IPhone :: How To Confirm If Backup Properly Done
Apr 10, 2012
Last week I was updating some apps on my iphone and suddenly it crashed - pretty bad. Indeed it was the first time my phone ever asked me to be plugged into itunes for a complete restore. So I did. I was a bit nervous because I have over 300 apps on it, all organized in folders and I wasn't entirely sure it would re-install them the same way. so the good news, it did - all in their proper folder, on their proper page. I was missing over 60 apps! When the restore occurred, I noticed it said it was restoring from a backup dated august 2011. I know for a fact that I updated/backed-up my iphone since then, maybe 2 or 3 times, but obviously my backups did not occur as I had thought.
How do I know if my backup is properly done? Is there a place I can check to make sure, or view the backup date? I should say that I had previously noticed that it wasn't taking as long as it should to do the backups - as you can imagine with 300 apps, it takes more than a few minutes. So I did have a flag on the question, but I didn't press it on, and well... i paid the price. (Btw, I did recover all my 62 missing apps by painstakingly going through my itune purchase history - at no extra cost other than my time. the info inputted in some apps was however gone). My iphone is a 3G (I need to upgrade that soon) runs on iOS 4.2.1 (cannot upgrade to iOS 5 with this hardware). I always run the latest itunes (presently version 10.6.1).
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iPhone 3G, iOS 4.3.3
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Aug 2, 2011
I am new to the android community and just got my XPRT a week ago. I downloaded 3 of the free android market apps for the SMS backup, SMS backup +, backup to gmail, etc.I do see a folder created in my gmail but when i click on the actual thread of each SMS message, it only backs up what I sent -- NOT THE ENTIRE THREAD. Has anyone else had this problem and how do I fix it? Or which app works best for the XPRT so that ALL SMS messages are backed up (the ones I receive and the ones I've sent)
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Jun 15, 2010
I talk to AT&T yesterday and they said since I was a loyal customer I was eligible for the full upgrade for this phone which would be $299.Can anyone confirm that the Reserved email that Apple is sending out is just saying the full retail price, then when you pick the phone up you will be charged the upgrade price?Please help
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Jun 5, 2012
Recently unlocked my iphone 3gs through att. Did the process, everything seemed to go fine, but I can't tell if it's unlocked or not. People say the way to tell is to put in another sim card, so I put in a chinese sim card and it said no service. Havent used that sim card in a year, so it may be deactivated. I dont have any other sim cards now, but want to use it with a new sim card this summer. The only difference I can tell with the phone is that in settings, there was an option to select carrier, is this an indication that the phone is unlocked?
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Aug 20, 2010
I have a new iphone 4 which was provided as part of a new business contract through a telecoms company not Orange. The Orange sim came separately. However the 3g web access is painfully bad as compared to my old 3gs iphone on T-mobile. It's pretty much useless in most parts of London.Which brings me to my question. Is there any way of telling if my new iphone4 is unlocked without having to buy a new mini sim card? Any way of checking through the firmware or something?I was seriously thinking there was something wrong with my phone but all my colleagues on Orange also have the same problem. We were out on a course yesterday and I had my old 3gs whilst everyone else had their new iphone4 and I was the only one able to access mail and use the web the whole way there on the train and at the actual centre itself, which a lot of my colleagues were none to pleased about. I presume it's Orange being a bit rubbish and not the new iphone4 having a weaker signal reception?
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Apr 21, 2012
I've confirmed with AT&T that it's authorized to unlock. They said contact AppleCare. They want $30 Before they will even transfer call. Any other way to confirm unlock?
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iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.1
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May 17, 2012
I have an iphone4 locked by AT&T. The AT&T Email Customer Care for Wireless had sent email to me, saying "The unlock will be available for your device in 48 hours. After the 48 hour waiting period please follow the instructions below."can I unlock my iphone4 now? How can I confirm my iPhone had been unlocked?
