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Oct 2, 2013 4:57 PM in response to Alexx123by Lawrence Finch,Alexx123 wrote:
It says i will lose purchased apps. And i will have to repurchase
No, you won't lose purchased apps, because once purchased you can download them again as often as you want to. What you WILL lose is the data in the purchased apps, such as game scores.
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Oct 2, 2013 5:07 PM in response to Alexx123by Lawrence Finch,Suppose you have Angry Birds. You restore the phone. You put the Angry Birds app back on it. You will start with a score of zero; it will have forgetten all of your previous accomplishments.
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Oct 2, 2013 5:10 PM in response to jjkboswellby Alexx123,Oh! Thats ok. Im fine with that. I dont mind. After i change this. Will there be other problems?
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Oct 2, 2013 5:22 PM in response to jjkboswellby Alexx123,It says "there was a problem downloading the software for the iPhone 'Alex's Phone'. The network connection timed out. Make sure your network settings are correct and your network connection is active, or try again later." What do i do from here?
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Oct 2, 2013 5:22 PM in response to Alexx123by Lawrence Finch,There should be no problems other than the inconvenience of having to reload your media and apps.
Except for one factor - contacts, calendar, notes, photos in the camera roll. You need to copy all of these to your computer or you will lose them. The easiest way is to sync these with apps on your computer such as MS Outlook or iCal and Address Book on a Mac. Photos are copied the same way you would with any digital camera.
The alternative is a 3rd party app that can copy files from an iPhone to your computer. TouchCopy is probably the best. It is not free, but has gotten positive reviews.
NOTE: I have no connection with the developers, and don't even own it.
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Oct 3, 2013 3:08 AM in response to Lawrence Finchby masuma.sugar,I don't remember setting a restriction passcode. I have no reason to. I have no kids or anyone who would purchase items without my knowledge. There must be a way since there are people in this thread who have has success
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Oct 3, 2013 5:24 AM in response to masuma.sugarby Lawrence Finch,Whether you remember it or not, you (or someone) set a restrictions passcode. If it is a company issued phone it may have been your IT department. There were ways to determine the restrictions passcode with earlier versions of iOS, by exploiting bugs in the backup file that were later fixed by Apple. No one has found a way since those "back doors" were closed.
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Oct 3, 2013 5:48 AM in response to Lawrence Finchby masuma.sugar,Oh ok. It must've been my old employers. I had my work outlook email enabled in my phone. They must've set the restriction. Great maybe if I go back to them, they might know. Thanks
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Oct 4, 2013 11:30 AM in response to walldogklby masuma.sugar,Hi guys i just managed to restore my passcode to 1234. I basically followed the instructions from Walldogkl (page 18_ and Tomjr260
The only tweaks i did was, I had to create a new windows account on my laptop (i think my account was infected or corrupted) and instead of restoring via ibackupbot. I restored via itunes.
This was an iphone 4 IOS7. Hopefullly this should now be able to transfer to my 5s without any problems.
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Oct 6, 2013 1:20 AM in response to jjkboswellby Butsaba,I agree that this design is flawed. It should have been possible to reset this using the primary Apple ID/Password combination. Since the Apple ID also allows you to set credit card information etc., why can't it allow for a rest of a simple Restrictions Code?
Thankfully, my issue is solved since I went through all my different 4-digit numbers I use and one of them hit! But I expected better from Apple engineers.
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Oct 6, 2013 7:31 AM in response to Butsababy Lawrence Finch,Butsaba wrote:
Since the Apple ID also allows you to set credit card information etc., why can't it allow for a rest of a simple Restrictions Code?
Because families frequently share an Apple ID, but you may want restrictions on your children's activities, even though the use the same Apple ID.
The other reason is for that to work Apple would have to know your restrictions passcode. The passcode is an encryption key that is kept only on the phone. Your Apple ID password is known to Apple, but is NOT known to apps or even iOS on your phone (for security reasons), so if you have just the phone your Apple ID won't be enough. Do you really want Apple to have that additional information?
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Oct 7, 2013 1:08 PM in response to walldogklby bphf98,I downloaded backup extractor and at the bottom right it says "Expert Mode" so I clicked that, then Library, Preferences,
then scrolled down to find ".com.apple.springboard (HomeDomain).plist" as well as ".com.apple.springboard (RootDomain).plist". but neither have the information I need.
I also clicked on the long file highlighted in blue under the heading "folder" and went all the way to the bottom where it has a file called "info" and that looked like what everyone has been saying with the "<string>" in it but I can't seem to find the restrictions code.
Does any of this make sense? Getting frustrated.
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Oct 7, 2013 1:32 PM in response to bphf98by masuma.sugar,The code isn't in there. You have to make the changes suggested in the post by the user on page 18 and then restore the amended back up.
It didn't work for me at first.
The only changes I made to his instructions was that I had to create a new windows account and then do a back up on that account. And then amend the backup on ibackupbot. And then restore via iTunes.
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Oct 15, 2013 12:42 PM in response to bphf98by kcava4,i tried resetting my phone to factory settings and it said I had to turn off "Locate My Phone" first, but can't do that with the RESTRICTION CODE that I forgot.Now what can I do?