Hi,
Apologies for the long background information and questions.
A friend, who has an IPhone 4, recently broke it and is now unable to recover any data from it or make back ups. In October last year she backed up her phone to her PC.
She has now acquired an Android phone (Samsung) and wants to import the backed up data (her contacts mainly) to this new phone. She is not at all technically minded and has asked me to help. I know nothing about iPhones so am hoping this forum will be able to help
As I understand it from a search of Google, in order to produce a backup suitable for transfer to an android phone, the iPhone would normally be connected to the PC and a backup produced using iTunes with android or google contacts or similar option chosen (I have never seen iTunes so not sure of the wording).
The backup that was produced in October was made via iTunes but was a straightforward iPhone backup and no android/google contacts/ conversion type option was selected. Given the age of the phone icloud was never used.
Is there any method of converting or extracting the backup information so it can be made compatible with an Android phone ?
If no, would it work to get an IPhone (eg a no longer used one from somewhere), restore the data to that phone using iTunes, then create a back up on that phone where the android etc option for backup is chosen.
Are there any other options ?
Thank you in advance for your help
Apologies for the long background information and questions.
A friend, who has an IPhone 4, recently broke it and is now unable to recover any data from it or make back ups. In October last year she backed up her phone to her PC.
She has now acquired an Android phone (Samsung) and wants to import the backed up data (her contacts mainly) to this new phone. She is not at all technically minded and has asked me to help. I know nothing about iPhones so am hoping this forum will be able to help
As I understand it from a search of Google, in order to produce a backup suitable for transfer to an android phone, the iPhone would normally be connected to the PC and a backup produced using iTunes with android or google contacts or similar option chosen (I have never seen iTunes so not sure of the wording).
The backup that was produced in October was made via iTunes but was a straightforward iPhone backup and no android/google contacts/ conversion type option was selected. Given the age of the phone icloud was never used.
Is there any method of converting or extracting the backup information so it can be made compatible with an Android phone ?
If no, would it work to get an IPhone (eg a no longer used one from somewhere), restore the data to that phone using iTunes, then create a back up on that phone where the android etc option for backup is chosen.
Are there any other options ?
Thank you in advance for your help
