Need some help updating my Jailbroken iPad

FearoftheNight

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Hey guys. I'm currently on ios 5.1.1 on my ipad and lately I've been trying to download a few apps that need ios6. What's the easiest way to update my ipad to 6.1.3 and still use a backup of what's currently on my ipad?
 

Tyranicus

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First of all, you can't jailbreak 6.1.3 on your iPad, so if you upgrade, you'll be back on stock iOS. If you are ok with this, then the best way to do it is to do a backup with iTunes, then put your iPad in DFU mode, restore stock iOS 6.1.3, then restore your backup onto that.
 

effowe

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6.0-6.1.2 are jailbroken, but you have to had upgraded and jailbroken when they came out. Now that 6.1.3 is out you are only able to upgrade to that version.

There is a caveat if you are on an iPad 2. From here..

http://www.jailbreakqa.com/questions/32462/frequently-asked-questions#94647

Instructions for iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 2, iPad 3rd generation, iPad 4th generation, iPad mini, or iPod touch 5th generation restoring to iOS 6.x
If you have one of these devices on iOS 6.x, there is currently no way to use SHSH blobs to downgrade it to earlier versions of iOS. You can only restore it to the newest available version of iOS.

(The exception is the iPad 2 - if you have iOS 4.x and 5.x SHSH blobs saved, you can downgrade it from iOS 6.x to 5.x using redsn0w.)

So, if you have the iPad 2 you can upgrade to 6.1.3 to access the apps, but to get the jailbreak back you would need to downgrade (using the SHSH blobs from previous firmware versions.) To do this you need to stitch together a custom IPSW to DFU restore back onto the iPad to jailbreak it (using redsn0w.)

Basically, it's a major pain and if you NEED to use the apps you can't keep your jailbreak.
 

Tyranicus

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Yeah, even if they have a working exploit, releasing it now will only ensure that Apple patches it in iOS 7.
 

FearoftheNight

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First of all, you can't jailbreak 6.1.3 on your iPad, so if you upgrade, you'll be back on stock iOS. If you are ok with this, then the best way to do it is to do a backup with iTunes, then put your iPad in DFU mode, restore stock iOS 6.1.3, then restore your backup onto that.

Is a good website with guides on this? Been a while since I've been playing with ios.