I hate my phone right now

Try calling third party apple repair places, they may be able to help you out. Tekserve in NYC is one, but they are expensive and somewhat surly in my experience.

Look online for places that specialize in data recovery, (especially mobile). I'm sure you can find someone to get your data, but it may not be cheap. Last time I was looking for this service for my hard drive, it was supposedly $250 just to check it out... luckily I didn't need it.

This dude seems like your best bet.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/data-recovery-experts-new-york

Good luck Zombie.

EDIT: Realized you pretty much live in Philadelphia. Look up Iphone repair/data recovery on Yelp for Philly (http://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=datarecovery&find_loc=Philadelphia,+PA). It'll probably be cheaper than NY anyway. Hopefully Gaff has some technical wizardry up his sleeve for you.

 

Bro I had similar issues back in the fall and was able to download 2 different applications for data retrieval off the iPhone. They worked pretty well, I'd have to look back to see what they were called. Free too, it was the shareware version of them and they worked great. Something like iExplore it was called. I'm on Macs too.

Why not contact Shred when he gets out of the joint and see if he can hook you up with the i6? No data retrieval issues whatsoever.

 

Go to an apple store. They will hook it up for free. They have the ability to take all your data, put it on a cloud and then transfer all your apps and stuff back.

Apple sucks. This is why I traded my iphone 4S for a Galaxy. Android based systems aren't a POS like Apple. All apple cares about is money. Itunes and all that is crap. Cause, let's be honest, who actually pays for MP3s?

My new phone is loaded with apps, games, movies for my daughter, all the music I want, and when you plug it in via USB, you have access to every single file on it. It works just like a PC.

USB to iPhone only gives you access to your photos and videos. Anything else on there is hidden.

I have tried those third party apps to load music on and stuff or to retrieve data. They never work....

Take it to an apple store, have them hook it up, and next time you get a new phone, ditch the apple product...

Apple is evil. They have their hands in too many pots. They are too heavy into copyright protection so you have to buy EVERYTHING from them...

Android puts out a sick OS on a sick phone. And once you have it, they don't care what you do with it and where you get files from... Android was built by real programmers, and real hackers, who are all about freedom of information....

Apple SUCKS in everyway. Even the graphic design software and video stuff that was better 15 years ago on a MAC is now better on PC based systems. I run CS6 on my touchscreen with windows 8. SMOKES any POS apple product.

I had to wipe out all my music one time on my iPhone because I had to reinstall windows, and suddenly, itunes wouldn't sync with any of my machines and it basically made me wipe the whole phone out and do a fresh install.....

APPLE SUCKS.... and the only ones that can do it right are the nerds at the apple store.

I loved my iPhone at first, but with such a powerful device, its really a piece of crap....

iPhones are like the human mind. You are only able to use 10% of it's true capabilities, while the other 90% lays dormant because you can't tap into it....

This is why apple lost its market monopoly. Nobody this day in age wants to deal with iTunes and all that crap...

Now, if I want to load a surf video on my phone to watch on a flight, I just transfer it. Going on a road trip and I want to put "Frozen" on it for my daugther. Done in 10 seconds and android isn't trying to block the files and sh**....

My daughter's NABI is smarter than your iPhone.

Again, APPLE SUCKS... always has, always will.... And this is why Bill Gates rules the world. Cause he always "got it".... Back in the day, you could perform ZERO upgrades on a MAC, so you had to purchase a new machine every few years. Microsoft "gets it".... You can trick out a PC anyway you want.

 

I only maintain enough technological proficiency to post here. I hope they fix your computer Mr. Zombie.

 

Bro just checked for you. I used iBackupBot, iExplore, and Fone Rescue. All free. Some are more robust than others.

When you recover all those pics please post the good wahines on here bro.

 

Yeah, hope it works for him. Those never worked for me when I tried it. The iPhone software seemed to have been blocking it. The software on the PC would show a sync, but nothing would transfer...

Maybe I just didn't do it right.

 

Those aren't really syncing applications but more to extract files to be saved to a separate location (aka manual piecemeal backup) or if you needed to delete content so it would not be over capacity and therefore be able to be routinely backed up by iTunes, as in my case.

 

I was trying to extract. I had an mp3 database on my PC with like 10,000 files. I had narrowed down to like 100 songs on my iPhone to not take up all the space, cause when you just sync with it, it loads EVERYTHING...

So I was trying to take the 100 songs off my phone, put them in a seperate database, then sync the Phone with that. So all in all, I was trying to extract. I tried a few different pieces of software and the phone just kept blocking the communication...

