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How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Posted February 3, 2008 at 5:01pm by iClarified
These are instructions on how to downgrade an iPhone that was accidentally upgraded to 1.1.3 Firmware. If your iPhone has the 3.9 Bootloader then it is possible to downgrade the firmware, then downgrade the baseband and get a working phone again.

If you have the 4.6 Bootloader then you must follow the downgrade firmware part of this tutorial and then perform the 1.1.2, 1.1.3 OTB unlock:
How to Unlock Your 1.1.2 - 1.1.3 OTB iPhone

If you are on a Mac you can find these same instructions for Mac here:
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone Using Mac


DOWNGRADE TO 1.1.1
For this you will need iBrickr 0.91, iTunes 7.5, and iPhone Firmware 1.1.1

- Get iTunes 7.5 from: here
- Download iBrickr 0.91 from: here or here
- Download iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 from: here

Step One
Connect your iPhone to your PC and launch iTunes
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Two
Press and hold Home and Power button of your iPhone at the same time. Once the screen turns black, release the power button but keep on holding the Home button until Apple logo changes to the restore screen. Note: The screen may also just stay black. This is normal. Just hold the home button till iTunes detects the iPhone.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Three
iTunes will then detect an iPhone in restore mode.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Hold down the Shift key and click Restore.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

A dialog window will appear asking you to select the firmware to restore to. Select the 1.1.1 firmware we downloaded earlier (iPhone1,1_1.1.1_3A109a_Restore.ipsw)
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

At the end of the restore you will get Error 1015. This is okay. Simply click the Ok button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Another popup will appear telling you your iPhone is in recovery mode. Click the Ok button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Four
Exit iTunes by selecting Exit from the File menu. Press Control+Alt+Delete on the keyboard. Select to Start Task Manager.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Click to select the Processes tab from the Windows Task Manager window.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Select iTunesHelper.exe from the list of processes and then click the End Process button. A popup will appear asking you to confirm the end process. Click the End Process button from the popup.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

You can now close Windows Task Manager by click the X at the top right of the window.

Step Five
You will notice your iPhone is still in recovery mode. To exit recovery mode launch iBrickr.exe which you downloaded earlier.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Click the Boot the phone link.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

iBrickr will say Please wait while iBrickr tries to fix your phone.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

The iPhone will reboot and display the Activate screen again!
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

You can now close iBrickr.


JAILBREAK 1.1.1
Step One
At the "Activate iPhone" screen move the slider to the right for emergency calling.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Two
Dial "*#307#" then press the Call button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Three
You will hear the phone call itself. Use the back arrow to clear the number you just enter. Now dial "0" then press the Call button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Four
Now you will be able to see the incoming call. Press the Accept button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Five
Now press the Hold button to put the call on hold.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Six
The phone will call itself again. This time press the Decline button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Seven
We now are shown the keypad again. Click the contacts tab at the bottom. We are now presented with an empty contacts menu. Click the plus(+) button to add a new contact.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Eight
Press Add New URL.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Nine
Input prefs: as the url then press the Save button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Ten
Press Add New URL again.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Eleven
Input http://jailbreakme.com as the url then press the Save button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Twelve
Now in the contact view you will see the 2 urls. Press the prefs: url.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Thirteen
This will bring up the iPhone's Settings Menu. Select your wireless network from the Wi-Fi category. Press the Settings button at the top left to go back to the Settings Menu.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Fourteen
Select the General category from the Settings Menu. Then select the Auto-Lock subcategory.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Press to select Never from the list of Auto-Lock times.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Press the Settings button at the top left to return to the settings window.

Step Fifteen
Press the Home button. At the "Activate iPhone" screen move the slider to the right for emergency calling.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Sixteen
Now dial "0" then press the Call button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Seventeen
Now you will be able to see the incoming call. Press the Accept button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Eighteen
Now press the Hold button to put the call on hold.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Nineteen
The phone will call itself again. This time press the Decline button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Twenty
We now are presented with our contacts menu. Press to select the contact we added.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Twenty One
Press the http://jailbreakme.com url. This will open Safari and take you to jailbreakme.com
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Twenty Two
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and press Install AppSnapp.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Phone will return to activation screen, but don't panic, just wait. iPhone should automaticly restart after almost a minute. When the phone starts again, it should no longer say Slide to emergency, but rather Slide to Unlock. This means it was successfull!
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

I've had a few reports of the emergency slider not changing to the unlock slider. The best suggestion so far has been to keep the iPhone connected to the computer and make sure its detected in iTunes. Otherwise it seems to work if you retry installing AppSnapp till it works. Don't know what the issue is exactly (maybe a server load issue) but if it doesn't work immediately then try again.

DOWNGRADE THE BASEBAND
At this point if you have a 4.6 Bootloader iPhone you cannot continue any further. You can stay at 1.1.1 or you can install OktoPrep and update to 1.1.2 then 1.1.3.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone Using Windows

Once in 1.1.2 or 1.1.3 with a 4.6 BL you can peform the Geohot Unlock:
How to Unlock Your 1.1.2 - 1.1.3 OTB iPhone

If you have the 3.9 Bootloader then you can continue to downgrade your baseband and get full phone functionality.

