One of the most common (and obvious) recommendation before hacking the iPhone is to backup the iPhone so that if things go horribly wrong you can at least restore your iPhone to avoid losing any of your settings such as sound settings, widget settings, certain network settings, and other preferences and information such as text messages, notes, call history contact favorites etc.
Apple recently published a must-read Knowledge Base Article from iPhone and iPod Touch owners which brings in a lot of clarity with regards to the difference between backups and syncing as well as how to create a backup, restore from a backup and deleting a backup.
Here is what Apple has to say about the difference between Syncing and Backups:
"You can use iTunes to sync content on your computer (such as music, podcasts, videos, ringtones1, photos, email account settings, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks) with your iPhone or iPod touch. Syncing makes sure this content is the same on your iPhone or iPod touch and computer. You can also use iTunes to create a backup of settings and certain other information on your iPhone or iPod touch to use in case you want to restore the software on your iPhone or iPod touch or transfer this information to a different device. Backup information includes information such as mail settings, text messages, notes, call history, contact favorites, sound settings, widget settings, certain network settings, and other preferences."
To get more details on the procedure to follow to create a backup, restore from a backup and deleting a backup, follow this link.
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i connected my jailbroken iphone to itunes.accidentally i agreed for software updating..from then my iphone is not working..can any body tell me how to fix this problem..please send reply to
sridhar.kommera@gmail.com
Hi … i have a problem with my iPhone 3gs it displays USB cable and iTunes .. Please help to make it work…
my iphone 3g is nw filled wid more thn 150 apps iwant to update it to its latest version so want to take back up of all my data i.e. contacts , apps , photos, msgs etc. so tht after updating i can restore all my data specially apps, contacts & msgs. So plz tell me how can i do it?
is d back up option in itunes back ups all these i.e apps, contacts , msgs, photos,?
plz rply soon..
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Hi iPhoneHacks Team. My problem is that I have a very old iPhone which has never been synced to my iTunes library. I want to back up and transfer my old iPhone contacts to my new iPad. If I sync with iTunes, I will loose all the music on my iPhone.
I also checked out some of the apps for iPhone contact transfer, but they all seem to be paid. Is there another free way to extract my old iPhone contacts to my PC and then import them to my new iPad?