64 CommentsLater today I posted the QuickPwn 2.1 tutorial and I was reminded by a commenter that this type of tutorial is only good if you’re already on an “up-to-date iPhone”, meaning that in this case, this tutorial is only good if you already have 2.1 running.
Now what happens if you are still running on an older firmware, let’s say 2.0? Well, if you hit this Restore button, you will lose all your Cydia apps and cool customizations. Do you really want that? Of course not.
As highlighted by BigBoss, you never want to upgrade on a jailbroken iPhone. If you upgrade, you will lose about 500MB of space. If you do that again on the other update, you will lose another 500MB, and so on. This space will only be recovered after a restore. The data loss is because Cydia moves your files around to free up space. The moved files become inaccessible but stay on your disk which means you essentially just lose the space.
To prevent this from happening, simply restore! Do not upgrade! Follow these few steps to upgrade from 2.X to 2.1 without losing any of your apps.
- If you haven’t yet, upgrade your iTunes to iTunes 8. You can find the direct link from our iPhone Downloads section.
- Install AptBackup from Cydia and run it. It will backup all your apps and put them in a location that will be backed up by iTunes in the next step.
- Sync/backup your iPhone with iTunes. Do the full on backup. Yes, I know, it’s probably gonna take a while but you have to.
- Restore. Just click “Restore” in iTunes and let iTunes put the latest firmware on your iPhone. Again, this might take some time but be patient.
- If you are a legit iPhone user, meaning that you have a legit AT&T contract, activate your iPhone with iTunes. If you are an “unlocker” (this is for iPhone 2G users), you will see the “slide for emergency” message. Do not do anything else. Do not restore your backup yet. Simply unplug your iPhone.
- Now let’s jailbreak the phone. Again, do not restore your backup yet! To jailbreak your iPhone, use QuickPwn by following this QuickPwn tutorial for Windows and this QuickPwn for Mac guide.
- Once your iPhone is jailbroken, go to Cydia and install AptBackup again. It is the most important step so don’t fuck it up! Again, go to Cydia and install AptBackup. Also install Open SSH and BossPrefs.
- Ok, now we can restore the backup. So plug your iPhone in and iTunes will ask you to set up as a new phone or restore from backup. Restore from your latest backup.
- If everything goes fine, iTunes will restore all your stuff, such as notes, photos, email accounts, etc… Now we have to restore your Cydia apps. Open AptBackup and tap “Restore”. It should reinstall all your apps from Cydia. AptBackup may not be visible. To see it, just open BossPrefs, and look it up in the “hidden icons” section. Tap it to unhide it. You may also unhide any other hidden icons.
- Done!
I would like to thank BigBoss for showing me the way, although he doesn’t know… Bigups to the B O S S, aka BigBoss.
Your step 4 (now) reads: “Restore. Just click “Restore” in iTunes and let iTunes put the latest firmware on your iPhone. Again, this might take some time but be patient.”. Should this not be UPGRADE (instead of RESTORE)?! Since step 8 (and only then) asks for the restore…
@Paul – No. Hit Restore. If you hit Upgrade, it will eat up all your disk space.
Thanks, worked perfectly!!! (iPhone 2G from 2.01 jailbroken/unlocked)
I followed your steps carefully, and it all worked untill I was going sync and restore my iPhone 3G.
Then my iPhone showed up in iTunes, but only to the left below: Devices. I couldn’t sync my iPhone and restore my apps etc. : (
I had 2.0.2 jailbroken, iPhone 3G…
is there a way to delet the cydia app. if you u update. because i did and and lost about 200mb. is there a way like iphonebrowser? please need help.
@Noob – it’s not cydia that causes the loss of space. It is YOU “upgrading” instead of “restoring”. At this point there is nothing to do but restoring to a clean set up.
so how do i do that? please help.
If my jailbroken iphone 3g 2.0.1 was a little messed up when I fully backed it up (one time it crashed and ended up staying with the phone icon always opened to the dialer where nothing could be clicked eventually went back to home screen after approx 5sec + all my icons appeared across the top to about 7 tabs/pages with every page randomly having anywhere from 1-4 icons), what are the chances that transfers over to my newly jailbroken 2.1? Think it would be better to start from scratch with new apps all around since many had to be updated and the fact that I didn’t use all of them? Also anyone heard of that problem I had, maybe like what cydia/installer/app store app might have done that or where would be a good place to ask someone?
