Tried updating jailbroken 4.3.3 iphone to ios 5

[blackice445]

So I made a dumb mistake by trying to update my jailbroken iphone from 4.3.3 to ios 5. It obviously didnt work and now my phone is stuck in recovery mode. I dont know what to do. I tried deleting the hosts or whatever and trying to restore back to 4.3.3 but its not working. What can I do?

[2k1]

Start it up in dfu mode and ya should be good. You will have to do a fresh restore updating to iOS 5.

[blackice445]

Oh yeaah another thing I cant put it in dfu mode. It just keeps on turning back on and to recovery mode( shows usb cord to connect to itunes).

[2k1]

You connect to you pc or Mac and tried dfu mode?

[blackice445]

Also what is a fresh restore? Does that mean I will lose all my previous data. I was smart enough to do a back up before attempting to upgrade my iphone though.

[2k1]

Yes that's correct but as long as you backed up everthing before ya should be good to go.

[blackice445]

So say I successfully restored to ios 5 , my backup that was ios 4.3.3 would still work? Would it ask me if I wanted to use my last back up?

So can you give me like list of what I need to do? My phone has been in recovery mode for like 4 hours. Its very frustrating.

I also keep on getting error 3194 even though I've looked up how to fix it and tried clearing the hosts files. Its not working. Please help!

[risestar]

You will get 3194 if your hosts are pointing to saurik as his server is overloaded. Make sure you put a

#

In front of all the gs.apple.com entries in hosts file and itunes will look to verify with apple again

[organistik]

Hi there!
I got the same kind of problem here, with an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2, both on jailbroken 4.3.3. I intended to update them "the official" way and lose the jailbreak but the update process always failed: the update file was downloaded well, and during the file check that just follows the download itself, I always got an error message saying the downloaded file was probably damaged during download and that I should check my connexion. After a dozen tries, always the same error at the same point.

I decided to download the IPSW from the internet myself and do a Restore in iTunes instead of an update. iTunes starts expanding the archive (what goes well) and then preparers the iPhone for the restore process. And there, an unknown error occurs (numbered 21 for the iPhone and 14 for the iPad) saying the iPhone/iPad can't be restored. I also tried quite a few times, and always got the same error at the same moment. And since I've tried the restore way, both iPhone and iPad are stuck in Recovery Mode!!

I've tried RecBoot, iRecovery and TinyUmbrella's Fix Recovery without any success. I've spent my whole yesterday surfing the internet for advice or solutions but couldn't find any helpful trick...

I now feel halfway between crazy and desperate...!! http://modmyi.com/images/smilies/facepalm.gif
Any help would be EXTREMELY appreciated!!

[joeycat]

Hey Guys,

I just executed the update to an un-jailbroken iOS 5. I am posting the process I used for you guys because I see that there have been a few problems and I had to do a little research myself before attempting this. I hope this helps you all!

10/18/2011
iOS 4.3.3 - Jailbroken by redsn0ww_win_0.9.6rc16
Update iTunes
Backup in iTunes
Download iOS
Run notepad as administrator
open hosts file under: CWindows\System32\drivers\etc
Put the # back in the entry: 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com
Used Restore in iTunes - Cancelled (notified i had not transfered purchased items so I wanted to Sync real quick)
Synced iPhone
Backed up again
Restore (took about 5-10 minutes) Restored from backup after phone reset (about 10 minutes)
Set location services, WiFi Networks, Signed in with Apple ID, Accepted T&Cs, Selected "Don't Use iCloud (Ill set up later), Diagnostics "Don't Send" - I like my privacy, Start Using iPhone, Setup passcode.
And Done!


hope that helps!