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ken0042 · 03-22-2013, 07:44 PM

Hope you guys can help me out with this one. My wife and I upgraded to iPhone 5s a few months ago, and we gave my son one of the old 3GS phones to use for himself. It's been into iphix a couple of times for repairs, and now has a brand new issue. I figure no big deal, I could just give him my old 3GS.

So I sync'd both phones and then wiped mine. I then plugged it into the computer with his and my wife's iTunes accounts; and re-sync'd it. Here's where I screwed up; apparently I failed to notice that it was set to not sync apps. So it also didn't backup his apps.

I plugged in his old phone, but now iTunes doesn't recognize it. The reason this is an issue- I still has iOS 4.3 running on the 3GS phones, and I had "Find my iPhone" still working on those. Now it tells me that I need iOS 5; because that's what the current version of the app needs.

Does anybody have a good suggestion on how to revert everything back so I can try this again? Or at least how to get Find My iPhone working on his "new" 3GS?

The worst part of this; I also don't think I can go to iOS 5.1 now as 6.1 is the only version available. I have just heard so much about how the newer OS on and older phone just kills the performance.

03-22-2013, 07:44 PM	#1
ken0042 Playboy Mansion Poolboy Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout Exp:	Transfer iPhone profile from one device to another Hope you guys can help me out with this one. My wife and I upgraded to iPhone 5s a few months ago, and we gave my son one of the old 3GS phones to use for himself. It's been into iphix a couple of times for repairs, and now has a brand new issue. I figure no big deal, I could just give him my old 3GS. So I sync'd both phones and then wiped mine. I then plugged it into the computer with his and my wife's iTunes accounts; and re-sync'd it. Here's where I screwed up; apparently I failed to notice that it was set to not sync apps. So it also didn't backup his apps. I plugged in his old phone, but now iTunes doesn't recognize it. The reason this is an issue- I still has iOS 4.3 running on the 3GS phones, and I had "Find my iPhone" still working on those. Now it tells me that I need iOS 5; because that's what the current version of the app needs. Does anybody have a good suggestion on how to revert everything back so I can try this again? Or at least how to get Find My iPhone working on his "new" 3GS? The worst part of this; I also don't think I can go to iOS 5.1 now as 6.1 is the only version available. I have just heard so much about how the newer OS on and older phone just kills the performance.