Well, I decided to erase my iPhone and backup from iCloud. This worked! I can now connect to iTunes.
Don't try this unless you are certain iCloud has been set to backup everything.
I will report back with what happens.
Yeah, it does seem to be a limitation. It needs that hard backup to access. Unfortunately Apple cannot seem to help me get beyond the iTunes error. Without that error I'd be able to back up to my PC and get this show on the road.
Every other solution is shady and requires forking over money...
Yes, but as I mentioned, I cannot use iTunes. It wants to ERASE my phone. Literally erase it. It's an unknown error and Apple was no help.
Without an iTunes backup the apiSMS2droid app cannot work.
Okay, I completely forgot abut this. I hadn't thought of it until it was time to move my SIM card from the iPhone 11 Pro MAX to the Essential PH-1 I want to use. I want to transfer over the text messages and call logs.
Verizon no longer has an app to do this (that I can see).
My iTunes will...
I have been reading and watching videos on this but so far am seeing no answers other than NO. I will have another ESSENTIAL PH-1 coming to me today and while my current PH-1 backs up to Google drive, apparently apps like Wechat, Telegram and Line do not back up. This is a problem.
Please...
I have an Ocean Depths, which I paid over $600 for. So I am sticking with it until it stops working. Hoping to get all the way to 2020 with this beauty.
I just ordered a mint Gray off of Swappa. Comes with Amazon receipt. I miss my white one and the gray will hold it value better than black or white so... The price was nice and low.
STILL going to look for an Ocean Depths.
Amazing how this forum pretty much died once the news hit. Everyone went berserk and then stopped posting. Likely because everyone is selling their phone.
I still want to buy one. In Ocean Depths. :)
This is true, lol. Samsung is horrible! But they are #1 anyway. If we all have to wait, we have to wait.
Of course, I actually don't have an Essential anymore. But I am holding out hope for buying a pre-owned Ocean Depths.