[Tutorial] How to Restore your iDevice without losing Jailbreak using Semi-Restore

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Semi-Restore For iOS 5 - 8

Hey there guys, I got another tutorial for y'all. Today i'll be showing you a tutorial on how to restore you're iDevice completely while preserving you're precious jailbreak. The Utility Semi-Restore is extremely easy to use and will delete all data! Semi-Restore can be of help in many situations; Wanting to preserve you're jailbreak without updating to the latest available firmware when restoring (iTunes can be a pain as when restoring updating is compulsory) , Fixing any issues that may be swarming your device, and being to lazy to go through the whole process of jailbreaking... again. Let's GO! I will highlighting anything important!

 

 

 

Requirements:
iDevice running iOS 5.0-7.1.2

A PC

USB Cable

OpenSSH installed 

Basic Skills

Semi-Restore! THANKS COOLSTAR!

 

1) OK, lets dive into it, before we begin please make sure your device is running iOS 5.0-7.1.1, anything either side of those please don't do this! First of all go to http://semi-restore.com/ and download Semi-Restore (Windows & Linux only, OS X still being produced!)

 

2) Once downloaded you will be met with a zip archive, open it and extract everything to a folder of you're choice. 

 

3) After extracting, find the file SemiRestore.exe and run it as administrator.

 

4) If any issues arise please download Visual c++ 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14632 and install it.

 

5) After launching connect you're iDevice running iOS 5.0-7.1.2 via USB cable into your PC

 

6) At this point, wait for Semi-Restore to acknowledge that you're device is connected (there should be text saying Device Connected: iPhone XX (X.X) 

 

7) Press the SemiRestore button. At this point the program will wipe you're device, while this is happening please do not touch you're device or there may be grave consequences!

 

8) After a couple of minutes the process would of completed and there will be a dialog box telling you so! How nice!

 

9) Done! You can now unplug you're device and enjoy a 'restored' jailbroken device!

 

Thanks for reading guys, be sure to give me rep and a thanks for this tutorial! There's more to come! I don't make Thanking compulsory by using hidden content, i feel that should be up to you- all i can do is ask  

Peace!