OK so here is my story. My 3g crashed, just black screen, nothing would work, but when I restored it, it restored to the newer firmware. This isn't good, as i was using yellowsn0w and I am overseas in Australia, and need my phone. So my question is, how do I get back to 02.28.00 or whatever it was. I have the older firmware on my desktop (iPhone1,2_2.2_5G77_Restore) but I need to get this on my phone so I can jailbreak, and unlock it again. I know I made a mistake, I didn't see a choice at the time. So please help me. Thanks in advance.
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Ooops, 2.2.1, HELP!?
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Sorry, but I don't think there is a way to downgrade the baseband, which is why everyone is strictly warned to not upgrade to 2.2.1. I get that you didn't upgrade on purpose, but once the upgrade is done, there's just no going back. Perhaps a hardware sim unlock solution would work for you?
Yea, using the older IPSW won't get it back. So far as I know, you are out of luck.
Word is the Dev team is working on an unlock of 2.2.1 (so we will see)
Well it has been damn unfortunate. I have decided, since I cannot downgrade. I will buy a cheap pay as you go phone, until dev catches up and unlocks this one as well. I think its the cheapest solution, as well as the easiest. I have no idea why my phone crashed. For future reference, is there a way to restore the iphone to older software, my only option was restore and update i thought. Thanks
Just buy an unlocking proxy SIM. It's way cheaper than another phone, and you can still use your iPhone.
When you restore, instead of just clicking restore, you push ctrl+restore or shift+restore, I can never remember which, I think on a Mac it might be option+restore, but anyway, you do one of these combinations, and you get to pick which firmware you want to restore to.
Thanks for all the responses, I think I am a little to late, but I know this for next time it crashes on me. To think, I almost traded it for a storm, until I found out there is no wifi on the storm in australia.
Just for any future readers, this is not true if you need a baseband downgrade. Right now, you can't do that. You can do it but the baseband for 2.30 will still be there and still be locked.
Well, yes. The question I was responding to was *how to restore to an older firmware.* We'd already determined that the baseband can't be downgraded.