iPad 1 jailbroken 4.3.1 - how update to 5.0.1?

I did answer you somewhere else on this!

Follow our tutorial. It is the ONLY way to do what you want. If you don't have saved SHSH Blobs you are completely out of luck. - http://www.ipadforums.net/jailbreak...ade-ipad1-5-0-1-using-shsh-blobs-redsn0w.html

Good luck!

 

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You don't get 5.0.1 blobs by having 5.0.1 installed. You need them FIRST to be allowed to install 5.0.1. You get them by requesting them from Apple when they were providing them. If you have been jailbroken in the past or you have used TinyUmbrella or Cydia to save them, then you are good. If not, then you are out of luck. There is no way to get them now. You will just need to wait patiently for an 5.1 jailbreak, and nobody knows when that will arrive.

See our FAQ here for more details on blobs - http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-hacking/59291-shsh-blobs-faq-new-improved-2012-a.html

 

Pretty much. You should start saving your SHSH Blobs today. Whilst you can only get 5.1 (because that is the current IOS), you will at least have them. As soon as Apple release a new version of IOS they stop signing 5.1, so you can't get blobs for that version any more. It's important to start today so you have the potential safety net. With an iPad1 and saved blobs you can restore that version any time you choose, even if it is old.

Follow this tutorial here to get started - http://www.ipadforums.net/jailbreak...01-how-save-your-shsh-blobs-tinyumbrella.html

 

And feel free to have a good read through all the stickies in here and our sub-hacking forums. They contain a wealth of info which may help you in the future!

Also, since you have an iPad1, you can consider a tethered jailbreak. It really isn't a chore with the iPad1 since we don't normally have to reboot our devices very often. My iPad1 is jailbroken on 5.1 and it working great. I haven't rebooted it again since the day I installed over a month ago!

http://www.ipadforums.net/jailbreak...orial-jailbreak-ipad1-ios5-using-redsn0w.html

 

I would honestly suggest you do go to 5.1. 5.0.1 on the iPad1 is not a great firmware. They made a lot of optimisations in 5.1 to reduce the memory usage on iPad1 and it runs much better. Lots of folks hated 5.0.1 on the iPad1.
Even an untehtered jailbreak isn't much fun if apps are crashing all the time due to low memory. 5.1 is much better IMHO.

I suspect 5.1 may be the last great firmware on the iPad1 if things progress as they have in the iPhone world.

 

With everything saved/backed up - the best thing for you is to connect your iPad1 to iTunes and press the "Restore" button on the main Summary tab. iTunes should install iOS 5.1.1 onto that iPad (the newest iOS for the iPad1 - and arguably the most stable). Once the iOS is on the iPad, do NOT elect to restore from backup - choose to restore from new. Only set the iPad up enough to be able to access WiFi.

Then, jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 using Absinthe 2.0. Here is the tutorial: http://www.ipadforums.net/showthread.php?t=77390

Once the jail break is done, connect your iPad to iTunes and right click on it. Select "restore from backup" to put all your apps (and data) back on the iPad.

Then, you can run PKGBackup to restore the Cydia tweaks. Although - that may give you some issue as it's never a good thing to restore tweaks after a major iOS upgrade. You might want to put them all back on one-by-one to make sure you don't have conflicts.

It'll take a bit of time - but at the end you should have an iPad1 that is running iOS 5.1.1 and jailbroken.

Good luck and let us know how you get on.

Marilyn

P.S. I deleted your other thread you started today on this same topic. Making more than one post not only fragments the conversation and makes it hard to follow - it's against the forum rules. Please keep any follow-ups, discussion or updates on this topic to this thread; do not start another. Thanks for your understanding.