I have a third party cable that is a couple months old that has always worked fine. I tried to update my phone to the newest iOS 7 release and it restored the phone but will not update it.
It gives me some BS error that it cannot complete the update. I've updated this iPhone with this cable dozens of times.
Is Apple trying to force people into using their $35 cables?
Every lightning cable has a built-in serial that can be checked by the OS. Knock-offs don't.
The technology is proprietary. No doubt there's some aspect of your work you want to perform and be paid for, rather than having other people steal it and be paid for it.
I understand Apple started to authenticate the chips in September. Since then, you should be getting an error explicitly about the cable, not the process you were trying to run. Was the error message about the cable or the update?
But, can you not do the update wirelessly and just bypass the TB cable, and actually, I thought one was supposed to use the USB cable, so am I missing something?
I haven't had any issues with my third party cables or micro usb to lightning adapters. I recently restored my phone to fix an issue with a third party adapter with no issues. Did you try using an original cable and it worked?
It has always amazed me that people will spend top dollar for a premium piece of kit like an iPhone and then cheap out with bargain basement third party crap supporting equipment like cables and such.
It still surprises me when such folk act all shocked when they have issues!!!
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