iOS upgrade impossible!

[dask2]

Merry Christmas!

I currently have iOS 4.1 on my iphone 3gs, jailbroken. I would like to upgrade to 5.1.1 and jailbreak it.

However when I try to restore it from my 5.1.1 downloaded file I get the "The iPhone could not be restored. This device isnt eligible for the requested build. " error message.

After checking possible solutions, I couldn't come across any gs.apple file in hosts nor could I tick or untick the "set hosts to cydia on exit..." in tinyumbrella.

Can anyone help me out, how complicated can this s... get

Thank you all

 

[dinggus]

You can't. Either stay or go to 6.0.1 and tether jailbreak.

 

[dask2]

Hi,

All right then, but why though?

cheers

 

[dinggus]

Apple stopped signing that firmware version, forcing users to update when they restore.

 

[dask2]

So what you are saying is that I can now only upgrade directly to the latest version... thank you apple.

Thanks

 

[iParis]

Apple stops signing for older firmwares about a day after the new one is out.

 

[dinggus]

So what you are saying is that I can now only upgrade directly to the latest version... thank you apple.

Thanks

Yes but you can still jailbreak, just tethered.

 

[PsstGreek]

You need to have the SHSH saved for iOS 5.1.1 to upgrade.

 

[dask2]

Ok, and I suppose that if I haven't previously saved it via tiny umbrella... theres nothing to do bout it.

Thanks for the info, sorry if this is noobish.

 

[PsstGreek]

Ok, and I suppose that if I haven't previously saved it via tiny umbrella... theres nothing to do bout it.

Thanks for the info, sorry if this is noobish.

Correct. You can download f0recast and you can figure out wether your 3GS has the new bootrom or again.

If your iPhone has the older bootrom the jailbreak will be untethered for iOS 6, tethered for the newer one.