iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems
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@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
Wait ... the restore was from a year ago. Isn't she missing a ton of stuff on the new phone then?
Yes...but she thought it was October 22nd 2016 and not from 2015, so she hasn't had a backup in over a year...so the question is if her old phone does a good iCloud sync, will it sync to new phone?
You will have to restore the new one from backup if the old one does a good sync.
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I would guess it totally depends on which parts you're talking about and how iCloud backup works.
If, for example, it backs up contacts as contacts and not as a file backup.... Then those contacts could be integrated into the contacts already on the phone. The same could be said for pictures and possibly iMessage.... But app data that she has reinstalled probably not.
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@brianlittlejohn said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
Wait ... the restore was from a year ago. Isn't she missing a ton of stuff on the new phone then?
Yes...but she thought it was October 22nd 2016 and not from 2015, so she hasn't had a backup in over a year...so the question is if her old phone does a good iCloud sync, will it sync to new phone?
You will have to restore the new one from backup if the old one does a good sync.
Yeah this is probably going to have to be the route, and she'll have to lose the stuff from the past week. You can at least copy out the pictures and re-add them later.
Though like I said, something is amiss if it hasn't been backing up.
And if she can't wait for an iTunes backup, iCloud is going to destroy her! (My nowhere near 100GB restore took a few hours.)
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She is more concerned with Contacts and photos...so....I manually set an iCloud backup on old phone and she will leave phone with me overnight as it does a backup over our WiFi here at work...will see if her new phone slowly syncs that new data...otherwise, I will try the other suggestions listed above...
I bet she fills up her new 256GB iPhone in record time...
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You can always manually back up to iTunes.
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@scottalanmiller said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
You can always manually back up to iTunes.
We've tried...it never stops...at least on her Mac...it shows progress early on but shows a full progress bar and just sits on Backing Up (her name) Phone...left it for 3-4 hours at one point and it never stopped...
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@scottalanmiller said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
You can always manually back up to iTunes.
To save time you can just poke yourself in the eye repeatedly. Don't even need to boot the computer or wait for ever for iTunes to load
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@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@scottalanmiller said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
You can always manually back up to iTunes.
We've tried...it never stops...at least on her Mac...it shows progress early on but shows a full progress bar and just sits on Backing Up (her name) Phone...left it for 3-4 hours at one point and it never stopped...
How long would it take to transfer 120GB of files over USB?
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@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
She is more concerned with Contacts and photos...so....I manually set an iCloud backup on old phone and she will leave phone with me overnight as it does a backup over our WiFi here at work...will see if her new phone slowly syncs that new data...otherwise, I will try the other suggestions listed above...
I bet she fills up her new 256GB iPhone in record time...
Contacts are stored .... where? Not in something like GMail or whatever?
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@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
She is more concerned with Contacts and photos...so....I manually set an iCloud backup on old phone and she will leave phone with me overnight as it does a backup over our WiFi here at work...will see if her new phone slowly syncs that new data...otherwise, I will try the other suggestions listed above...
I bet she fills up her new 256GB iPhone in record time...
Contacts are stored .... where? Not in something like GMail or whatever?
She does it all on iCloud...
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@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
She is more concerned with Contacts and photos...so....I manually set an iCloud backup on old phone and she will leave phone with me overnight as it does a backup over our WiFi here at work...will see if her new phone slowly syncs that new data...otherwise, I will try the other suggestions listed above...
I bet she fills up her new 256GB iPhone in record time...
Contacts are stored .... where? Not in something like GMail or whatever?
She does it all on iCloud...
That almost seems impossible.
iCloud backs up automatically when you are plugged in and on WiFi. Unless she was never on WiFI the past year.
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@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
She is more concerned with Contacts and photos...so....I manually set an iCloud backup on old phone and she will leave phone with me overnight as it does a backup over our WiFi here at work...will see if her new phone slowly syncs that new data...otherwise, I will try the other suggestions listed above...
I bet she fills up her new 256GB iPhone in record time...
Contacts are stored .... where? Not in something like GMail or whatever?
She does it all on iCloud...
That almost seems impossible.
iCloud backs up automatically when you are plugged in and on WiFi. Unless she was never on WiFI the past year.
It also breaks all the time. I've had to delete everything out of my doc's iCloud accounts in the past to get them to sync before. I've also had to hard reset (wipe) the phone to get it to work before.
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@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
She is more concerned with Contacts and photos...so....I manually set an iCloud backup on old phone and she will leave phone with me overnight as it does a backup over our WiFi here at work...will see if her new phone slowly syncs that new data...otherwise, I will try the other suggestions listed above...
I bet she fills up her new 256GB iPhone in record time...
Contacts are stored .... where? Not in something like GMail or whatever?
She does it all on iCloud...
That almost seems impossible.
iCloud backs up automatically when you are plugged in and on WiFi. Unless she was never on WiFI the past year.
She is never (or rarely) on WiFi and if she is, it may be because her phone is so full, it never completes a WiFi backup in the time she is in WiFi...she doesn't use WiFi at home...just cellular data...since this phone is no longer activated, it has to use WiFi...
