Update: If you’re facing error 1 while downgrading from iOS 5, check the latter part of the post.
I recently updated to iOS 4.3.4 to test GEVEY Sim on my iPhone 4. Good news is that GEVEY Sim works fine, but I had a hard time coming back to iOS 4.3.3.
I was facing Error 1 in iTunes even though my device was in Pwned DFU Mode. Most of the sites on Google Search for this problem say that your iPhone must be in a DFU Mode. But, my iPhone 4 was already in DFU mode. Inspite of that, I was facing error 1.
Luckily, I came across JailbreakMovies which has an article telling how to downgrade iOS 5 beta to iOS 4.3.3. It explains the fix for Error 1.
How To Fix Error 1 in iTunes?
I assume that you tried to restore to iOS 4.3.3 from iOS 4.3.4 using saved SHSH blobs. And after about 3/4th restore was complete, you got error 1 in iTunes & the following screen on your iPhone:
To fix the error, follow these steps:
1. Download redsn0w 0.9.6rc19 for Windows / MAC
2. Open redsn0w and point it to iOS 4.3.3 IPSW. After redsn0w identifies IPSW file, click Next
3. You’ll be prompted to put your iPhone into Pwned DFU Mode. Follow the instructions on the screen and your iPhone will be in Pwned DFU Mode
4. Jailbreaking process will start on your iPhone once it is in DFU mode
5. After a couple of minutes the jailbreaking process will reach Installing Activation Bundles. Here, your iPhone will be frozen. Wait for a couple of minutes and then you’ll have to reboot by pressing Home + Power buttons
6. After rebooting, your iPhone will again show Connect to iTunes screen. Use TinyUmbrella to kick your device out of recovery
7. Once your iPhone restarts again, it’ll boot normally and it’ll be already jailbroken. You can then activate through iTunes
How To Fix Error 1 while Downgrading from iOS 5?
2. Launch Redsn0w and select “Extras”
3. Now select “Recovery Fix”
4. Now your device will be kicked out of recovery and error 1 will be fixed. Your iDevice will now be running iOS 4.3.3/4.3.5. You can then jailbreak iOS 4.3.5 using redsn0w or jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 using jailbreakme.com.
If you have any other queries, feel free to ask below!
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hello, how i pass error 1 without doing jailbreak??? i´ve 4.3.3 with jailbreak but i want 4.3.3 without jailbreak…
Thanks a ton, you are a real lifesaver! I had to try one or two times for the jailbreak to stick, but it worked!
this is exactly the fix I needed – I thought I was never going to get my phone back to functioning! thanks!
thx, works fine
I’ve got to the exit recovery but the ‘connect to itunes’ screen keeps coming up and I clicked exit recovery for quite a few times but it keeps repeating…
Did you put your iPhone in the DFU mode? You can put your iPhone into DFU mode by:
1. Pressing Home + Power button for 10 seconds
2. After 10 seconds, release the power button but keep holding the home button
3. Continue holding the home button for 15 more seconds or till iTunes pops up a message that “it has found iPhone in recovery mode”
After your iPhone is in DFU mode, restore using Shift + restore. Then try the remaining procedure. If problem persists, reply here.
my phn asking to insert sim for registration . what u think my phone is now jail broken. ?
after the restart process?
The iPhone is jailbroken but you need original carrier sim to activate your iPhone.
hi,
firs all i would like to say that your site is extremely helpful:)
i have iphone 4 4.3.4 jailbreaked (tethered) i use gevey sim
i cant activate the gevey sim with my jailbreaked 4.3.4 what should i do?
is there any trick since its tethered?
thank you
Hi,
Just follow the same old 112 procedure and gevey will work for you.
I’ve got to the exit recovery but the ‘connect to itunes’ screen keeps coming up and I clicked exit recovery for quite a few times but it keeps repeating – I’ve got the same problem and I already tried putting into DFU mode and following the procedure but it till won’t work. Can you please help?
Elle,
Did you jailbreak using redsn0w as mentioned above?
thx for the reply
but when i reset network settings the device is shutting down and than i have to boot it again from redsnow and it dosent work
You’ll have to boot tethered everytime your iPhone reboots. And are you using gevey ultra?
