Get Your iPad SHSH files Using Firmware Umbrella [How-To]

It’s a common fact and all iPad users know that now they can easily jailbreak their iPad, but apart from that it’s very important to save your iPad SHSH files with Saurik’s server in order to protect and save the jailbreak-ability of your iPad.

It has become very simple and easy to save SHSH files, through FirmwareUmbrella, which is easily available.

The procedure is very much same as of iphone/iPod Touch. You just need to get the ECID of your devises. Run your Firmware Umbrella (Mac/Windows), then enter ECID, then select your device version, and then choose Saurik-Cydia from drop down, then submit it.

Click the image below to download firmware umbrella

**Umbrella**

1. Make sure your etc hosts file does not have an entry for gs.apple.com. If you don’t understand what I am talking about,
go google “etc hosts” and your operating system. There are many resources to help you in that regard.

2. Run Umbrella app (on a mac) or umbrella.exe or umbrella64.exe (if you have a 64bit java install) or simply java -jar umbrella.jar from within
the directory you unzipped fw-umbrella-semaphore.zip

3. Enter the ecid of your device (go google how to find your ecid – later versions of umbrella will find it for you)

4. Select your device + version combination.

5. Select the repository (server) that holds the shsh information you want to obtain.
5.1. Saurik – Cydia is what you choose if you want to request your shsh blob FROM apple and have it SAVE on Cydia.
5.2. Apple – select this repo if you just want to see what apple will give you.
5.3 localhost – select this if you are really bored and happen to be running TinyTSS. (Yes TinyTSS will spit out whatever it has loaded)

6. Keep the file safe. The file will be in the current directory (ie the directory you unzipped fw-umbrella-semaphore.zip)

NOTE: If you’re running on a mac move the Umbrella app OUT of the .dmg file preferrably onto your desktop and then run it.

**TinyTSS**

TinyTSS will load your shsh blob and serve it up to iTunes when they try to “Verify the restore”.

Options:

-f – file or directory – The shsh file to load OR the saved directory you copied when you saved your 3.0 or 3.0.1 restore files.
-m – enable forced mode – If the shsh blobs you saved are not complete (meaning you have less than the required 20 shsh’s) this option
will force TinyTSS to keep going without throwing an exception. The only exception to this is
if you don’t have your iBSS. Without that you’re screwed anyway.
-q – enable quick mode – If you turn on this switch, TinyTSS will not start the service on port 80. If -f points to a directory,
TinyTSS will try to reconstitute the shsh files and quit.

To get iTunes to use TinyTSS – Simply add:

127.0.0.1 gs.apple.com

to your etc hosts file. Make sure there are no other entries for gs.apple.com. Once you do this, run TinyTSS, verify it came
up correctly and then open iTunes and restore to whatever version ipsw you have shsh blobs for.