How to Backup Your SHSH Blobs Using Firmware Umbrella [Windows]

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Posted November 11, 2010 at 11:33pm by iClarified

These are instructions on how to backup your SHSH blobs using Firmware Umbrella for Windows.

Step One
Download the latest version of Firmware Umbrella from here to your Desktop.

Step Two
Right Click umbrella-4.1.13.exe and Choose Run as administrator from the contextual popup menu.

How to Backup Your SHSH Blobs Using Firmware Umbrella [Windows]

If you get a Windows Security Alert, make sure both boxes are checked, and hit Allow Access.

Step Three
Make sure your iPhone is plugged into the computer and select it from the list of connected devices on the left

Step Four
Click the Save SHSH button.

Step Five
Once completed you will notice a new entry in the Saved SHSHs for iPhone list confirming the successful save of your SHSH blobs.

NOTES:
If Umbrella is not able to detect your ECID then you can find it and enter it manually. Use these tutorials to help you determine your ECID.
- iPhone: Mac, Windows
- iPad: Mac, Windows

**Thanks to semaphore for his work on this tool

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SamOntario - June 11, 2013 at 2:35pm

Not working on my wife's iPhone 4S V6.1.2 Modem:3.4.02. It will not save to my computer.

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Shahzad Jamil - June 1, 2013 at 9:04am

My iphone 4 during restoring its complete dead, now i try to open it but still its not working. Can someone help me to solve this issue, or any face same problem before or not. Its not with umbrella tools just i connect with my itune and try to restore it because its not jailbreak its unlock phone.

Ed - February 27, 2013 at 9:15am

Hi..ive previously saved my blobs with tinyumbrella and my pc crashed recently.. ive downloaded the new version of TU but it no longer shows my shsh blobs, ive also requested blobs from CYDIA but TU still shows blank.. plz help, regards iPhone 4s ios 6.1.1

xb0xguru - February 27, 2013 at 9:30am

Unless you uploaded them or had your iDevice jailbroken for a while, you probably can't get them back. Apple is still signing 6.1.2 and it's jailbreak-able, so save your 6.1.2 blobs, update and jailbreak.

abingdon - October 8, 2012 at 2:15pm

hi, I am using 4 without jailbreak, but I upgraded to ios6.0, and reset through the phone. now when I try to connect using TinyUmbrella, it shows no SHSH. Am I too late to restore to 5.X?

TLB - January 13, 2013 at 3:33am

Yes, its too late, because the SHSH have to save before the atualization. I'm sorry if i write wrong because i'm not american.

nickhey71 - October 2, 2012 at 10:50pm

Hi have saved shsh from iPhone 4S, but only 6.0gm (10A403) shown on the list. Am I too late?

Martin - October 2, 2012 at 11:37pm

iDevices on 5.x.x or higher need more than SHSH blobs to downgrade: The AP Ticket also needs backed up. Unless you did this manually while Apple were still signing the 5.1.1 iOS, there's nothing you can do about this now.

cma - May 18, 2011 at 12:40pm

Are you even planing to bring out an unlock for iphone4 on 2.10 baseband ,or shud i sell this & buy a new non apple phone

Martin - May 18, 2011 at 1:11pm

For clarification, saving your SHSH blobs has absolutely nothing to do with Jailbreaking, unlocking your phone or preserving the baseband during an upgrade. TinyUmbrella is a tool to save your SHSH blobs should you want to downgrade to an iOS version not serviced by Apple.

rbs2000 - April 15, 2011 at 3:08am

Quick question...I am running 4.3.1 I managed to downgrade all the way to 4.1 even 4.2.1 the problem I was having my iphone 4 was only able to reboot on tethered now? When I rebooted my iphone4 to 4..2.1 logged on cydia I clicked make MY life easier.. My tss is still pending ... I tried to jailbreak it with RC5B2 I can see all the writtinngs once its finished I have to reboot it as TETHERED NOW? how come iam only able to reboot my iphone on tethered on 4..2.1 or 4.1 ? When I update to 4.3.1 using sn0wbreeze it works fine? Can anyone clarify this..on how I cant untethered my iphone 4 on 4.2.1 or /4.1 ?

