Comments on: iOS 5 slams door on iPhone firmware downgrades

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:55:00 +0000

Help plssss !!!! I’m stuck now with my itchy hands… I tried to
jailbreak and used IOS 5 Beta3… But I cant use it…. Now I wanna go
back to 4.3.3 but I cant downgrade… Somebody pls help me !!!!!!! THANK
YOU !!!!!

I get error 3194 in itunes when i try to restore to original and custom 4.3.3 firmware…
I
tried using redsn0w but it also doesn’t work now… It shows that
something failed when it is in the terminal screen after uploading
ramdisk… then it automatically restart the phone n reture to the
“connect to itunes” screen….
AM I DEAD WITH MY IPHONE4 !!!!???? Means I cant use my iPHONE4 anymore ???? HEELLLLPPPPP !!!!!! PLSSSSSS !!!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:10:00 +0000

You are allowed to do whatever you want with your hardware. There’s no requirement that Apple make it easy for you, though.

By: B8341507

B8341507 — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:25:00 +0000

Who cares, you say? “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” The question isn’t about functionality – it’s about freedom to be able to do whatever you want to do with a device that you purchase.

By: B8341507

B8341507 — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:25:00 +0000

By: ezra baraka

ezra baraka — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:00:00 +0000

who cares?
its getting less and less necessary to jailbreak the iPhone every day. functionality previously reserved for jailbroken devices is now becoming more avail on ios 5. the only reason why people jailbreak is to steal apps with installous, and to use it on unauthorized carrier. the iphone though is prob going to be released on all carriers soon.

By: ezra baraka

ezra baraka — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:00:00 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:03:00 +0000

Way to go Apple, once again proving you have become what you “fought” in your 1988 advertisement.

While Microsoft is partner with the Chevron team to allow official unlocking of phones, you give it your wall to lock down your iOS software/hardware as much as humanly possible.

Bravo.

By: Zibri www.zibri.org

Zibri www.zibri.org — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:54:00 +0000

The cat & mouse game will be OVER as soon as people realize they should NOT upgrade but start developing an alternate firmware if they want full control of a device. (So, probably never.)