[quote name='Spider Monkey']If you can't power it up, you can't do
shit with it, idiot.
How ever, if you were backing up your 4s to the iCloud, just log into your account with the 4, and everything will reload. It needs to be plugged in and connected to WiFi to work.[/QUOTE]
This made me smile
What you went through
@Popwarhomie ; is the exact reason why I stopped having an Apple product as a daily phone. Relying on the Cloud to store your vital information opens you up to a lot of potential issues if something like this were to occur and, say, their servers were down for repairs or whatever legitimate reason you could think of. My GS4, on the other hand, not only does automatic backup to the Google Cloud, but I have the opportunity to make a complete backup of my system and all of its partitions either to the phone itself, to an external SD card, or via Keis software on the computer (God I hate Kies, I wouldn't recommend this). Additionally, so long as I use Titanium Backup, I have my phone automatically backing up all apps, all settings, all logins, all passwords, etc at a time I so choose. That way if this phone DOES poop the bed, I can just remove the sD card, insert it into the next phone, and restore the nandroid and pick up exactly where I left off.
Btw, it's not my intent to start a Droid vs iPhone war as each phone has its own merits. The CA industry LOVES iPhone, after all, and reflects it in device support. But one thing it's still tremendously behind the curve on is its backup system. I can't count on both hands how many times I've been refused an iOS update because of a server issue or my version of iTunes wasn't current or any various and sundry amount of reasons. But their UI is by and large one of the most straightforward and easy to pick up in the industry.