Today we announced that Orange Romania offers, for the first time, in our country, the possibility to perform OTA Updates from our smartphones without counting data traffic generated during the download of these versions of the operating systems. In the case of many smartphones, things are simple and updates are downloaded quickly even through a connection 3G or 4G, but in the case of iDevices things are quite different. After a detailed search for information on how the iOS software update system works and after discussions with people who know details about it, here is what you need to know.
Company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), allows the installation of OTA Updates through a 3G or 4G network only a week after their launch for users, but until then we only have the possibility to perform them only through a network WiFi. Moreover, if the OTA Update is over 60 MB, we can only do it through a WiFi connection, regardless of the time period that has passed since its launch and until installation, so in this case there is no alternative other than the option to use a WiFi network available at home or elsewhere.
Despite these limitations, there is also the possibility of tricking Apple's iOS, even very easily. If you have jailbreakthen tweakCEs and 3G Unrestrictor will help you trick the Settings application and do OTA Update even through a 3G/4G network at the time of launch. If you don't have jailbreak but you have another iDevice with an Orange card, then you can create a HotSpot and perform the update on another terminal connected to it. Even if these solutions are not very simple, in the absence of a WiFi connection they will help you do OTA Update without consuming data traffic.