Sebastien, I think I ficked up with my iphone 8 gig. It was working great, till I conected to itunes 8, it tells me there’s new updates. Iclicked update and insall. that took about 2 Hours and after it was all done, now when I turne my phone on I get the connect to itunes screen with emergency only slider on.
When I slide it on, I only get the # pad for phone only. I can not see or use anything else on there. could you please help.
Thanks.
Hello Michael,
My recommendation would simply be to restore your iPhone in iTunes. Once it’s restored, do not choose “restore from back up”, but “restore a new phone”. This way it will overwrite any files that may have been messed up when you updated.
Sebastien
Hi,
My problem is same as 9.Michael. As you said I cannot find the Restore or the Upgrade button anymore in Itunes 8. Can you please tell how to restore
thnks in advance
Vikram
“If you are an “unlocker” (this is for iPhone 2G users), you will see the “slide for emergency” message. Do not do anything else. Do not restore your backup yet. Simply unplug your iPhone.”
So when you see this “slide for emergency” are you suppose to slide it or unplug the iPhone when that appears?
I’ll be upgrading a 3g with firmware 2.0 that is already jailbroken.
I have downloaded the quickpwn software from several sources but each time I scan them it says the file contains Trojan Horse Generic12.HNC – I have just recovered my computer from an extremely band virus infection (I needed to totally wipe the machine) so am reluctant to install anything that looks suspicious. Does anyone know where I can download a clean version of this software?
ok i had jailbreak on my phone already and i had to restore so i go to install it again and i cannot find a source that does not contain the same virus trojan.generic12 and even if i try to install anyway there is something wrong with the file now pls somebody help i need jailbreak on my phone again im lost without it i need a reliable source without the virus problem pls help
I managed to upgrade to 2.1 without using quickpwn by downloading the custom restore file and following the instructions from this website. Very straightforward and worked fine. (nb 2g phone using itunes 8).
Sorry here is the link:
http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/upgrade-a-jailbroken-iphone/
in step 4 it says click restore and let iTunes install the latest firmware. I did this and it reinstalled 2.0.2 and not 2.1…..am I doing something wrong?
just realised I hadn’t upgraded to iTunes 8….its working now
Sebastien:
I have been reading the posts on unlocking the first generation iphone. We recently purchased 3 new 3G iphones and have 3 old iphones that we would like to sell on ebay. I am clueless in what to do to the old iphones. They still have all of our old information on them (contacts, calendar, photos, email accounts, etc). They also still have sim cards in them. What do you suggest that I do?
I did all the steps, but after the restore from Itunes none of my app from apple store were there. Neither my videos or pics. But my contacts, emails and otehr stuff was there.
Thanks and if yu can tell me why these happenes I will appreciate it for futures updates.
So a quick question, where does this file reside? Is there a way that I can do a “clean” install of the phone (instead of restoring from backup) and manually SSH the aptBackup file over to the newly restored phone?
I’ve found in the past that I tend to have better luck with upgrades when I don’t try to restore settings from iTunes because it usually carries over some problem or another from the last version that I’m trying to fix with the upgrade.
Info on the filename, where it is backed up by iTunes (on a Mac) and where it should be placed on the iPhone – would all be appreciated!
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I did the steps, but I must not have done a full backup. When I went to “restore” from aptBackup, it said I had nothing backed up to restore. rats. Everything else came back, though.
has anyone had a problem with quickpwn not seeing the 2.1 and 2.2 firmware packs? had the same problem with RC3 not seeing 2.0.1 pack, i currently have the 2.2 tool but it doesn’t see the later firmwares.
Hi. i have been reading websites for over 2 days trying to restore my iphone as to the state i bought it but have been miserable. here is why: i have seen so many numbers that now i really dont know what version i was using before this. (because mine is a 2nd owned phone, i just acquired it through purchase)The iphone 16gb has no contents and i continue to use the phone with ever connecting it to itunes for 2 days and its great; i connect to itunes to get apps.
