

#IMPOSSIBLE INSTALLER TINYUMBRELLA UPGRADE#
Londis, a technologist at, emphasizes the problems IT pros face if users upgrade to Apple iOS 6 before the Apple iOS SHSH blob files are backed up. Your problem will be missing SHSH blob files and tech pros need to do those backups before users upgrade, given the problems reported with Apple iOS 6″, says Dino Londis, an IT pro at a large law firm in NYC. “It’s true Apple does host the old iOS version on its servers - here is the IPSW file for an iPad 2, for example - but unless your users thought ahead to save the blobs, restoring it will just throw a 3194 error back at you. It isn’t pretty, but it’s the only way, at least for now, to guarantee you can downgrade unhappy Apple iOS 6 users later.īut doesn’t Apple save older iOS versions – especially the latest (the current one until just last week) iOS 5 – on its servers? That’s what everyone else is wondering in the support forums.
#IMPOSSIBLE INSTALLER TINYUMBRELLA HOW TO#
Before you let anyone else upgrade, here’s how to make sure you’ve got those blobs. Without an official Apple-supported method to downgrade, IT pros hoping to downgrade enterprise users who’ve already upgraded to the new iOS 6 back to the more stable Apple iOS 5.1.1 are out of luck - unless they borrow a page from Apple jailbreakers and use tools like TinyUmbrella or CYDIA to back up essential files known as SHSH blobs.Īs it turns out, upgrading to Apple iOS 6 automatically wipes the blobs for Apple iOS 5.11, making a downgrade, should problems arise, impossible.

Many, though not all, users of devices that now have the upgrade available at the push of the button, including the Apple iPhone 4S, the iPhone 4, the iPhone 3GS, the new iPod touch and the Apple iPad 2 and iPad 3 are reporting issues such as Wi-Fi bugs, performance problems, the lack of Google Maps and YouTube, battery drain, Passbook compatibility problems, and other issues, just for starters. Here's how.īy all accounts ( check out the Apple Community Support boards) the just released and hotly awaited Apple iOS upgrade 6.0 is causing major problems, users report. Bear in mind you can't do it without saving the SHSH blobs first. Gina Smith reports on the numerous issues some users are having with iOS 6, which may lead to the decision to downgrade to a more stable version. Apple iOS 6 woes: Save the blobs if you need to downgrade
