iPhone Upgrade to iOS 5.1.1

[yeast2u]

Hey, I just found my closet iphone 3gs yesterday. it was running ios 5.0.1(jailbroken unteathered and unlocked). I saw apple claiming battery issue fixed in ios 5.1 and/or 5.1.1 and I tried to preserve baseband and upgrade. I can upgrade to 5.1 but redsnow saying it is teathered; I can not upgrade to ios 5.1.1 as itunes keep telling me "the device is not eligable for the firmware". I even tried to restore to stock 5.1.1 and itunes displayed the same warning...

I checked hosts file(s) and there is no entry for gs.apple.com.

I am running mac os x 10.8 with most recent itunes.

So my question is:
1. Is there a way to unteather jailbroken 5.1?
2. Is there any known issue of upgrading to ios 5.1.1 with latest MAC/itunes?
3. Should I try to upgrade to 5.1.1? OR Does it really fix the battery issue? OR I should downgrade back to 5.0.1?

Thanks,
/S

 

[TriJetHero]

1) No
2) Not for an A4 device like the 3GS, you need to stitch your SHSH/APticket to the 5.1.1 firmware with redsn0w, iclarified has tutorials on it.
3) No, i would stay on 5.0.1, it's fine batterywise, 5.1.1 doesn't really bring any extra's to 5.01

 

[yeast2u]

2) Not for an A4 device like the 3GS, you need to stitch your SHSH/APticket to the 5.1.1 firmware with redsn0w, iclarified has tutorials on it.

Thanks for the relay. I checked SHSH BLOB for my phone. It only shows blob for 5.1 and lower. I can not find blob for 5.1.1 in redsnow. Maybe I am checking the wrong place?

BTW, my phone never run 5.1.1 before.

 

[dhlizard]

And only if you saved hashes for 5.0.1

 

[TriJetHero]

Check cydia, it will say on the main page which blobs it has

 

[yeast2u]

Check cydia, it will say on the main page which blobs it has

I checked cydia on my iphone and it only shows 5.1 and lower

Does this mean I am out of luck for upgrading to 5.1.1 while preserving baseband?

 

[eastercat]

Yes. No 5.1.1 means you can't install it. No ifs, ands or buts.

I checked cydia on my iphone and it only shows 5.1 and lower

Does this mean I am out of luck for upgrading to 5.1.1 while preserving baseband?

 

[thadoggfather]

I have an iPhone 4S with 5.0.1 but I saved the 5.1.1 shsh blob I can still get this phone on 5.1.1 right?

I for sure have the blob on tiny umbrella I think It's on Cydia too

Can you point me to the right tutorial?

 

[dhlizard]

I have an iPhone 4S with 5.0.1 but I saved the 5.1.1 shsh blob I can still get this phone on 5.1.1 right?

I for sure have the blob on tiny umbrella I think It's on Cydia too

Can you point me to the right tutorial?

Since Apple stopped signing 5.1.1, you cannot upgrade a 4S even with hashes saved (except to iOS6)

 

[thadoggfather]

I see.

Thankfully, I have this phone on 5.0.1 jailbroken already and 5.1.1 was pretty incremental if memory serves me right (faux G indicator for HSPA, camera slide up icon, maybe "performance tweaks")

I thought dev team said if you had blobs you could stitch them into an IPSW provided you hadn't upgraded to IOS 6 already.

Guess I looked into it incorrectly.

 

[dhlizard]

Here is a copy/paste of 4S limitations:

iPad3, i4S (and iPad2 owners who don’t satisfy #2) will always be able to RE-restore the current 5.x OS that’s already on their device. *So if you’re at 5.1.1 when the window closes (and you’ve saved your blobs), you’ll always be able to RE-restore to 5.1.1 again. *This makes the 5.1.1 jailbreak a lot less fragile — you don’t have to worry about messing up your install with funky extensions or getting into a boot loop, because you can always RE-restore from 5.1.1 to 5.1.1 again (or from 5.0.1 to 5.0.1 again, etc). *But once you fall off the 5.x train by restoring to 6.x, you’ll be stuck there until the next jailbreak.


All of these features will be released shortly in a new version of redsn0w. *In the meantime please be sure you have your 5.1.1 blobs and stay at 5.1.1. *Happy iOS6 day!

 

[thadoggfather]

Yeah i saw that post, but the only reason I question it is because it never explicitly says you can't go 5.0.1 to 5.1.1 with blobs or vice versa, but heeding caution that once you're on iOS 6, you're SOL.

I guess you're right though?

 

[dhlizard]

You see one thing, I see another.
The options are clearly listed.

We could "what if" or "can I" the info all day, but in the end, the options will still read exactly the same.

 

[BumpyFlatline]

Yeah i saw that post, but the only reason I question it is because it never explicitly says you can't go 5.0.1 to 5.1.1 with blobs or vice versa, but heeding caution that once you're on iOS 6, you're SOL.

I guess you're right though?

It says it clear as day. You must have misread it or misunderstood.

"*This makes the 5.1.1 jailbreak a lot less fragile — you don’t have to worry about messing up your install with funky extensions or getting into a boot loop, because you can always RE-restore from 5.1.1 to 5.1.1 again (or from 5.0.1 to 5.0.1 again, etc). *But once you fall off the 5.x train by restoring to 6.x, you’ll be stuck there until the next jailbreak."

 

[thadoggfather]

Yeah i guess its just wishful thinking.

Thanks guys hah