| Author | Message | ||
     Blackm2 |
My brother upgraded his iPhone and all his contacts were lost. Don't ask me how, that is just where we stand at this point. He had sync'd up the phone to his car, can the contacts be obtained from the cars computer? It is a 2011 Challenger. Thanks | ||
| Froggy |
Short answer is that is unlikely. Without knowing the specifics of the Challenger, most bluetooth devices read the data on the phone and do not store the data. | ||
| Blackm2 |
It is this unit, if that helps in any manner: http://www.uconnectsystems.com/system/2012/dodge/c hallenger/touch430nrhb/ So it is essentially sharing the information? The phone with it's contacts in place is the only way the car can use it? It says it has its own 28g hard drive, you would think it would be able to store. (Message edited by Blackm2 on February 07, 2012) | ||
| Jcjohnson33 |
Did he sync the phone with "the cloud" ? Or did it sync by itself? That's what mine did, and when my wife updated her phone mine and hers contacts mixed together and when she deleted the contacts from her phone they deleted from mine. That sucked, so go to the setting and turn off sharing with cloud for the stuff you don't want synced with "the cloud" or other iPhones in ur network. But to answer ur question he my be able to log into the cloud and recover contacts | ||
| Phelan |
Just have him restore the phone from a backup on his computer to get them back. | ||
| Blackm2 |
Most definitely he did not use the cloud, and he is not one for backing things up, so this is essentially his last hope is to retrieve it from the car somehow, if it can be done. | ||
| Jcjohnson33 |
That sucks hope he can get them back some how | ||
| Phelan |
iTunes usually automatically backs up the phone when it's plugged into the computer and iTunes is running. It'd be worth a shot to see if one is still there. | ||
| Blackm2 |
Does it back up the contacts as well or just the tunes? | ||
| Hootowl |
It backs up everything, including contacts, pictures, and text messages. | ||
| Blackm2 |
Cool, I'll let him know, thanks all. | ||
| Drkside79 |
also if itunes didn't do it next time their are plenty of apps both free and paid that back your phone up. | ||
| Blackm2 |
I'll let him know, but I've always let him know. He downloads all of his pictures of his kids, literally thousands, onto his business computer and I've told him multiple times, you need to get an external hard drive to store those pictures, if that computer goes down...he'll be one pissed off mofo! | ||
| Crackhead |
Well, not to start a Android vs Iphone battle. But since your Android contacts is linked with the gmail account, all of the contacts are backed up. Also, Google Music is in the cloud, so all of his music would not be lost, and can be redownloaded. Also you can enable auto picture uploading to the Google Picasa, so all of his pics would be backed up. Should I go on? Just another thing Droid does. | ||
| Hootowl |
iDevices do the same thing. All music, movies, TV shows etc. can be reacquired from Apple at no cost. | ||
| Crackhead |
Is that a recent change? I have heard of hd crashing and apple not allowing redownloading the media. | ||
| Blackm2 |
Well apparently he took it to the Apple store, and they said unless there was ever an actual backup made at any point, they can't recover the contacts. | ||
| Hootowl |
If he synched it with iTunes, there's a backup. Just hope he didn't encrypt the backup. That's a sure fire way of never being able to restore it. "Is that a recent change? I have heard of hd crashing and apple not allowing redownloading the media." That used to be the case. I don't know when it changed, but it was a while ago. | ||
| Xl1200r |
iDevices started doing all of that (including auto photo backups) before the iPhone 4S came out. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
I always make sure my contacts are copied on the phone memory & the simcard, as well as the puter from time to time. & yes I have an external HD too, plus my netbook & PC are synced. Only trouble is I have multiple redundant copies of most files. Only trouble is I have multiple redundant copies of most files. Only trouble is I have multiple redundant copies of most files. |
