*cough braille displays *cough In an effort to stop this from being a one liner, in theory, if you did run into this backup problem, you *should* be able to update to 5.11, restore the backup, copy the data someware else then downgrade again. Untested by me though.
Cheers, Ben. On 5/13/12, Mike Cassidy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi listers, > > Why should anyone need to downgrade to 5.0? > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of alex wallis > Sent: 12 May 2012 13:52 > To: [email protected] > Subject: a warning for anyone going to downgrade a5 devices > > Hi list, > I just found the following out after downgrading my iPhone firmware. > When you restore the phone from backup, it can't restore from the latest > backup. > I presume this is because it doesn't like backups created with newer > firmware versions being used on older firmware. > Anyway, what this means is that when you go to restore, it will restore > from > the last backup taken when you were running the downgraded firmware. > So in my case, the newest backup that was restored was from march 9th. > Luckily its not two bad for me, as I have only lost a few texts, and I > don't > update my contacts and other things that much. > But for those who do, perhaps you don't want to think about downgrading > unless you can back up information elsewhere. > I guess if you downgrade, and then upgrade again to the latest firmware it > will be possible to restore from later backups, but I don't know. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
