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Sunday Tips: iOS 7 on your iPhone 2G & 3G
Mar 11, 2025
Most people these days has a spare, old iPhone gathering dust somewhere in a drawer, but it's time to breathe new life into your retro Apple device by updating it to iOS 7 ... almost. Cult of Mac's Ste Smith shows you how to install Whited00r onto your Apple device to bring it back to the future.
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hi I'm Steve Smith I'm wel for another
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Cult of Mac Sunday tips now most of you
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already have an old iPhone or iPod Touch
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sitting in a drawer collecting dust
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whether it's an original 2g or 3GS they
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can still hold their own as a spare or
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backup phone or MP3 player I found I can
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bring new life to these devices by
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updating them to an iOS 7 look well
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almost let's get started
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so first thing you need to do is head
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over to White door.com and yes they are
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zeros instead of
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O's then you'll be greeted with this
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apple inspired website click on
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installation and you'll see the four
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devices you can install the software on
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the iPhone 2G 3G first generation iPod
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touch and also the second
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we're going to choose the iPhone
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2g then you'll be prompted to download
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the firmware so that's what we're going
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to
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do now once downloaded this will take a
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moment so make sure to plug your iPhone
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in using the old fashioned 30 pin
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connector once the file is downloaded
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open up the file then you need to run
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Red
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Snow once open we'll have two options
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one to jailbreak and the other for
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extras we're going to click extras and
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pwn
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dfu it'll then prompt you to turn off
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your
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device and then you need to run through
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the steps so hold down the power button
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for 3 seconds then without releasing the
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power button hold the home button for
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another 10
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seconds then keep hold of the home
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button for 15 seconds and release the
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power
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button it will then reboot and let you
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know it's ready to go so open up iTunes
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and ALT click on restore
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iPhone then it'll open up your file
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directory and all you need to do is find
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the file for white
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door and there it is white door 71 once
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that starts going it'll extract the
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software and start installing to your
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phone so overall this is great for if
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you've got an old iPhone that you want
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as a backup or even if you've got an
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iPod with a lot more memory that you can
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use as your main MP3 player so as you
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can see it's almost identical to iOS 7
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including the ability of Command Center
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you're also now able to record video
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which you weren't able to do on the
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original iPhone 2g that came along with
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the 3Gs
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then you can still use it to watch your
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favorite YouTube videos MTI people have
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report convicted in
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Massachusetts well that's it for another
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week have you already installed the
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white door software onto your classic
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apple Gadget if so leave a comment below
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and let me know what you think do you
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prefer the classic iOS or the new fake
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iOS 7 in the meantime make sure to hit
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you next time
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