Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

THANK YOU iFaith

Grolubao

Grolubao

macrumors 68000
Original poster
Dec 23, 2008
1,579
583
London, UK
Today I thought of saving the blobs using iFaith and I did it. Later on, after the phone lost all his battery, and since I removed some language packages, I was stuck with a iPhone that didn't boot tethered. I had to restore, and gladly I had the blobs saved, so I could restore back to 5.0.

Thank you iFaith!
 
Am I correct in assuming that we can't build a signed custom firmware that also leaves out the baseband upgrade? I want to preserve my 1.59.00 baseband for unlocking purposes.
 
wolfgang666 said:
correct me if im wrong, but doesnt tiny umbrella does the same thing??
it has a version for mac also...
Click to expand...
TinyUmbrella pulls the blobs from Apple's servers, so it can only save blobs for the currently signed firmware (in this case, only 5.0.1). Also, the method TU uses doesn't work for downgrading to any 5.x.x firmware (Apple changed the way they signed blobs). iFaith dumps the blobs from your device, and is compatible with downgrading to 5.x.x.

ignus graius said:
Am I correct in assuming that we can't build a signed custom firmware that also leaves out the baseband upgrade? I want to preserve my 1.59.00 baseband for unlocking purposes.
Click to expand...
The iFaith Twitter says it preserves baseband

https://twitter.com/#!/projectif/status/144060446171873280
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

hackthatphone said:
Grolubao said:
It worked perfectly! Just boot windows, that's what I did ;)
Click to expand...

I'm not purchasing Windows just to run this one program. This is hardly a solution for Mac users.
Click to expand...

Why do u need to buy it? Borrow it and boot in bootcamp its free?
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

hackthatphone said:
Grolubao said:
It worked perfectly! Just boot windows, that's what I did ;)
Click to expand...

I'm not purchasing Windows just to run this one program. This is hardly a solution for Mac users.
Click to expand...

Why do u need to buy it? Borrow it and boot in bootcamp its free?
 
Thanks for this thead! Now I have a restore path if I mess up my 5.0! Unlike TinyUmbrella, iFaith also saves the APticket(?) which makes it possible to make a special signed .ipsw file and restore.

Note for Mac users:
I recommend borrowing a PC/laptop with windows, pull off the blobs, create the signed .ipsw and copy it to a safe place. Then you can always restore from your mac.

I found out (the hard way) that iTunes needs to be installed on the laptop BEFORE YOU CONNECT YOUR IPHONE for the first time! Otherwise iFaith will not be able to recognise that your iPhone is in DFU mode.
 
snowwhite007 said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)



Why do u need to buy it? Borrow it and boot in bootcamp its free?
Click to expand...

Borrow? There's a Microsoft lending library around some where?
 
just restored to ios 5 (custom) via iFaith 1.4...

Isit possible to jailbreak it then? seems like it's not... =(
 
Wowzera said:
of course it's possible. What make you think not?
Click to expand...

How so can i jailbreak then?

RS, and point the IPSW to original iOS 5 firmware? Cuz I tried pointing to custom iOS 5 but wasnt allowed to proceed.

Please advise. =)
 
reeveah said:
How so can i jailbreak then?

RS, and point the IPSW to original iOS 5 firmware? Cuz I tried pointing to custom iOS 5 but wasnt allowed to proceed.

Please advise. =)
Click to expand...

If you use the newest redsn0w you don't have to point to any firmware, it downloads it itself. Otherwise just point to the unmodified firmware, it does not actually install it, just uses something from it (the Unix kernel, I guess).
 
NanoNyrd said:
If you use the newest redsn0w you don't have to point to any firmware, it downloads it itself. Otherwise just point to the unmodified firmware, it does not actually install it, just uses something from it (the Unix kernel, I guess).
Click to expand...

Hey NanoNyrd,

Thanks! Ill give it a shot this evening!
 
NanoNyrd said:
If you use the newest redsn0w you don't have to point to any firmware, it downloads it itself. Otherwise just point to the unmodified firmware, it does not actually install it, just uses something from it (the Unix kernel, I guess).
Click to expand...

Actually I'm pretty sure that still since it's in beta this won't work if you're on 5.0.1 (you have to point it at 5.0.0).

I think the auto recognition feature won't work on iOS 5, but should work on iOS 4 or lower.
 
Dwalls90 said:
Actually I'm pretty sure that still since it's in beta this won't work if you're on 5.0.1 (you have to point it at 5.0.0).

I think the auto recognition feature won't work on iOS 5, but should work on iOS 4 or lower.
Click to expand...

Hi guys,

I pointed to custom IPSW and proceed to jailbreak it... it was able to cydia but it's a blank cydia icon, i tried to restart and click on it but to no avail...

now ive since restored back to custom 5.0... any idea if i can downgrade to 4.3.3/.4/.5? (i have all the blobs saved).
 
I restored my iPhone 4 to 5.0 using iFaith and then jailbreaked using redsn0w without any issues.
 
hackthatphone said:
I'm not purchasing Windows just to run this one program. This is hardly a solution for Mac users.
Click to expand...

Would u like a silver spoon too?


terraphantm said:
Microsoft has a trial version of windows 7 enterprise available for download. I think it works for 90 days. Should be sufficient for your purposes. I agree it's a lot of work for a downgrade, but if you really want it...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495
Click to expand...

That one. Download it, install it, iFaith and u are done. Or just recompile the code to make it work on a mac :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back