Yes, I followed the exact steps. I am running at 4.3.4 on my iPhone4 currently and my phone is still stuck at Connect to iTunes screen. I got a 3194 error when I followed the steps in iTunes after I put my phone into DFU mode.
Elle,
To fix error 3194 while restore, follow these steps:
1. Quit iTunes
2. Locate your hosts file, in Mac OS X this is /etc/hosts and in Windows this is c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
3. Open the hosts file with Administrator privileges
4. Add the following lines to the very bottom of the hosts file:
74.208.105.171 gs.apple.com
5. Connect your iPhone to the computer
6. Launch iTunes
7. Put the iPhone/iPad/iPod into DFU mode by turning the phone off and then holding down the sleep and power button for 10 seconds, then release the power button but hold onto the home button until iTunes tells you that the device is now in recover mode
8. Use the iTunes Restore feature as usual with the iOS device
Once your iOS update is finished, remove the “74.208.105.171 gs.apple.com” line from your hosts file again so that iTunes can properly update as usual.
yes redsnow 0.9.8b4 and i know i have to reboot it every time
no its gevey sim
the jailbreaking is fine
the gevey sim was perfect with 4.3.4 until i jailbreak it and now
cant use the phone
after i boot the tethered i do everything as 112 and it should work?
thx guys for your help
GOAD,
Even if you boot or don’t boot tethered, GEVEY Sim should work fine by following the 112 procedure.
even when i reset the network?
to boot again from tethered?
I still get the same error after following your steps.
Elle,
If you properly put “74.208.105.171 gs.apple.com” in hosts file, the error should be gone. Restart your computer and try again!
I already restarted and I even tried TinyUmbrella! But still cannot! Is there no way out? Else I have to restore and update to 4.3.5!
Elle,
When you start TinyUmbrella, go in Advanced and make sure “Set hosts to Cydia on exit” is checked. Then exit TinyUmbrella, and try restoring using iTunes.
OK
NOW I DID IT ALL FROM THE BEGINNING AND GOT NEW PROBLEM I DON’T SEE THE “ACCEPT” SCREEN OF THE GEVEY
AND IT SAYS “NO SIGNAL”
WHAT TO DO
THANKS
GOAD,
Try a Network Reset from Settings and then see if the Welcome menu shows up! If you’ve already tried network reset, try hard reset by pressing home + power button for 10 seconds.
didn’t work at all. i had to restore and update to 4.3.5
I tried to downgrade from 4.3.5 back to 4.3.3 but i kept getting (1) error. And the phone is always on recovery mode. what should i do now?
C. J,
Follow the above procedure.
Hello Frieinds
Just wanted to inform u all that i hav been able to succesfully downgrade from ios 5 bets 4 to 4.3.3 with my shsh saved the above post works perfect all tht u need to do is once u stuck att error 1 put ur device into DFU mode use redsnow current vertion select install cydia and multitasking option (not pwnd dfu mode ) and start jailbreaking process it ll get stuck at installing bundle at abt 3/4th stage dont worry restart the device by clicking power and home button u ll again hav itunes on the screen open tiny umbrella select ur device and exit recovery it ll start in a while and ya u myte hav some issue with carrier update and cydia again re jailbreak the device using redsn0w_win_0.9.6rc16 every thing will wrk like charm
and thanx to the above post did help me a lot getng ma cell back to 4.3.3
Enjoy ………
STILL CANT UNLOCK IT GUYS (IPHONE 4 4.3.4)
PLEASE REVIEW MY STEPS MAYBE I MISSING SOMETHING
STEP 1: Turn off your iPhone 4 and insert your SIM card and Gevey SIM together with the metal SIM tray provided.
STEP 2: Turn on your iPhone 4 and wait for the SIM welcome menu to show and the select “accept”.
STEP 3: At the beginning a “no service” message will show on your iPhone 4. DON’T do anything and wait until you see one signal bar appear on the top left corner.
STEP 4: After you see the signal bar dial “112″ and hang up within 2 seconds.
STEP 5: Turn on “Airplane Mood”. Wait about 40 seconds until the “No Sim Card Installed” message shows up, turn off the “Airplane Mood”. The “Sim failure” message will show and the signal will show up after a few seconds.
3G MUST BE OFF RIGHT?
