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Hi,
My iPhone 3Gs is broken and I cannot make it fixed as it was before (the motherboard is gone and so all my content is lost), but I did synced my contents on my Mac.
After my iPhone broke, I've purchased an iPad 2 and now I really wanna know how can I get my synced iPhone contacts (and photos and everything else that I can) from my backed up iPhone on iTunes.
Can anyone please help me with it? I really really need this.
Thanks!
Nir.
iPad 2, iOS 4.3.3
From iTunes: Backing up, updating, and restoring your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch software: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
"If you upgrade or otherwise replace your device with a newer device, you may be able to restore the previous backup to the new device. You can upgrade one device with the backup from a different type of device; most settings will transfer to the new device.
Note: During the process of restoring your old backup to a new device, you may see the iTunes progress bar pause. If this occurs, please allow for additional time for the upgrade to complete."
See step 9 in the referenced restore instructions to see how to choose a previous backup.
From iTunes: Backing up, updating, and restoring your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch software: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
"If you upgrade or otherwise replace your device with a newer device, you may be able to restore the previous backup to the new device. You can upgrade one device with the backup from a different type of device; most settings will transfer to the new device.
Note: During the process of restoring your old backup to a new device, you may see the iTunes progress bar pause. If this occurs, please allow for additional time for the upgrade to complete."
See step 9 in the referenced restore instructions to see how to choose a previous backup.
Thanks,
I tried this before but my address book (contacts) stayed empty 😟
Isn't there any other way of doing it?
Thanks again for helping!
This utility claims to be able to extract contacts & pictures from your iPhone's backup file. I haven't tried this, but the price (free) is right. http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/
Thanks so much!
Though it seems like it's not working so good on Macs..
Is there's any other thing I can try?
Were you syncing your contacts with your contacts app on your Mac? I'm not sure if you use Gmail as your email account but you can sync your contacts with Gmail and with your Contacts on your Mac in the future. Then if you any issues occur you have a backup in the cloud (Gmail) and on your Mac.
You can give this app a try: http://www.icopybot.com/itunes-backup-manager.htm
Short guide: http://www.funkykit.com/how-to/7898-how-to-extract-your-contacts-from-iphone-or- itunes-backup.html
Hey jk_baller23,
Thanks for the help. Though I think that I didn't explain myself well:
I had an iPhone with lots of contact names and phone numbers. I never synced it with the Address Book on my mac. Now my iPhone is broken and I got a new iPad.
I wanna know if there's a way I can restore my contacts from my iPhone backup straight to my iPad.
Thanks man.
Restoring my contacts