German - March 27, 2011 at 12:51pm

i can use the Umbrella without have to jailbreak my iphone 4? because i want to upgrade to 4.3 but last time i used the Umbrella i have to jailbreak my iPhone...easy question? and why is no a tutorial here for jailbreak(if i have to) when you can see in YouTube a lot of people doing the jailbreak in 4.3?

zeric - November 26, 2010 at 7:44am

Hello guys, Great work you all guys are doing here. I've bought an iPhone 4 from ebay and it cames jailbreaked (limera1n) and unlocked (ultrasn0w) and it's working perfectly. I have 4.0.2 running on the 1.59.00 baseband. My question is, can I update my IOs to 4.1 without loosing the unlock? For what I read I should go for the tinyumbrella + alt-restore a custom ipsw on itunes and it should be fine. Is this the right methodology considering I've been previoisly jailbroken with limera1n? I beleive this method keeps my baseband at 1.59.00 but I saved my SHSHs with tinyumbrella and could only save: - iPhone4 4.1 (8B117) - iPhone4 4.21 (8C148) - iPhone4 4.2b3 (8C5115c) for what I've learned I cannot save my 4.0.2 SHSH because it's no longer being signed by apple. What does this means in my iPhone context? 1 - I can update to 4.1 and keep my baseband (1.59.00) BUT if something go wrong I'm not able to unlock because I cannot return to 4.02. 2 - I can update to 4.1 but my baseband will be updated also. 3 - none of the above : ) What's your opinion? Thank you very much for the time guys.

wassimov - October 10, 2010 at 4:22am

iphone 4 , 4.0.2 , 1.59 out of the box, i can only save 4.1 blobs, so can i restore to 4.1 without loosing the baseband ??? ->when requesting a version, if i select the latest FW, am i safe to restore to it BB wise ??? Thanks!!!

Martin - November 12, 2010 at 2:10pm

No, because you don't have SHSH blobs for anything earlier than 4.0.2. You either need to stay at 4.0.2 or wait until the next Baseband hack is released.

Bio - October 6, 2010 at 1:16pm

Hi, 3.2.2 is already installed on my iPad, is there any way to jailbreak it?

Martin - October 6, 2010 at 1:37pm

Not at the moment - a new JB is being worked on at the moment.

krillin837 - November 12, 2010 at 12:02pm

Sorry but i've used PwnageTool 4.1.2 to jailbreak an iPad on 3.2.2 It worked great.... If you don't have a Mac, maybe a friend have one :) Cheerss!

Martin - November 12, 2010 at 1:10pm

@krillin837 - a JB was released within the time that I posted that (as what normally happens). At Oct 6th, there wasn't one available :) Glad you got it done tho!

baljeet - August 13, 2010 at 10:06am

What if i need to format my pc how do i transfer saved shsh??????? where its saved how do i move can someone explain please in detail?

asaadsaleh - August 12, 2010 at 1:39pm

again, i've done the umbrella thing selecting cydia, in the logs i can see that it was successfully saved but as they are stating it is not shown on my cydia home screen, is that ok? or i've done something wrong?

asaadsaleh - August 12, 2010 at 4:19am

if my iphone 4 ios 4.0.1 is showing in cydia that: this iphone has pending SHSHs on Cydia Is that good ? or i need to save it using umbrella? thanks.

Ryan - August 12, 2010 at 3:17am

How many iphones that I can save shsh on 1 computer? Thank you very much.

Martin - August 12, 2010 at 5:06am

AFAIK there's no limit. Umbrella will create a unique .shsh entry based on ECID and version.

Ryan - August 12, 2010 at 11:49am

Thank you Martin, you're the best helper.

asaadsaleh - August 2, 2010 at 8:16am

Hi i need to restore my iPhone 3GS New bootrom to the 4.0.0 but i'm always getting errors, i've saved the shsh last weeks, and cydia shows that i have files installed for 3.1.2 and 4.0 so what should i do? note that downloading the 4.0.1 may solve this but i'm not able to download it right now!

Martin - August 2, 2010 at 9:07am

What error are you getting? Have you setup Firmware Umbrella to run as a SHSH server?

asaadsaleh - August 2, 2010 at 9:18am

Hi, i'm getting this error: Unkonwn error 3914 and i don't think that i have set the umbrella as the server how can i do that?? thanks a lot.

