Downgrade iOS 5 Beta 7 Back To iOS 4.3.5 Or iOS 4.3.3

by Ahmed Omar on September 3, 2011

Apple, two days ago, released iOS 5 beta 7 along with iTunes 10.5 beta 7 to developers and earlier yesterday we’ve showed you an exclusive guide to install iOS 5 beta 7 without developer account or registered UDID. In case you got iOS 5 beta 7 on your device, you got some problems and you want to downgrade back to iOS 4.3.5 or iOS 4.3.3, here’s a guide for you.

Downgrade iOS 5 beta 7

You may downgrade because of the tethered jailbreak on iOS beta 7 which is untethered on iOS 4.3.3. Since iOS 5 is still in beta releases, it might have some issues so you would like to downgrade.

Downgrade iOS beta 7 to iOS 4.3.5:

STEP 1: Download and install iTunes 10.5 Beta 7 on your Windows or Mac computer.

STEP 2: Download the iOS 4.3.5 IPSW.

STEP 3: Now Put your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch in DFU mode and you’ll get the Recovery mode message.

STEP 4: Press Shift+Restore (Windows) or Option+Restore (Mac) in iTunes and point iTunes to iOS 4.3.5.

STEP 5: Apple will automatically install iOS 4.3.5 on your iOS device without need to change anything in host file as it’s the latest public firmware.

Downgrade iOS 5 beta 7 to iOS 4.3.3:

You’ll need:

  • iOS 4.3.3 firmware IPSW can be found here.
  • TinyUmbrella can be found here.
  • Recboot can be found here.

STEP 1: Run TinyUmbrella you downloaded above and click on the “Start TSS Server” Button.

STEP 2: Now put your device in DFU mode following these steps:

  • Turn off your iPhone.
  • Hold the power button for 3 seconds.
  • Without releasing the power button, press the home button. Now wait 10 seconds.
  • Release the power button and hold the home button until your PC detects the phone. It takes up to 30 seconds.

STEP 3: Now open iTunes and you’ll get the following message which indicates your device in Recovery mode.

STEP 4: Press Shift+Restore (Windows) or Option+Restore (Mac) in iTunes and point iTunes to iOS 4.3.3.

STEP 5: After the restore is done, you may get some errors; just ignore them all. Now you’ll have to get out of Recovery mode. Use Recboot you downloaded above and then press the exit recovery button to kick your phone out of recovery mode.


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  • Giordano

    what about the baseband?

  • Giordano

    what about the baseband?

  • Simplerace

    everytime when i’ll downgrade to 4.3.5 it fails with the code 1015 D: tiny umbrella doesn’t help :(

  • Damneyo

    Can I downgrade my iPad 2 4.3.5 to 4.3.3 ?

  • Mnayel

    so no need to SSH to be saved before ?

  • Mnayel

    so no need to SSH to be saved before ?

  • Anonymous

    you need saved SHSH

  • Halit

    Hi there,

    I think i have a serious problem. After installing IOS 5 beta 7 i decided to downgrade back to 4.3.5
    It isnt restoring it. while restoring to 4.3.5 in itunes halfway when it says ‘verifying firmware restore’ iphone shuts down and itunes gives error (1)
    Tried it several times and it keeps saying error (1)
    can somebody help me pleeeaaassseeeee…

  • Alirahma

    how do i save SSH?

  • http://www.dipmore.com Umar Imtiaz

    No, you cant downgrade ipad 2 4.3.5 to 4.3.3

  • http://www.dipmore.com Umar Imtiaz

    No, you cant downgrade ipad 2 4.3.5 to 4.3.3

  • Haroon

    can u help me to downgrade from ios 4.3.5 to 4.3.3 i have my shsh blobs saved ….is there a tutorial somewhere about this by u guys?

  • Steve

    error 2005 every time

  • http://www.facebook.com/rahul.nishu Rahul Chawla

    hello , I tries to downgrade to 4.3.5 but every time I get error (1) .

  • Benandben13

    When it says it is in recovery mode I can not click ok to close as if it comes back up instantly

  • Alex

    It’s not working. I get different errors. Errors are 20, 21,3194 and 1600

  • Nightfear

    i have an 3GS new bootrom and ios 5b6. i can get it to ios 5b7 or back to ios 5b6 but not in 4.3.5. when restoring gets to 70% it reboots and gets in recovery mode with error 1600. even if i exit the recovery mode it gets back to it. i think that i can not downgrade from 5 to 4. its impossible.

  • Mapic

    this doesn’t seem to work??? Help!! I’ve upgraded my Iphone 4 to IOS 5 beta 7 and now try to downgrade to 4.3.3. The upgrading was fine, but the downgrade is not working, I keep getting error 2005

  • sxi200

    OK. Here’s how I downgraded successfully to 4.3.3. I edit my shsh files instead of using tinyumbrella. Restore as above and after you get errors (1, 1015 etc at end of the restore), get phone back into recovery and jailbreak with that fw’s version of redsn0w. It will stop at ‘activating bunldles’ or something. Get phone back into recovery mode (not dfu) then hit ‘exit recovery’. All done. Phone will boot normally.

  • Onitnelot_elned

    I tried this, but it didnt work.. Now my iphone 3gs is stuck in dfu mode. I cant even restore it to iOs 5 help me please. :(

  • Ayman

    please let me know if you solved your 2005 error, can’t do anything

  • Ayman

    please let me know if you found a fix to error 2005, thanks

  • dyya

    how to saved SHSH, coz i’ve already upgrade to ios 5?

  • http://www.facebook.com/andres.marrero2 Andres Marrero

    I’ve tried downgrading from iOS5 to 4.3.5 with tinyumbrella with saved SHSH but during the restore it stops halfway and I get Error (1) and I try FixRecovery but it still gets stuck at Connect to iTunes screen. What am I doing wrong?

  • Tommy

    i click on the tinyumbrella link above and i dont see any option to run/download

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1617096553 Enes Power Brkic

    After installing IOS 5 beta 7 i decided to downgrade back to 4.3.5. while restoring to 4.3.5 in itunes halfway when it says ‘verifying firmware restore’ iphone shuts down and itunes gives error (1)
    Tried it several times and it keeps saying error (1)
    And mine iPhone is stuck on recovery mode. I can’t use it. please healpppp…..

  • Yoshib1

    ** This is what I did and it worked. I am not responsible for anything you try or if it breaks your phone. This is for information purposes only **

    I just did a restore from IOS 5.0.1 to 4.3.3 and got error 1 and on the phone it displayed the connect to iTunes logo. I clicked ‘Exit Recovery’ on TinyUmbrella but this put it back in the loop. I also tried it with RecBoot and that did the same. I then opened Redsn0w 0.9.9.b8 and attached the custom IPSW for 4.3.3. I then clicked on ‘Recovery Fix’ and then followed the instructions. It turn the phone on. I then jailbroke it using the same software.

    iTunes now says that my previous backup cannot be done because my software is now too old. I’m looking into a fix for this but I now have nothing on my phone – not even my contacts.

  • Yoshib1

    See my post as to what I did.

  • Yoshib1

    Again I am not responsible for anything that happens to your phone if you try this.

  • Yoshib1

    This was on the iPhone 4.