Backup Your iPhones Before Jailbreak
8/07/2010 06:10:00 PM - 0 comments
The recent JailbreakMe phenomenon has caused a lot of stir among iPhone 4 owners because it offers a very easy way to jailbreak phones. Many described JailbreakMe as the simplest tool ever used. However, a growing number of iPhone owners who have used the tool observed a slow down on many of their phone’s features.iPhone users who experienced the slow down were advised to fix the problem by restoring their phone’s original setting from a back up. Apple has shown support to this method and has published a page dedicated to backing up iPhones and iPod Touch.
A backup ensures restoration of all or any of your settings “after a software restore or update, or to transfer information to a different device.” Backups let you retrieve your settings for sound, widget, network, including text messages, notes, and call history, among others.
Apple gave the following instructions in order to create a backup:
•If you have configured your iPhone or iPod touch to automatically sync with iTunes on a specific computer, iTunes will back up the iPhone or iPod touch after you connect it to that computer and sync with iTunes. iTunes will not automatically back up an iPhone or iPod touch that is not configured to sync with that computer. iTunes only makes one backup each time you connect, even if you sync multiple times before disconnecting.
•If you do not have your iPhone or iPod touch sync automatically when connected, iTunes will create a backup when you choose to sync.
•Right-click (or Control-click) the iPhone or iPod touch in iTunes under Devices and choose Back Up.
•If you choose to update the software, iTunes will back up the iPhone and iPod touch automatically.
•If you choose to restore the software to factory settings, iTunes will ask you if you want to back up the iPhone and iPod touch.
•After restoring your iPhone or iPod touch software to factory settings iTunes will provide a Set Up Your iPhone / iPod touch screen. If you choose to "Restore from the backup of" iTunes makes a copy of the backup you chose to restore from and that copy is marked in the syncing preferences of iTunes with the data and time when the backup was created.
The following are Apple’s suggestions when installing from a backup:
To restore information from a backup use one of the following methods after connecting your iPhone or iPod touch to the computer you normally sync with:
•In iTunes, select the device, then select the Summary tab and click Restore (this deletes all data on iPhone and restores to factory settings). When prompted by iTunes, select the option to restore your settings; OR
•Right-click (or Control-click) the device, and choose Restore from Backup.
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