I did an OTA upgrade on my iPhone 5 right before all these announcements about the jailbreak being released came out. If I now do a restore via iTunes will I be able to jailbreak?
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iPhone How to prepare for the iOS 6 untethered jailbreak?
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No need to be snarky about it. I read hundreds of posts but didn't see my question anywhere else. How utterly unbelievable that I may have missed it
Thank you for just getting to the point
:thumbup:That is how I roll w/ all my jb, never had battery issues.
Step X would be to Restore as NEW & no backup IF I were in a jb fw at the moment of a new jb.
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lol what bogus crap? In the blogspot is the links to the right, choose the one for your OS.
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Usually, but better to have them ready on your computer if something happens like a new FW before Cydia could get to your device to request the blobs from apple.
OTA=over the air update. You should restore using iTunes and not OTA for this jb since OTA updated iOS devices are untested to work properly w/ the new jb and the blobs itself are different if OTA vs normal restore.
Well zoom downloader was one of them and there was one other "download manager" but I don't remember the name. There was about four different green download buttons on the page. I guess I clicked all of the paid ads and not the actual download link. I will try again tomorrow. Thanks for the responses. I can't believe the download on cnet was junk.
Might be a dumb question, but oh hell I'm going to ask anyway.
I've never downloaded firmware until the day I was actually upgrading.
So I can actually download 6.1 firmware from iclarified and just keep it on my desktop until the jailbreak releases and I'm ready to update. Then I can just do the whole shift+click deal and select the firmware from there?
I would rather already have it downloaded so I don't have to worry about downloading that huge file when I'm ready to upgrade and jailbreak my phone.
I've never downloaded firmware until the day I was actually upgrading.
So I can actually download 6.1 firmware from iclarified and just keep it on my desktop until the jailbreak releases and I'm ready to update. Then I can just do the whole shift+click deal and select the firmware from there?
I would rather already have it downloaded so I don't have to worry about downloading that huge file when I'm ready to upgrade and jailbreak my phone.
sure you can... thats what I did
when I option-clicked iTunes simply wouldnt restore my iPhone5... took me quite a while to realize I downloaded the wrong ipsw
I thought I had the gsm-version.. got it in DFU and let itunes download the firmware, turns out I´ve got the global version (iPhone 5,2)
You can jailbreak also the OTA update, the itunes restore is only necessary for saving the correct SHSH's which might be used in future downgrades or re-restores. SHSH's are not required to jailbreak.
I have adblocker so I forgot about those ads, but yes it's the links at the right.
Also, who still uses cnet lol jk jk
You need to upgrade to 6.1 now. Say Apple release 6.1.1 which they will to patch the security exploits and you haven't got 6.1 on your phone and they stop signing it you're out of luck. There is no reason not to upgrade now and save your SHSH blobs before Apple releases 6.1.1 which happens every time a JB comes out.
I want to preserve the unlock on my sister's 3GS, which I've just downgraded to 4.1 to get the 05.13.04 baseband which I've unlocked via ultrasn0w. If I'm upgrading to iOS 6.1 should I upgrade via redsn0w now, preserving baseband and apply the untethered jailbreak over the top of that tomorrow?
Downgrading to 4.1 does nothing with the BB. You can downgrade the BB only with redsn0w; first upgrade 06.15.00 than downgrade back to 05.13.04.
If you already had the 05.13.04 you can indeed preserve the BB by using redsn0w restore function; Extras/even more/restore
You'll need the 3GS 6.1 IPSW and blobs for 6.1 during the process redsn0w will ask to preserve the BB.
Ultrasn0w is not updated for 6.1 you'll need ultrasn0w fixer for 6.1 to get it working
Not sure if this has been mentioned but we should all d/l the appropriate IPSW well in advance of the JB dropping. I'm sure the servers will be hammered beyond belief once it drops.
*EDIT: I see that it has been mentioned; too lazy to read through the entire thread.
*EDIT: I see that it has been mentioned; too lazy to read through the entire thread.
Yeah, I've done all the baseband downgrades and had ultrasn0w working on 4.1. So all I need to do when it 6.1 installs on the iPhone is install ultrasn0w and ultrasn0w fixer, and install the untethered JB over the top tomorrow?
I always download a copy of the firmware to my computer so I will always have easy access to the firmware in case I ever want to perform a DFU restore. The firmwares are always a huge file, usually just under 1gb. Because of the large size, the file obviously takes some time to download. I say all this because I have been trying to download the 6.1 ipsw for 3 days now and I can never get the file to completely download. I have tried early in the mornings, mid day, and late at night. I have a really fast, strong cable broadband internet connection. It never drops out and I can download huge files in reasonable time. I know the Apple servers must be slammed with firmware requests but this is absurd. I have never experienced this before in the past when downloading firmwares. Sometimes the download might take longer than other times but never have I had such problems. Is anyone else having this issue? If so, how did you resolve it? Just keep trying the download until it finally succeeds?
Either way can't wait to jailbreak iOS6.1!