Wayne Marsh

After a couple calls to Apple Support and a trip to the local Apple
Store, the diagnosis is a broken iPad Original.

The IOS 5 update goes fine until the restore firmware step. It gets
about 90% through that, then fails. My totally speculative theory is
that there's a flaw in the firmware area of the iPad's memory, but it
didn't show up until the 100 MB-fatter IOS 5 firmware load was attempted.

I've downloaded the IOS 4.3.5 ipsw file, but iTunes won't let me install
it. What are my options? I haven't been interested in jailbreaking the
iPad, until now. Would that allow me to back down to IOS 4.3.5? How do I
do that?

Are there any other options besides throwing the iPad onto the Pile o'
Electronic Hazardous Waste?

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Wayne Marsh Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
waynegmarsh@mac.com

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In article <waynegmarsh-D8CB61.20164220102011@news.iphouse.com>, Wayne
Marsh <waynegmarsh@mac.com> wrote:

> After a couple calls to Apple Support and a trip to the local Apple
> Store, the diagnosis is a broken iPad Original.
>
> The IOS 5 update goes fine until the restore firmware step. It gets
> about 90% through that, then fails. My totally speculative theory is
> that there's a flaw in the firmware area of the iPad's memory, but it
> didn't show up until the 100 MB-fatter IOS 5 firmware load was attempted.
>
> I've downloaded the IOS 4.3.5 ipsw file, but iTunes won't let me install
> it. What are my options? I haven't been interested in jailbreaking the
> iPad, until now. Would that allow me to back down to IOS 4.3.5? How do I
> do that?

there's no going back unless you saved an shsh blob when 4.3.5 was the
latest, and since you are asking the question, you more than likely
didn't.

> Are there any other options besides throwing the iPad onto the Pile o'
> Electronic Hazardous Waste?

try putting it into dfu mode (google for how) and doing a full restore
using option-restore on a mac, shift-restore on windows.

Brian

Wayne Marsh <waynegmarsh@mac.com> wrote:
> After a couple calls to Apple Support and a trip to the local Apple
> Store, the diagnosis is a broken iPad Original.
>
> The IOS 5 update goes fine until the restore firmware step. It gets
> about 90% through that, then fails. My totally speculative theory is
> that there's a flaw in the firmware area of the iPad's memory, but it
> didn't show up until the 100 MB-fatter IOS 5 firmware load was attempted.
>
> I've downloaded the IOS 4.3.5 ipsw file, but iTunes won't let me install
> it. What are my options? I haven't been interested in jailbreaking the
> iPad, until now. Would that allow me to back down to IOS 4.3.5? How do I
> do that?
>
> Are there any other options besides throwing the iPad onto the Pile o'
> Electronic Hazardous Waste?

It kind of puts me off upgrading.
I hope there is a bug free iOS 5.1 soon.

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Regards Brian

Jolly Roger

In article
<1412160859340881430.080860bclark-es.co.nz@free.teranews.com>,
Brian <bclark@es.co.nz> wrote:

> Wayne Marsh <waynegmarsh@mac.com> wrote:
> > After a couple calls to Apple Support and a trip to the local Apple
> > Store, the diagnosis is a broken iPad Original.
> >
> > The IOS 5 update goes fine until the restore firmware step. It gets
> > about 90% through that, then fails. My totally speculative theory is
> > that there's a flaw in the firmware area of the iPad's memory, but it
> > didn't show up until the 100 MB-fatter IOS 5 firmware load was attempted.
> >
> > I've downloaded the IOS 4.3.5 ipsw file, but iTunes won't let me install
> > it. What are my options? I haven't been interested in jailbreaking the
> > iPad, until now. Would that allow me to back down to IOS 4.3.5? How do I
> > do that?
> >
> > Are there any other options besides throwing the iPad onto the Pile o'
> > Electronic Hazardous Waste?
>
> It kind of puts me off upgrading.
> I hope there is a bug free iOS 5.1 soon.

There's no such thing as bug-free software.

That said, the problem Wayne is describing isn't a bug in iOS 5.

Lots of people have upgraded their iPad 1s without issue - myself
included.

If Apple told me "this iPad is broken", I'd ask for more details about
how, exactly, it's broken.

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