Successful Restore?

[phatcamaro]

So what happened was my 3G was on 3.1.2 jailbroken with blackra1n. After failing to successfully installed android on it it blacked out my screen and to get it back on I needed to restore. From what i read i thought if you had to restore you were forced to get the newest firmware, but just for the heck of it i downloaded 3.1.2 and did shift + restore to see if it would restore to that firmware. It worked perfectly. Should i be surprised this worked, or was i misunderstanding and you just can't go from a newer firmware to and older one?

[i.Annie]

Its supposed to work on a 3G. 3G phones can restore to 3.1.x from any firmware including 4.0/1 without SHSH blobs saved.

[elcaptain0069]

So what happened was my 3G was on 3.1.2 jailbroken with blackra1n. After failing to successfully installed android on it it blacked out my screen and to get it back on I needed to restore. From what i read i thought if you had to restore you were forced to get the newest firmware, but just for the heck of it i downloaded 3.1.2 and did shift + restore to see if it would restore to that firmware. It worked perfectly. Should i be surprised this worked, or was i misunderstanding and you just can't go from a newer firmware to and older one?

That is how it is suppossed to work. You should be good to go.


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