Hi Katey, Setting up as a new phone is the safest although quite often restoring from a backup especially if your current 4S is working fine is no problem. One thing you can do is make sure you sync your phone with iTunes, also do a "Transfer all purchases" and once all your apps are on your computer I would connect your 4S, check the Apps radio button and then tab to the list view of all the apps. Here you see which ones are checked (the ones on your phone) and any that are unchecked (apps in your library which are not on your phone). What I did was to uncheck all apps I didn't use a lot, then I did another sync and all of these apps were removed from my phone. Putting them back was as easy as to go back to that list, arrow through it, check the ones I wanted and do a sync. After I removed my apps I unsynced all my music, pictures, books and so on. I basically took everything off the phone. Then at the end I did an encrypted backup in iTunes and also backed up to iCloud. When I received my 5S I set up as a new device first, then after that was done and everything was working I went back to iTunes and restored from my encrypted backup. This put back all my folders and home page layout, my emails accounts were back, my Audible books, custom ringtones worked on the contacts that had them, my text messages, Favorites list and so on all were back. I then used my phone for a couple of days and once I found everything was good, battery life was not a problem and so on I then put back about 30 or 40 apps. These I did have to move back into the folders where I wanted them, but apart from the 35% volume thing in the rotor and a few other minor things my 5S works great.
I would do what I did, set up as a new device first, once you see that everything works well restore from your iTunes backup, it's much faster than restoring from iCloud anyways. If you end up having problems, you can always do a second restore, set up as a new device again and then really start out from scratch. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Katey Glass Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:57 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: difference in quality, restore or new device? I'd be interested in knowing this as well. I currently havee an iPhone 4S and will be getting a new 5s soon, so I was thinking of going with a new device so as to avoid the bugs (namely the answering bug) that seems to be happening on my 4s. I know it would be very painful to have to re-download all my apps. Also, I was going to make an encrypted backup on my mac as well as an iCloud one. Just in case I decide to not set up as a new device. Thanks, Katey Sent from my iPad > On Oct 18, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Traci Duncan <our4p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, lol, sometime thinking of a concise subject is tricky. > > As some of you know, I just received my new 5s. When setting it up, I restored it from my 4s back up. > > Is there a difference in quality/performance when treating the device as new or using a restore? > > The reason I ask: > the VZW reception inside my house is 1of5 bars. When it should be 2 to 3. > Also, I continue to have the horrible VO speaker issue when answering calls. I thought I had read, 5s users weren't having that issue. > > Anyway, what are your thoughts? I'm tempted to start over. I'm dreading the task of putting apps back in their folders, but if it'll improve things, it is worth it. > > Thanks, > Traci > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
