Problem restoring iPhone help requested

[cook.675]

I had an iPhone 3G and lost it. My wife has a 3GS, and today got a 4S, so she gave me her 3GS.

I want to restore all my contacts to my 'new' 3GS. I have a backup that I did about a month ago with my 3G, and I can't restore from that since it was running iOS 4 at the time of the back up, and the 3GS is currently running iOS 5.

How can I restore my old info that is backed up on iTunes under my 3G to my 'new' 3GS? I tried downgrading to iOS 4 on the 3GS to do the restore then upgrading, but this doesn't work.

If I could just get all my old contacts and messages on this new 3GS I wouldn't care about restoring since everything else I needed I could put on their manually.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[cook.675]

300+ views and not one reply?

Could some one please help me?

 

[r2shyyou]

I had an iPhone 3G and lost it. My wife has a 3GS, and today got a 4S, so she gave me her 3GS.

I want to restore all my contacts to my 'new' 3GS. I have a backup that I did about a month ago with my 3G, and I can't restore from that since it was running iOS 4 at the time of the back up, and the 3GS is currently running iOS 5.

How can I restore my old info that is backed up on iTunes under my 3G to my 'new' 3GS? I tried downgrading to iOS 4 on the 3GS to do the restore then upgrading, but this doesn't work.

If I could just get all my old contacts and messages on this new 3GS I wouldn't care about restoring since everything else I needed I could put on their manually.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

I don't personally have a 3G on iOS 4 (I do have a 3GS on iOS 5 though) so I can't replicate your scenario to help troubleshoot. Have you checked out Apple's support pages? It's the only suggestion I can personally provide. See here. Sorry if this isn't particularly helpful. Hopefully others will chime in who have an actual solution.

 

[vanforum]

try samsung galaxy 3. thats the only advice I can give..