2011-04-06, 05:07
I guess you have to hook it up to the tv to update it? I don't see anyway to do it in itunes.
dazex Wrote:Since you'll be jailbreaking anyways, learn to do everything from the computer. Remember the most important step, don't plug in the power cable when restoring using iTunes.
amoses Wrote:I guess you have to hook it up to the tv to update it? I don't see anyway to do it in itunes.
dazex Wrote:Don't worry. iTunes will detect the ATV2 once plugged in without the power cable and give you the option to restore. I haven't manage to break the ATV2 yet. With all the testing I do to help the devs make XBMC better, you'd think I would have bricked the device by now.
dazex Wrote:Apple is still signing 4.2.1 SHSH blob for ATV2 so you currently can. However, the can stop at any time and when they do, there will no longer be a way to downgrade to iOS revision that you do not have a SHSH blob saved.
That's how it's always been.
Muttleyuk Wrote:Sorry, my mistake then, I have read time and time again that they stopped signing the 4.2.1 blobs.
Why don't others on this board just downgrade to 4.2.1 when there are still issues with 4.3.1?
jd2157 Wrote:Anyone can downgrade, assuming they're aware that iOS 4.2.1 is still being signed, and not everyone is aware of that.
The main reason is probably the updates on iOS 4.3: Netflix 5.1 sound, MLB, NBA, Airplay updates, etc. Some folks want some/all of these things, or they just like to tinker with their atv2, so off to 4.3 they go. The unofficial nightly builds are doing pretty well on 4.3 (and the latest untethered seas0npass jb works well on 4.3) so most folks are ok there.
Muttleyuk Wrote:Cool, that's great news for me - I have 2x ATV2s already on 4.2.1 and this is my 3rd but it came with 4.3.1 preinstalled. Living in the UK I don't get Netflix/MLB/NBA anyway and the few other features are of no interest to me, so it's great to hear they are still signing 4.2.1.
It was a bit of a mess the way I did it, what with iTunes constantly reporting errors at the end of the install but it does work. Would you recommend restoring with a clean 4.2.1 and then JB's again while I still can then?
Also, as a side note (and as you've been so helpful ) I have saved my SHSH blobs for my iPhone and iPad but not for any of these ATVs. Whenever I run TinyUmbrella, it doesn't recognise them. Do you know if there's an easy way to save them with using TinyUmbrella (like using iSHSHit on the iPhone) ?
Thanks again for your replies, you've been very helpful. Sometimes it just takes one person in the know rather than trawling through thousands of contradictory info on the web and still not knowing where I stand.
Oh, and do you (or anybody else out there) know of a good, up to date list of which blobs Apple are still signing?