I connect to itunes v8 and i name my phone and i m prompted to update the version to 2.2 since there is an update available and I click it stupidly. The update takes about 10-15mins and all is done. I stare at my iphone and it shows the screen with a “usb drive connecting to itunes”. What am I really supposed to do here? I really have not unlocked or jailbroken a phone as of yet and I dont seem to get what they really mean.
So far, I have tried done these: Upgrading the firmware patch manually by > from the slide for emergency screen, pressing the power button and home button simultaneously for 15sec and then letting go of power button and only holding home button for another 15secs while connected to itunes v8, itunes now detctects the iphone and says it is in restore mode. But the iphone is actually switched off. then i get a v1.0.0 firmware file > clicking restore with shift n selecting it in itunes > getting the error then opening. I open AppTappInstaller and check the box “firmware v.1.0.0″ and let it run but when the DOS screen opens, it says finding for iphone and never ever finds it so i close the program. I cant switch the iphone back on so i do another restore automatically by just clicking the itunes restore button and i get error again. i tried even using ziphone 3.0 to “do it all” and nothing happens. I really dont know what to do. i m stuck! can someone please help me
Follow the steps in the first post with exception of instead of DLing 2.1 download quickpwn 2.2and firmware 2.2 then do a shift+click restore select the 2.2 firmware you downloaded. And Ziphone is only good for 1.1.4, it won’t work for 2.0 or later. after you restore the phone run quickpwn and follow the program prompts and the instruction in the 1st post, they will still apply with the exceptions noted, oh yea make sure you have the latest version of iTunes
How are you doing? I jailbroke my 1st gen 8Gig iphone about a month ago but I had a memory issue when I jailbroke it. iTunes said I was using about 5 gigs of other info, today I restored my phone & used the aptbackup before I did & after the restore none of my jailbroken apps were on on my home screen cydia or anything. But it still has my numeric battery & my custom name for my phone carrier, could someone please let me know how to get all of my jailbroken apps back? Thanks in advance.
Hi
in your explanition, u say to install the last firmware…i actually have a jaibroken and unlocked iphone 2g with 2.0.1, should i go ahead and install latest fw as written in 4. 5. and 6? how will i go to 2.1 . i think the latest fw is 2.2?! is qpwn gonna reverse it for me? sorry for all the questions. best regards and happy new year.
Oh and by the way, will jailbreak maintain my iphone unlocked to all sim cards?
Hi AG,
You can’t do that as it will cancel your unlock. I suggest you start from scratch, meaning that you restore your iPhone with firmware 2.2, then set up the phone as a new phone (not from backup), and then follow these steps to unlock your iPhone.
Sebastien
didn´t work mate, itunes does not recognize the iphone, it says it needs a valid sim to acitvate it. i have to return to Ziphone and go back to basic 2.0.1. unlock and jailbreak
I followed every single step here and almost everything could be saved from the fire except all the videos that I had recorded with cycorder…
thanks a lot for typing up this guide anyway, it was extremelly helpful.
/kitus
Updated my iPhone to 2.2 yesterday. Now, my SIM card says there is no service, yet it works fine in other phones. Ideas?
Is jailbroken and unlocked the same thing?
if you have a 3g iphone that is 2.1, and its already jailbroken… and now that u want to update it to 2.2, will you loose everything? or will u still keep everything u already have and the hack is still workign fine?
I am hoping that someone can help me please. I brought this phone off a friend a couple of weeks ago and it was already updated to firmware 2.2 but the modem firmware is 04.05.04_G and i have a UK T Mobile contract. I have spent days trying all sorts of tutorials that are on the internet and can jailbreak the phone and reset the firmware back to earlier versions and all sorts unlock the phone without any success. The modem firmware just will not come up with the 2.28 baseband and stays on 04.05.04_G no matter what i have tried to do. Is there anyone who knows what i can do to sort this out please as i really need to unlock this phone to use it otherwise its useless to me
Thankyou very much if someone can
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I was really glad to find this article on upgrading a jailbroken iPhone. I was nervous about doing this myself, because I had someone jailbreak my phone for me. I read the article and waited for 2.2.1 and followed the directions with appbackup and I had no problem at all. I was worried about the Cydia backup taking so long, but I had loaded so many things it took a while. It is now fantastic, all the previous downloaded files were there and everything on my iPhone as well. I have to say this was the most precise web article I have read. If anyone is worried about doing this themselves, read all about QuickPwn and do everything as instructed and you will end up with a new improved iPhone and love it even more.
