Help with Restoring to Custom iOS 5

could be anything.. download from the direct link avail on redmonpie, re-do make the no-bb ipsw again, make sure ur itunes is updated... then try again

 

if its not too difficult you can try another mac....but I am on a new upgraded lion as well expect I did a clean install.. I did the upgrade bu wasnt happy with how it was working...

U can also try clean reinstall itunes.. meaning u can leave ur itunes folder in the music folder alone but u get rid of all other traces of it in library n whatever else there r like guide online but dont know if its the same for lion.. then once u get rid of all traces of itunes.. u reinstall..that shoud eliminate any potential itunes issues.. i have done it a few times before.. but have not had to resort to that lately. and np

 

Did you use tiny umbrella before?

If so, close everything but plug your phone to the cpu, open tiny umbrella. Select your phone on the left hand side. Go to advance tab and uncheck 'set host to cydia on exit' (i dont exactly remember what it says cuz im on my phone but its similar to like this). Close tiny umbrella when done.

Open itunes and dfu your phone. Now option restore and select 'no_bb' custom ipsw. It should work now.

It happened to me all last night but i figured out and worked for me.

Let me know if it works for you.

 

Hi All
I got the same problem.
I have an Iphone 3GS. I wanted to update it to IOS 5 and then unlock it. I customize it IPSW using redsnow.
When trying to restore using Itunes, I got the famous error " this device is not elligible.
I unchecked that thing in tinyumbrella
I edited my hosts file. here's Hosts file on my mac


127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

my Ipphone still on Pwned DFU mode
what should I do? plrease help

 

same here. i've done everything possible the last few days. I still can't figure out a solution to get past that error!

 

You're out of luck for iOS 5.0 since Apple stopped signing it. Your only upgrade option with a custom IPSW is to iOS 5.0.1.