I'm confused as to what all if this means. What does Apple no longer signing mean in layman's terms?
HOW TO RESTORE/REPAIR ISSUES WITH IPHONE WITHOUT UPDATING AND LOOSING THE ABILITY TO JAILBREAK
if you need to do a restore and plan to want to jb your phone....do not connect to itunes and turn off updates on your phone and itunes account... you will
NOT be able to jb anymore if you connect your phone and update/restore without doing this........
get a program called iREB..
place the phone in pwndfu...(not semiboot and not dfu mode)
go to
http://www.getios.com/ and d/l ios 6.1.0 for your phone type and carrier
get a program called snowbreeze to make a custom ipsw of ios 6.1.0
get a program called tinyumbrella
and go to the option to save shsh/blobs to cydia server and wait until its complete
then select start tss service on the log tab and wait
go to system32/drivers/etc...to find the files that are used by apple
open the apple hosts files using notepad
add this: 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com on the very last line...(this tells itunes to redirect to cydia to sign your phone instead of apple)
save the changes to the host file and close all programs
restart pc..
go to itunes and press and hold shift on the itunes page where it says restore.
it will allow you to browse your pc, in which direct it to the custom ipsw (the ios 6.1.0 you downloaded earlier)
press enter and the phone will do its usually restore process and return you to 6.1.0 with everything in tact minus the jb...instead of restoring your phone to 6.1.2 ios in which you no longer will be able to jb your phone (again this is if you are on newer devices)