These are instructions on how to put your iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus into DFU mode. You may need to use DFU mode if you're having trouble restoring your iPhone using recovery mode. When placing your iPhone into DFU Mode it does not load the OS before attempting the restore.
Step One Connect the iPhone to a Mac or a Windows PC using a Lightning to USB cable.
Step Two Press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Volume Down buttons at the same time for exactly 10 seconds.
Release just the Sleep/Wake button and continue pressing the Volume Down button until your computer tells you that it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode: on a Mac, the Finder (macOS Catalina and later) or iTunes (earlier macOS); on Windows, the Apple Devices app or iTunes.
The iPhone’s screen will remain black. If you see a computer and a cable on the screen (or an iTunes logo on iOS 12 and earlier), you are in recovery mode, not DFU mode. Give it a try again and make sure you pay close attention to the timing.
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Then using iFaith, get your SHSH blobs, next you'll stitch them into a custom ipsw using sn0wbreeze. Finally get your device into a pwnd dfu mode and you're ready to restore and jailbreak! Yay, wasn't that easy?
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