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ben824

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jul 12, 2012
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Ok so I thought I remembered reading a while back where someone hacked a Beta backup to use to restore to the latest public version of iOS. Something like changing the identifier or something? Anyone remember this?
 

johnparjr

macrumors 6502a
May 10, 2005
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Earth
There's nothing to hack to go back to iOS 7 and use a backup;) unless your trying to keep the is data but why
 

chekz0414

macrumors 6502a
Jul 3, 2011
770
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FL
People haven't been able to do it?

I tried to hack the .plist and iTunes told me the backup was corrupt. After I had restored to iOS 7. However the other method worked as I did an opt. Click update to 7.1.2 from 8.0 beta 2. I was kind of surprised it had worked
 

saudor

macrumors 65816
Jul 18, 2011
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There is a way. Using ibackupbot and selectively pulling data off and changing a few plists. I've done it before.

By this I mean restoring an ios8 backup on an ios7 device
 
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