Learn how to reflash the iPhone: a few tips

It should not be long to talk about just the incredible prevalence and popularity of devices from Apple. Their gadgets are easy to learn and very beautiful, and their reliability is not known only to a person infinitely remote from computer subjects.

In particular, the same iPhones are famous for the fact that even the most inexperienced user can quickly and without any effort be able to deal with all their functions. But many users do not know how to reflash the iPhone, and after all such a need can arise for everyone!

For example, not everyone has a normal mobile Internet, and in fact without it it is impossible to update the OS version on the device! And that's not to mention the cases when self-confident users, trying to jailbreak, get a "brick" on their hands.

Update

In all these cases, the process is different. Before reflashing the iPhone, we immediately determine: a simple update of the OS and the elimination of the consequences after the intervention of "playful pens" - different things. Consider the first situation.

So, in this case, you need to connect the smartphone to the computer, start iTunes and click "Update". Of course, to perform this operation you must have a normal channel of communication with the Internet.

If you have already downloaded the current firmware earlier, then by pressing the "Update" button you should hold the Shift key (if in Windows) or ALT (OS X). In this case, you can tell the program exactly where the requested file is located.

Recovery

We have already talked about how to reflash the iPhone to a new version of the OS. But where more often there is a situation when the device is not all right, and the user wants to "roll back" it to its original state.

All primary actions are no different from the previous version. Thus, you connect the device to a computer with iTunes running, but select the "Restore" option. Here again, two options are possible: either the program downloads the proper version of the firmware itself, or you specify the path to it. Since to reflash iPhone 5 in this way is simple and reliable, we recommend it for beginners.

Sequencing

In the case where the device needs to be restored, the program will automatically perform all the necessary actions. First, the old firmware will be completely removed and Flash overwrite will start. After the end of the process, the digital signature of the downloaded program will be checked, the smartphone will turn on. After you successfully pass the authorization, the system will offer two options:

• Configure as new. In this case, the device will return to its original state. We highly recommend using if the iPhone has been restored after some serious malfunction.
• Restore from a backup. In this case, the previous version of the system will be pumped from the backup. Be careful: if the problem was serious, then together with this data it can come back again!

So you learned how to reflash your iPhone in the standard way.

Custom firmware

But the desires of users are sometimes much more extensive. So, often you want to somehow expand the functionality of the device, without resorting nevertheless to jailbreak. To do this, you need to use the program Sn0wbreeze (for Windows). For "Macs" apply the application PwnageTool. Give a detailed description of how to reflash the iPhone 4S this way, we will not. If you have little experience, then there is a great chance that you will simply disable your smartphone.