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iPhone Restoring a Jailbroken iPhone 5

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Mint

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Aug 15, 2010
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So I need to take my iPhone in to the apple store cause my power button doesnt work about 50% of the time when pressed.


Anyway, I need to restore it before taking it in (I doubt they'd help me if they saw i was jailbroken). If I try to restore from the 6.1 IPSW I jailbroke with using Evasi0n I get an error 3194.

To fix the error I changed my hosts file to point to CYDIA instead of apple, and now I have error 21 or error 1600 depending on if I'm in DFU mode or not


So I'm out of luck. Do I have to do something special to restore to this IPSW? Will restore & update work flawlessly (I could do that because I'm just gonna take it in and get it replaced anyway)
 
darricksailo

darricksailo

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Dec 18, 2012
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Mint said:
So I need to take my iPhone in to the apple store cause my power button doesnt work about 50% of the time when pressed.


Anyway, I need to restore it before taking it in (I doubt they'd help me if they saw i was jailbroken). If I try to restore from the 6.1 IPSW I jailbroke with using Evasi0n I get an error 3194.

To fix the error I changed my hosts file to point to CYDIA instead of apple, and now I have error 21 or error 1600 depending on if I'm in DFU mode or not


So I'm out of luck. Do I have to do something special to restore to this IPSW? Will restore & update work flawlessly (I could do that because I'm just gonna take it in and get it replaced anyway)
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You can ONLY restore to iOS 6.1.3. There is no other way to restore a different version onto an iPhone 4S or 5 at this time. So if your replacement is 6.1.3, you will lose your jailbreak. If its on 6.1.2, then you are in luck and can still jailbreak. If its on a version 6.0-6.1 and want a jailbreak, you'll have to stay with that version
 
M

Mint

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Aug 15, 2010
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darricksailo said:
You can ONLY restore to iOS 6.1.3. There is no other way to restore a different version onto an iPhone 4S or 5 at this time. So if your replacement is 6.1.3, you will lose your jailbreak. If its on 6.1.2, then you are in luck and can still jailbreak. If its on a version 6.0-6.1 and want a jailbreak, you'll have to stay with that version
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So just to clarify

i cannot restore to the same version my phone is currently on? I HAVE to restore to the newest version?

My phone currently has 6.1 on it
 
BrandonHacks

BrandonHacks

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Aug 21, 2012
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That's correct, but with your problem they'll probably replace it anyways if you have AppleCare or if you pay the whole amount they ask. In that case you'll get a new phone with hopefully 6.1.2
 
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Mint

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Aug 15, 2010
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BrandonHacks said:
That's correct, but with your problem they'll probably replace it anyways if you have AppleCare or if you pay the whole amount they ask. In that case you'll get a new phone with hopefully 6.1.2
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I'd think they'd replace it regardless because its under warranty still.

But thanks
 
darricksailo

darricksailo

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Dec 18, 2012
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Mint said:
So just to clarify

i cannot restore to the same version my phone is currently on? I HAVE to restore to the newest version?

My phone currently has 6.1 on it
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Yes, you HAVE to restore to the newest version
 
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