Re: Disenchanted with itunes Backup and Upgrade

2014-03-15 Thread Rob
Did you try restoring a 2nd time? It worked for me once. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 15, 2014, at 12:03 AM, Alan Lemly wale...@gmail.com wrote: I realize in the world of computing most anything can happen a lot of which is inexplicable. But my recent experience convincing a friend to use

Re: Disenchanted with itunes Backup and Upgrade

2014-03-15 Thread Gmail
I can confirm that this will truly is well, too. Life hacker has an article on it, I think. I'm not sure why you have to do this, but you do. It's weird, I know, but after the second restore from backup, all the apps should be back, as well as their layout on the various home screens. Thanks,

Re: Disenchanted with itunes Backup and Upgrade

2014-03-15 Thread Christopher Chaltain
I'm not as smart as an Apple tech, and I can't explain why you can't see the backup you made prior to the upgrade, but here are a few thoughts. I consider upgrading your iPhone from iTunes to be the normal and safe way to do an upgrade. This used to be the only option available before Apple

RE: Disenchanted with itunes Backup and Upgrade

2014-03-15 Thread Alan Lemly
@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 8:19 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Disenchanted with itunes Backup and Upgrade I'm not as smart as an Apple tech, and I can't explain why you can't see the backup you

RE: Disenchanted with iTunes Backup and Upgrade

2014-03-15 Thread Wayne gmail
@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 5:17 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Disenchanted with itunes Backup and Upgrade Christopher, thanks so much for your detailed post and I think you hit on the issue as to why our restore from

RE: Disenchanted with iTunes Backup and Upgrade

2014-03-15 Thread Alan Lemly
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 6:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Disenchanted with iTunes Backup and Upgrade To that caution, it is also good to be sure all apps on your phone are also transferred to your computer as well. If you bought the app on the IPhone, it might not be on your

Disenchanted with itunes Backup and Upgrade

2014-03-14 Thread Alan Lemly
I realize in the world of computing most anything can happen a lot of which is inexplicable. But my recent experience convincing a friend to use iTunes to back up and upgrade to iOS 7.1 and the abysmal results experienced have left a very bad taste in my mouth. The worst of it is that the results