iPad 1 jailbroken 4.3.1 - how update to 5.0.1?

Hi.

I've spent all day on this..

- I have an iPad1 (wifi+3G), jailbroken with 4.3.1
- I want to update/upgrade to 5.0.1 (even if I lose all contents)
- I am planning on jailbreaking it again, once 5.0.1 is on it
- I have already backed up my SHSH blobs on redsn0w and iFaith (SHSH blobs are from my current 4.3.1 version)

I DON'T want to update/upgrade to 5.1 - tethered is not an option for me.

But on iTunes I keep getting error 3194. Have tried various ways, fixing hosts with TU or manually, but the error keeps appearing..


Any tips on how to do this?
I feel like I am missing out on something..


Thanks in advance!

 

Hi f4780,

yes you did, but there was no follow-up


Could you please just confirm, that I understood this correctly:

- I need 5.0.1 SHSH blobs, in order to upgrade from 4.3.1 to 5.0.1.
(Naturally, I don't have 5.0.1 blobs, because I have not yet had 5.0.1 istalled on my iPad.)

- Is there any way to get 5.0.1 SHSH blobs, although I have 4.3.1?

- If not, does this mean I CANNOT upgrade to 5.0.1 from 4.3.1??


Thanks!

 

Thanks again

This means I shouldn't have waited so long and upgraded to 5.0.1 earlier, in order to be able to get the 5.0.1 SHSH blobs..

Meaning I am now stuck with 4.3.1 until the 5.1 jailbreak is out...

pitty..


So for future procedures (at least for the iPad).. The logic is: Wait till official "current" Apple iOS is jailbroken, then upgrade to it over iTunes, then jailbreak it?


thanks very much for all the fast help!!

 

If you've had it jailbroken since before march 8 or so Cydia should have saved your 5.0.1 blobs automatically. To double check, open Cydia and at the top it should say SHSH and list all the firmwares it has saved blobs for. If 5.0.1 is on the list use TU to save them on your pc from Cydia and use them and redsnow to build your custom 5.0.1 firmware. check the top of the photo for what I'm talking about.

Just curious, why is tethered not an option? I could count the number of times I've had to boot my iPad in the last 6 months on 1 hand. I know it's preference, it's just tethered on an iPad doesn't sound too bad to me.

Edit: wow I'm a slow poster... In the time it took to type this a conversation took place, lol. I'm leaving this up anyways, considering the time it took to type it.

 

Thanks to both f4780y & jawa6306,

Your comments have been of great help.


You have made me reconsider the tethered jailbreak on 5.0.1 - I was contrary to it because of previous experience on my iPhone... but the iPad has a different kind of usage, AND battery life

Either way if all should end up "going wrong", which I guess it won't, I can always return to my 4.3.1, whose SHSH blobs I DO have..


So thanks again!
Till next time
keep on breakin' em out!