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iPhone 2G Downgrade

Lol. Still got mine originaly purchased on launch day in 2007. I was just going through the ancient versions of the apps I got on it. WoW how time fly's. The battery is still like day 1 too. On 3.13 and Jailbroken. I kept trying to double press the home button to multitask.

I never turned that phone off since I got it. Always kept it juiced up and cycled. Damn good phone. I might go retro this week and put the micro sim in a adapter and drop it in. :) :apple:
 
master-ceo said:
Lol. Still got mine originaly purchased on launch day in 2007. I was just going through the ancient versions of the apps I got on it. WoW how time fly's. The battery is still like day 1 too. On 3.13 and Jailbroken. I kept trying to double press the home button to multitask.

I never turned that phone off since I got it. Always kept it juiced up and cycled. Damn good phone. I might go retro this week and put the micro sim in a adapter and drop it in. :) :apple:
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That's amazing that you still have all of the original apps on there! it's a pain finding apps for the 2G now because none of the seemed to be compatible :(. The battery on them was always amazing though from what I can remember from my original 2G, glad to hear yours is holding up too after all these years :D
 
itunegcard said:
Why do you want to be on the 1.x firmware?
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Mainly just for nostalgic reasons tbh because i had an iPhone 2G when they first came out and just want to get my new one back to the original FWs :) also just want it running as fast and smooth as possible and I'm guessing it would run well on one of those original FWs :)
 
I'm sort of failing ATM though, I can get down to 1.1.1 but iTunes won't activate for me, it's probably due to the fact I have the wrong baseband version for that FW but I'm not sure of the best way to downgrade it without making a mess of it..:confused:
 
sheppy1 said:
I'm sort of failing ATM though, I can get down to 1.1.1 but iTunes won't activate for me, it's probably due to the fact I have the wrong baseband version for that FW but I'm not sure of the best way to downgrade it without making a mess of it..:confused:
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You could then use a "Hacktivate" method to get it active - don't even need to Jailbreak if you don't want to.

Also, directions on how you got it that low would be appreciated, I'd love to get my original iPhone down to iPhone OS 1.x!
 
hi guys, sorry I've not been posting in this thread, been kind of busy, anyway here is a link to a blog which tells you how to get down to 1.1.1, I ended up back on 3.1.3 after messing something up but I might try to get down to 1.1.1 again and then try hacltivating as suggested :)

LINK

If anyone can figure out a way to get back to 1.0 too that would be great as the instructions in the link posted state you must downgrade the baseband but I'm unsure as to how to do this
 
Hi, I've also found similar instructions and have managed to get down to 1.1.4 as that's as low as I want to go. As for activating it I've used ziphone but used ibrickr to get it out of the original recovery. Only thing was mine gave a 1015 error instead of 1053 but it still worked. As for the baseband I'm not sure but an option in ziphone does say about downgrading it?
 
Oh well that's good that you were able to get it down to a 1.x version also :) and yes I was told to try ziphone too in order to dwongrade the baseband, ziphone doesnt however state which baseband version it will downgrade me too..according to wikipedia, the baseband that originally ran alongside 1.0 was 03.11.02_G and I don't know if it will downgrade to this or a higher version and didn't want to brick my device trying to find out..
 
aziatiklover said:
Op have you thought about whited00r firmware? Thats what im using with my original iphone and it is way faster than stock apple firmware.
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I did consider that yes but I wouldn't really be using the iPhone so I'm not all that bothered about it having the best firmware that is avaliable for it, I jsut wanted to see how it would run on the original FW and just wanted to have a go on the 1.0 FW again too :) more for nostalgic reasons as I said, aslo I nheard there were issues with whited00r when it comes to restoring it to stock FW again..is that true that you know of?
 
sheppy1 said:
I did consider that yes but I wouldn't really be using the iPhone so I'm not all that bothered about it having the best firmware that is avaliable for it, I jsut wanted to see how it would run on the original FW and just wanted to have a go on the 1.0 FW again too :) more for nostalgic reasons as I said, aslo I nheard there were issues with whited00r when it comes to restoring it to stock FW again..is that true that you know of?
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I have no idea for restore havent done it, but i guess u can always force it to restore with DFU mode.
 
