Restoring my iPhone to older firmware

Is it possible to restore my iPhone 3GS/ iPod Touch 4th gen (both running ios 6.1.3) to ios 6.1.2?
Thanks in advance...

no ios device ever officially supported any type of downgrade of firmware

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Thanks for your reply. I don't really understand your answer though. I plugged my iPhone into iTunes with the intention of restoring from my latest back-up as I have lost all my photos and contacts on my phone. However, when I plugged it in it automatically did a sync and a back-up. Now when I click restore from back-up it just restores to what I have on my iPhone now, because that was the latest back-up (it did it automatically). Do you understand what I mean?
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can't restore my iphone 3g, becouse this error: iphone could not be restored because the firmware file is not compatibe
To make things wors yesterday iphone was stoped i shutdown it and when i try to turn On the apple appears for a 30 sec then disappear... and again apple appears and for 30 sec disappear...So to fix this problem i need to do restore but i cant becouse i get the error.
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The error message you are getting sounds like you have jailbroken your iPhone or have updated to iPhone OS 4.0 Beta.
Eitherway, I would follow http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1275 for a possible solution as these steps may not work.

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When I Restore My iPhone with itunes gives error -1 will end of the Installing firmware
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You'll need to bring your phone to Apple for evaluation

HT5654 when i am trying to restore my iPhone 5s from the recovery mode,it always stuck when restoring iPhone firmware. The message said " an unknown error occurred (1)". Tried all reboot, restart the iTunes etc. no luck

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HT1766 Can I restore my iPhone from an older backup than the most recent?

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The following info covers restoring from earlier backups:
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TS1814 When I try to restore my iPhone, it says: "The phone could not be restored because the firmware is incompatible

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My Iphone backup crashed upgrading to IOS5 :-(
Under : Users/[username]/AppData/Roaming/Apple Computer/MobileSync/Backup I find an old backup I want to use.
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Sorry, maybe that was a bit unclear.
So again my urgent request:
How can I restore my iphone with an OLDER backup version from iCloud (2 weeks ago)
At this moment I can choose only one of the last three backups made recently on iCloud.
Please help
I have a backup from Jan 2014 on itunes
that means I loose all the pictures from Jan to May... aaaaahhhhh

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Somehow the original IPod updater hangs with a type 2 error...

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I tried to erase the shuffle with Terminal, Graphic Converter, Diskutillity etc.
However: the firmware is somewere else where i cannot reach it...

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Error 1 means, as the link that Chris gave you says, that your phone is either jailbroken or damaged.
It can also mean that your antivirus is blocking the update, but this is rare. Try disabling your antivirus if your phone is not jailbroken. If that doesn't resolve the problem you need to get the phone fixed or replaced.
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