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Originally Posted by afv011
Google's instructions for factory images are here. |
Right, but that's the Google
Developers site, implying the files offered there are meant for use by
developers. I'm no developer. And look at the arcane language used on that page: "Your device needs to be in fastboot mode, with the bootloader unlocked." Not quite the stuff for Grandma, eh?
And things can go wrong, or at the very least inconvenient: "Note that this operation deletes all user data by default." I'm too busy for all that.
As to alleged problems with downloading iOS 7, I can't confirm them for any of my iDevices. Nor for previous iOS generations. If anything, people are complaining (and rightly so) that iOS 7 gets downloaded to their devices
too fast, even if they do not wish to receive it. The download pretty much proceeds in background, anyway, so whether it takes 15 minutes or 15 hours would not matter to
me, as long as the download was at least
active. So, nope, I'm not buying that excuse -- iOS 7 distribution by and large works smoothly and super-fast, whereas it seems to be an excruciating process with Android 4.4.