But again, I probably did something wrong. I tried it on like 3 different machines to no avail

 

Note: If you continue to use the iPhone, you can locally backup all your data and apps in iTunes. Matter of fact, I would open up iTunes on your Mac and check the last backup date. It may have automagically done that for you recently. When it does that, it saves all your purchased apps and pics.

No need for iCloud....

Another note to ALL OF YOUZ: Get on GOOGLE PLUS. For years, they have been offering free, unlimited photo and video cloud services. Every photo and video I have EVER taken on any of my devices automatically upload to google plus any time i get within Wi-Fi range. Make sure to set it to Wi Fi only, and you will NEVER have this problem again. I have every pic and video ever, for 5 years up on Google Plus... All free. And you can make it private so no one can access it but you...

Saved me from numerous headaches similar to yours.

And don't trust the chick on the phone. Out of 30 hipsters at the apple store, there will be a few guru's who like a challenge. I am sure they can tap into it somewhow.

 

Android my dude. It's all about android. Memory Cards. Any game, app, program is downloadable in .apk format from a million sources.... They decided not to hold consumers by the balls....

From a business standpoint, apple is genius, but unless you want to be caught in the endless cycle of money, get out while you can... Apple has never been about people... All business baby.

If Apple had better products, they wouldn't have to take advantage of their customers the way they do.

 

PC/Android interface is like Atari 2600 bro. Nothing holds a candle to Apple.

I agree there's been an influx of hipsters there in the employee ranks and an outflux of useful smarts but we should be used to that by now in society. We always have to hunt out the decision makers vs. minions and the skilled vs. unskilled. Does every dude at Home Depot know what they're talking about? Hail no. Half are shelf stockers while the other half are retired master tradesmen who know more MacGuyver tactics than we could hope to learn.

I've spent 10k in 5 years at Apple and have 20k in gear from them overall. So when I have an issue, I have no problem walking in there, passing the minions who just want to put you in a queue, going right up to the real ones and if they balk at the assistance I'm looking to get then, yes, I've spent enough funds there where I have no problem playing the "Do you know who I am and how much I've spent here" card. It typically works.

FYI, back in March I had a mid-2010 MacBook Pro that was shotting the bed in multiple ways and was a solid year out of warranty. They shouldn't even have looked at it without charging me based on that fact. Pride started to kick in when they couldn't determine what was wrong with the hard drive or processor when it kept freezing up then only starting sometimes. In the end, they replaced it brand new with an out of the box mid-2012 MBP that cost hundreds more than my ill machine ever did. Cost to me? Zero.

I'm ok with patronizing Apple for a few more years after that one.

 

Have you played around with one lately? I was not a fan of Android for a few years. I have always hated apple, but agreed that the iPhone was a game changer. This day in age, I much prefer my Galaxy interface. It does EVERYTHING the iPhone does, just better. IMO.

As far as Mac computers, I will never get on board with them. 10 years ago, yeah, PCs would crash all the time. Not anymore. My PC laptop is touch screen, the screen fold in upside down to make it a tablet, its super fast, has never crapped out once and the software available for these machines are about 10,000 times better than anything a MAC can offer. And like I said, all my adobe software and everything that was "meant for macs" runs smooth as a babys bottom....

Mac guys love macs. PC guys love PCs.

I understand getting quality service from them and wanted to stick around. But 3 years ago, iPhones were the tits. They have been surpassed for quite a while now.

And as far as the interface, a free theme for android converts the entire Android device into the newest IOS interface. I tried it for a little bit and realized that the android is just way more robust and a better layout anyway.

But to each there own. You are going to like what you like. I was very hesitant to go Android, but after I did, I don't think I could ever go back unless Apple just revolutionizing things again.

Apple is the Beta, where Android is the VHS... Sorry for the old reference, but Apple revolutionized the handheld market years ago, then everyone took their technology, made it better, more robust and more user friendly... Thats just how it goes to me...

A good friend of mine who runs his own IT company. He did all the cameras in my restaurants, did the network, the wifi, he ONLY uses apple. He and I argue about it all the time. He swears that the hardware is so much better, but EVERY time, it cost us way more money. I love some of their networking HARDWARE, but any device that requires software, I just can't go with apple.

In every business standard, PC is it. When is the last time you walked into an office building, that had MACs running on a network... Unless you are in a video/media business, you simply wouldn't touch the stuff. The industry standard is now, and always will be PC and UNIX based.

 

I got the new iPhone 5 a few months ago after years of refusing. I had the Blackberry curve for like 5 years, my wife has the Galaxy and I gotta say the iPhone blows them both away. I was a hater for years but I'm a believer now. I hate her Galaxy, it's so slow and acts up every time it seems. So to me there is no comparison.