Okay, look, I know a lot of this stuff here is tech support-ish-y, but I just want to say THANK YOU!!! and, of course, thanks to the Dev-Team folks!!! and to the AptBackup family, too!!!
This is awesome… had jailbroken the 3g in my hand under the 2.1 firmware and was hesitant to move forward. Read these instructions and actually thought it was more complicated than it is… but this is easy as cake (you know, flour, water, sugar, baking soda, vinegar, cocoa and oil… MAD easy)…
i have a iphone 3g and its jailbroken just recently it started saying no sim but the sim works on every other phone i put the sim in CAN AnY1 HELP?????
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Is this still the right procedure for iphone OS 3.0?
the Jailbreak for 3.0 is not out as far as I know. my suggestion is to wait to upgrade till the Dev team comes out with the new jailbreak
These steps to upgrade an already jailbroken phone are helpful but IMHO they are sort of unclear due to unclear writing. Here’s my point:
In the second paragraph, the author states that if you ‘Restore’ you will ‘lose all your cool customizations’, and then asks: ‘Do you really want that? Of course not!. So, he essentially is making a point that doing a ‘Restore’ is a bad thing. (At least that is my take from reading it)
Then in the next two paragraphs the author states that to prevent problems (losing the 500MB of space) that you need to ‘Restore’ rather than ‘Upgrade’. Ok, this is all true, but the juxtaposition of the second paragraph with these following two seem contradictory. I understand what to do (I have done this process 2-3 times) but I find these steps and commentary to be unclear and really have to ‘read between the lines’ to understand the real process. Why does he bother to mention how bad a ‘Restore is (losing all your settings) if he then says to do a ‘Restore’ later on without reconciling the seemingly contradictory instructions?
The only reason I am critiqueing this in such a way as to appear to ‘nitpick’ is that I find that the folks putting out the apps to do jailbreaking like to slam folks who don’t bother to read instructions, and I guess I agree with this criticism for the most part. However, for those of us who do take the time to read, often times instructions are poorly written, imprecise, can be taken to mean different things if you read them closely enough. So in this sense if you *do* try to read instructions carefully, if they are poorly written it’s almost a detriment. Just my $0.02.
-jonR
JONR-
There are two different types of ‘Restore’. There is the kind of ‘Restore’ you do when you ‘Restore from Backup’ and then there is the other kind of ‘Restore’ (instead of ‘Upgrade’) you do if you are experiencing problems with your iPhone and you need to restore its original settings (it cleans everything out and gives you a fresh start) and it lets iTunes put the latest firmware on your iPhone. He talks about ‘Restore’ being a bad because you will lose all your Cydia apps and cool customizations. This is true IF you don’t do his step# 2 (which is backing up your things from Cydia through AptBackup). In step# 8, he talks about the ‘Restore from Backup’ which puts all the settings, text messages, and other things it backed up during the sync/backup into your phone AFTER you do the other ‘Restore’.
Hope this helps.
msfabulousamu,
Right, I know that there are two types of ‘Restore’, and I made my comment in spite of the fact that I know the distinction between the two.
The two mentions of ‘Restore’ that I referred to in my first posting that the author mentioned were *both* the ‘instead of Upgrade’ type of Restore. It seems to me that the instructions cite this one type of ‘Restore’ as something you don’t want to do, then in the next paragraph you get instructed to do it. That was my point, it seems contradictory in how it’s worded. In other words, I’m not talking about the ‘Restore from backup’ that he mentions in step #8.
Btw, just so everyone knows, I appreciate the steps, I’m familiar with the process and they have been very helpful to me and I’m not criticising them to be mean spirited; I just think they can be improved by cleaning up the parts that can be perceived to be contradictory.
Also, getting back to the dual use of the word ‘Restore’ that you clearly explained: I’ve always felt that Apple/iTunes should have come up with different words to help differentiate the two types of ‘Restore’. It’s really sort of silly that two different processes are given the same name. Well, maybe the processes aren’t different, but the type of data that each action deals with is different and thus IMHO deserve to be called a different name for clarity sake. Just my $0.02
-jonR
Heyguys new redsnow is out, u might wanna try it out instead of qpwn! yay! crap, i frgt 2 use aptbackup
all of my stuff died. now i have to reinstall everything.
how do u backup?
on step 3 it says sync/backup…..do i just sync it?
