exactly. What's the point of restoring? If if works fine, leave it alone. Any performance improvement is only in your head.
...and I think the performance improvement is from the fact that restoring reboots the iPhone. If you just simply reboot your iPhone once a week, you should be fine. You can use one of those free memory apps like iStat to free up memory too... then you won't have to restart.
I know 2 people with iPhones, and neither have had to restore, except for the upgrades in the OS.
Do you even have to restore when you upgrade the OS? The only time I've restored my iPhone is when I transferred the existing information from my old 3G to my new 3GS yesterday.
You don't have to restore to do that. Just right click on the iPhone 3GS in the iTunes sidebar and click "Restore to Backup". It doesn't actually restore the iPhone, it just writes the backup data to it.
That's what I meant by "restore." When I first plugged my 3GS to iTunes, it asked me whether I wanted to configure it as a new iPhone or "restore from the backup." I chose the latter. In fact, I've always thought "restore" to mean "restore from the backup." What do you mean when you say "it doesn't actually restore the iPhone"?
+1. That's what I thought too. IDK what all this talk is about speeding up your iPhone with a restore.
I would call that a "reset" rather than "restore." To me "restore" indicates bringing back what has been saved. When you start form a clean slate, you've got nothing to restore from.
There's 3 kinds of restore.
1. You can click "Restore" in iTunes and it will completely erase your iPhone and restore to the latest firmware.
2. You can put your iPhone into DFU mode and do a Restore by clicking "Restore" in iTunes. This type of restore is usually considered "cleaner". DFU is a deeper type of Recovery Mode.
3. You can "Restore from Backup" meaning instead of erasing and re-installing the iPhone Firmware, you're simply just copying the backed up data to the iPhone.
Restore and Restore from Backup are two different things.
1. You can click "Restore" in iTunes and it will completely erase your iPhone and restore to the latest firmware.
2. You can put your iPhone into DFU mode and do a Restore by clicking "Restore" in iTunes. This type of restore is usually considered "cleaner". DFU is a deeper type of Recovery Mode.
3. You can "Restore from Backup" meaning instead of erasing and re-installing the iPhone Firmware, you're simply just copying the backed up data to the iPhone.
Restore and Restore from Backup are two different things.
Where do you find that option? The context menu displayed when you right-click the iPhone icon on iTunes does not include that option.
You know how my phone runs? To cool. SMS, email, app store, ipod, all installed apps come up instantly so, no my phone does not run slow. Installed a couple of apps last night and was amazed ~ 1 second to install where my 3g was always slow.
But thanks for letting me know how my phone runs, being as how you use it more then I.
Ditto. And when I did that it took me a while to get the apps to what I wanted again. I wish you can organize the apps on iTunes so I can put what apps on what page and so on.
Click on the iPhone to view the Summary tab. Then there are 2 buttons "Update" and "Restore".
You must be kidding me.
Also, the contextual menu I was talking about was just for "Restore from Backup". It shows up for me when I right-click the iPhone icon in the iTunes sidebar.
The DFU restore takes the same about time as a regular restore, and it doesn't hurt the phone at all. It usually solves problems, not creates them.
