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Blocking OTA download through router.

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A workaround is to "Erase All Content and Settings" as this will put your iPhone in stock mode (without the dreaded download from iOS7).

Of course the download will rapidly rear its ugly head and attempt to once again infect your virgin (or, AT&T, or Verizon...) iPhone.
 
From what I've seen the OTA background update is only downloading when your connected to Wifi & a power source.

I kept my IP5 close to my router this morning for 2 hours, any Internet traffic that was passing through my router was from my testings and my bandwidth meter didn't show any large downloads.

iOS 7 is not a update, it's a virus lol
 
I am in iOS 6.1.2 on 4s with 16 G and happy with it. I keep my available memory around 1.5 G which is less than the 3.1 G required to update to iOS 7. So no auto update to iOS 7.

Simple
 
rosewood68 said:
I am in iOS 6.1.2 on 4s with 16 G and happy with it. I keep my available memory around 1.5 G which is less than the 3.1 G required to update to iOS 7. So no auto update to iOS 7.

Simple
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It'll still download the update, it just won't unpack it.
 
GF's IP4S use to have the iOS7 Automatic OTA Update downloaded in the background.

Today she got the notifications in the morning, after work I took a look at it and when I go into the software update shows the update of 7.0.2, nothing is downloaded. I head over to see the "others" area in itunes, nothing is there.

I can only assume she got the XML file from last week when I didn't block the update, now that's everything is block and it's just giving her the notification.

The site blocking is doing a great job.
 
Intell said:
It'll still download the update, it just won't unpack it.
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the orginal ipsw size ios 7 download is around 1.23 GB in size ...

got abt. 592 MB free on a 6.1.3 64GB 4S and this is what it says:
 

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sjh said:
the orginal ipsw size ios 7 download is around 1.23 GB in size ...

got abt. 592 MB free on a 6.1.3 64GB 4S and this is what it says:
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It doesn't download the whole 1.23GB IPSW, only iTunes does that. If you note the 728MB on your screenshot, that's the size of the OTA update that iOS downloads. It contains all of the needed data to get you from your current version to the latest. If you have 750MB free on your device, it'll still download that leaving you with 22MB free. It won't start the unpacking (or unzipping as the OTA updates are just zipped folders) until you have the needed free space on your device.
 
Intell said:
It doesn't download the whole 1.23GB IPSW, only iTunes does that. If you note the 728MB on your screenshot, that's the size of the OTA update that iOS downloads. It contains all of the needed data to get you from your current version to the latest. If you have 750MB free on your device, it'll still download that leaving you with 22MB free. It won't start the unpacking (or unzipping as the OTA updates are just zipped folders) until you have the needed free space on your device.
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But if you do have the space - like I (did) on my iPad 2...this thing stretches out to somewhere around 2.8GB...bloody hell.

As a new iPad owner within the last few months - I am just starting to get hip on Apple's tactics and am on a gentle boil now over this total arrogant move - so - is the correct procedure to:

1. Back up the entire iPad to iCloud
2. Block the crap out of the addresses mentioned in this thread at my router
3. Erase all content and Settings on my iPad? (Is this right one)
4. Reboot
5. Restore from iCloud
6. Hope for the best?

Appreciate any info on the above.

Cheers,

SOnicmojo
 
Sonicmojo said:
But if you do have the space - like I (did) on my iPad 2...this thing stretches out to somewhere around 2.8GB...bloody hell.

As a new iPad owner within the last few months - I am just starting to get hip on Apple's tactics and am on a gentle boil now over this total arrogant move - so - is the correct procedure to:

1. Back up the entire iPad to iCloud
2. Block the crap out of the addresses mentioned in this thread at my router
3. Erase all content and Settings on my iPad? (Is this right one)
4. Reboot
5. Restore from iCloud
6. Hope for the best?

Appreciate any info on the above.

Cheers,

SOnicmojo
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Bingo

Personal suggestion here, I wouldn't back up to iCloud if you don't have any important data on the iPad and start all brand new. Once everything is all new again, back up the iPad to iCloud. Starting fresh does wonders, you don't have to deal with corrupted files that may cause performance issues later down the road.
 
E2EK1EL said:
Bingo

Personal suggestion here, I wouldn't back up to iCloud if you don't have any important data on the iPad and start all brand new. Once everything is all new again, back up the iPad to iCloud. Starting fresh does wonders, you don't have to deal with corrupted files that may cause performance issues later down the road.
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Well - I have been using this iPad since July and don't really want to redo email, apps etc...Are you suggesting a complete reset?