I recently restored my iPod touch 2g (same difference) and tried using backup intead of setting up as new iPod. It put ~200mb of “other” memory on, so I had to restore again and set up as new iPod to avoid that. So how could I use aptbackup without restoring from backup?
For anyone with the same concern I had, I figured out what to do. Do a If you had same concern as me, here: backup in the aptbackup application, then ssh the three files (two .tgz and one .txt) that have the word aptbackup in them onto your computer (from the folder /var/mobile/library/preferences). Then when your iPhone gets messed up, restore, set up as new iPod, jailbreak, ssh files back on, get aptbackup from cydia, restore yor apps. If you don’t want to lose notes/contacts/etc., when you sync your iPhone, go to info tab in iTunes and sync you calender, your contacts, whatever.
Hi,
I want to upgrade my 1st gen 1.1.4 version, 04.04.05 G firmware iphone. I havent synced my phone with itunes since i first jailbroke it with zibri….mainly bc i was afraid something would go wrong. I have no idea where i have a 2G or not. I recently got a new computer and would like to update this phone. As of now i have Installer, Cydia, OpenSSH, and BSD Subsystem on my phone. A few days ago i tried to install things from installer and nothing would work which leads to me wanting to update. My questions are below:
1. should I download itunes 8.0?
2. Can i use the app store?
3. Do i use the process that sebastian explained above?
Basically I need all the help I can get. Thank you guys for the help!
Roney
Hi, sebastien,
I got 2g iphone its jailbroken, i’ve upgraded to 3.0 os, its working perfectly, its 2 year old phone, after 3.0 os instalation the phone started to loose too much battery life, all of a sudden the battery come to red. Is it normal, and one important thing, after 3.0 os installation my iphone not connecting to itunes, i have downloaded recent version of itunes, even then its not syncing to itunes, what should i do?
tell me please
THANKS A LOT YOU BRICKED MY 2 DAYS OLD IPOD TOUCH 2G ASS HOLE IF YOU LIVE NEXT TO ME I WOULD KILL YOU GRAB YOUR WALET AND BUY A NEW ONE LUCKY THIS STORY NEVER HAPPENED XD
Hey Roxas, can’t you read? First paragraph, it says pretty clearly that “this tutorial is only good if you already have 2.1 running.”
Besides, I haven’t heard the term “bricking” an iPhone or iTouch for 2 years. It’s virtually impossible to brick an iDevice these days.
If you hadn’t been such a dick about it, I would have helped you figure out what to do. LUCKY THIS STORY NEVER HAPPENED as you say…
Peace!
do you have to hit backup in aptbackup before because if you do it is all your fault that i cannot access websheet
hey man to “unbrick” it put it in DFU mode and restore it then
Hi Everybody,
I have an unlocked 2G iPhone and need to UPDATE my firmware FROM 1.1.4. to 3.1.3 (or any version that will let me run iTunes store purchased apps)
I run iTunes 9 and when I plug in my iPhone I do not see the APPLICATIONS, so the app that I purchased from the iTunes store cannot be installed on my iPhone. I don’t know what to do.
I don’t have any extra apps in my iPhone so I don’t mind wiping it out and re-synching it. What I’m afraid of it not being able to use the phone.
Does anybody know what I should do?
Many thanks.
Felipe
get redsn0w, its an all in 1 jailbreak and unlock. then upgrade to 3.1.2 make sure you have downloaded the 3.9 & 4.6 basebands and 3.1.2 firmware pack, put those in the same location (ie. a folder on your desktop) if you need a guide on how use redsn0w go to http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/365988515/reviving-redsn0w and click the wikee link there or you can go to thebigboss.org there are guides there also
Thank you, taliesin.
Fuc*ing post IT FU*KING BLOCKED MY IPHONE… ITS ON THE FU*cING EMERGENCY CALL SCREEN AND MY ORANGE SIM WONT FUC*ING WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF I DOO???????????
I have a unlock and jailbroken iPhone 2g and I have 3.1.2 software I want to update but I’m not sure what will happen can anyone help me
Darnell read my last post, follow the link for the info on a 2G