Short hand way of doing this is sync your old phone into your laptop (to make sure you keep everything) and sync your new phone with iTunes. Sorry this sounds very basic but I was glad when I did it when I had computer problems. I got back everything including photos.
I hope this helps. Best, Peter On 9 Oct 2009, at 09:57, Jason Davies wrote: > > I bought an iPhone 3Gs yesterday (yay) and want to transfer my > old stuff (settings mainly). But I can't persuade it. I followed > the intructions about restoring from back-up of old phone > (<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109>) but it doesn't transfer > any settings. The thing I really don't want to do without are my > SMS history. > > I've reset/restored the new one 4 times and chosen a specific > timed backup of the old one, to no avail. I think it got > confused because I had to upgrade the new phone to 3.1.2 before > I could do this. > > So does anyone know a way to force this to happen? there is so > much info in the SMS history I'm going to have to carry both > around for ages or somehow transcribe long conversations into > notes (which is absurd). > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
