Apple is a very popular, but at the same time quite expensive brand of smartphones, which leads to constant attempts by users to save somewhere, find cheaper, and so on. It comes to the fact that people buy Chinese copies of the iPhone. They look very similar, sometimes even impossible to distinguish, but the whole difference lies not in the case, but in the details and the operating system. Obviously, Chinese copies work much worse than the original iPhone. Problems in the system and all sorts of faults occur much more often. Improve the situation helps to reinstall the operating system. In this article we will figure out how to flash or reflash a Chinese copy of the iPhone. Let's get started. Go!
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The first step is to download the firmware for a specific version of the copy of the iPhone. 5, 5S, 6, 6S - for each model its own firmware version. Pay attention to this. It should also be noted that copies are not released on iOS, but on Android with a shell that is close in design to the interface of iOS.
After you have downloaded the firmware, you need to download a special utility for flashing smartphones called the Flash Tool. Then unpack the archives with the firmware files and the installer in a convenient folder for you on the disk.
Now go to the folder with the Flash Tool and run the utility as administrator. After the program opens, click on the “Scatter loading” button and specify the path to the sketch file, which is located in the folder with the firmware. In essence, this is a text file with the extension ".txt". After selecting it, click the "Open" button. Next, you need to click "Download" and connect the phone to the computer and laptop using a cable, holding the "Home" button on the device itself. In the Flash Tool window, you will see the red line at the bottom, which means that the Home button can be released. Immediately after this, a violet line will appear, followed by a yellow one. Yellow indicates that the firmware is loading. When the installation is completed, a window will appear on the screen informing you that the firmware has been successfully installed.
Installing Android on a copy of the iPhone takes place using FlashTool
Then pull the cable out of the phone, close the Flash Tool and turn on your copy of the iPhone. The first turning on of the device after flashing may take quite a long time, so do not get scared right away. After the phone is loaded, you need to install the Russian language, because after the first inclusion all signatures in the smartphone in Chinese. Open the settings menu and go to the section similar to the section "Basic" on the original iPhone. To find the item "Language", look at the pictures on the Internet, where approximately this item is located. Finally, once in the right place, select Russian from the list. To confirm the selection, click the button located in the upper right corner of the screen. After that, you may need to install a third-party keyboard, since the built-in keyboard may not work. You can use GO Keyboard or any other. You can download it from the app store or download and copy it to a memory card. Everything. Now the device can be used comfortably.
Now, to get rid of the Android lock screen and make it the same as on iOS, you need to open the Phone app and go to dialing. Next, enter a very simple code * # 8000 #. After that, the phone will start to reboot. Wait a while. If after switching on nothing has changed, repeat the same thing again. During the download, you will see a screen with the Apple logo, not the Chinese manufacturer, and the lock screen (lockscreen) will look as close as possible to the original iOS lockscreen. Is done. Now the Chinese copy has become as close as possible to the original iPhone.
On the copy of the iPhone, the Android OS is installed
In this way, you can self-flash Chinese copies of iPhones 5 / 5s, 6 / 6s on Android. Write in the comments if this article was useful for you, and tell other users how you coped with flashing your phone.