Post: How to Downgrade Your Devices Firmware Properly {Written Tutorial}
10-26-2011, 08:25 PM #1
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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Ok well this is a written tutorial with some pictures to help you walk through this. Im not to be held resposible if you eff up your idevice or anything else. Enjoy . You will need to have jailbroken before and clicked "Make My Life Easier" on cydia when you first jailbroke to be able to have a SHSH file saved.

Downloads:


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Tinyumbrella: [url]https://www.mediafire...7kkssgn545vmi67[/url]

Firmware: [url]https://www.ipodhacks...ware/4549628112[/url]

Yes i know this isnt the tinyumbrella website but I upload an older version because the newer one doesnt work. Download this one or go find out for yourself that the otherone doesnt work

Virus Scan On tinyumbrella:

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1. Check your current firmware
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2. Connect your device and open up tinyumbrella
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3. Click on your connected device and click save SHSH. There should be a list of firmware. Those are the ones you can downgrade to. So pick one and download it from the link above.
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4. Click on the SHSH File you want and click "Start TSS Server"
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5. Open up IREb and click on your device. Follow the instructions on how to put your device into DFU mode and let it put your device into a "Pwned DFU State" so that you can downgrade properly. Then exit Ireb and contiue on
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6. Go to Run on your start menu and copy this into it: C:\Windows\System32\drivers/etc . Press ok
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7. Click on the Hosts file and click open with Notepad. go to where it shows something with "gs.apple.com" Delete it and replace it with "#74.208.105.171 gs.apple.com" and exit and click save.
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8. Open up itunes and it should pop showing this[Make sure tinyumbrella is still open and running the TSS server]
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9. Now click OK and then press shift+ Restore and find your firmware that you want to downgrade to and click ok

10. You will probably get a 1015 error right before its about to finish. Dont worry this is supposed to happen. Just exit out of itunes and open up IReb again. Click on the second tab. Click the fix 1015 error or recovery loop. Let it reboot.
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11. Now it should boot up normal and you should be on the firmware you wanted! Do whatever you want like do a easier or untethered jailbreak or just like that firmware better. If anything went wrong feel free to message me on here or reply to the topic. Thanks guys for looking and I take 100% credit for making this long ass tutorial
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