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can i downgrade my ios 6 to 5.1.1 of my iphone ?

can i downgrade my ios 6 to 5.1.1 of my iphone ?

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 7:16 AM

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Sep 28, 2012 7:55 AM in response to acc4itune

Yesterday night, at home I sincronized with iCloud on the Wi-Fi and I recovered all my settings and data (except the music, that is only in my notebook).


So I am in iOS6 as before (I tried to downgrade to 5.1.1). With AppleMaps without sound, blue arrow,and recalculations.


HOPE: Apple will recognize the big mistake and will permit to download Google Maps from its application store.


Knowing how big Companies react in particular when need to declare a huge failure, we could be talking about a couple of months ... maybe December 1st ...


What do you think?

Sep 28, 2012 1:15 PM in response to Ing Eduardo calderon

I upgraded to ios 6 on my iPad 2 GSM model on launch day and noticed how bad Apple Maps was as well as the removal of the native youtube app. I think its terrible that Apple have removed these 2 great apps.


Anyway, i downgraded mine back ios 5.1.1 pretty much 1 hour after upgrading. I was able to do this no problem. Although I was not able to restore from a ios 6 backup, it could only be done from a previous ios 5 backup and it had to be a backup done on the computer. ICloud wouldnt work.


Today I was at a friends house and my friend wanted to downgrade his iPad 2 wifi model back. So I tried to do a restore with the correct firmware and was greeted with "This device isn't eligible for the requested build". I guess that Apple have closed the door to the downgrading signing window. Which is a massive problem for a lot of people.


Thank god I downgraded mine when I noticed what ios 6 was like.

Jan 12, 2013 3:33 PM in response to Ing Eduardo calderon

GUYSS ,, first of all hello 🙂 ,, i'm sorry to tell you that there is no way to downgrade the A5 , A5X , A6 , A6X devices , because the IOS 5.1.1 isn't signed by apple and it blocked it ,, so you can't do anything , but the A4 devices you can downgrade it and easily do it ,, i hope that there will be a solution. I really worked on that to know this new ,, thank you




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can i downgrade my ios 6 to 5.1.1 of my iphone ?

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