Download iOS 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch – Direct Links – No Developer Account Required

by on June 22nd, 2011

IPSW - ios 5 direct download links

If you are not a developer but you want to test iOS 5, then you can download the following files for your iDevice. All iOS 5 firmware ipsw files are below to download for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4G, iPod touch 3G, iPad 1, iPad 2 and Apple TV 2G. This is iOS 5 beta 1 for SDK. iPhone Dev Team have jailbroken iOS 5 using Limerain exploit developed by iOS hacker Geohot, but no ETA has been given yet.

Your iDevice needs to be activated before installing this firmware.
Activate iOS 5 without a developer account.
OR
Bypass the activation process.
Installing this firmware on a non-activated iDevice will make it useless.

iPhone 3GS (609.2MB)

iPhone 4 (GSM, 730.2MB)

iPhone 4 (CDMA, 744.01MB)

Apple TV 2G (4.4, 303.55MB)

iPad 1G (669.66MB)

iPad 2 (WiFi, 677.89MB)

iPad 2 (GSM, 685.17MB)

iPad 2 (CDMA, 691.77MB)

iPod Touch 3G (578.16MB)

iPod Touch 4G (717.74MB)

iTunes 10.5 (Mac OS X, 71.55MB)

iTunes 10.5 (Windows x86/32-bit, 72.48MB)

iTunes 10.5 (Windows x64(64-bit, 74.07MB)

Tip: If you are getting “This device isn’t eligible for the requested build” error while restoring to iOS 5, try this:

  • Open the Terminal and type sudo nano /etc/hosts
  • Find the line 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com
  • Type in front of it #74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com
  • Press Ctrl+O to save hosts file, press enter.
  • Restore now.

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