SHOU
PLEASE HELP IM DYING HERE
CANT UNLOCK MY JAILBROKEN IPHONE 4 4.3.4 USING GEVEY
I AM DOING ALL IN ORDER BUT I DONT GET THE MESSAGE ,SIM FAILURE,
HELP PLEASE
GOAD,
I suggest you update to 4.3.5 or go back to 4.3.3 and try if GEVEY works on that fw. If not, there might be some problem with your GEVEY sim.
i tried go back to 4.3.3 but keep getting the damm 3194 error
if i change to 4.3.5 will i be able to downgrade it to 4.3.4?
thank you
For Error 3194, you need to edit Hosts file to add “74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com” without quotes. Then try restore with iTunes again.
You can go back to 4.3.4 if you save SHSH blobs, but 4.3.5 is also jailbreakable (tethered) using redsn0w.
To C J
all tht u need to do is once u stuck att error 1 put ur device into DFU mode use redsnow current vertion select install cydia and multitasking option (not pwnd dfu mode ) and start jailbreaking process it ll get stuck at installing bundle at abt 3/4th stage dont worry restart the device by clicking power and home button u ll again hav itunes on the screen open tiny umbrella select ur device and exit recovery it ll start in a while and ya u myte hav some issue with carrier update and cydia again re jailbreak the device using redsn0w_win_0.9.6rc16 every thing will wrk like charm
hey guys still i am getting lots of error like 20 …………………… please help me cause now i am tired to downgrade 4.3.4 to 4.3.3 and my iphone 4 is totally dead ………………… (only connect to itunes logo is only appearing in iphone screen).
THanx A lot HITEN
with this
“all tht u need to do is once u stuck att error 1 put ur device into DFU mode use redsnow current vertion select install cydia and multitasking option (not pwnd dfu mode ) and start jailbreaking process it ll get stuck at installing bundle at abt 3/4th stage dont worry restart the device by clicking power and home button u ll again hav itunes on the screen open tiny umbrella select ur device and exit recovery it ll start in a while and ya u myte hav some issue with carrier update and cydia again re jailbreak the device using redsn0w_win_0.9.6rc16 every thing will wrk like charm”
by HITEN .
i got my iphone4 back 🙂
THanx once again ……..
EVEN AFTER I CHANGE THE HOST I STILL GETTING THE 3194 ERROR
AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE GEVEY PROCESS MAYBE SINCE I AM NOT RECEIVING THE “Sim failure” MESSAGE DURING THE PROCESS
ONLY ,NO SIM, .
THANK YOU
Hey HITEN,
I did all that you have mentioned above and I was able to downgrade to 4.3.3 but the problem was that my phone was “Carrier Unavailable”. Has anyone faced this issue? Please help me. maybe I am doing something wrong or not doing something needed?
To,
Nirav Patel July 28, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Good to hear tht buddy enjoy
Hiten
To,
Ram
July 28, 2011 at 8:51 pm
yes i did hav the same plm its just tht u ll not be able to update carrier setting, for this on the same os without restore do jailbreak again u ll hav every thing back 100%
working if it contnus mail me at [email protected]
Thanks Hiten.. I just restored it back to 4.3.5 and have jialbroken it.. I did try yesterday but was not able to downgrade it to 4.3.3 like I did previously. I will give it on more try and let us see how it goes. Thanks for the response 🙂
Thanks Mahesh! It worked great! 😉
Hello sir…i cant jailbreak operations fails…when i tried to jailbreak after error 1 process..please help mee…plss…
Hello friends
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bineesh July 31, 2011 at 10:42 am
Hello sir…i cant jailbreak operations fails…when i tried to jailbreak after error 1 process..please help mee…plss…
Bineesh u hav to put ur device into dfu mode properly to make it wrk else u ll hav error
Simple way to avoid an error 1 is to use Fix Recovery from a site thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.com
Hi, how can I activate the phone after the iOS upgrade (via RedSn0w) with iOS 4.3.4 BB 4.10.01? I’m stuck up to DIAL EMERGENCY NUMBER and when connected to iTunes it says SIM Card is not supported.
Any idea?
Rex,
You’ll need original sim card to activate your locked iPhone. If your iPhone is locked with AT&T network, you’ll need AT&T’s micro sim to activate your iPhone.
