How to Keep Contacts, Etc once New Phone Arrives

[-aggie-]

Will it restore the old version of the software on the new phone? My 3g does not have iOS4.

Thank you.

No, of course not. A backup has nothing to do with the OS. The restore is what installs the OS. So, a restore from a backup means it installs iOS4 and then installs the backup from your 3G.

 

[bushbaby]

It didn't work. I tried to sync the purchased apps from my old 3gs to the 4 and it went through the process, syncing, took about 10 minutes, but when it finished there were no new apps on my i4.

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Am retrying. Windows sent an error report "serious error."

 

[-aggie-]

It didn't work. I tried to sync the purchased apps from my old 3gs to the 4 and it went through the process, syncing, took about 10 minutes, but when it finished there were no new apps on my i4.

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Make sure you activate the iTunes account again (deactivate and then activate).

 

[bushbaby]

Make sure you activate the iTunes account again (deactivate and then activate).

sorry, dumb q - you mean turn it on and off? I had to, it all shut down and restarted the computer... this time I am only trying to move over a few apps.
thx.

update: this time it went through. I moved over just a few apps and for some reason the old windows computer was happier with that.