4S Restore FAILURE!

[fechter]

Like a lot of 4S owners I am having baterry issues. I read that doing a restore might fix it.

So I tried giving the restore a go, but it failed with this alert:

The iPhone could not be restored. This device isn't eligible for the requested build.

I went to Apple's link from the error dialog and followed the instruction but that didn't seem to help.

Right now I don't need to restore but it bothers me that I might not be able to if needed.

Also, I did not try DFU mode. I'm kinda gunshy about it.

Anybody else run into this?

 

[robes1]

Do you have tiny umbrella on your computer? If you do there's an option that tells it to connect to Cydia or something like that. You need to uncheck that. I think that it may be in the tiny umbrella preferences.

 

[fechter]

Holy carp! That was it. I had Tiny Umbrella on my Mac 2 years ago then deleted it. But its prefs were still active. Re-installed then deleted with app zapper.

I owe you big time!