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Friday, August 21, 2009

iPhone Restore

Today we got an iPhone in that was frozen. The owner did not care about saving any data, so we had to do a restore.

It was the first time that I have ever even played with it so it was definately a new experience for me.

Here is what I did.

Turn off your iPhone by holding the "Sleep/Wake" button for about five seconds.

Once it's turned off, press and hold the "Home" button and plug the iPhone into your Mac or PC. Keep holding the "Home" button until you see a dock cable pointing to the iTunes icon. Make sure iTunes is open on your computer.

iTunes will tell you it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode.

Click "OK" and you will be taken to the iPhone pane.

Click restore

It may ask you to confirm this blah, blah, lost data, blah, blah, just click ok, you already know that you will lose all of your data.

Now it will download the needed software and install it.

Blammy you're done, it's just that easy!

The phone worked and all is well, one more happy camper.

--KC

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