Step One
Press to select Settings on your Springboard.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Two
Press to select General from the Settings Menu.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Three
Press to select Auto-Lock from the General Menu.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Four
Press to select Never from the list of Auto-Lock times!
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Five
Press the Home button to return to your Springboard. Now press the Installer icon to launch Installer app.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Six
Press the Sources tab at the bottom of the screen.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Seven
Press the Edit button at the top right of the screen.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Eight
Press the Add button at the top left of the screen.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Nine
Enter http://i.unlock.no as your new source and press the large OK button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Ten
Press the Done button at the top right of the screen.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Eleven
Press the Install tab at the bottom of the screen.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Twelve
Press to select Unlocking Tools from the Category list.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Thirteen
Press to select Baseband Downgrader from the list of Packages.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Fourteen
Press the Install button at the top right of the screen.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Fifteen
Press the large Install button that appears at the bottom of the screen.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Sixteen
A Notice will appear asking you to make sure that Auto-Lock is set to Never. Since we already did this we can press the large OK button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

Step Seventeen
Once completed you will receive Notice that your Baseband is now downgraded! Press the large OK button.
How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

How to Downgrade Your 1.1.3 iPhone (Windows)

At this point if you can stay at 1.1.1 or you can install OktoPrep and update to 1.1.2 then update 1.1.3.
Jailbreak 1.1.2: How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone Using Windows

Update to 1.1.3: How to Officially Update and Jailbreak to 1.1.3 iPhone Firmware

THANKS***: Thanks to i.unlock.no for adding the baseband downgrade to their repository. Also thanks to hacktheiphone for a couple of the screenshots.
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flower delivery to turkey - August 27, 2011 at 7:17am
This is a very nice article. I always find so much informative things from here. This site is amazing.
Jeff Sabater
Jeff Sabater - February 14, 2008 at 8:17pm
i have done everything and got all the way to the end. the phone is at the last stage where it says (attempting to reboot) it has been doing this for over an hour. i am not sure how much longer this should take does anyone know what to do?
konkar
konkar - February 12, 2008 at 11:58am
right: firmware 04.03.13.G
konkar
konkar - February 12, 2008 at 11:55am
I followed the procedure and jailbrake and activate iphone so i have now firmware 1.1.1, Baseband 10.0.3. and bl 4.6. Next as you say and follow the instructions from "How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone Using Windows" when i try to upgrade firmware to 1.1.2 with itunes always appear error. Can you explain me what is happens?
iB3nji
iB3nji - February 11, 2008 at 6:05pm
Will this work if i have: - a 3.9BL phone - with soft updated 1.1.3 then updated baseband to 04.03.13_G (using iClarified tutorial) - then used any sim 3.9 to unlock. i have stuffed phone aka it works but installer dosnt and programs dont. is it okay to go back to 1.1.1 using this tutorial then try agian?
karloz
karloz - February 9, 2008 at 4:42pm
and now the itunes doesn't detect my iphone beacause it says it has an incorrect sim card =S
karloz
karloz - February 9, 2008 at 4:38pm
i try using 1.0.2 firmware, and it worked :S.. now i have an unactivated 1.0.2 iphone with the lastest baseband version =S.. i don't know what i should do now =S..
karloz
karloz - February 9, 2008 at 4:31pm
nup.. nothing :s... i turn my iphone into DFU mode, i looks like it is off but my itunes detect it as an iphone in restore mode.. so i try and nothing happens =/.. the screen turns white and the itunes give me the same unknown erro (1)
nm-ken
nm-ken - February 9, 2008 at 3:11pm
I downloaded to Firmware 1.1.1 using iTunes 7.6. When I run iBrickr 0.91 I get the green screen (no reboot). What can I do to get the phone out of recovery mode?
rurock
rurock - February 9, 2008 at 12:43pm
interesting. Didn't know there was a difference. thx
iClarified
iClarified - February 9, 2008 at 12:34pm
Generally you will get Error (1) if you just attempted a restore without rebooting the iPhone into recovery mode first. Did you reboot into recovery(DFU) mode
rurock
rurock - February 9, 2008 at 12:24pm
I got the same error. there are two methods to get out of it. use iBrckr and select download to 1.0.2. It will kick the phone into recovery mode and then you can do the usual Shift-Restore to select the 1.1.1 restore file. the other method is to use iPhuc as ocumented http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showpost.php?p=201215&postcount=26. iBrckr worked for me.
karlos
karlos - February 9, 2008 at 10:50am
It keeps telling me the same unknown error (1) when i try to downgrade to 1.1.1 or 1.1.2... it's always the same!.. what can i doo :(????? please help!
minapassion
minapassion - February 9, 2008 at 9:54am
for the issue where the step: " install AppSnapp" is not working for some phones. I discover that we need to touch the install AppSnapp and keep our finger for few seconds. beleive me it is working.
Jay
Jay - February 9, 2008 at 1:42am
Thanks keets28. It worked like a charm :D.
keets28
keets28 - February 9, 2008 at 1:29am
jay: you need to launch ituned and let it detect your phone and then install installer again.
Jay
Jay - February 9, 2008 at 1:26am
I followed the steps til I get to adding contacts and installing appsnapp. My Iphone doesn't restart after I install appsnapp. It just stays in the same activate iphone screen and screen goes black (I got autolock set to never). What am I doing wrong here?
Karloz
Karloz - February 8, 2008 at 8:29pm
the same happens to me.... i don't know what else i can do... i need to go back to 1.1.2.. please help..
Allan
Allan - February 8, 2008 at 8:10pm
I tryed to restore but i get the same error message as John unkown error (1) can you help me please thanks.
Paul
Paul - February 6, 2008 at 4:57am
Hi there, my iphone came with 1.1.2 OTB but foolishly I upgraded to 1.1.3, I have the 4.9 bootloader. However I am happy with my O2 contract I don't need to activate or unlock my phone, can I purely jailbreak it so I can use installer.app?
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