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iPhone 4, iOS 4.2
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Apr 4, 2012
I have 3 iphones (all 3gs using AT&T), as well as 4 macs. I bought two iphones from an ebay seller in Hong Kong, to be used in Russia. These are said to be new and factory unlocked, from the factory in China. They have ios 5.01 and look new. How could I confirm they're factory unlocked and not jailbroken?
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iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.0.1
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Jun 5, 2012
I've been trying to unlock my AT&T iPhone 4 and went through all the procedures with the carier, got the confirmation email from Apple, and have been trying to do the backup restore through iTunes... but haven't gotten the confirmation message in iTunes that the phone is unlocked. I've been restoring from backup, which I think is what I'm supposed to do.I'm trying to avoid the $30 tech support call since my phone is no longer and I'm already outside the US.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Jul 3, 2012
When I use voice dial (usually via bluetooth headset on iPhone 3GS), if the iPhone decides it has found an exact match, it will notify me of the match and then start dialing. It does not confirm the match with me, and when it starts dialing, the "Cancel" keyword does not work - nor does pressing the call button on my headset do anything.
Instead, I have to frantically dig my phone out of my pocket and scramble to the phone interface and presss "End Call" before the accidental international call goes through.
Is there a way to allow either or both actions in iOS? Or is there a way to submit an enhancement request?
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iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.1.1
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Feb 14, 2012
I have a new Torch 9810 and am not able to confirm my BB ID. I am able to access my BB ID from my laptop but when trying to access BB ID from the phone it says "unable to login to your Blackberry ID account"
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Feb 14, 2012
Every time i tried to confirm my ID on my Handset gives me " unable to update bb id while offline.i wipe my device and updated my blackberry software still same problem?
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Mar 7, 2011
Is there a way to have a tone or sound play to Confirm that a text message has been sent on my E73 S60 device? I cannot seem to find how this setting.
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Oct 28, 2012
my bberry won't start up. I turned handheld off becouse it was looking slow and then didn't start up again. I plugged it in but doesn't show the charging light. took batterry and sim off, stil nothing. did it with charger on, same. when i remove battery flashes for a second a light inside camera lense.
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May 12, 2010
I recently bought a new strom 9500 from a friend at work, it came with all the trimmings (box, cables, charger etc) and was purportedly used by my friend (who bought it new) before I bought it.When I put a new sim into it (vodaphone contract sim) it reads invalid sim , it shows a box saying "do you want to enter the sim card pin?" with a yes or no option to click, i click yes i want to enter the code, but it won't give me an opportunity to enter a code!Please help i love the phone but cannot use it and i worry that it is blocked!
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May 30, 2012
How do I confirm a genuine blackberry bold 9930?
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Dec 1, 2012
each time I delete a message, I have to confirm. How can I disable that on the Lumia 920?
Also, I spend a long time trying to figure out why my phone did not come with Nokia Music in denmak, after alomost 1 hour searching on the net, I found out that the service do not exist in Denmark... Why not just have the Nokia Music in the App store and just show a message when people try to install it, saying that its not availble in the user's country?
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Jul 18, 2010
Is there a simple way for me to tell if I am using the wifi network at home? Is the wifi icon on top right corner of browser the indication. I am trying to make my wife feel comfortable that is OK to surf as she wishes while at home.
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May 22, 2011
I love my Motorola Finiti, but I seem to be having issues with stealth mode.According to the manual, I should get a "stealth mode" prompt when turning the feature on or off. All I hear is two quick beeps.Is there anyway to confirm if stealth mode is enabled/disabled?
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Jun 3, 2012
I have updated my iPhone 4 to 5.1.1 and I can't restore my backup files because when I try to restore my backup iTunes shows that the backup is corrupted or not compatible with the iPhone
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Jun 27, 2012
When setting up my new iPhone 4s, should I restore from icloud or itunes backup? Or set up as a new iPhone? The phone number is staying the same from my iPhone 4.
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iPhone 4S
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Jun 17, 2010
Trying to do a backup in anticipation of iOS 4 and the backup process still is taking a long time in 9.2.Also, what steps can be taken to increase the speed of the backup? How would you remove items like photos, music, videos and then be able to easily put them back on the iPhone?
