Who cares? They said it can't and people found a way. Now people can't find a way and they're blaming Apple LMAO
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
¿how downgrade Apple Watch to 1.0.1?
- Thread starter joanbcn91
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Who cares? They said it can't and people found a way. Now people can't find a way and they're blaming Apple LMAO
Yes, because it's always been possible. Not that hard to understand, really.
iPCU, which isn't even really supported anymore (Apple Configurator replaced it) doesn't recognize half of the stuff in the mobileconfig file. Additionally, there isn't a firmware link in the file, even in plain text. If I had to guess, I'm going to say he's just trying to get Twitter followers.
Last edited:
I can confirm that if you take a watch broken by watchOS 2 to an Apple Genius they will replace it for free.
You got lucky. Spoke to them this morning. They just re-gurgitated their notes from the pre-release docs about how a watch could not be downgraded and refused to help me.
So you tell them: "I'm pretty sure it's not the OS, it's the BATTERY that sucks." Or whatever
Yeah but my battery is doing fine, I can't think of a hardware related reason to tell them. Guy told me that they don't even have an option on their system to deal with software issues :-/
How are you confirming this when 9to5 Mac says Apple is charging a servicing fee for this?
http://9to5mac.com/2015/06/11/apple-watch-watchos-downgrade-issues/
That guy is definitely trolling. He gives vague instructions that no one has been able to replicate.
Having downgraded back to 8.3 I'm now without a watch, though I can wait a couple of weeks for beta 2 to come out and hopefully that'll be more stable.
I downloaded the watchos 2 profile to my phone again and manually paired my 8.3 device with the watch and it worked, for about 10 seconds before I got the "Phone out of date" message. I'm sure someone will figure out a way to revert to 1.0.1.
Hopefully..
I downloaded the watchos 2 profile to my phone again and manually paired my 8.3 device with the watch and it worked, for about 10 seconds before I got the "Phone out of date" message. I'm sure someone will figure out a way to revert to 1.0.1.
Hopefully..
I am confirming it first hand. My watch was broken when I was installing watchOS 2. I set up a genius appointment and the $229 service fee was waived. I received a new watch in 3 days.
I'm in the same boat so at least your not alone. The upside for me would be a iOS 9 with improved battery life. If that happened I would probably be fine unless a jailbreak comes for 8.4.
I might go in to the Apple store and give it a try tomorrow. Nothing to lose. Except mine isn't stuck in recovery mode so I don't really know what to say to them.
Hmm.. well maybe that is the point. If your watch is stuck in recover mode then they will have no choice but to fix it for free.
Working as in:
1. Watch turns on
2. Watch does not display a red "!"
3. Watch is paired and communicating with phone.
4. Main features of the watch are functional (at least most of the time).
When I called them they said there was nothing they could do and that I should look at the developers forums. Is there a particular line you called?
Yeah when I tried on Thursday I called Applecare and they said I had to talk to development. So I called them and they said I needed to talk to the software upgrade team, that number rings busy 24/7. I think its just a phone off the hook some place. Check your PM though.
What I find interesting is they could easily connect the Watch to iTunes through the phone. Look at Xcode. If I connect my phone, it'll show not only my phone, but the Watch paired to the phone. Obviously, DFU mode is there on the Watch. If they make it so when the Watch is in DFU mode it can establish a Bluetooth connection to the connected iPhone, then the user plugs the phone into iTunes, I don't see how a software restore cannot be done OTA.
I'm not one to go off spurting 'Apple is scamming us out of money', but for those people who have had their Apple Watch bricked, it certainly seems like this is the case. I know its a beta, but at least if stuff happened on pervious devices you could DFU it and restore it. Another way would be to allow people to send in the device to Apple or take it in the Genius Bar and have it done there. I'm sure that diagnostic port is how they are reloading the factory image. Why not give each store a way to access the port, and plug it in to a computer to restore it to an image stored on the central server for each store? Maybe charge for shipping if it has to go the facility, but that's it. They aren't replacing it, just flashing the firmware back.
I'm not one to go off spurting 'Apple is scamming us out of money', but for those people who have had their Apple Watch bricked, it certainly seems like this is the case. I know its a beta, but at least if stuff happened on pervious devices you could DFU it and restore it. Another way would be to allow people to send in the device to Apple or take it in the Genius Bar and have it done there. I'm sure that diagnostic port is how they are reloading the factory image. Why not give each store a way to access the port, and plug it in to a computer to restore it to an image stored on the central server for each store? Maybe charge for shipping if it has to go the facility, but that's it. They aren't replacing it, just flashing the firmware back.
I'm gonna guess bootp from the watch app, which isn't a dfu mode. There's a reason watchOS is not called iOS for watch. They are obviously not the same OS.