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Reinstall iPhone OS 3.1.3 on a 3G
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I came here tonight looking for the same information. I installed iOS4 from release date and have regretted that since....
I have already tried the dual hard reboots, and clean restore but my text window still takes 5-10 seconds to open and i can't even answer some calls before my voicemail pickups now waiting for the phone to respond... I can't believe apple would release such a buggy OS even if the 3G is an older device (if it can't run it don't release it for it!)
I have already tried the dual hard reboots, and clean restore but my text window still takes 5-10 seconds to open and i can't even answer some calls before my voicemail pickups now waiting for the phone to respond... I can't believe apple would release such a buggy OS even if the 3G is an older device (if it can't run it don't release it for it!)
It's extremely easy to do.
Download the firmware HERE.
Restore the iPhone in iTunes by clicking option/restore. This will give you a chance to select the firmware you downloaded above.
It will restore and then give you an error like 1015 or similar.
Download RECBOOT. Run it to kick the phone out of recovery and you are done!
The phone will work perfectly restoring in this way. I have my 3G jailbroken and everything. It works good!
I just downgraded last night and I am very glad I did. It is nice having a usable phone again. If you don't have a 3.1.3 backup to restore from, you will lose all your data and would have to start from scratch like a brand new 3.1.3 phone. If that is no big deal, or you can get your last 3.1.3 backup (like I was from Carbonite, but Time Machine would have worked as well), you won't regret it.
I can't recommend Time Machine enough. I had an app that was updated to work with 4.0. Because all of our phones here were updated to 4.0, we went ahead and updated that one app to. Upon downgrading the 3G, that one app no longer worked with 3.1.3. I was able to restore the old version in Time Machine and get it loaded on the 3G. Same with the backup from 3.1.3.
