Ios 7 to ios 6 help!

iPad Retina · Jul 11, 2014

Hello everyone I need help getting back to ios 6 ON MY IPAD 2, THE ERROR I GET IS "this device isn't eligible for the request build". People say you drag hosts file out of /private- etc- and select hosts. Then remove apple.com at the bottom BUT THE PROBLEM IS THAT I DONT HAVE ONE HOSTS LIKE

THIS:http://www.iphoneheat.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/itunes-error-3194-hosts-file.jpg

BTW USING MAVERICKS on mac

Intell · Jul 11, 2014

You cannot restore an iPad 2 to any other firmware but what Apple is signing.

pickaxe · Jul 12, 2014

There is no publicly released method to do this, sorry.

MattMJB0188 · Jul 18, 2014

Intell said:
You cannot restore an iPad 2 to any other firmware but what Apple is signing.

True. Its just unfortunate they quit signing older firmware. Some older devices run better with their original firmware.

I never understood this ridiculous method by apple.

aPple nErd · Aug 10, 2014

MattMJB0188 said:
True. Its just unfortunate they quit signing older firmware. Some older devices run better with their original firmware.

I never understood this ridiculous method by apple.

simple. they want users to buy new products... if they allowed us to run any iOS version we wanted to, there wouldn't have been many 5s's or iPad airs sold.

C DM · Aug 10, 2014

aPple nErd said:
simple. they want users to buy new products... if they allowed us to run any iOS version we wanted to, there wouldn't have been many 5s's or iPad airs sold.

I would say it's rather quite questionale if that would have really been the case because of that.

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