It is up to you and it is usually perfectly fine to restore from the old unless you wre having some kind of issue that might have gotten saved in the backup. It is often an advantage to restore it from the backup. It's like putting the exact image of what was on the old one on the new hardware. The reason you lost your existing texts when you restored is likely because the process overwrote any existing data, it did not combine the data on the phone with the backup. You did not do anything wrong, it's just how the process works in that case.
On 11/19/12, Shane Clark <hshanecl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I got another iPhone 4S a few weeks ago, because the volume button broke. I > went to cync it to my computer to put my music on it, and it asked me did I > wanna set the new phone up as a new one, or back it up from the previous > one, and I chose to restore it from the previous phone. > My questions are: is this ok or should I have cynced it as a new phone, or > is it personal preference? Secondly, I noticed that all of my texts were now > back on my replacement-new 4S from when the last time I cynced the old > phone, and the texts that I had already had on the new 4S were gone. How are > kthe old texts saved, and how come the texts that were on the phone before I > cynced it disappeared? > Thanks. > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
