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Will you restore your backup?

Vertigo50

Vertigo50

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When you get your iPhone 4, will you restore from a backup to transfer your settings and data, or start out fresh and slowly bring things in?

Personally, I'll probably start fresh. It also gives me a chance to trim out some unused apps and things.
 
I recently deleted unused apps from my iPhone, so I'll do a restore of backup data. I want the same pictures, settings, and all my old texts.
 
Nope, I have the beta on my phone now, and the compter (desktop) I sync with normally will be 450 miles away, Ill have my laptop to activate with though.

Everything for me is in the cloud, between mobile me & google sync, I got it covered

I lost some of the cards in my cardbank app though :( (because ios4 beta wont sync to pc, but thats no biggie)
 
The iPhone 4 will be my first, but I have a Touch currently. Will I be able to restore from a backup of that and keep my game highscores and stuff?
 
Those of you who use Gmail, how do you handle your contacts?

Right now, I use exchange for Gmail, but I sync my contacts with address book, because I have so many contacts in Gmail its just ridiculous. Plus, Gmail seems to add every address I've ever even looked at funny.

How do you sync your contacts and keep them relatively clean?
 
Vertigo50 said:
Those of you who use Gmail, how do you handle your contacts?

Right now, I use exchange for Gmail, but I sync my contacts with address book, because I have so many contacts in Gmail its just ridiculous. Plus, Gmail seems to add every address I've ever even looked at funny.

How do you sync your contacts and keep them relatively clean?
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I just use the address book.
 
Vertigo50 said:
Those of you who use Gmail, how do you handle your contacts?

Right now, I use exchange for Gmail, but I sync my contacts with address book, because I have so many contacts in Gmail its just ridiculous. Plus, Gmail seems to add every address I've ever even looked at funny.

How do you sync your contacts and keep them relatively clean?
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I remember digging deep in my Google setting somewhere to turn off automatic adding of contacts, or hiding them from my phone somehow...

I have over 300 contacts when I'm on gmail on my computer, but only 106 are on my phone. The 106 on my phone are the contacts I want, or have added myself, the others on gmail are the auto added contacts.

To confuse things more to sync notes in iOS4, you need to setup gmail as a IMAP account also...

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Vertigo50 said:
Those of you who use Gmail, how do you handle your contacts?

Right now, I use exchange for Gmail, but I sync my contacts with address book, because I have so many contacts in Gmail its just ridiculous. Plus, Gmail seems to add every address I've ever even looked at funny.

How do you sync your contacts and keep them relatively clean?
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Google Sync over Exchange only syncs what's under "My Contacts"
 
Yep.

When I got the 3GS and restored from my original backup, my battery life was atrocious. I restored as new after a few days of frustration, and the battery was fine. Apple has made me paranoid.
 
So if you don't restore from backup can you still install programs you paid for?

Though I think I'll restore from backup. For one reason, Need For Speed game. Don't want to lose the cars I've earned (and modded) so far. Not that I've gotten far into the game but far enough I would rather not start over.
 
tigress666 said:
So if you don't restore from backup can you still install programs you paid for?

Though I think I'll restore from backup. For one reason, Need For Speed game. Don't want to lose the cars I've earned (and modded) so far. Not that I've gotten far into the game but far enough I would rather not start over.
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You can Re-download them if you don't have them on your Machine free of charge, but if they are there then it will Sync automatically, although as you mentioned, you would lose your NFS saves.

I'll start from Scratch as I always do with a New Device, i'll be iPhone 4 App Hunting soon as my Pre-order is confirmed and will have to Make do with a BlackBerry for the next 2 weeks or so :(.
 
I have too much app data and texts not to... So i will restore from backup.

Before doing so I'll make sure my 3GS is current, updated to 4.0, apps current, cleaned up how i want, etc, that way the restore should go very smoothly.
 
Yes, I will be restoring from backup. I don't want to lose all of my texts, game saves, and settings. If something doesn't work out right, then you can always do over and restore as new. So there's really nothing to lose by at least trying a backup restore.
 
I think I will start clean and recreate what I had... that way any past saves and bugs and sluggishness is just out of the way.
 
I always start from scratch when I get a new handset.

With software updates, I always restore but I find a clean start on a brand new handset always makes it feel a lot snappier.
 
I'm starting from scratch since i've never owned an iPhone, only an iPod Touch, and there's nothing of real importance that i kept on that (besides my apps)
 
I want to start new, since i have my 3g jailbroken and all messed up...but how do i get my contacts from my iphone to address book on my mbp? I also want to sync over some of my gmail contacts (but not all)...how do i do this? i can get all my songs and apps from itunes, and pics from iphoto, and IDC about my texts...


please help, someone :)
 
I will be going for a fresh setup. I have mobile me to sync all my contacts, emails and calendar. All my apps I will bring across when I need them. I think the whole thing feels snappier that way.
 
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