How To Fix iPhone 3GS YouTube App and GPS Not Working
How To Fix iPhone 3GS YouTube App and GPS Not Working – We have received many E-mails from our readers on our ASK Question section regarding ” iPhone 3GS jailbroken and after restoring the device to iOS 5.0.1, they faced many issues and they can’t figure out how to resolve them. This issues includes GPS functionality (not working at all), apps not running in the background, and YouTube and other videos apps are not working at all.
How To Fix iPhone 3GS YouTube App and GPS Not Working
Step 1: if you are running iPad baseband (6.15.00) in order to unlock your device so you have to know the risks of iPad beaseband first ?
- If you update your device to baseband 6.15.00, you will not be able to restore using the original firmware. That means you will face an iTunes error message if you try to restore it directly from there. You can only do it via a custom or ‘cooked’ firmware created with redsn0w or other tools.
- The only way to downgrade 6.15.00 to the Official firmware baseband you will be able to downgrade
- GPS will not work properly or in may not work seriously on your iPhone due to this baseband although a fix is said to be on the horizon.
- You will void any Apple warranties as they can easily detect this baseband if you bring it in for service.
- The resale value of your iPhone may be lesser due to the above, that’s if you intend to sell it at one point. Otherwise, this is not really an issue.
- At the end you will stuck -on the 6.15.00 baseband forever.
So if you are running this baseband its better to downgrade to 5.13.04 which has the ability to unlock using ultrasn0w by using our tutorial posted here.
Step 2: After downgrading your iPad baseband restore while preserving baseband by using our tutorial posted here for Sn0wbreez and here for Redsn0w
Step 3: Jailbreak your iPhone 3GS using our tutorial posted here
Step 4: unlock Your jailbroken iPhone3GS through Cydia form here
Other method
For non jailbroken iPhone 3GS users, for those who faced these issues, we recommend to try resetting your location warnings by the following steps
- Open your Settings app
- then go to General
- then scroll down until you find Reset — Reset Location Warnings
if the above steps doesn’t solved your issue you will need to restore your iPhone 3GS, But we recommend a clean restore without restoring the backup you can also backup your data by following our tutorials posted here
You didn’t even say anything about fixing the YouTube and video apps not working. What’s the point in mentioning it then?
Everyone said it couldn’t be done without SHSH blobs. Ware ever you asked, in what ever forum you looked. It was not possible. But some how I did do it. I downgraded from iOS6.1.1 back to iOS5.1.1 without SHSH’s.
In a playful mood I upgraded from my jail broken (absinthe-win-2.0.4) iOS 5.1.1 bb 05.16.06 to) iOS 6.0 and then to iOS 6.1 (10B141) bb 05.16.08 via iTunes (v 10.7). The last was jail broken with evasi0n-win-1.3.
All went well but I couldn’t get anything installed with iFunbox. Started reading in the forums and wanted to downgrade my baseband to 05.13.04 and go back to iOS 5.1.1. Going back to iOS4.1 and getting to bb 05.13.04 is well explained but it took me about 6 days and at least 15 installs to get there. When I was on 05.13.04 I used sn0wbreeze 2.9.9 and downloaded iOS’s 4.1, 5.0.1, 5.1.1, 6.0 and 6.1.
Then sn0wbreezered them all preserving my baseband. I must have installed between them about 10 times but every time iTune gave an error 1604 with iOS5.1.1. Suddenly the install was accepted and now I’m back on iOS5.1.1 with bb 05.13.04. Lucky me. Can install all app’s again with iFunBox. Tom-Tom 113 works so GPS is good.
Thanks to the makers of absinthe, evasi0n-win-1.3 and sn0wbreeze 2.9.9.