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IPhone 6
Best place to get an answer to this question: I might be able to upgrade to 6 for free w/ Verizon... If I give up my 5! I assume that all I need to do to get my apps back is log in to the Store as always - but what happens to my GB files? I'm at a loss as to how to get the ones back I iClouded & deleted...???
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iFunbox?
sell the 5 for much more than $200, then get a 6 for $200. Profit is better than "free" :-)
Also, that way you can keep the 5 till you know you've got all the files properly copied over.
I would require specific step-by-step instructions for using iFunbox to do this. And I wouldn't be able to take advantage of the Verizon deal if I keep my phone, so...
Some other options:
GarageBand for iOS: Backing up your songs - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4692
How can I back up or save my Garageband songs - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4783831?tstart=0
The verizon "deal" is a ripoff. That's what he's saying. If Verizon is going to give you a phone that you could buy for 199 on a two year contract but require you to give them your 5 that you could sell for probably 300, it's far from a "deal". Who not sell it yourself and get to larger screen or a bigger capacity with the money verizon is trying to swindle out of you.
I suck at math, so someone please straighten me out if I've calculated that wrong.
So, when they say a free iPhone 6 w/ giving up old iPhone & new two-year contract... they're bald-face lying?!? I have trouble believing that, given what info was provided.
And: Those helpful tips haven't explained how I DL my saved GB files back from the iCloud & put them back on whatever iDevice I end up with... Did I miss something after - granted - a quick read-through?
If you have an iphone 5, they're selling on my local craiglsist right now for 300 for the 16gb model. If the new 16gb model is 199 on 2 year contract without a trade in, doesn't that mean you'll throw away around a hundred bucks by giving them your iphone? If they'll take a 4 or something like that, then it's a great deal. My 5 is worth way more than 200 though. I can't help you with GarageBand backups. Sorry I didn't stay on your topic enough.
I got myself straightened out on this. Still, I wasn't looking to make a profit (why THAT was jumped on I don't know - it wasn't part of my original contemplation)... I was looking for the bigger screen ultimately (it's not an iPad - but it's also not the little i5 screen I have now). Problem solved. No new phone.
Ok, again, wasn't trying to hijack your thread. But I still don't get the math. If you give them a phone you could sell for 300 they'll give you a phone you could buy for 200. But the larger 6plus IS 300. So...Nevermind. I'll drop it now.
Boone51 is right. Verizon is doing the math and it is worth it to entice customers to take another 2 year contract by discounting the phones by an extra $200. It's not a free phone. And they get to keep your iPhone 5. so verizon is the winner. Even if your 2 yr contract is not up, the remaining amount you owe in the termination fee would be very little by now.
And my point is, yes you can easily (with no financial loss) get a new iPhone 6 if you are smart about selling your iPhone 5.
Anyway, I'll take full responsibility for the thread derailing. There was a thread recently about recovering space on your iDevice by doing a backup, wipe , and reboot from backup. That should give you all the info needed for transferring to a new phone.
If you indicate that your individual songs should go to icloud then when you install gb to your other device they should show up there and download as you click on the song. I do that with songs I start on iPhone and want to finish on iPad. Also, you can export your song as a GarageBand project through iTunes sharing (or ifunbox), so I'm assuming you can then load it back to your new device. I haven't tried it, but it should work.
Maybe these will be helpful
But I don't have that access in GB - there are several files I uploaded to iCloud & deleted from my phone in order to open up space. From my phone/GB I see no way to get these files back except through some hoop-jumping I don't understand yet; and somewhere I read about iTunes having something to do with it all (and I dislike iTunes because I don't get how it works - it does stuff that I don't know how to control).
This is what I meant in another thread about iOS insularity - it's like Apple would rather have things THEIR way as opposed to making things easy for their customers.
There's no good reason that I should be so confused.
I'm not sure why then, when I select the song and select iCloud it shows up on my ipad right away. That's strange. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that you deleted the song from your phone, which may then tell iCloud you don't want the song at all. I was thinking more that if you got your new phone and hadn't deleted them from your old phone yet that they'd show up on the new one.
As far as the iTunes file sharing, it just goes in the sharing file, you can use ifunbox to get it. I don't usually use iTunes for file moving anymore, only to transfer music if I need to.
The point of deleting the files was to make room, but I did not want to lose the files! Am I being told I HAVE lost them? 'Cuz if you think I'm carrying on now... :-[
I think so. But I could be wrong. The last time I deleted GarageBand projects I had backed them up in iTunes.
I was not aware that iTunes was a necessity. What the hell is the iCloud for if not saving stuff?!? And getting it back?
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Syncing between different devices. I don't know what to say, it sucks to lose work. I've been through it.
You don't need to use iTunes, you can use ifunbox. iTunes file sharing just means it goes in a folder you can access.
Hmm, nobody has mentioned doing a backup to iTunes and then a full restore to the new device?
We can forget the new device talk - that likely won't be happening. I'm more on this problem with the iCloud not doing what I thought its purpose was... Looks like I'm out of luck there. Hmph...
In the end, who cares? People will use this piece of great hardware to take selfies of themselves.
@bixnood said:
It's hard to take selfies of someone else...and I'm proud to say I've never taken one and won't. In 100 years archaeologists will come across photos and wonder why humans all lost the end of one arm (and had faces like ducks...)
;-)
@bixnood said:
The original purpose of this thread is nullified. I need now the straight scoop on this iCloud business: What is it if not another place to store files that should be IMHO as easy to access as those on my USB external drive on my PC - without jumping through these 'insular' Apple hoops? This part of the thread is ridiculous: Where - are - my - files?!?
@brain this might help: http://www.macworld.com/article/2310807/how-to-access-icloud-files-from-your-mac.html or http://www.howtogeek.com/175712/what-icloud-does-and-how-to-access-it-from-windows/
If you have a GarageBand project stored on iCloud, it should appear on your device. If it's not showing up in GarageBand, then you must have deleted it.
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-icloud-with-garageband-for-ios/
I give up. This iCloud thing is contrary to common sense. At the very least I have audio versions of the missing files on soundcloud... FWTW. (shaking head)
Never give up.
It's not contrary to common sense, and I know you're frustrated. iCloud is not meant to be the same kind of service as Dropbox, google drive, etc. It is for backup of active files and sync between devices. It also keeps full backups of devices if you have the space and select that option. It's not really meant as offline storage.
If you log into iCloud.com, you'll see icons for pages, numbers, etc. if you look at that window it will reflect exactly what your ipad reflects in terms of projects. If you delete a document from iCloud.com or on your ipad in numbers, then it is deleted in all places. I'm not saying it's the best thing in the world, but that's what it does. If you want offline cloud storage that works as a drive, Dropbox, box, google drive, onedrive, etc, are meant to do that and do it well. iCloud does store data from apps you use so that if you uninstall the app then later reinstall certain data is there, but if you delete the actual data then it is gone from iCloud as well.
It sucks that you lost work, I hope that what I wrote was helpful for the future though so it doesn't happen again. If you want to take a gb project off of your ipad or iPhone, export the project to iTunes, then use ifunbox to transfer it to your computer.