How To: Upgrade Your Old iPhone or iPod touch to iOS 5

Upgrade Your Old iPhone or iPod touch to iOS 5

Believe it or not, there are some older iPhones still in use out there, and they're not going away anytime soon. Sure, Apple would prefer you to upgrade your device to the latest and greatest models, which are compatible with iOS 5. Those models include all of the following:

How to Upgrade Your Old iPhone or iPod touch to iOS 5

If you still have your trusty iPhone 3G or the original iPhone, then you're out of luck for running iOS 5 on your device. But the folks over at Whited00r have changed that. They've created a software distribution that has most of the iOS 5 features, and will work on the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and first and second generations of iPod touch. Check out the demonstration below, pitting an iPhone 3G running Whited00r's software versus iPhone 3GS running Apple's iOS 5.

Not too shabby, eh?

Whited00r has included low-memory multitasking, similar home screen, folders, reminders, iCloud integration and more. It's also includes Cydia. So, there's no need to update your device anymore. Keep it cheap with this custom jailbreak iOS 5 update (that is obviously... free).

How to Upgrade Your Old iPhone or iPod touch to iOS 5

To update your old iPhone or iPod touch to iOS 5 through Whited00r, just download the software and go to their installation page to see how it's done. By now, anyone who has an older device should already be familiar with jailbreaking, so it shouldn't be too much trouble to figure out.

Just updated your iPhone to iOS 18? You'll find a ton of hot new features for some of your most-used Apple apps. Dive in and see for yourself:

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8 Comments

Wow!

I have a 1st gen Iphone that runs on the edge network, ( version 3.1.3 )
I have several devices that I want to sync but require osi 5.

It still does everything I need it to do, and really don't want to buy a new phone. The problem is on a scale of 1 to 10 of being able to jailbreak it I'm a 3. What do you suggest???

Thanks,
DD

Is there a way to do this to my 1st gen ipod touch?

Does anybody know how to stop yahoo mail alerts?
I have an iPhone and IPad running ios6.1.3

I already turned off notifications in my settings.

Mail alerts keep coming in.

I use iPod touch 2g & its model is MC086ZP............
Bt
Whited00r firmware only supports the iPod Touch 2G MB series, not the MC one.
what can i do now....
pls! help meeeeeeeeeee

how can i update my old i phone to the newer versions on the iphones?

good phone

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