Easy Way to Restore Original iPhone Content
Have you been fucking around with your new iPhone and modding the hell out of it? Making your own graphics, hacking the apps, or seeing what happens when you edit a text file? Well, if you’re like me, you’re so eager to mess around that you forget to make a backup of something, and you overwrite it… with a bad file. SHIT! Now what? You could restore the iPhone from iTunes with the legit restore, or your custom IPSW file, but that takes forever, and you’ll loose a ton of your customizations. After having this happen to me twice, I decided to calm down and figure something out.
If you’ve downloaded the iPhone 2.0 SDK, it comes with a cool app called ‘iPhone Simulator’. In there are all the original files (even the encrypted PNG’s =)
The default install location is:
/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator2.0.sdk/
That’s the equivalent of root “/” on your iPhone. From there you can grab the originals and overwrite what you messed up on the phone =)
.: Adam
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