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Is there absoluetly ANY way to bypass unsigned Apple software to get iOS 6 back?

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I hate iOS 7 so much, I really don't like how it looks, personally I think it looks tacky.

I really did prefer iOS 6 as it felt a lot more solid and well built, and looked better in my opinion. I was too late and didn't get a chance to downgrade before it became unsigned, is there absolutely ANY and I mean ANY way to bypass this or get iOS 6 back.

I'll go to any lengths to get iOS 6 back.
 
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Recent reports say we're screwed.

Sorry, forgot to grab one of a few links to articles verifying this.
 
I would think at this point your best shot is to sell your iPhone and purchase another that hasn't been updated.
Kind of a hassle, but that way you end up with the firmware of your choosing.
 
braddick said:
I would think at this point your best shot is to sell your iPhone and purchase another that hasn't been updated.
Kind of a hassle, but that way you end up with the firmware of your choosing.
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Sounds like something that's really daunting to do, but I might have no other choice. I've got a 4S so I might sell my 4S and get an iOS 6.1.3 iPhone 5 while I can. I'd have to sell it using Gumtree or something as well, considering eBay fees are £££.

Intell said:
There is no way to get iOS 6 or any other unsigned firmware onto your device.
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Extremely annoying and a dumb move by Apple if you ask me. I don't want iOS 7, it's crap.
 
This is annoying the crap out of me. I just updated and some apps I need for work are not working properly on iOS7. Now since I can't go back, the thing is useless for the time being, until either the apps get fixed or I find and configure other replacement apps. :mad:
 
Taustin Powers said:
This is annoying the crap out of me. I just updated and some apps I need for work are not working properly on iOS7. Now since I can't go back, the thing is useless for the time being, until either the apps get fixed or I find and configure other replacement apps. :mad:
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I agree it's VERY annoying for users that hate iOS 7 or find it extremely unreliable.
 
325E said:
Extremely annoying and a dumb move by Apple if you ask me. I don't want iOS 7, it's crap.
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The answer for a question I never asked. From Apple's point of view, as well as many others, SHSH blob signing is a very intelligent way of going about this.
 
So even if you have your shsh blob from 6.1.4 there's no way back? Although if I had to choose, I'd rather get 6.1.3 back on the iPad mini. Again, I have my blob for that too.
 
325E said:
I hate iOS 7 so much, I really don't like how it looks, personally I think it looks tacky.

I really did prefer iOS 6 as it felt a lot more solid and well built, and looked better in my opinion. I was too late and didn't get a chance to downgrade before it became unsigned, is there absolutely ANY and I mean ANY way to bypass this or get iOS 6 back.

I'll go to any lengths to get iOS 6 back.
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But you still can do downgrade. All what you need it is:
- download 6.1.x firmware image for your iPhone/iPad
- put your phone/tablet in DFU mode
- in iTunes click on restore button with shift and restore using downloaded firmware image.

After restore firmware you need to restore your applications/settings from last backup and that is all.
Indexes of firmware you can find on:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/download-ipad-ios-firmware/
http://idevicenews.nl/downloads/ios-firmware/

Both pages points on official Apple site http://appldnld.apple.com/

PS. I've done my downgrade on iPhone and iPad two days ago :)
 
kloczek said:
But you still can do downgrade. All what you need it is:
- download 6.1.x firmware image for your iPhone/iPad
- put your phone/tablet in DFU mode
- in iTunes click on restore button with shift and restore using downloaded firmware image.

After restore firmware you need to restore your applications/settings from last backup and that is all.
Indexes of firmware you can find on:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/download-ipad-ios-firmware/
http://idevicenews.nl/downloads/ios-firmware/

Both pages points on official Apple site http://appldnld.apple.com/

PS. I've done my downgrade on iPhone and iPad two days ago :)
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SHSH blobs are required and they only work for the iPhone 4. Two days ago, Apple was still signing iOS 6.1.3/.4 and was allowing downgrades. They are no longer signing it and thus, you are not able to downgrade.
 
