Jailbroken Ipad 3.2.1 to 4 or above, how?

[makemyfilm]

Hi. I have Jailbroken Ipad 1st gen, with 3.2.1 in it. What is the safest 4.0 software I can put in it? I am reading your site, and, I think I understand how to upgrade this with redsnow, though not sure. Could you please link me to right direction to simply being able to update ipad to 4.0 or above and still keep my ipad jailbroken? I used jailbreakme.com to JB the ipad. I have tried dowloading RedSnow 4.3.1 with trying to put 4.3.1 ispw software onto this. Following all the power/home button directions, looks like my ipad was going through a jb process, then, the ipad restarts, and, back to the old 3.2.1, like nothing happened. I am dying to get any sort of 4.0 ipad software and above on this. Should I just update to 4.2 on itunes, then try the JB? I fear losing all the jailbroken apps on my ipad. Please help! Thanks.

 

[DontUnderstandMyIpad]

I am pretty sure, you forgot to upgrade the firmware before jail breaking with redsn0w. Redsn0w jailbreaks the already installed firmware, it doesn't update it.

But f4780y wrote a very detailed instruction on how to jb, you might want to head over there:
http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-hacking/26303-tutorial-jailbreak-ipad1-sn0wbreeze.html

 

[makemyfilm]

So, update the firmware via itunes first?

Then do the redsnow teather? I fear updating on itunes. Will it undo my jailbreak 3.2.1 and will I lose all the apps on my ipad? Where will these apps go? (I think I have backed-up these). thanks,

 

[graywolf]

If you download pkgbackup then that will save any stuff on your iPad. Update to 4.3.2 with iTunes. Download the latest redsn0w, and jailbreak. Redownload pkgbackup, do a restore with that, and done!
Windows redsnow: https://sites.google.com/a/iphone-dev.com/files/home/redsn0w_win_0.9.6rc14.zip?attredirects=0&d=1
Osx redsnow: https://sites.google.com/a/iphone-dev.com/files/home/redsn0w_mac_0.9.6rc14.zip?attredirects=0&d=1

Easy! And it is untethered.