idevicerestore

idevicerestore is an utility that restores firmware and filesystem to an iPhoneor iPod Touch device.

Installing idevicerestore:

First We Need to Install the dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential automake cmake autoconf \
libreadline6 autotools-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev \
libplist1 libplist-utils libplist-dev libplist++-dev \
libzip-dev git-core git-arch git-cvs git-svn git-email \
git-daemon-run gitk gitweb git-doc rsync curl libgnutls-dev libtool
python-dev libreadline-dev libusb-dev

Now to get what we need from Git

git clone git://git.marcansoft.com/usbmuxd.git
cd usbmuxd
cmake ~/usbmuxd
make && sudo make install

cd ~

git clone http://github.com/chronicdev/libirecovery.git
cd libirecovery
make linux && sudo make install

cd ~

git clone http://git.sukimashita.com/libimobiledevice.git
cd libimobiledevice
./autogen.sh
make && sudo make install

sudo ldconfig

Now we can compile idevicerestore

cd ~

git clone http://github.com/posixninja/idevicerestore.git
cd idevicerestore
./autogen.sh
make && sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

We also need ideviceactivate to activate the device

git clone http://github.com/posixninja/ideviceactivate.git
cd ideviceactivate
make

idevicerestore usage - may need to be run as root

idevicerestore [-d] [-u] [-c] [-v] [-h]

  -d,         enable communication debugging
  -u,         target specific device by its 40-digit device UUID
  -h,         prints usage information
  -c,         restore with a custom firmware
  -v,         enable incremental levels of verboseness

ideviceactivate usage - may need to be run as root

./ideviceactivate [-x] [-d] [-h] [-u] [-f]

  -x        deactivate the target device
  -d        enable communication debugging
  -h        prints usage information
  -u UUID    target specific device by its 40-digit device UUID
  -f FILE    activates device with local activation record


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