Hey Jed, I just restored mine 2 days ago. Of course, before you go ahead and take the plunge, it's always best to backup using itunes. Having said that:
1. Wipe your phone back to factory settings. To do this, settings, general, reset, and then choose to wipe all content and media. Confirm a couple of times, enter your Apple ID when prompted in case you had find my iphone turned on, and the phone reboots. Let it do its thing. It takes a few minutes. I just had it on the table while I made coffee. Then when I came back, the phone was off. You can verify that by flicking the mute switch. If it vibrates, the phone is on. If not, it's off. It should be off before you continue. 2. Boot. Hold the power switch a few seconds and then let go, just as if you turn it on the usual way. Now though, you will land in the installation screens. Just enable voiceover with a triple click home, and it will talk. You will hear several languages pass by. Just double tap, and you can select your region etc. You don't need to wait untill American English comes by again. Just double tap, when voice after voice welcomes you to the installation in several languages in sequence. If you haven't heard this before, just listen and explore for a while. It's fun if you've never seen it. You will then be asked to turn on or off location services, log in to your wifi etc. 3. When asked, don't install as a new iphone. Instead, choose to restore from an icloud backup. You can then double tap the most recent icloud backup, and restore will start. 4. First, your settings will be restored. This takes some 5 to ten minutes or so. When complete, the phone reboots, but restore is not done yet. 5. Don't do anything yet. VoiceOver comes on by itself, and it will look like you have your phone back. All icons and folders on the home screens are in place etc. This is not the case though, because icloud is still pumping data into your phone. You cannot exactly track progress, although there is a work around. The process took me 3 hours here, and then all is good to go. Done. 3 Notes on the above. 1. I made the mistake of trying to open and run apps, while the restore was still in progress. Don't do that. You may mess things up. Worse, also do not try to download apps from the app store, as long as they have not restored from your icloud backup yet. I did that, and I had to start over because of data loss. 2. To check progress during restore, here is what you can do. Under settings, icloud, backup, the bottom line on the screen says that icloud is still restoring data. If this disappears, restore is complete. Another way to check progress, is settings, general, usage. You will see the amount of free space go down gradually. 3. The restore process sometimes got stuck on my phone. If after 20 minutes the free space no longer decreases, and icloud still says data is being restored, then you can safely reboot your phone, and then the process will pick up from where it left off. Beautiful. Hth, Paul. On Sep 25, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Jed Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > sure does, can you restore from the phone? I see one from yesterday > actually. how would i resotre from the phone? > > On 9/25/2014 5:12 AM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: >> Hi, >> >> What happens if you try to restore from iCloud via the phone? Does >> that show any newer backups? Not overly sure why it would do, but it >> has to be worth a go. >> As a side note, whilst iCloud backup is handy, this is exactly why I >> choose to do local backups before I restore. Sure it's nice to know >> that there will in theory be a remote copy of most of your things, but >> given the fairly small amount of time required to backup locally every >> now and again it seems like a no brainer to me. Good luck. >> >> Cheers, >> Ben. >> >> On 9/25/14, Jed Barton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hey guys, >>> OK, i ahve a huge concern here, and this doesn't look good. I am trying >>> to restore my iphone, cause i wiped it tonight, trying to restore it >>> from an icloud backup. Before i wiped the phone, it said the latest >>> backup to icloud was yesterday at 1_21 PM. However, when i click on >>> restore, the only backup that shows is from 2013? This makes absolutely >>> no sense. Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong? I'm wondering if >>> something is getting hidden, cause i am using window-eyes to navigate >>> itunes, and wondering if there is a dropdown of dates for icloud backups >>> that i can't find. Any ideas? >>> >>> -- >>> The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. >>> All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any >>> questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a >>> member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators >>> directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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