I've tried to downgrade my old iPod touch 1G to 1.1.x... never got it to work. Lowest I was able to get to was 2.2.1 I think. Not sure what the issue was, but I did try a lot of different versions of itunes and I always used DFU mode.
 
I've tried the instructions on the blog posted and still can't get it down. I have 2 old iPhone 2G's and one of them is on 2.0. The other is on 3.1.3 and I'm trying to get it down to 1.0. Problem I keep running into is on my XP machine, it won't even give an option to restore. There is no button!!! I'm not messing with my 2.0 iPhone because that one is mint and also my original iPhone I bought way back when...lol
 
SUCCESS! :D

First, the hardware: An original iPhone that was received from Apple as a replacement in mid 2011. (The 'battery replacement' program, $70 basically got you a factory refurbished version of whatever you were turning in.) Obviously it came with the latest iPhone OS 3.1.3 with the latest boot loader and modem firmware.

Then, the software: Parallels running Windows XP with iTunes 7.5.0.20; iBrickr 0.91, and "ZiPhone_patched_by_kIREmK_04.05.04_G"

I had tried in the past and gotten it down to some variation of iPhone OS 2, but never below.

Following the directions at http://sonnydickson.com/60921917 I was just able to get it to 1.1.4. This required *MANY* attempts, many restores, many DFU modes, many runs of iBrickr and ZiPhone. In the end, a restore to 1.1.4 followed by a ZiPhone -a did it. (I had it in various "activate now" states before at 1.1.1 and 1.1.4, but couldn't get it to activate until just now.)

Now I'm trying to go back to 1.1.1 (which is where you have to be to get to 1.0.2.) I'll probably stop at 1.0.2 since it is functionally identical to 1.0, only with bug fixes.

Also, when I'm done, I'll report on the other aspect of this phone: It has been officially unlocked by AT&T. It worked fine on T-Mobile officially, non-jailbroken, not hack-unlocked after the AT&T unlock, while on iOS 3.1.3. I wonder if it will keep the factory unlock on iPhone OS 1.x? (Which was *NEVER* available on any carrier other than AT&T officially in the US; although it was available in France unlocked.)

Edit: Downgraded to 1.1.1, downgraded baseband with ZiPhone, then hacktivated with ZiPhone. Recognizes T-Mobile SIM, although I have a really bad signal right here, so can't test-call. (My unlocked 3G that works fine elsewhere on T-Mobile likewise has signal issues where I am right now.)

Edit 2: Attempted the 1.0.2 downgrade, and I'm stuck in a loop, I can enter DFU mode, but flashing fails and it enters "plain recovery" mode. When I try to use iBrickr to get out of recovery mode, the phone hangs. I suppose I'll have to re-flash 1.1.1 and just stay there.
 
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Latest update: Every time I try to get down to 1.0.2, it gets messed up. I'm stopping at 1.1.1. At least it's the version that still has the static springboard with no web clips, and the iTunes store on the RIGHT instead of the left.

Although now I realize I have no way of getting media on to it. Apparently the hacktivate process makes it not able to sync any more. I get error 0xE8000022 every time. (And it is enough work to get it up and running again after doing a restore that I'm not going to restore it again.)
 
enoC said:
According to this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/925199/

You can downgrade to 2.2.1 and not lower.

But if it's stored on a shelf or similar, does it matter how fast it is?
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I still have my Original iPhone which is in near mint condition i might add,... and it has 3.1.3 on it and the battery life isnt good. If it went down to 2.2.1 it would be better but if he isnt going to use it at all , ...like you said it wont matter.
I would actually like to downgrade it to 2.2.1 for this reason. I dont veer use it though i did break it our last weekend to check out the size and read my old texts and the old photos i had on it. Stuck in the SIM card and it worked fine but it a little slow.
Post your instructions how to downgrade to 2.2.1 if you dont mind. That is the one thing ive never learned how to do.
 
