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, Ari > On Mar 14, 2014, at 11:27 PM, Rob <musicmaker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 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 we >> got seem to make no logical sense. Here are the steps we followed: >> >> We backed up her iPhone 5 to her computer using an encrypted iTunes backup >> Wednesday night. >> Thursday night she started the upgrade to iOS 7.1 from within iTunes. >> Her phone was placed into recovery mode for some reason and had to be reset >> to factory defaults before the upgrade could proceed. >> The phone was upgraded and restored using the encrypted backup made >> Wednesday night but none of her apps were restored. >> We've determined to the best extent possible that the right backup was used >> for the restore but we are confused because the backups shown by iTunes >> under Edit, Preferences, and the Devices tab don't list any dated with >> Wednesday's date. I find this most perplexing because only one manual backup >> was made to her computer and that was Wednesday night. >> The iPhone Tech Support guy I spoke with tried explaining that if the backup >> was made to an unauthorized computer while using iTunes, the apps would not >> be backed up. We determined that her computer is authorized. >> >> So, I convinced someone to use iTunes to upgrade her phone instead of her >> doing it the normal way by running the upgrade from the General, Software >> Update option as I expect most do. Now she's left with having to re-download >> close to 100 apps and reconfigure them and re-download any related content >> such as books, etc. And this comes at a time when she is very busy and >> doesn't have the time to devote to it. >> >> The final insult is that our results don't make logical sense. The backup >> was encrypted to her computer using iTunes and she had to provide the >> password before restoring. Everything I've read says that this is the only >> way to get a complete backup of everything yet it did not work as advertised >> for us. And I guess I'll be cured of my tendency to attribute as operator >> error snafus posted by others since I know for a fact that we did all the >> steps correctly but still got bitten badly. >> >> I'm mainly posting this to help get closure with the incident but also to >> warn others that you really can't be too careful backing up your devices. >> And the next time you upgrade your iOS, you might consider making an >> encrypted backup to your computer using iTunes but running the upgrade from >> the phone. >> >> Alan Lemly >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> >> Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. >> >> Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> >> Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing >> viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. >> >> Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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