Re: think a thousand times before doing updates
Re: think a thousand times before doing updates You can get profiles athttps://regmyudid.cc/downloads/profiles/but remember that it's at your own risk! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=316873#p316873 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: think a thousand times before doing updates
Re: think a thousand times before doing updates Well.Coolblindtech recomend you do a backup before you do anything with developer releases.Secondly, there is no need to try to find and potentially install a malware ridden profile.You can actually join the beta program freely, coolblindtech has the info somewhere I saw it once, you can email and ask them to if you really want to.Anyway you should backup before you go to beta software, thats with any beta software.I doubt apple will freely fix your phone because you essentually installed an alegal profile on it.They are a little less mad about jailbreaking they even encourage it to a certain extent certainly they do pull jailbroken features from the system for use in their versions.You can sign up with a dev profile I am sure you can sign up for betas if you want.But you probably wouldn't want a primary device and primary is the key for use on beta software.At the end of this year I plan to get another system, a win10 sys tem.The system I have is fine but I may just use that with linux or try react os or something or test it with viruses and other junk.However I wouldn't ever test unstable code on my primary system.I also have offence on the title of this topic since it draws the conclusion that people should be carefull when updating.Someone dumb enough could look at this and think, maybe I should stop my computer updating, maybe all this security and malware software and other os updates will break things.Lets just reformat and go back to factory defaults and not touch it at all.I have and sadly still have users of systems I maintain that are so scared of security they just freeze up whenever things go wrong.In the worst case, the user was happy if the system popped up something saying their computer had malware and ransomware on it and was insecure but was so scared that they didn't touch their system trey icons.I had to educate them on the status of their icons and that their icons wouldn't bite them.I know this is harsh but for those that are not in the no and just skim read topic titles as I do they could start thinking about well wandering at least.For me I was thinking it was another of don't update windows topics because it mangled my system 5 years ago kind of thing.This issue is your problem and fault and no one elses.Its good you admit it, but crying about it on here is no good either.I do sympathise with your situation to some extent, don't get me wrong, but the term beta is usually unstable.It goes without saying you could brick your device and or your system.Saying that this aint a total rant, 3 weeks ago, I had a line issue with my previder orcon.I did all the steps to solve it in the troubleshooting guide.I then decided to update the firmware which I wasn't supposed to do, it was not said anywhere I shouldn't do so though. The router updated and did boot but the entire thing was bricked.I was able to get a replacement easily enough being it was my first bricking even so, after that there were huge issues getting back in.It was only after I threatened to leave that they actually fixed things, in a reasonable time and its all working pluss my origional problem.This was my problem, and I admitted it.And thats it.The point is, you knew what you were doing, end of story.I thought I did but didn't in my case. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=316859#p316859 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: think a thousand times before doing updates
Re: think a thousand times before doing updates Every single article, official or otherwise, talks how backups don't work for older iOS versions. Pretty sure that backup's work like that on Android as well if they go system deep for non rooted devices...It is best practice to assume a fresh DFU restore forever if you decide to install any Apple beta. Yes, it is because of their design decisions, but not the end of the world. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=316850#p316850 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: think a thousand times before doing updates
Re: think a thousand times before doing updates Every single article, official or otherwise, talks how backups don't work for older iOS versions. It is best practice to assume a fresh DFU restore forever if you decide to install any Apple beta. Yes, it is because of their design decisions, but not the end of the world. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=316850#p316850 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: think a thousand times before doing updates
Re: think a thousand times before doing updates I installed IOS11 on my iPod touch and rushed into it. I had to go into DFU mode in the end but I did get everything back. You are right it is importaint to know what you are doing. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=316836#p316836 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
think a thousand times before doing updates
think a thousand times before doing updates Hi all,I wanted to tell you guys a story about something I've been fighting with for the past 5 hours. Well, the whole thing has been going on for much longer so maybe I should start from the beginning.It all started back when IOS 10 was coming out. I decided to find and install a developer profile on my IPhone 6. This developer profile would essentially make the phone believe it is signed to a developer account which would allow me to test developer versions of IOS 10, which are rolled out before public betas. Why did I want to do this? Because I was excited for some of the upcoming changes and wanted to see how they'd work in my own hands. I was impatient and impulsive. Besides, everyone else I knew was doing it and convinced me it wouldn't hurt, and it was super easy to go back. On many fronts they were right. It's not really hard to do, the hardest part really is finding a developer profile and Google is your friend for finding such things. Wit hin an hour the developer version of IOS was installed and I used developer betas until IOS 10 was released. Then I tried to erase my developer profile and bad things happened...The developer profile had taken over as the default, meaning that I couldn't switch back to a standard profile as I was told to