Intell said:
SHSH blobs are required and they only work for the iPhone 4. Two days ago, Apple was still signing iOS 6.1.3/.4 and was allowing downgrades. They are no longer signing it and thus, you are not able to downgrade.
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Please try first and after this comment.
I've done my downgrade on iPhone 5 and iPad 2 gsm and I've done it downloading firmware from Apple site and using Apple software and nothing more
As long as you will have proper firmware image downgrade will be ALWAYS possible.
 
kloczek said:
Please try first and after this comment.
I've done my downgrade on iPhone 5 and iPad 2 gsm and I've done it downloading firmware from Apple site and using Apple software and nothing more
As long as you will have proper firmware image downgrade will be ALWAYS possible.
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You are incorrect. Sorry.
 
wepiii said:
You are incorrect. Sorry.
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Sorry could you please explain?
Do you want to say that it is only illusion that I made downgrade?
If yes it must be very realistic illusion.

My friend just finished downgrade on his iPhone 5 and iPad 3 as well without any problems.
 
kloczek said:
Sorry could you please explain?
Do you want to say that it is only illusion that I made downgrade?
If yes it must be very realistic illusion.

My friend just finished downgrade on his iPhone 5 and iPad 3 as well without any problems.
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Did your friend do it today? Or he did it two days ago, when you did? Because I know that it was possible two days ago, but now it wouldn't work anymore.
 
Technetium37 said:
Did your friend do it today? Or he did it two days ago, when you did? Because I know that it was possible two days ago, but now it wouldn't work anymore.
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Yes he did this today about 20 min ago downloading just before downgrade firmware from Apple site.
Any other questions?
 
Technetium37 said:
http://idevicenews.nl/downloads/ios-firmware/

Is this where he downloaded it from? If not, can you give me the link?
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YES, YES .. how many times I must repeat this before you will start just for test download some *ipws file?

Page like above contains only index of files on Apple site. If you will click on any *ipsw file it will start downloading from http://appldnld.apple.com/:

$ date; wget http://appldnld.apple.com/iOS6.1/091-3423.20130502.Tr3Lz/iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw; md5sum iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw
Mon Sep 23 13:00:53 BST 2013
--2013-09-23 13:00:53-- http://appldnld.apple.com/iOS6.1/091-3423.20130502.Tr3Lz/iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw
Resolving appldnld.apple.com... 195.245.125.179, 195.245.125.137, 195.245.125.170
Connecting to appldnld.apple.com|195.245.125.179|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1037923480 (990M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw”

100%[=====================================================================================================================================>] 1,037,923,480 24.4M/s in 40s

2013-09-23 13:01:33 (24.7 MB/s) - “iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw” saved [1037923480/1037923480]
e4e8c5e724bd851bf14e018fc40f2d59 iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw

You can download any historic firmware. You must only know full URL. As far as I know if you have developers account you can access to page with index of all *ipws files but download of any files as you see still is possible without any authentication or so.

Questions?
 
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Haha, I'm just afraid I'll do it and it'll ruin my phone. I've never done anything like this on my iPhone... Just learned how to put it in DFU mode on YouTube... Will it ruin my phone if it doesn't work?
 
kloczek said:
YES, YES .. how many times I must repeat this before you will start just for test download some *ipws file?

Page like above contains only index of files on Apple site. If you will click on any *ipsw file it will start downloading from http://appldnld.apple.com/:

$ date; wget http://appldnld.apple.com/iOS6.1/091-3423.20130502.Tr3Lz/iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw; md5sum iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw
Mon Sep 23 13:00:53 BST 2013
--2013-09-23 13:00:53-- http://appldnld.apple.com/iOS6.1/091-3423.20130502.Tr3Lz/iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw
Resolving appldnld.apple.com... 195.245.125.179, 195.245.125.137, 195.245.125.170
Connecting to appldnld.apple.com|195.245.125.179|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1037923480 (990M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw”

100%[=====================================================================================================================================>] 1,037,923,480 24.4M/s in 40s

2013-09-23 13:01:33 (24.7 MB/s) - “iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw” saved [1037923480/1037923480]
e4e8c5e724bd851bf14e018fc40f2d59 iPhone5,2_6.1.4_10B350_Restore.ipsw

You can download any historic firmware. You must only know full URL. As far as I know if you have developers account you can access to page with index of all *ipws files but download of any files as you see still is possible without any authentication or so.

Questions?
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Sure, you can download the firmware but you aren't going to be able to install it...
 
wepiii said:
Sure, you can download the firmware but you aren't going to be able to install it...
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Sorry please ask me first what I've did and after this feel free use this in comment :D

Or second version: could you please be more specific why it is not possible to do something what few hours ago was done with firmware file with md5 checksum listed in my previous comment?
 
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