I’m having a problem when I get the error 1. I select “Install Cydia” and the multitasking one, and when It starts getting to the white text on the screen it says “Initialization failed due to mismatch” and then it just goes back to the Itunes logo with the cable, and I cannot get it to exit recovery even with tiny umbrella.
Any help would be appreciated 🙂
Lee August 6, 2011 at 4:19 am
I’m having a problem when I get the error 1. I select “Install Cydia” and the multitasking one, and when It starts getting to the white text on the screen it says “Initialization failed due to mismatch” and then it just goes back to the Itunes logo with the cable, and I cannot get it to exit recovery even with tiny umbrella.
( Lee u need to use the redsnow vertion rc19 and if it does not get downgrade first get ur cell to 4.3.5 and from there again the same procgr to get to 4.3.3 and incase u get it for 4,3,5 use host
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
lee
the above host example u need to use for getng it to 4.3.5 it ll come easily and then again the same prevs procgr to get to 4.3.3 hope this helps and make sure u hav ur device into DFU mode proply else it wont wrk and show u error
Hiten,
I have already been able to get to 4.3.5. I am trying to get back to 4.3.3. I have my SHSH saved, and started Tiny umbrella, and it installs the software fine, and I get Error(1). But when I try and use redsn0w, it says “AND Init failed” and then just repeats
“Please wait
Please wait
Please wait”
Until it just turns off. I am not sure what to do. I have tried multiple USB ports, and rebooted. 🙁
Thanks for the help 🙂
Lee
its the same plm even i hav faced this is coz some same temp files on ur pc
go to ur windows pc start %temp% delete all the temp files restart pc and phone put it on DFU mode and u ll be good to go hope it helps
Lee
do the above procjr u ll get ur dvce back to 4.3.3
u ll get rid or tht please wait please wait error while jailbreaking
u myte hav to try multiple times coz i got it wrkd at 4 th times after removing temp files resrng and changng usb ports etc
you are the man. i was going crazy trying to get back to 4.3.3. i love you.
i need help, im right at the redsn0w step, but i have tried it but kick out recovery did not work, when it says acivating bundles or whatevery and the bluebar of progress stops in redsn0w, do you wait till the spinning circle stops to in the middle? cauze the last time i reset it, it was while its spinning. i am trying to figure what i did wrong. help would be appreciated.
I did all of that but it now says,
itunes unable to continue activation at this time please, try later or cantact support
at the botttom it says ativation info complete false.
this annoying ive tired for the past 13 hours.
please I hope someone can shed some light on what I do now?!
I owe you my life, I was stuck on 4.3.5 recovery mode, and no matter what i did itd just loop back to it. Just in time for work, thanks man!!!!!!!
Thanks man your a life saver, I restored my phone at least 10 times and then upgraded to iOS 5 to downgrade to 4.3.3 and it still wouldn’t work. 5 minutes following your steps and my phone is up and running.
a friend give me an iphone4 I don’t know the firmaware inside becose it’s only whit the appple logo reboot apple logo reboot, under the appl logo ther is e charge barr uno time yes and one time no,
I try to put on io5 whit iTunes and Shift itunes but nothing…charge charge apple logo charge apple logo…
Thanks a lot, really helping here… do you think latest redsnOw beta works like this redsn0w version?
Yes it does. But the controls are little different. But they are simple to understand.
REALLY I CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH
JUST NOW I SUCSESS TO DOWNGRADE MU IPHONE FFROM IOS5 TO 4.3.3
THANKS ALOT
i am running 4.3.3 jrailbroke iphone 4 , personal hotspot is spinning non stop ,so i ,trying to restore it to 4.3.5 or 4.3.3 , but when restore about 60% it stop with error 1 , can someone help please !!
Paul, Follow the above tutorial.
admin,
i did , i jailbreak like you said to got out of recovery mode ,get the normal screen back and phone is working, but i tired to restore it to 4.3.3 or 4.3.5 the ERROR 1 came again, and its back to the recovery screen, so i have to did your thing again to get out,
it looks like i can not be able to restore custom firmware anymore but the stock firmware , i can go ios 5 cuz i need gevey sim unlock
thank you for the respond .
thank you , thank you, please help
Make a custom firmware of iOS 5 via sn0wbreeze, and update to that.