do. Unfortunately I was stuck on a prerelease version, so my only real option was to restore to factory settings. Problem though, is that you can't just slap backups created with a dev beta on a release version... from what I'm told it'll break things. If I'd had an IOS 9 backup handy, that wouldn't have been a problem, but I'd not had the forsight to do that because I assumed that upgrading from dev beta to full release would be easy. It probably should've been, but not for me. Okay so at the end of this I'll probably lose all my data. This didn't bother me much because most of the data I needed was backed up on the PC (mostl y recordings and big whatsapp archives which I didn't want taking up space on my phone).I tried restoring the phone with ITunes but it didn't work, I can't remember why though. So I did some research which led me to this site. It has links to installation packages for IOS devices. Such packages are incredibly useful if you want to restore your phone offline, say, on a computer without Internet access. They are also useful if you jailbreak, or in my case, mess about with trying newer prereleases of IOS and want to go back to the old.Anyway to fix my phone, I read a tutorial which told me to put my phone in DFU mode, restore to IOS 9.3, and then update to 10 normally. This actually did work. It was a lengthy endeavor but at the end of it, all was well.About 6 months after that, I got the IPhone 7. The switch was for the most part painless. Then IOS 11 was announced. I fought with myself, should I go through that hassle a gain? Finally I decided that even though we were promised public betas at the end of the month, I would still at least try the dev beta released just a few weeks ago, with all intentions to stop using it as soon as either the public betas came out, or I decided I wanted to go back to 10 and wait until official release. The hassle would be worth it as I would make an IOS 10 backup beforehand, so I could just restore with that when I wanted to go back.So I went through the hassle of finding a IOS 11 dev beta 2 profile and installing it. I played with it for a while, mostly to test some new Siri things I'd heard about. While everything worked well, it just wasn't exciting anymore. I couldn't really come up with a real reason to keep this on my phone any longer, I mean sooner or later I'll have to go back to normal configs anyway so might as well do it now. So tried to restore to get back to 10. First from the backup. Didn't quite go as planned as my sett ings and apps just murged with my IOS 11 installation, and now I was unable to get the developer profile off. Time to restore to factory defaults again...Tried to restore from ITunes, didn't work. And because I'd unknowingly left ITunes out of date, it tried to install IOS 10.2.1, and it haulted that in the middle of the installation with errors. I did research and read that the errors I was getting were indicative of using an old version, so I finally updated. This time the restore completed successfully, but the phone did not boot and was stuck in recovery mode.Fine, I'll grab the ipsw and restore from there. So I look and... on the aforementioned site, there are two versions of IOS 10.3.2 for my IPhone 7, global and GSM, which I think correspond to two models or revisions of the phone. I'd not noticed this last year when messing with this stuff for some reason. I grabbed both, not knowing which I'd need, and... the two are of exact same size , and according to the site anyway, their
think a thousand times before doing updates
think a thousand times before doing updates Hi all,I wanted to tell you guys a story about something I've been fighting with for the past 5 hours. Well, the whole thing has been going on for much longer so maybe I should start from the beginning.It all started back when IOS 10 was coming out. I decided to find and install a developer profile on my IPhone 6. This developer profile would essentially make the phone believe it is signed to a developer account which would allow me to test developer versions of IOS 10, which are rolled out before public betas. Why did I want to do this? Because I was excited for some of the upcoming changes and wanted to see how they'd work in my own hands. I was impatient and impulsive. Besides, everyone else I knew was doing it and convinced me it wouldn't hurt, and it was super easy to go back. On many fronts they were right. It's not really hard to do, the hardest part really is finding a developer profile and Google is your friend for finding such things. Wit hin an hour the developer version of IOS was installed and I used developer betas until IOS 10 was released. Then I tried to erase my developer profile and bad things happened...The developer profile had taken over as the default, meaning that I couldn't switch back to a standard profile as I was told to do. Unfortunately I was stuck on a prerelease version, so my only real option was to restore to factory settings. Problem though, is that you can't just slap backups created with a dev beta on a release version... from what I'm told it'll break things. If I'd had an IOS 9 backup handy, that wouldn't have been a problem, but I'd not had the forsight to do that because I assumed that upgrading from dev beta to full release would be easy. It probably should've been, but not for me. Okay so at the end of this I'll probably lose all my data. This didn't bother me much because most of the data I needed was backed up on the PC (mostl y recordings and big whatsapp archives which I didn't want taking up space on my phone).I tried resotring the phone with ITunes but it didn't work, I can't remember why though. So I did some research which led me to this site. It has links to installation files for IOS devices. Such files are incredibly useful if you want to restore your phone offline, say, on a computer without Internet access. These files are also useful if you jailbreak, or in my case, mess about with trying newer prereleases of IOS and want to go back to the old.Anyway to fix my phone, I had to put it in DFU mode, restore to IOS 9.3, and then update to 10 normally. The tutorial I read which instructed me on all of this actually did work. It was a lengthy endeavor but at the end of it, all was well.About 6 months after that, I got the IPhone 7. The switch was for the most part painless. Then IOS 11 was announced. I fought with myself, should I go th rough that hassle again? Finally I decided that even though we were promised public betas at the end of the month, I would still at least try the dev beta released just a few weeks ago, with all intentions