I installed iOS 5 without being part of the iPhone dev program, how can I downgrade?

[cliko]

Being the idiot that I am, I tried to install iOS 5 on my iPod Touch 4G, without reading that I needed to be part of the iPhone Dev Program. Now, it wont let me revert to iOS 4 or use iOS 5. iTunes says "this device is not registered as part of the iphone developer program". So is there any way that I can downgrade to iOS 4 or use iOS 5 without paying the $100?

If i found a way to use iOS 5, the first thing I'd do would be downgrade back to iOS 4 because I feel like a total tool. I am not trying to get a UDID registration slot or whatever.

And btw I know I'm an idiot so please dont try to lecture me lol

 

[blueroom]

Well if you continued to read you'd soon see you cannot downgrade. You'll have to restore it as new.

 

[cliko]

So how can I restore my iPod touch? There are no buttons on the iTunes iPod window.

 

[NutsNGum]

Generally speaking, you can't downgrade at all. You'll just need to wait until the Gold Master arrives.

That said, if you can find a Dev willing to add your iPod to their testing devices within their license, that'll allow it to run.

Make a thread in the Developers and coding section, you might get a friendly dev willing to help you out. They get 100 or so devices to add so chances are they might have a free space.

 

[cliko]

will do, thank you so much!!

 

[ohaithar]

Apple is still signing on to 4.3.3
So if you have your SHSH blobs saved up, you should be able to downgrade

 

[Kaydin]

Yup. Just get into DFU, and restore to iOS 4.3.3.

 

[SDub90]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

You *may* have to download tiny umbrella and use "kick out of recovery" first - in fact, that should be all that you have to do.

 

[jacksam101]

From the Apple Dev site "Read Before Downloading section"

"Devices updated to iOS 5 beta can not be restored to earlier versions of iOS. Devices will be able to upgrade to future beta releases and the final iOS 5 software."

 

[Insilin1i]

Just enter DFU and click restore on itunes and it should bring you back to 4.3.3? Worked fine on my iPhone.

 

[Sjhonny]

Generally speaking, you can't downgrade at all. You'll just need to wait until the Gold Master arrives.

That said, if you can find a Dev willing to add your iPod to their testing devices within their license, that'll allow it to run.

Make a thread in the Developers and coding section, you might get a friendly dev willing to help you out. They get 100 or so devices to add so chances are they might have a free space.

It's against forum policy to ask for them ... States the post above the stickies.

 

[Tashier]

I'm in the same boat

Since I'm a windows user and couldn't update to iTunes 10.5 Beta 9 I stupidly updated to IOS Beta not realizing I'd be locked out. So I'm in the same boat. PM me if need be, thanks.

 

[Migi]

Since I'm a windows user and couldn't update to iTunes 10.5 Beta 9 I stupidly updated to IOS Beta not realizing I'd be locked out. So I'm in the same boat. PM me if need be, thanks.

i have the same problem, with my iPad2. did you solve the problem perhaps?
hope to hear from you. thanks in advance

 

[fenderbass146]

i have the same problem, with my iPad2. did you solve the problem perhaps?
hope to hear from you. thanks in advance

I don't get it what the problem is....DFU restore you set....