Urgent iPhone help!

[calduf]

Nope ive not tried that, but I've had an idea, I found out that when iTunes recognises the phone, even if it doesn't sync, you can right click it and back it up, then I can just erase it and restore from back up do you know if this would work? Thanks

[Gorman]

It will back up your phones data such as texts / pics / app data etc but not the actual music or apps themselves.

[calduf]

:O really I thought the backup backed everything up, as when my dad restored his old phone from backup, it gave him everything back the way it was? Hmm confused and worried :/ !

[Frenchy]

to make sure your apps are backed up you need to click on transfer purchases. Backup as gorman said will only transfer certain data like numbers, texts, etc.

[calduf]

But some of the apps and music I have were not bought on the phone will I loose these, never thought apple would make this so difficult :@ !

[Frenchy]

But some of the apps and music I have were not bought on the phone will I loose these, never thought apple would make this so difficult :@ !

How do you have them on it if you didnt buy them / download them?

If youve bought the app then its yours for life, all it means is that if you dont transfer purchases youll just have to redownload them.

[calduf]

No I had transferred them from my old computer on to it, and theres also some stuff that are saved in seperate apps? And are you sure that backing up only backs up certain information, because as I said before when my dad reloaded his phone from backup, it gave him everything back?

[calduf]

And some things were downloaded aswell*

[Frenchy]

No I had transferred them from my old computer on to it, and theres also some stuff that are saved in seperate apps? And are you sure that backing up only backs up certain information, because as I said before when my dad reloaded his phone from backup, it gave him everything back?

thats because all his stuff was saved in itunes.

[calduf]

Ahh, hmm so there's no way to save everything without using other programs and stuff? So when I do a backup, what does it actualy save, and if I then resynced on the new computer what would I get back? Thanks to all btw!