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Jun 28, 2011 4:31 AM

So I upgraded to an iPhone 4 today. I have an iPod touch and wanted to transfer all of my apps from the iPod to the iPhone.

I was able to set up the iPhone fine and all the apps seem to have transferred, but all the data is gone. For example, Angry Birds has lost track of all my level progress (and I've done A LOT) as well as not realizing I've already purchased the Eagle add on. The inception app no longer recalls which dreams I've unlocked.

The weird thing is that Game Center remembers all of my achievements. I'm guessing the game data that tracks level progress/ unlocks is somewhere on my iPod, and I'm wondering if anyone knows any way to transfer that information to the iPhone.

Any help is really appreciated!

thedogma thedogma

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Bah. Every single game is like that..

I really hope there is a way to transfer what I've done from one device to the other.

thedogma thedogma
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Just trying to help, sorry if you've done this already:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2109

I am not an iDevicer.

rlapid2112 rlapid2112
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@rlapid2112: Would be helpful if it worked xD

I make a backup from my iPod, then plug in my iPhone...go to restore from backup, but the backup I just made doesn't show.

thedogma thedogma
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I remember being able to explore my iPod like it was a disk drive. It's been a minute since I've done it cuz I switched to Macs and haven't tried doing it on my MacBook.

johnnykp98 johnnykp98
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Game data doesn't transfer between iDevices, however I don't know how GameCenter data works...

jsoko jsoko
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@jsoko: All my gamecenter stuff was there when I logged in on the new device. Game data, sadly, was not.

I talked to Apple and I'm basically out of luck for the time being. However, when iOS5 is released, theoretically I should be able to use the backup I created from my touch and apply it to the phone, which (again, only in theory) should then transfer my save data.

thedogma thedogma
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@thedogma: oh nice.. can't wait til iOS 5! Lots of features Apple is lacking in...

jsoko jsoko

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