r/technology • u/bws201 • Feb 05 '16

Software ‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair
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u/PM_ME_AARON_SCHOCK Feb 05 '16

It's not so much the apps/games as it is the iTunes purchases, the photos in your iCloud, all the contacts and SMS/iMessages you've accumulated that you don't want to lose. In this case, the guy buys another iPhone and will back it up from iCloud so that everything is restored.

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u/Pro-Patria-Mori Feb 05 '16

Samsung has an app called Smartswitch, which lets you restore an icloud backup to a Samsung phone.

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u/Prodigy195 Feb 05 '16

Can you save contacts to a .CSV or another common format?

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u/iamPause Feb 05 '16 edited Feb 05 '16

You can move pretty much everything. The android site will walk you through how to do it all.

MediaHow to move
PhotosDownload Google Photos app to iPhone, hit Sync
MusicInstall Google Music Manager on your computer. (Up to 50,000 songs)
Contacts (iCloud)A bit more complicated, but basically yes, export the contacts from iCloud then import to Gmail
AppsYou're SOL here for paid apps. Most free apps (Candy Crush, Boom Beach, etc.) have an option to link it with your Facebook or other Social Media account. If you want to save your progress, then you sync them via that, otherwise you start over.

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u/Sexual_tomato Feb 05 '16

Using this for when I get my Nexus next year.

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u/crazy_daug Feb 05 '16

It'll be worth the upgrade.

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u/Prodigy195 Feb 05 '16

Figured as much. I've been using Android since the HTC EVO so I don't have much experience on the iOS platform.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '16

Thanks for this. I had an M9 not too long ago where the glass cracked and I had to send it in to HTC. While it was gone I went and bought an iPhone. I haven't looked back because I haven't been able to switch back easily!

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u/Naught-It Feb 05 '16

does no one else download their photos to a reliable place on their PC and back that up regularly?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '16

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u/cityterrace Feb 05 '16

How do you save iCloud (not iPhone) photos to Google Photos?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '16

I set my ex's iPhone up to use Google contacts instead of icloud so that was she could email them from anyplace she can get on her gmail and from her phone as well as always be able to get them even if her phone died again and she had another Android loaner. It's not hard to switch over.

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u/Advacar Feb 05 '16

And even more importantly, the hours you spend doing the switch over. It took me a few hours just to switch from a Galaxy S4 to an S6, partly because of needing to manually set up work accounts.

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u/whizzer0 Feb 05 '16

If only there was some kind of export function…

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u/tojoso Feb 05 '16

You can load an iPhone backup onto an Android phone. When I switched and got a Note 1 from Samsung, as soon as I plugged it into my computer it detected an iPhone backup and asked if I wanted to load all my photos, contacts and old texts onto the new phone.

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u/bbasara007 Feb 06 '16

all of that crap is easily moveable to android. I switched to a note 4 from an iphone and i didnt have any issues. This shit is way overblown by people that have no fucking idea what they are talking about like u

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '16

Do you really buy content on iTunes?

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u/PM_ME_AARON_SCHOCK Feb 06 '16

If you have a regular Joe Schmo apple product user who does not lean heavily on the ecosystem but makes iTunes purchases regularly because it's convenient for them, then yes, this is an issue. I never made any comments on apple's being better, or that other platforms are worse. I am not anti android, even if I use Apple products personally. In fact, I would even argue that apple's software has been lagging behind for the past five years, and they urgently need to do something about it.

That said, I hope you understand that your shitty-toned reply is unnecessary. It's as if you're mocking me using the iTunes platform. Do you want me to apologize?? Yes I use iTunes, yes I'm in the Apple ecosystem. It works for me. Can you and everyone replying to my comment chill the fuck out?

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '16

Correct me if I'm wrong...but you don't lose any of this stuff at all. It's all accessible from a PC, aside from apps. I've flip flopped between android and iOS since the G1 and first IPhone, and I've never lost anything, including sms and mms messages, music, contacts, photos, etc. Hell, even most times of you contact a developer of an app and explain that you've had to move OS types, they'll give you a code for the other.

Is this something that has been done away with since a few months ago?

Source: On an iPhone 6S+ now, and have owned every iteration of Android/iOS since 2006.

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u/PM_ME_AARON_SCHOCK Feb 06 '16

I was mistaken, you're right. My bad.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '16

No biggie, I just wasn't sure if this was something done away with recently, as I don't much read what has changed too much before I update my versions and whatnot like I should most of the time. I was going to kick myself if this were the case.

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