to stop using it as soon as either the public betas came out, or I decided I wanted to go back to 10 and wait until official release. The hassle would be worth it as I would make an IOS 10 backup beforehand, so I could just restore with that when I wanted to go back.So I went through the hassle of finding a IOS 11 dev beta 2 profile and installing it. I played with it for a while, mostly to test some new Siri things I'd heard about. While everything worked well, it just wasn't exciting anymore. I couldn't really come up with a real reason to keep this on my phone any longer, I mean sooner or later I'll have to go back to normal configs anyway so might as well do it now. So tried to restore to get back to 10. First from the backup. Didn't quite go as planned as my settings and apps just murged with my IOS 11 installation, and even worse, now I was unable to get the developer profile off. Now I was back in the same boat I was in last year. Time to restore to factory defaults again...Tried to restore from ITunes, didn't work. And because I'd unknowingly left it out of date, it tried to install IOS 10.2.1, and it haulted that in the middle of the installation with errors. I updated it after reading that the errors I was getting were caused by using old versions of ITunes. This time the restore completed successfully, but the phone did not boot and was stuck in recovery mode.Fine, I'll grab the ipsw and restore from there. So I look and... on ipsw.me, there are two versions of IOS 10 for my IPhone 7, global and GSM, which corresponds to two models or revisions of the phone. I'd not noticed this last year for some reason. I grabbed both, not knowing which I'd need, and... the two are of exact s ame size, and according to the site an
think a thousand times before doing updates
think a thousand times before doing updates Hi all,I wanted to tell you guys a story about something I've been fighting with for the past 5 hours. Well, the whole thing has been going on for much longer so maybe I should start from the beginning.It all started back when IOS 10 was coming out. I decided to find and install a developer profile on my IPhone 6. This developer profile would essentially make the phone believe it is signed to a developer account which would allow me to test developer versions of IOS 10, which are rolled out before public betas. Why did I want to do this? Because I was excited for some of the upcoming changes and wanted to see how they'd work in my own hands. I was impatient and impulsive. Besides, everyone else I knew was doing it and convinced me it wouldn't hurt, and it was super easy to go back. On many fronts they were right. It's not really hard to do, the hardest part really is finding a developer profile and Google is your friend for finding such things. Wit hin an hour the developer version of IOS was installed and I used developer betas until IOS 10 was released. Then I tried to erase my developer profile and bad things happened...The developer profile had taken over as the default, meaning that I couldn't switch back to a standard profile as I was told to do. Unfortunately I was stuck on a prerelease version, so my only realy option was to restore to factory setings. Problem though, is that you can't just slap backups created with a dev beta on a release version... from what I'm told it'll break things. If I'd had an IOS 9 backup handythat wouldn't have been a problem, but I'd not had the forsight to do that because I assumed that upgrading from dev beta to full release would be easy. Okay so I'll probalby lose all my data. This didn't bother me much because most of the data I needed was backed up on the PC (mostly recordings and big whatsapp archives which I didn't want taking up space on my phone).I tried resotring the phone with ITunes but it didn't work, I can't remember why though. So I did some research which led me to this site. It has links to installation files for IOS devices. Such files are incredibly useful if you want to restore your phone offline, say, on a computer without Internet access. These files are also useful if you jailbreak, or in my case, mess about with trying newer prereleases of IOS and want to go back to the old.Anyway to fix my phone, I had to put it in DFU mode, restore to IOS 9.3, and then update to 10 normally. The tutorial I read which instructed me on all of this actually did work. It was a lengthy endeavor but at the end of it, all was well.About 6 months after that, I got the IPhone 7. The switch was for the most part painless. Then IOS 11 was announced. I fought with myself, should I go through that hassle again? Finally I decided that even though we were pr omised public betas at the end of the month, I would still at least try the dev beta released just a few weeks ago, with all intentions to stop using it as soon as either the public betas came out, or I decided I wanted to go back to 10 and wait until official release. The hassle would be worth it as I would make an IOS 10 backup beforehand, so I could just restore with that when I wanted to go back.So I went through the hassle of finding a IOS 11 dev beta 2 profile and installing it. I played with it for a while, mostly to test some new Siri things I'd heard about. While everything worked well, it just wasn't exciting anymore. I couldn't really come up with a real reason to keep this on my phone any longer, I mean sooner or later I'll have to go back to normal configs anyway so might as well do it now. So tried to restore to get back to 10. First from the backup. Didn't quite go as planned as my settings and apps just murged with my IOS 11 installati on, and even worse, now I was unable to get the developer profile off. Now I was back in the same boat I was in last year. Time to restore to factory defaults again...Tried to restore from ITunes, didn't work. And because I'd unknowingly left it out of date, it tried to install IOS 10.2.1, and it haulted that in the middle of the installation with errors. I updated it after reading that the errors I was getting were caused by using old versions of ITunes. This time the restore completed successfully, but the phone did not boot and was stuck in recovery mode.Fine, I'll grab the ipsw and restore from there. So I look and... on ipsw.me, there are two versions of IOS 10 for my IPhone 7, global and GSM, which corresponds to two models or revisions of the phone. I'd not noticed this last year for some reason. I grabbed both, not knowing which I'd need, and... the two are of exact same size, and according to the site anyway, their md5s are the same, l eading me to believe that there is no diff
