I upgraded to 3.1 and I want to go back to 3.0.1 for cydia, but I'm having a small problem.. Even with the iPhone in DFU mode, holding alt+shift, clicking restore, and selecting the 3.0.1 ipsw, iTunes 9 tells me that my device isn't eligible. Any thoughts as to why?
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Downgrading from 3.1 to 3.0.1 on 3GS - Device isn't eligible?
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I'm not sure it's possible to downgrade. You could get iTunes 8, although I'm not sure how you would downgrade from iTunes 9 to iTunes 8. Even if you did it still may not be possible to downgrade. Can I also ask why you upgraded in the first place? Besides they'll probably come out with a jailbreak for 3.1 soon.
I'm pretty sure I just read on the homepage of macrumors that you cannot downgrade from 3.1 to anything lower.
The only way I could see to try other than what you already said is to get iTunes 8 installed on another pc or in vmware and then do a full restore from that using the 3.0.1 ipsw.
Failing that I think you just 'bricked' your iPhone in terms of jailbreaking until an update from the dev team is released.
that would suck, so I hope you can downgrade.
The only way I could see to try other than what you already said is to get iTunes 8 installed on another pc or in vmware and then do a full restore from that using the 3.0.1 ipsw.
Failing that I think you just 'bricked' your iPhone in terms of jailbreaking until an update from the dev team is released.
that would suck, so I hope you can downgrade.