Restoring iPhone 4?

[Pep]

I need to restore my iPhone but I'm worried about losing all my contacts etc, does it delete everything and start again or will they all still be saved?

Never needed to do it before now!

 

[Gouldy]

Back it up before you restore it and once restored iTunes will ask you if you would like to set up as a new iPhone or install from the latest back up. Choose the latter and everything will be put back on your iPhone as it was.

 

[Pep]

Nice one thanks mate.

 

[Alexiooo]

Question... Why do you need to restore your iPhone?

 

[Pep]

Mine was laying up, kept switching itself off etc.

Works perfectly now and if anything the battery seems to last longer?!

 

[Gouldy]

It normally rectifies any minor firmware issues you may have with your handset.

 

[Alexiooo]

Might not want to restore from your iTunes backup then... The corruptions in your softwarestand to lay within the backup file.

Set up as new iPhone and sync info over manually is your best option.

 

[Gouldy]

That's only really applicable when changing handsets, IE changing from a 3GS to a 4s. Sometimes the back ups / syncs carry the old battery settings, then you have do what you mentioned.

 

[glenn_adam_doble]

Might not want to restore from your iTunes backup then... The corruptions in your softwarestand to lay within the backup file.

Set up as new iPhone and sync info over manually is your best option.

^do this,

i had the same problem with a corrupted app that messed the screen proximity sensor up, i literally hovered my finger over the screen and it would press alsorts,

i rectified by starting fresh as my back up was fudged, got a replacement no problem off apple though.

 

[Alexiooo]

That's only really applicable when changing handsets, IE changing from a 3GS to a 4s. Sometimes the back ups / syncs carry the old battery settings, then you have do what you mentioned.

Not really buddy... When I went from a 3GS to a 4, I never setup as a new device, I just restored from my old iTunes backup. I encountered a problem a few weeks later, restored from backup multiple times but never fixed itself. Then I restored it, set up as a new device, and instantly it wasnt being so buggy.

I'm not trying to be smart, just trying to help. After all, I now do this sort of thing every day at work! (that part was me trying to be smart!)

 

[Revels]

If you don't know what you're talking about, just don't post.

Alex is correct.

 

[Marc.]

Bumping this...

I've just carried out a restore on my iPhone (4S, running 5.1.1) because I had some issues with the music library. However, once the restore was done (restored via an iCloud backup, created last night) it's renamed my iPhone to "untitled playlist." How do I go about renaming my iPhone?

 

[Tom]

click on it in the itunes sidebar and rename it

on on the device

settings > general > about > name

 

[Marc.]

Ah, beautiful, cheers Tom!