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Downgrade 5.1 to 5.0.1?

threatmatic

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I have a 5.0.1 iPhone 4S and it's jailbroken. However I have a hardware problem with this phone so Verizon is sending me a new one. Problem is that the phone I'm getting is a 5.1 (I groaned when he said that.)

I have been jailbreaking with the iPod Touch for a long time so I'm new to iPhone jailbreaking. I never even heard of SHSH blobs o_O.

So there is no possible way to downgrade from 5.1 to 5.0.1/5.0 without these blobs? Or use my blobs from my jailbroken phone now and put it on my new 5.1 phone?
 
From what I have studied on the subject matter, the phone's unique internal ID is used as part of the signing process. So I doubt you can use your blobs from one iPhone on another.

Hopefully one of the more knowledgeable jailbreakers can chime in for sure tonight.
 
So there is no possible way to downgrade from 5.1 to 5.0.1/5.0 without these blobs? Or use my blobs from my jailbroken phone now and put it on my new 5.1 phone?

No, there is no way to downgrade without SHSH blobs, and no, you cannot use blobs from another device to downgrade.
 
Thank you for the information! I just got my iPhone in the mail and it said on the outer packaging of the phone it was ios 5.1. But when I activated my phone it was still at 5.0.1 so I jailbroke it !!!! So I'm happy and I'm backing up my blobs now.
Thank you again :)
 
Thank you for the information! I just got my iPhone in the mail and it said on the outer packaging of the phone it was ios 5.1. But when I activated my phone it was still at 5.0.1 so I jailbroke it !!!! So I'm happy and I'm backing up my blobs now.
Thank you again :)

That's great! Unfortunately there's no way to save your blobs though. Once Apple has stopped signing the firmware, you can no longer save them. With older A4 and lower devices you can dump them with iFaith(assuming you are currently on the firmware you want the SHSH for), but that will not work on a 4S. Just make sure not to mess anything up so you dont have to restore until the 5.1/5.1.1 untethered jailbreak is released.
 
I dunno, I just went into TinyUmbrella and it allowed me to save my blobs for 5.0.1 with no trouble. I believe you can use the latest redsn0w to downgrade using those blobs only if you upgraded to 5.1 by mistake?
 
I dunno, I just went into TinyUmbrella and it allowed me to save my blobs for 5.0.1 with no trouble. I believe you can use the latest redsn0w to downgrade using those blobs only if you upgraded to 5.1 by mistake?

That means that you already had them saved through Cydia and TinyUmbrella just pulled them from there. And yes, you can downgrade from 5.1.1 to 5.0.1 using blobs and the latest Redsn0w(until Apple patches it).
 
Alright I was just wondering if ican get any help here I did have my iPhone jailbroken in 5.1 but updated about 2months ago I do not know if it saved my blobs or whatever so I download tiny umbrella and started the TSS server and it's taking forever and honestly I don't know what im doing to downgrade to 5.1 to re jb my iPhone 4s again any help? Please and thanks.
 
And how do I get my blobs from tiny umbrella?
 
I did it and It says Cydia has it saved what do I do now?
 
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This is what it tell me when I try to use the restore with Ipsw
 
DaMrsz31 said:
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This is what it tell me when I try to use the restore with Ipsw

The iPSW may not fully be downloaded or you downloaded it from Internet Explorer. Never download an iPSW from Internet Explorer. They just don't work.

Delete the iPSW you were using and download again through Firefox or Google Chrome.
 
It depends on your internet spped. I can download a 4S IPSW in about 13 minutes. And yes, that error indicates that the firmware file you were using was corrupt.
 
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