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sheppy1 said:
Just getting to 2.2.1 was hard enough though tbh..I'm running baseband version [04.05.04_G] and I originally wanted to downgrade directly to 1.1.1 and to do this I installed iTunes 7.5 on Windows XP and tried to restore using a downloaded .IPSW file, this failed and left me with a phone which wouldn't activate for some reason :-/ so then I decided to restore back to 3.1.3 so that I can downgrade to 2.2.1 (simply upgrading directly to 2.2.1 didn't work) so I tried to upgrade to 3.1.3 using the latest version of iTunes on my Mac and that failed too with the iTunes error 1603, so now I just decided to find out which version of iTunes would support 2.2.1, I found out iTunes 8.1.1 would do the trick so I installed this on my Windows XP partition, put my phone into recovery mode and then just restored it as normal, this put 2.2.1 onto my phone which is currently working fine and activated just fine too..

Tomorrow I will probably try to get it onto a lower version as I said, just posted all this as to keep anyone updated in case anyone was interested :)
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I have done all this after many different iTunes instalations. I now have 8.1.1 and it wont recognize my iPhone. It is in recovery mode and it makes the sounds when i plug it in but the phone wont come up for me to restore it to 2.2.1. Very frustrating.
 
Glad I found this thread. I seemed able to downgrade from 3.1.3 to 1.X but could never get past the activation screen and ended up on 2.2.1. Baseband?

First I did a fresh install of leopard which luckily had itunes 7.5 and I got it down to 1.X using DFU mode. I then had to kick it out of recovery using tinyumbrella. Next I installed itunes 8.1.1, restarted, and upgraded to 2.2.1 from recovery mode of 1.X. I've found that I could only restore to 2.X while in recovery.

The hardest part about this was using itunes 8.1.1. It would not mount the phone because it could not connect to the ipod upgrade server. Sometimes however there would be a status bar trying to connect and if you are fast you can click stop. I would hold a key after starting up itunes in attempts to slow the system for a chance to click the stop button. This works almost every time but you still need to be quick.

I am quite interested in getting down to any version of iOS 1 but like many others can't seem to get past the activation screen. I tried the original sim that was now inactive and my nano sim in an adaptor I made on a 3D printer that is currently active and activates under iOS 2 and 3.

Edit 12/5/12

After trying all sorts of things to get onto 1.X, activate and have service I landed on 1.1.4.

Starting from 3.1.3 I downgraded to 1.1.4 while in DFU mode in iTunes 7.5. You then have to restore again to 1.1.4 while in recovery mode. I then used pwnagetool 1.1 (impossible to find now) to setup the phone (iPwner) and to create the custom firmware. All I was interested in was activating so that was the only option I used. No fancy images or apps. BootNeuter failed when I tried to update the baseband originally hence being omitted in the final setup. Then in iTunes I restored from the new custom firmware and once complete had no service due to an updated baseband. I closed iTunes, ran "ZiPhone_patched_by_kIREmK_04.05.04_G" and checked only "Baseband downgrading". Once complete I had baseband 04.02.13_G from 1.1.2 which seems like a misprint but had service. I've read you can restore yet again and get 1.1.4's matching baseband but I didn't want to ruin a good thing. One caviat of all this is that YouTube did not work with the custom firmware.

The selections I made within pwnagetool were mainly because I wanted the phone to look and feel stock as it did many years ago without any of the jailbreak extras. Next up is trying the Sonny Dickson link from Anonymous_Freak. 1.1.1 isn't much different other than the fact that the now defunct iTunes Wifi Music store is on the right with now way of moving it! I've also read that iLiberty+ can unlock 1.0.2 but I'll save that for another day.
 
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