
Windows XP and Windows 7 users should run Redsn0w as ‘Administrator’ (right-click on the Redsn0w exe and select ‘Run as an Administrator’). Windows 7 users should run the exe in Windows XP compatibility mode (right-click on the Redsn0w exe and select Properties, then select the Compatibility tab and select Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP). Please ensure that you have launched the latest version of Redsn0w (0.9.11b1). Navigate back to the Redsn0w folder and launch the Redsn0w application.
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Step 5: Double click the Redsn0w zip file and extract the application to the Redsn0w folder. (c) Now release the Power button while keeping the Home button pressed until your iPad’s screen goes black or iTunes pops up a message telling you that it has detected an iPad in recovery mode. (b) Now simultaneously hold the Home button and keep the two buttons pressed for 10 seconds: (a) Hold the Power button on iPad down for 3 seconds: You can follow these simple steps to put your iPad in DFU mode: Step 4: You will now need to put your iPad into the DFU mode. Step 3: Please turn off your iPad and connect it your computer.

Please also make sure you’ve taken a backup of your iPad either to iCloud or to iTunes.Since the method restores your iPad with iOS 5.0.1, you need to go through the process of setting up your iPad from the backup, which will take sometime.Please note this method first updates iPad 2 to the latest firmware and then downgrades it to iOS 5.0.1, so in the process it updates iPad’s baseband.

This method will work only if you’ve saved your SHSH blobs for iOS 5.0.1 either using TinyUmbrella or had jailbroken your iPad when it was running iOS 5.0.1 and launched Cydia at least once, which would have cached the SHSH blobs on its servers.This guide is meant for iPad 2 users, iPhone 4S users can check out this step-by-step guide.This is a step-by-step guide for users to downgrade their iPad 2 on iOS 5.1 or iOS 5.1.1 to iOS 5.0.1. Dev team has released a new version of Redsn0w (0.9.11b1) that allows iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users to downgrade their iOS device to iOS 5.0.1 so that they can use the Absinthe jailbreak to jailbreak their device.
