cableguy
July 21st, 2008, 04:29 AM
"There And Back Again"- an iphone updating story!
Just thought I would post my experience having upgraded my jailbroken,unlocked, gen one 1.1.4 iPhone to the pawned 2.0 software....and HOW I GOT BACK TO 1.1.4 after being disappointed with the 2.0 upgrade!
Firstly big ups to the dev team for what they have done, awesome guys!
The following does not detract from what they have achieved.
Why I went back:
-No installer support yet(no offence cydia), which means you a constricted to the itunes app store applications which after having surfed through, didn't really rock my world apart from the free itunes controller app!(and a monkey game!):p .....(just kidding lots of good stuff if you really look hard,but nothing like the free apps we are used to)
-No way to turn of 2.5g (edge) if you want to(as far as I could see)
-Mobileme email wouldn't push automatically(on 2.5g could be a local problem NZ)
-Basically missed the feeling of having control over my phone i.e customizing,sending and recieving pxt messages using the awesome swirly mms app, downloading podcasts with mobilecast and all the other cool stuff not available at the app store!
So this is how I went back using a combination of Mac and Windows machines (you could do the windows part of it on a mac as long as you uninstall itunes 7.7 and install 7.5 after the second step)
(1) Pawned the phone using the guides and pawnage 2.0 release using the mac with itunes 7.7 installed.
(2) Decided to go back so put the phone into recovery mode by holding power and home buttons for about 30 secs, then connected to itunes and held the apple key and clicked restore. I then selected the NON-PAWNED 2.0 firmware file and restored.
(2) Moved over to the windows laptop with itunes 7.5 installed on it.Put the phone into 'dfu' mode by (a)docking the phone (b) holding power and home buttons for 10 secs (c) releasing power button (c) holding home button till I heard the windows 'usb connected' beep.
(3)itunes recognized the phone in 'recovery mode' but it was still actually in dfu mode, I held shift and clicked the restore button and selected my old 1.1.4 firmware file.
(4) Phone restored but I could not 'kick' it out of recovery mode after using ziphone,so I went back to itunes and restored once more by doing the shift restore 1.1.4 selection thing again.
(5) The phone rebooted into recovery mode again but this this time after clicking 'do it all' in the ziphone application, ziphone went to work and the gorgeous white text started scrolling on the screen and 2 to 3 mins later it rebooted into its activated,jailbroken and unlocked 1.1.4 glory!!
Phew!! Hope all that makes sense and if you are cursing you decision to upgrade, fear not......follow the breadcrumbs home!:cool:
Just thought I would post my experience having upgraded my jailbroken,unlocked, gen one 1.1.4 iPhone to the pawned 2.0 software....and HOW I GOT BACK TO 1.1.4 after being disappointed with the 2.0 upgrade!
Firstly big ups to the dev team for what they have done, awesome guys!
The following does not detract from what they have achieved.
Why I went back:
-No installer support yet(no offence cydia), which means you a constricted to the itunes app store applications which after having surfed through, didn't really rock my world apart from the free itunes controller app!(and a monkey game!):p .....(just kidding lots of good stuff if you really look hard,but nothing like the free apps we are used to)
-No way to turn of 2.5g (edge) if you want to(as far as I could see)
-Mobileme email wouldn't push automatically(on 2.5g could be a local problem NZ)
-Basically missed the feeling of having control over my phone i.e customizing,sending and recieving pxt messages using the awesome swirly mms app, downloading podcasts with mobilecast and all the other cool stuff not available at the app store!
So this is how I went back using a combination of Mac and Windows machines (you could do the windows part of it on a mac as long as you uninstall itunes 7.7 and install 7.5 after the second step)
(1) Pawned the phone using the guides and pawnage 2.0 release using the mac with itunes 7.7 installed.
(2) Decided to go back so put the phone into recovery mode by holding power and home buttons for about 30 secs, then connected to itunes and held the apple key and clicked restore. I then selected the NON-PAWNED 2.0 firmware file and restored.
(2) Moved over to the windows laptop with itunes 7.5 installed on it.Put the phone into 'dfu' mode by (a)docking the phone (b) holding power and home buttons for 10 secs (c) releasing power button (c) holding home button till I heard the windows 'usb connected' beep.
(3)itunes recognized the phone in 'recovery mode' but it was still actually in dfu mode, I held shift and clicked the restore button and selected my old 1.1.4 firmware file.
(4) Phone restored but I could not 'kick' it out of recovery mode after using ziphone,so I went back to itunes and restored once more by doing the shift restore 1.1.4 selection thing again.
(5) The phone rebooted into recovery mode again but this this time after clicking 'do it all' in the ziphone application, ziphone went to work and the gorgeous white text started scrolling on the screen and 2 to 3 mins later it rebooted into its activated,jailbroken and unlocked 1.1.4 glory!!
Phew!! Hope all that makes sense and if you are cursing you decision to upgrade, fear not......follow the breadcrumbs home!:cool: