The main causes of iOS data loss

What are the most common causes of data loss? More than often we are not quite aware the real risks and how to avoid them. Most common reasons for data loss are connected to our everyday lives. Read this post to know more about data loss and keep your data safe. Therefore, we spend hours preparing this post of most common Causes of Data Loss so that you can take measures to avoid losing data caused by these reasons.



We summed up some main causes of iPhone data loss:

1. First, you could suffer hardware or system software malfunction. This is the most common source of data loss and it can be caused by anything from dropping your phone one time too many to interrupting your phone during charging or taking out the battery during an important firmware update.

2. Another cause of data loss is just simple human error. Believe or not, human error is also one of the most common causes of data loss. Sometime we accidentally hit the delete button when we really meant to push save. Normally, there are two kinds of human errors causing data loss, one is clicking Delete or Format button to erase something we don't mean to, and another one is causing physical damages because of dropping or failing our storage device by accident. Keeping your phone in a high traffic area might also not be a good idea.

3. Thirdly, your iPhone may suffer software corruption and an app might shut down while you're using it. You can save this data often, but what if you didn't have a back-up? Sometimes even security apps or virus detecting software can cause software corruption of your iOS.

4. Another cause of data loss could be the virus causes software corruption or even worse deletion of everything. More and more hackers are trying to gain remote access to iPhones of other people and more and more viruses and malware are being designed for iOS. Even the best anti-virus app may not stop the next one. Making regular backups of your data and having them available after severe virus damages may have really high value.

5. It is a real tragedy to lose both device and data at the same time. While traveling, you may leave your device unattended, lose it in an airport, coffee shops or any other crowded place. Yes, a new iPhone maybe replace it, but what about the important data saved in the iPhone/iPad/iPod? Personal memories, family pictures or other business informations are certainly important and very valuable to you.

6. Damages caused by liquid on to the device have become more often as well. Average idevices does not have extra covers to protect internal parts from getting soaked. Or dropping idevices into water. iPhone is weak in waterproof. If your idevice is completely immersed into water, it is really hard to fix anything afterwards. Maybe visiting a repairman really quickly can save some parts of your otherwise useless idevice. Water accidents usually cause the loss of data. Thinking safe and making data backups gives you a complete guarantee that you will not lose data if you sip coffee while working or go to the beach with your idevice.

7. Replacing the battery has the same effect as resetting your iOS device, which will erase your files on it, since all flash memory (except RAM) in iOS device is retained without power.

8. Finally, contrary to the causes of data loss listed above, natural disasters are the most uncontrollable cause. Flooding, fires, storms, snowstorms and even earthquakes can put our mobile devices at risk and cause irreparable data loss. And sometimes we even suffer a total breakdown of our device and we need to restore all of our old data onto a new phone. Anything can happen. Fortunately, according to the survey, only 3 percent of users lost data because of natural disasters.

Additional Causes:

Apart from the reasons for iOS data loss list above, you need to note that there are other possible causes including failed iOS jailbreak, stuck in recovery mode, system crash, factory restore, upgrade/downgrade, locked by forgotten password, etc. which will erase all of your personal information/data from iOS device or make your iOS data inaccessible. Sometimes, your iOS device screen will be blank with Apple logo in white.

Precaution: Be careful when installing some unsecure Apps on your iOS device, do your upgrade/downgrade/jailbrake in right way, or write down the password and save it in safe place to avoid password forgotten, otherwise it’s risky that your data stored on that iDevice will be lost. More efficient procedure for saving our work is making backups to iTunes or iCloud regularly.

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Evasi0n 7 1.0.7: How To Jailbreak iOS 7.0.6 On iPhone 5S, iPad Air And Other Devices Before iOS 7.1 Release

With the imminent release of iOS 7.1, users that want to run their iOS 7 device jailbroken have been advised to update to the latest jailbreakable version of iOS 7 (7.0.6).

The Evad3rs team released Evasi0n 7 1.0.7 to address Cydia problems with the previous jailbreak version Evad3rs

If you're one of the many iOS 7 users that want to run your iPhone 5S, iPad Air, iPod Touch or other iOS device from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in a jailbroken state, that window may be closing fast.

According to John Gruber of Daring Fireball, the release of iOS 7.1 appears to be imminent, since Apple will be releasing an iTunes Festival app for South By Southwest, or SXSW for those that want to live stream iTunes festival performances next week. While a release of an app isn't necessarily an event in itself, rumors have been floating that the SXSW iTunes Festival app will require iOS 7.1 before it can be downloaded and opened.

For stock iOS 7.0 through 7.0.6 users, this news won't affect them as much. However, the release of iOS 7.1 is potentially problematic for users of jailbroken iOS 7.0.x devices, since iOS 7.1 patches the many vulnerabilities used by the Evasi0n jailbreak. In addition, Apple uses a verification system called APTicket, which prevents iOS users of devices from downgrading or using older iOS versions, such as those compatible with existing jailbreaks such as Evasi0n 7.

This verification method prevents any downgrades, as Apple will stop signing APTickets for iOS 7.0.6 once iOS 7.1 is released, effectively blocking users from updating to anything but the latest version of iOS for their device.

With that in mind, those that are looking to jailbreak their iOS 7.0.x device have been advised by several developers in the jailbreak community to upgrade their iPhones, iPads and iPod touches to iOS 7.0.6, the latest version of iOS 7 that the Evasi0n 7 jailbreak currently works with.

Note: International Business Times is not responsible for any damage caused by running jailbreak tools or any unauthorized software on your device. Proceed at your own risk.

For those that currently use an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch that has been updating using Apple's over-the-air, or OTA updates, the Evad3rs team behind Evasi0n 7 advise users to restore their devices before running the Evasi0n 7 jailbreak and turning off passcode lock.

Once completed, follow these instructions below to jailbreak your iOS device using Evasi0n 7.

How to jailbreak your iOS 7.0.x device using Evasi0n 7 on Mac OS X?

1. Download Evasi0n 7 1.0.7 from the official website.

2. Unzip the downloaded package, open the DMG file and drag the Evasi0n 7 app to your applications folder.

3. Open Evasi0n 7.

Note: if Mac OSX doesn't let you open the Evasi0n app, right-click the app and click open, or change your Mac OSX security settings.

4. Connect your iOS device to your computer via USB cable.

5. Press the jailbreak button.

Note: The jailbreak process is the same for all iOS 7.0.x devices.

The Evasi0n 7 1.0.7 jailbreak instructions are basic and easy to follow

6. Your device will reboot several times through the process. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Evasi0n 7 jailbreak for your iOS device.

Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Evasi0n 7 jailbreak.

According to the Evasi0n 7 website, it is safe to restart the jailbreak process if it gets stuck. However, it is advised to let the jailbreak run through its processes, which are not instantaneous from IBTimes' experience.

Evasi0n 7 requires some user interaction with your iOS device during the jailbreak process.

Once the jailbreak is done, you'll be able to download tweaks and mods with Cydia, an app developed by Jay Freeman (Saurik).

Once the Evasi0n 7 jailbreak is completed, you can browse the Cydia app for various tweaks and mods being developed for iOS 7.0.x

Once iOS 7.1 is released, jailbreak developers will have to work on creating new jailbreak tools for iOS 7.1. However, it's unknown how long it will take until a publicly releaseable jailbreak surfaces.

Via IBTimes