Iphone locked out of Itunes

Montiferson

Morning all, my missus set her iphone up so to would only work with her personal laptop, that's recently gone through a harddrive failure and the itunes is now gone from her laptop.

When she plugs it into any other itunes, she cannot sync without restoring it, which of course means she loses everything. She is no on IOS5 so cannot back up to cloud, is there any way of fixing this without losing everything on it?

guil

What exactly is on it that she needs to keep and that's the way all iPhones/iPods work. You can't sync with another iTunes library with erasing everything first

Gibs

There's an app called multitunes on cydia (if you have a jailbroken phone) that will allow you to sync with multiple itunes libraries. It might not solve your immediate problem and it has some limitations but could be useful if this happens again.

If you are worried about losing your apps, you could do a restore and then download them all again. This would be time consuming but wont cost you any money as Itunes will remember (as long as you use the same log in and password) that you previously owned the app and will let you download it for free.

Montiferson

Cheers for that, I'll look into it.
As it stands the phone is not jailbroken, she doesn't want to lose any photos so I'm guessing the only way is to bump them to my phone and transfer them back when the phone is restored

CBLFC96

There is a programme you can get called disk aid which allows you to transfer everything on your phone onto your computer without ITunes. Google Diskaid and you should find it.