If you frequently dabble in the iOS jailbreaking community, you will be familiar with the oft-lifesaving little utility known as TinyUmbrella.For those uninitiated, it’s like a jailbreaker’s Swiss Army tool, allowing a device to, amongst other things, be kicked in and out of DFU mode with a touch of a button. Essential to downgraders, it allows unique firmware blobs to be stored away for a later date when one may want to revert to an earlier iteration of iOS.Of course, the aforementioned features are merely a drop in the ocean, and the ever-reliable tool has just been updated quite significantly, adding the ability for iPhone 4 GSM/CDMA, 4S users to save BBTickets for use at a later date. Also supported is iPad 3G, iPad 2 3G, iPad 2 CDMA, iPad 3 GSM, and iPad 3 CDMA. TinyUmbrella dev Notcom has suggested previously of such a feature, and although hasn’t disclosed much regarding how the BBTickets will actually pan out, but according to another hacker ih8sn0w, they are baseband-related, thus saving them will certainly increase your prospects of unlocking your iPhone in future. With no apparent button to save the BBTickets separately, there seems to have been a little confusion among those downloading the new version of TinyUmbrella, labeled version 5.10.14. Since BBTicket saving is a ‘silent’ process, you won’t actually notice it being saved, and there’s no separate configuration. By saving your SHSH blob in the new version, your BBTicket will also be saved automatically for a time when it may be called upon. The process is quite simple however: Step 1: Download TinyUmbrella [Windows / Mac] and run it. Step 2: Connect your device to your PC or Mac. Step 3: Click on the “Advanced†tab and check the “Overwrite existing SHSH files on “Save SHSHâ€â€ and “Request SHSH from Cydia†should be unchecked. Refer to the screenshot below if you’re facing confusion: Step 4: Now, simply hit the “Save SHSH†button and you’re good to go. As usual, TinyUmbrella caters to downgrading for those with previously saved blobs of target firmware. Downgrading without a utility such as TinyUmbrella can be difficult because, simply put, Apple doesn’t want you to downgrade and subsequently unlock or jailbreak your device. Once a new iOS iteration is released, your devices and iTunes will naturally spam you with pop-ups urging you to update to the latest firmware. Apple will continue to sign the previous version for a couple of weeks thereafter (meaning you can restore to it through iTunes), but once that period has passed, the onus is on the shoulders of applications like TinyUmbrella.