Martin - August 2, 2010 at 9:32am

Before we venture into the TSS server realm, what IP did you specify for gs.apple.com in your hosts file? do you have a locally stored copy of your SHSH blobs that TinyUmbrella can use?

asaadsaleh - August 2, 2010 at 9:48am

Hi, actually i should have that copy as i have it also for my other 2 iphones, but unfortunatly for some reason i can't find it!!!!!!!! so i guess i have to download the 4.0.1 and use it ! it will work with the 3gs new bootroom correct?

Martin - August 2, 2010 at 10:01am

Yep, I JB'd mine last night - 3GS iBoot-359.3.2 iOS 4.01. You should not have a problem:) If you REALLY want a copy of 4.0 for the 3GS, then you should be able to download it here: http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone4/061-7437.20100621.5urG8/iPhone2,1_4.0_8A293_Restore.ipsw

asaadsaleh - August 2, 2010 at 10:03am

Thanks a lot Martin, I'll go for he 4.0.1 then. kind regards.

dipganesh - August 29, 2010 at 7:18pm

hey guys,sorry for this, but i've been looking arround on the coments but still not sure about it all. I'm on 3.1.3, and wanted to upgrade to 4.0.1 (since we still can't JB andunlock on the 4.0.2), but, correct me if i'm wrong, if i try a custom restore, itunes would try to make me update with the latest firmware (4.0.2)... Is there a way to do the custom restore of a later firmware!? thanks for any replys

Bashy - July 21, 2010 at 3:08am

Hi Guys, I have iphone 4, which I received on 16th July, which is currently running OS 4.0 However when I tried to save my SHSH 4.0, it said that it couldn't be done. This is to apple stop signing it. Can I use the above process to save SHSH 4.0.1 (even though I'm on 4.0) using the above process. Thanks in advanced. Bashy.

Martin - July 21, 2010 at 3:29am

The home page of FW Umbrella changed yesterday: "Unfortunately, there is no way to save your 4.0 SHSH for ANY DEVICE as the window for 4.0 SHSH signatures has closed. However, you can save your 4.0.1 SHSH for those devices and still be safe as @comex has said: "SHSH blobs for 4.0.1 or 4.0 are fine; AFAIK there are no substantive differences except the bars" I've also added a few preferences for those of you that care to dig into the app. Enjoy." So yes, save 4.0.1 blobs while you can :)

Bashy - July 21, 2010 at 3:31am

Thank Martin. Quick question. I do need to update my iphone 4 to OS 4.0.1 and then follow the process for SHSH. Bashy

Martin - July 21, 2010 at 3:38am

Not at all - just request 4.0.1 blobs from Cydia (drop-down option) - Apple will already have them ready, so no need to update unless you really want to.

3GS User - July 16, 2010 at 8:21am

Right im having problems here, When I use umbrella to save SHSH file it never can connect to cydia ( saying is my firewall blocking it, which its not) But when I click the Apple option it saves on put the file on to my laptop.... Am I doing something wrong or will this be ok now? PLEASE HELP!!! :D

3GS User - July 16, 2010 at 8:28am

HI SORRY ITS NOW DECIDED TO SAVE TO CYDIA, MUST HAVE BEEN A BUSY SERVER WHEN TRYING THIS MORNING. Have a nice day guys!!

schandalz - July 16, 2010 at 7:02am

is there i can do if i can't save my SHSH?? i think Cydia and Apple is overload now to save SHSH...

Martin - July 16, 2010 at 7:23am

Using Umbrella you can save it locally - no need to upload it Cydia just now. Just keep the files safe :)

schandalz - July 16, 2010 at 8:41am

how can i save SHSH locally without upload to Cydia?? thx...

GmbHz - July 16, 2010 at 4:11am

Can somebody explain to me why do we have to backup this stuff, and why is this so important? What happens if I don't do that?

Martin - July 16, 2010 at 4:53am

From v3.1.2, all firmware is signed, meaning you cannot install any firmware you don't have SHSH blobs for. When you restore your iPhone via iTunes, you connect to Apple's repository to validate which firmware you should be using. They will always have the latest version. If for some reason you don't want to upgrade (just restore to what you were using previously), you would need SHSH blobs for that version of firmware.

GmbHz - July 16, 2010 at 6:16am

All clear, thanks!

umarmsn - July 16, 2010 at 7:34am

this app not open in my system

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