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I think it is time to clarify terminology. Maybe Bill Boulware can help with the clarification.

You did a Restore As New but then did a Restore from Backup, which reinstalled whatever you had backed up. If that cleared up any problems, then good for you, but is not really a Restore As New.

The way I view Restore As New from reading Apple's support is that you do a Sync after the restore, in which case a lot of stuff does not get restored, unless Apple's Sync takes care of it. Apple's Sync does not restore folders, or a lot of other stuff. Not only that, but your last backup has been deleted and replaced with a backup of your newly updated iPhone.

A Restore From Backup after a Restore As New, and before doing a Sync, restores (almost?) everything the way it was at the time of the backup.

If you do a restore from backup, then you don't lose much, if anything, including any problems you had. A restore as new loses a lot. Some combination of the two may give you mixed results, of which I am not clear from reading Apple's support docs.

On Jul 3, 2010, at 4:28 PM, renegade600 wrote:

> I did a restore as new then installed the backup then a sync and everything came back as normal. as I said in a previous reply, the only thing I had to manually reset was my passcode. And my battery problem was solved.
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> --- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, Jim Showalter <jshowalt@...> wrote:
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>> If you do a Restore As New your folders will be gone. Your apps will be reinstalled on your iPhone in alphabetical order without folders.
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>> If you do a Restore As New, any app which saves data to your iPhone but which does not get synced to your computer or which does not provide some other means of backing up the data will lose it's data. Be sure to check EVERY app you have on your iPhone to see if it has any data you want/need, and that there is some method of saving that data if you really want it, before doing a Restore As New.
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