Month: November 2013

Hints & Tips

How to put the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch into Recovery Mode

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You may need to restore your iOS device using the recovery-mode feature if iTunes can’t recognize your device.

IMPORTANT: You will lose all data on your iPhone, iPad or iPod when you restore it. Unless you have a back-up of your device in iTunes or the iCloud you should consider other options. This guide should only be used as a final resort.

To perform a recovery-mode restore:

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  1. Turn off your device using the ‘Sleep/Wake’ button as normal. If you cannot turn your device off because it is ‘frozen’ or ‘stuck’, press and hold the ‘Sleep/Wake’ button and ‘Home button’ at the same time. When the device is off, release all buttons.
  2. Press and hold the ‘Home’ button and then connect your device via USB to your PC or Mac, keep holding the ‘Home’ button.
  3. When the ‘Connect to iTunes’ screen appears on your device, release the ‘Home button.’
  4. After 2 minutes iTunes will automatically launch. If iTunes doesn’t automatically open after this time please manually open it.
  5. A message will appear informing you that your iPhone, iPad or iPod is in Recovery Mode. Please click the ‘OK’ button.
  6. You will now have the option to restore your iOS device (you will lose all data on your iPhone, iPad or iPod), click the ‘Restore’ button to begin the restore process.
  7. After the device has been restored, please follow the set up instructions on the device or restore from backup (if you have one).
UK News

Only MegaFon (and Cellhire) have mobile data in Sochi

Big Yellow Workshop

Cellhire’s partnership with MegaFon means that only domestic MegaFon customers and international customers of Cellhire will have access to mobile data and 4G in Sochi.

Subscribers to other mobile operators connecting to the MegaFon network will only be able to use voice services and SMS-messages while data services, including 4G, will be available only to MegaFon customers.

Mobile Data services in Sochi will not be available to subscribers of other mobile operators who manually choose the MegaFon network on their mobile devices during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, said Tigran Poghosyan, the head of the Sochi 2014 project.

According to Mr. Poghosyan, voice services and SMS-messages will be available to the subscribers of other mobile operators who will connect to the MegaFon network, while data transmission services, including 4G, will be available only to MegaFon subscribers.

Digit.ru previously reported that MegaFon and Rostelecom signed a sponsorship contract with the Olympic Games in Sochi back in 2009, for a cost of 130 million dollars each. The operators have also invested another $100 million in the infrastructure of the region.

As of December 2012, MegaFon has opened up its infrastructure in Sochi to other operators that require coverage at the Winter Games. In order to connect to the MegaFon network, users will need to manually select the MegaFon network on their mobile device, or purchase MegaFon SIM-card.

The head of the Sochi 2014 project pointed out that other network operators present in Sochi signed an inter-operator agreement, which insures that while using the MegaFon network, subscribers of another operator will be charged prices consistent with their tariff plan.

Currently the Sochi Branch of MegaFon comprises 685 standard 2G/3G base stations, about 270 4G base stations and 15 movable mobile stations. The number of MegaFon subscribers in the region amounts to more than 300,000 people.

For more information on Cellhire’s Sochi offers, click here.

US News

Only MegaFon (and Cellhire) have mobile data in Sochi

Big Yellow Workshop

Sochi 2014Cellhire’s partnership with MegaFon means that only domestic MegaFon customers and international customers of Cellhire will have access to mobile data and 4G in Sochi.

Subscribers to other mobile operators connecting to the MegaFon network will only be able to use voice services and SMS-messages while data services, including 4G, will be available only to MegaFon customers.

Mobile Data services in Sochi will not be available to subscribers of other mobile operators who manually choose the MegaFon network on their mobile devices during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, said Tigran Poghosyan, the head of the Sochi 2014 project.

According to Mr. Poghosyan, voice services and SMS-messages will be available to the subscribers of other mobile operators who will connect to the MegaFon network, while data transmission services, including 4G, will be available only to MegaFon subscribers.

Digit.ru previously reported that MegaFon and Rostelecom signed a sponsorship contract with the Olympic Games in Sochi back in 2009, for a cost of 130 million dollars each. The operators have also invested another $100 million in the infrastructure of the region.

As of December 2012, MegaFon has opened up its infrastructure in Sochi to other operators that require coverage at the Winter Games. In order to connect to the MegaFon network, users will need to manually select the MegaFon network on their mobile device, or purchase MegaFon SIM-card.

The head of the Sochi 2014 project pointed out that other network operators present in Sochi signed an inter-operator agreement, which insures that while using the MegaFon network, subscribers of another operator will be charged prices consistent with their tariff plan.

Currently the Sochi Branch of MegaFon comprises 685 standard 2G/3G base stations, about 270 4G base stations and 15 movable mobile stations. The number of MegaFon subscribers in the region amounts to more than 300,000 people.