iPhone 3G - Firmware 3.0 Upgrade

Alex53 · 15 Aug 2009 at 12:57

Its probably a silly question but please bear with me.

I get most of my podcasts and apps directly through the itunes and app store in the iPhone. In fact I hardly sync with itunes on the PC these days, and I have it set to manually manage stuff rather than automatically sync.

With that in mind, if I do the upgrade to firmware 3.0, what do I need to do first not to lose apps currently on the iPhone, and also stuff like e-mails, e-mail settings, notes, contacts, etc.

Do I have to back all this up on iTunes first? (And how) or does the firmware installation process do a backup, install and restore by itself?

Thanks in advance.

Note: My iPhone is legally open (italian) and not jailbroken.

J1234 · 15 Aug 2009 at 13:14

You just click 'update' and it will update your phone without touching anything else, nothing will get erased unless you press 'restore'.

Blackhawk47 · 15 Aug 2009 at 16:51

Nope you won't loose anything and it does do a backup before the actual update so you can always restore your iPhone if something goes wrong.

dthebuk · 15 Aug 2009 at 20:02

I just put 3.0.1 on my 3g and its gone and lost all my contacts, its still got all the apps/text messages etc etc. Its also stupidly slow in comparison to the old firmware

Blackhawk47 · 15 Aug 2009 at 22:14

dthebuk said:
I just put 3.0.1 on my 3g and its gone and lost all my contacts, its still got all the apps/text messages etc etc. Its also stupidly slow in comparison to the old firmware

Yes, it is having a few problems. We are all just waiting for an update from Apple. Heck, even the guy who sold me my iPhone a few weeks a go in the Apple store said there were a few bugs and the like with it. :rolleyes:

Can't shed any light on why all your contacts would disappear. Haven't been Jailbreaking have you?

dthebuk · 16 Aug 2009 at 10:36

no havn't jailbroken it. It did back up when it did the update. Any idea if the contacts would have been included in the back up? I don't have any kind of contacts on my computer. Its still a bit slow, but its not as bad as it was

Blackhawk47 · 16 Aug 2009 at 14:06

dthebuk said:
no havn't jailbroken it. It did back up when it did the update. Any idea if the contacts would have been included in the back up? I don't have any kind of contacts on my computer. Its still a bit slow, but its not as bad as it was

Not to sure to be honest but I would go ahead and do a restore from backup sooner rather than later. Should get all your contacts back doing that because that is what people do if they get a new iPhone yet they want everything they had on their old one.