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@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
She is more concerned with Contacts and photos...so....I manually set an iCloud backup on old phone and she will leave phone with me overnight as it does a backup over our WiFi here at work...will see if her new phone slowly syncs that new data...otherwise, I will try the other suggestions listed above...
I bet she fills up her new 256GB iPhone in record time...
Contacts are stored .... where? Not in something like GMail or whatever?
She does it all on iCloud...
That almost seems impossible.
iCloud backs up automatically when you are plugged in and on WiFi. Unless she was never on WiFI the past year.
She is never (or rarely) on WiFi and if she is, it may be because her phone is so full, it never completes a WiFi backup in the time she is in WiFi...she doesn't use WiFi at home...just cellular data...since this phone is no longer activated, it has to use WiFi...
If that phone has been sitting in your office for days (like the week you've mentioned) did it not try to backup over your WiFi already?
OK She's never on WiFi - sounds like an actual, real life backup solution needs to be discussed, she's breaking the typical (WiFi based) one.
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@Dashrender said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
She is more concerned with Contacts and photos...so....I manually set an iCloud backup on old phone and she will leave phone with me overnight as it does a backup over our WiFi here at work...will see if her new phone slowly syncs that new data...otherwise, I will try the other suggestions listed above...
I bet she fills up her new 256GB iPhone in record time...
Contacts are stored .... where? Not in something like GMail or whatever?
She does it all on iCloud...
That almost seems impossible.
iCloud backs up automatically when you are plugged in and on WiFi. Unless she was never on WiFI the past year.
She is never (or rarely) on WiFi and if she is, it may be because her phone is so full, it never completes a WiFi backup in the time she is in WiFi...she doesn't use WiFi at home...just cellular data...since this phone is no longer activated, it has to use WiFi...
If that phone has been sitting in your office for days (like the week you've mentioned) did it not try to backup over your WiFi already?
OK She's never on WiFi - sounds like an actual, real life backup solution needs to be discussed, she's breaking the typical (WiFi based) one.
I've tried...so many times on backup solutions for her...she is nice about it but doesn't trust it...she is so worried about losing her pictures...I've been trying to get her to accept a backup plan for a few years now...
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@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@Dashrender said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
She is more concerned with Contacts and photos...so....I manually set an iCloud backup on old phone and she will leave phone with me overnight as it does a backup over our WiFi here at work...will see if her new phone slowly syncs that new data...otherwise, I will try the other suggestions listed above...
I bet she fills up her new 256GB iPhone in record time...
Contacts are stored .... where? Not in something like GMail or whatever?
She does it all on iCloud...
That almost seems impossible.
iCloud backs up automatically when you are plugged in and on WiFi. Unless she was never on WiFI the past year.
She is never (or rarely) on WiFi and if she is, it may be because her phone is so full, it never completes a WiFi backup in the time she is in WiFi...she doesn't use WiFi at home...just cellular data...since this phone is no longer activated, it has to use WiFi...
If that phone has been sitting in your office for days (like the week you've mentioned) did it not try to backup over your WiFi already?
OK She's never on WiFi - sounds like an actual, real life backup solution needs to be discussed, she's breaking the typical (WiFi based) one.
I've tried...so many times on backup solutions for her...she is nice about it but doesn't trust it...she is so worried about losing her pictures...I've been trying to get her to accept a backup plan for a few years now...
LOL - so worried, but so unwilling to do anything about that worry. Well, one day her phone will die, and the backups won't be there, then she'll see where her concerns really were.
Her words say one thing, but her actions clearly say another - really Scott should be making this post not me.
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@Dashrender said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@Dashrender said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@BRRABill said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
@garak0410 said in iPhone Old Phone / New Phone Sync Problems:
She is more concerned with Contacts and photos...so....I manually set an iCloud backup on old phone and she will leave phone with me overnight as it does a backup over our WiFi here at work...will see if her new phone slowly syncs that new data...otherwise, I will try the other suggestions listed above...
I bet she fills up her new 256GB iPhone in record time...
Contacts are stored .... where? Not in something like GMail or whatever?
She does it all on iCloud...
That almost seems impossible.
iCloud backs up automatically when you are plugged in and on WiFi. Unless she was never on WiFI the past year.
She is never (or rarely) on WiFi and if she is, it may be because her phone is so full, it never completes a WiFi backup in the time she is in WiFi...she doesn't use WiFi at home...just cellular data...since this phone is no longer activated, it has to use WiFi...
If that phone has been sitting in your office for days (like the week you've mentioned) did it not try to backup over your WiFi already?
OK She's never on WiFi - sounds like an actual, real life backup solution needs to be discussed, she's breaking the typical (WiFi based) one.
I've tried...so many times on backup solutions for her...she is nice about it but doesn't trust it...she is so worried about losing her pictures...I've been trying to get her to accept a backup plan for a few years now...
LOL - so worried, but so unwilling to do anything about that worry. Well, one day her phone will die, and the backups won't be there, then she'll see where her concerns really were.
Her words say one thing, but her actions clearly say another - really Scott should be making this post not me.
Yeah, where's is @scottalanmiller
Let him talk to her. LOL.