Sonicmojo
 
oplix said:
I've managed to avoid the download for over a week now. Seems to be working as intended.
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Yes it works for me, too. However, today I had trouble with my older non-iOS iPod. I tried to restore it, but it didn't work. The reason is that I blocked the whole home network. So I would recommend to block just iDevices, by their MAC addresses.

And there's another thing. Lately Siri has an unusual low quality robotic voice on my iPad 4. I wonder if it's the blocking.
 
Sonicmojo said:
Well - I have been using this iPad since July and don't really want to redo email, apps etc...Are you suggesting a complete reset?

Sonicmojo
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A complete erase, starting as a fresh user and not syncing a back up.

It doesn't really take too long to set up everything again.:)
 
curiosity said:
Yes it works for me, too. However, today I had trouble with my older non-iOS iPod. I tried to restore it, but it didn't work. The reason is that I blocked the whole home network. So I would recommend to block just iDevices, by their MAC addresses.

And there's another thing. Lately Siri has an unusual low quality robotic voice on my iPad 4. I wonder if it's the blocking.
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Those are both problems that will happen if you block the applednl subdomain. iTunes can't get the iPod firmware file and Siri defaults to the builtin voice instead of the downloaded voice files.
 
I blocked mesu.apple.com on all ports and it made my brother lag out and sign out of PSN. :(
 
viperGTS said:
I blocked mesu.apple.com on all ports and it made my brother lag out and sign out of PSN. :(
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Probably because you choose all ports and you router isn't powerful enough to filter everything within a reasonable about of time.
 
Depending on how your router is setup, that won't work as your iPhone's IP address may change.
 
Here is another possible solution to just getting your space back on the iDevice...if that iOS7 file was downloaded without your knowledge...

DISCLAiMER - this was posted in a thread I am following over in the Apple Community Forums...I have not tried it nor do I know if it works. The guy who posted it - did say it worked for him...thus proceed at your own risk....


1. Open Settings->General->Software Update, Click "Install Now".
2. There will be a prompt says "Verifying update..."
3. Wait until this prompt disappears
4. Then there will be a spinning wheel on the black background.
5. Immediately press and hold both the Power and Home buttons at the same time.
6. DO NOT release the power and home buttons for about 10 seconds.
7. Your device will reboot.
8. The automatically downloaded firmware should have been deleted.

I may give this a go later today....vs completely wiping my iPad back to stock...

Sonicmojo
 
Sonicmojo said:
Here is another possible solution to just getting your space back on the iDevice...if that iOS7 file was downloaded without your knowledge...

DISCLAiMER - this was posted in a thread I am following over in the Apple Community Forums...I have not tried it nor do I know if it works. The guy who posted it - did say it worked for him...thus proceed at your own risk....


1. Open Settings->General->Software Update, Click "Install Now".
2. There will be a prompt says "Verifying update..."
3. Wait until this prompt disappears
4. Then there will be a spinning wheel on the black background.
5. Immediately press and hold both the Power and Home buttons at the same time.
6. DO NOT release the power and home buttons for about 10 seconds.
7. Your device will reboot.
8. The automatically downloaded firmware should have been deleted.

I may give this a go later today....vs completely wiping my iPad back to stock...

Sonicmojo
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That's a lovely way to corrupt the current iOS installation and force an iTunes restore to the current firmware.
 
Intell said:
That's a lovely way to corrupt the current iOS installation and force an iTunes restore to the current firmware.
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So...good or bad thing? Are you saying this would in fact put iOS7 on? Also - what does this have to do with "forcing" an iTunes restore?

SOnic
 
Sonicmojo said:
So...good or bad thing? Are you saying this would in fact put iOS7 on? Also - what does this have to do with "forcing" an iTunes restore?

SOnic
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That's a bad thing. Forcing as in, your device won't boot anymore and you'll have to restore it through iTunes to the currently signed iOS version. In this case, iOS 7.
 
Intell said:
That's a bad thing. Forcing as in, your device won't boot anymore and you'll have to restore it through iTunes to the currently signed iOS version. In this case, iOS 7.
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Gotcha. Won't be doing this then.

Thx

Sonic.
 
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