iPhone Techie

Just last week I have written an article on TinyUmbrella and how it has been updated to Version 4.02.04.

It is important to save SHSH Blobs (ECID SHSH) files of your iPhones iOS 4.0.2, iPod Touch Devices and iPad 3.2.2 Devices so you can easily downgrade later on if you ever get in a bind.

Semaphore the Developer behind the TinyUmbrealla utility has announced that he will be updating his Application “TinyUmbrella” will numerous new features in the near future.

Here’s a few of the ideas he is working on for the TinyUmbrella:

● Device History: TinyUmbrella will remember device information of devices that have connected so that saving SHSH’s for those devices in the future no longer requires you to connect the device.

● Save All SHSH’s Available “On-File” at Cydia: TinyUmbrella will now automatically check Cydia for ALL SHSHs for the connected device (or device from history )

● TinyUmbrella will also help you detect what application is running on your computer that is taking up port 80 and will give you the option to kill that application. This should help many of you that don’t know what application may be listening on port 80 (ie. Skype)

● TinyUmbrella will also tell you what firmware versions you can safely downgrade or restore to whenever you connect the device (or select a device from history)

● TinyUmbrella will be sporting a cleaner UI based on some of the great suggestions from @chpwn (a friend and fellow chronic dev team associate)

● Support for PowerPC and more stable runtime for folks having problems running TinyUmbrella for odd and various reasons.

Long term plans for TinyUmbrealla include:

● Activation Support: I’ve started looking into the way the phone requests (and obtains) activation from apple’s servers. I’m confident I can duplicate this process but I have more investigation as the the process is incredibly complicated.

● Full Restore Support without iTunes: I’m looking at implementing my own complete restore mechanism. I have not decided if I’ll directly use @p0sixninja’s libirestore or whether I’ll try to do something that hasn’t been done before… ie in java

You can find our tutorials on how to save your SHSH Blobs with Firmware Umbrella on my site and here is some info for it listed below

As always, I can not stress this fact enough but… If you have your SHSH blobs on file, you can downgrade from a higher iOS back to iOS 4.0.2, 4.0.1 or earlier should you need to.

This version of TinyUmbrella is also compatible with iPad OS 3.2.2 and you can now also save your iPad’s blobs using this software. I do “very strongly” recommend you to save your SHSH blobs because this is the only way identified yet which will allow you to downgrade your iDevice’s software to previous versions.

DOWNLOAD TinyUmbrella

Download TinyUmbrella 4.02.04 (Windows)
Download TinyUmbrella 4.02.04 (Mac OS X)
Download TinyUmbrella 4.02.04 (Linux)

How to Downgrade iPad 3.2.2 back to 3.2.1 or earlier and Jailbreak again.

How to Downgrade iPhone 4, 3Gs, 3G, iPod Touch from 4.0.2 back to 4.0.1 or earlier and Jailbreak again.

TinyUmbrella Tutorial How To

Use the step by step guide posted below to save your SHSH blobs (ECID SHSH) of iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod touch 2G/3G on iOS 4.0.2 and iPad without having to jailbreak your device.

Step 1: Download the latest version of  TinyUmbrella for Windows, Mac or Linux. (Download links listed above)

Step 2: Make sure you are running iTunes > 9.0. iTunes 9.2 or higher is recommended.

Step 3: Start the program and plug in any ONE of the supported iDevices (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch).

Step 4: Click on “Save My SHSH”,  TinyUmbrella will now grab the signature for you.

It will be enabled again once a ticket has been generated to save it to saurik’s server.

This is it ! You should be safe now. Make sure you save the signature for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on file before Apple releases the next firmware. TinyUmbrella is very easy to use and most importantly it will save you A$$ in future should you ever have to downgrade again.

Click Read More to find out about the updates and features from the Developer himself on his blog.