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Apr 24, 2012
I imagine this is so it can simply edit the old backup, but can't I just create a new backup?
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iPhone 4S, moving from 3Gs
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May 25, 2012
A video was inadvertently deleted before the next backup and sync. Can this be retrieved? Would iClould enter in here?
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1
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Jun 1, 2012
how can i restore old mobile backup from iCloud backup to new phone?
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
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Dec 12, 2014
Unable to backup my 4S phone after loading software update 8.1.2. My MACBOOK tells me the last backup is corrupt and wants me to delete it? How do I delete my last backup ?
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iPhone 4S, iOS 8.1.2
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Jul 6, 2010
I have lost ~20 pictures I took during my family's 4th of July event this weekend. It was the first time they have met my 17 month old daughter. Normally I wouldn't sweat loosing pictures, but these are very important to me.It restored every picture up until the backup I did before I left Sunday morning. I have tried A few different backups, one I made before I erased and synced my phone(new computer, old one was my work computer, no access to it).
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Apr 11, 2012
I backed up my iphone to my computer before going to Apple Store where my phone was replaced. Once home I synced up and my apps were restored but not the pictures and video.
Are they there or were they not backed up? If they are there why weren't they restored and what can I do to restore them?
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MacBook Pro 2.66 ghz, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
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May 19, 2010
I just upgraded from my old Curve 8330 to the Tour 9630, both on Verizon, and I couldn't be happier with my new device -- except for one thing. The Curve had a great "standby" function I could use at night, in which the phone would lock its keyboard and effectively shut down, but still be able to receive calls if one came in. This also saved lots of battery power. After hours' worth of mashing the top "lock" and "mute" buttons on the Tour, and searching through the internal menus, I can't seem to find a similar mode on my new phone.
First: If there's a thread about this already somewhere else, I beg your pardon; I'd be grateful for a link and I'll be on my way there. But if not, does anybody know whether some devices just do not have a standby mode anymore as part of OS 5, or whether there might be something wrong with my phone because its mute key won't activate standby mode?
The key lock button the top left works, but, at least on my Curve, the key lock and standby were two very different things -- I'd lock the keyboard when I put the phone in my pocket, but I'd put it on standby before bed every night. Does key-lock mode on the Tour replace standby?
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Apr 29, 2012
I have been backing up an iPhone 4 to iCloud for a while. I then purchased a new iPhone 4 as the old one was damaged, and set it up as a new phone. I haven't got around to setting up icloid backup yet. I now realise I want some data from an app in the old backup. Here is what I propose to do:
1. Backup new iPhone to iCloud
2. Restore new iPhone from old backup
3. Use the app's 'Email me my data feature' to get a copy of the DB
4. Restore new iPhone from new backup
Clearly I can only do this if during step 1 it doesn't overwrite the old backup. Can I have two separate backups?
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Jun 27, 2012
I just updated to iOS 5.1.1 on my 3GS phone, previously using 5.0, while plugged into the computer and iTunes 10.6.3. I had the phone set to backup to iCloud, and ran a sync operation before updating.Does that not also create a backup?When the restore process began, it asked if I wanted to set up as a new phone or restore from backup. However the list of available backups did not have anything from today.The last one listed was from October 2011.So I cancelled that operation, went through the new phone setup and then it asked if I wanted to restore from iCloud. So I chose the most recent iCloud backup which was from around 6 AM this morning. Now it is in the process of downloading all my apps, pics, and perhaps music as well. I don't know but it's going to take HOURS to finish this.
Anyway I opened some apps that have already downloaded, and some app data appears to be intact. But other apps have nothing after October 2011. And I'm talking apps that have tracked my fitness and workout progress over the past 6 months, bike rides in the past few months, car fuel fillup and maintenance history since October, I'm talking LOTS of data that appears to be gone.What did I do wrong here? Did I not do what I should have done regarding backups? What is the point of backing up to iCloud if it's not going to back up all my app data?
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iPhone 3GS, iOS 4.3.3, 16GB Black, 05.13.04 baseband
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