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General Are you updating from pangu 8.1 to taig 8.1.1
- Thread starter thadoggfather
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Sticking to pangu. 8.1.1 offers nothing to me, so I will stick to 8.1. Now if 8.2 brings anything useful to the table, obviously I will reconsider.
I'll hold out for now. Had enough hassles moving to 8.1 so I'll relax for now.
Question: I understand it's bad to jailbreak phones that have been updated via OTA but what if they're updated through iTunes? Is it the same thing? I'm getting mixed answers through Google.
Also, I'd like to find out about backing up all my App Store app data, like save games. My Threes high scores all vanished after updating from 7 to 8.1 and restoring my backup. This happened a long time ago and I lost my Angry Birds and PvZ save games. Was not happy about those
I'm not interested in a full file/folder backup as I don't want to carry over prefs and old JB bits, although it seems my regular iTunes backup brings those over, anyway.
That's a shame. For me, using Pangu was the least painful part!
Question: I understand it's bad to jailbreak phones that have been updated via OTA but what if they're updated through iTunes? Is it the same thing? I'm getting mixed answers through Google.
Also, I'd like to find out about backing up all my App Store app data, like save games. My Threes high scores all vanished after updating from 7 to 8.1 and restoring my backup. This happened a long time ago and I lost my Angry Birds and PvZ save games. Was not happy about those
I'm not interested in a full file/folder backup as I don't want to carry over prefs and old JB bits, although it seems my regular iTunes backup brings those over, anyway.
That's a shame. For me, using Pangu was the least painful part!
I'll hold out for now. Had enough hassles moving to 8.1 so I'll relax for now.
Question: I understand it's bad to jailbreak phones that have been updated via OTA but what if they're updated through iTunes? Is it the same thing? I'm getting mixed answers through Google.
Also, I'd like to find out about backing up all my App Store app data, like save games. My Threes high scores all vanished after updating from 7 to 8.1 and restoring my backup. This happened a long time ago and I lost my Angry Birds and PvZ save games. Was not happy about those
I'm not interested in a full file/folder backup as I don't want to carry over prefs and old JB bits, although it seems my regular iTunes backup brings those over, anyway.
That's a shame. For me, using Pangu was the least painful part!
OTA means over the air and it's a delta update which means you don't have to download the whole OS. If you use itunes it won't be OTA and itunes download the whole ipsw file.
I had trouble connecting to Pangu. Had to dust off my old Dell laptop to finally get Jailbroken.
Taig would be even easier and painless. Takes no more than 2-3 minutes. Used it with my iPod 5th gen, iPaid Air 2, and iPhone 6 Plus and all went through flawlessly with Taig on 8.1.1.
Thanks, I found that out already. So the OTA update process patches the iOS files(and is smaller depending on what iOS version you are upgrading from) whereas iTunes update via IPSW replaces all the iOS files and needs the ipsw file.
Now, I find jailbreak instructions usually say do a clean restore before jailbreaking. I know that's the best way to be safe but when I backup and restore it takes so long because of the apps and photos!
So, I was thinking about just updating to 8.1.1 via iTunes and then running TaiG instead of backing up, restoring iOS to 8.1.1, running TaiG and then restoring my backup.
I feel like maybe I should do a clean 8.1.1 restore and not restore my backup. When I moved from 7 to 8.1 I lost about 40 apps for some reason and had to delete and re-download each one manually via iTunes. Also, I've been messing around with tweaks, plist files and stuff and think maybe now is a good time to start fresh!
I'm not looking forward to it, though. I always miss things.
Sounds the same as my Pangu experience. Connected phone, pressed Jailbreak, waited 2-3 minutes, done!
I'm glad that TaiG is as easy as that for people who had trouble with Pangu, though, especially whoever tried the first version!
Also, no Mac version of TaiG that I can see and I'm not too keen on using my XP virtual machine but I have no choice for now if I want to move up to 8.1.1. So maybe Pangu really will be the easiest jailbreak for me!
Crikey. I've used Pangu four times so far, twice on an iMac with Mountain Lion and twice on my work PC, a Dell with Windows 7. Absolutely no troubles at all each time.
I re jb 3 times with pangu and I'm not very computer literate and had absolutely no issues every time it worked flawlessly. Had to re jb due to tweaks I had installed that weren't compatible and thought the jb was the problem but it wasn't. Each time I did it took me a total of about 10 mins between backing up, jb, then restoring. I hope the next jb is as smooth.
Thanks for letting me know!
I think I should still restore and start fresh, though. My current 8.1 probably has some weird issues because of all the messing around I did.
Well in that case you can backup to iCloud and then do a restore iCloud so you can get your app data back.
No...you never reset all content and settings on a jail broken phone. You perform an iTunes backup. Restore to 8.1.1 in iTunes. Jailbreak. Restore your backup through iTunes.
Is there a reason for why you should never reset all content and settings? Just curious
Is there a reason for why you should never reset all content and settings? Just curious
It's well documented that it puts your phone into a boot loop. Since you are planning on restoring anyway (and a jailbreakable 8.1.1 is signed) then it's not a big deal. However, it's best not to get in the habit.
Performing a reset all on a jailbroken iOS device that is running iOS 5 doesn't do anything harmful at all. It just restarts the device and stops at the Apple logo. If both buttons are pressed to reset the device, it boots back up as if nothing ever happened. This is because the jailbreak breaks the obliterate function of iOS. The obliterate function is also what wipes a device if the wipe is requested via Find My iPhone. Because of this, a jailbroken iOS device that is running iOS 5 or higher cannot be wiped via Find My iPhone.