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i am on ios 7 (jb) can i upgrade to IOS 8?

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mastoppa

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Hello i am an ipad 2 owner with IOS 7 (jb) evrything has worked fine for me until now and the reason i have never upgraded is because i read about ipad 2 getting slower with newer ios (i use it with intensive cpu music apps)
now though many new apps has a feauture which is available only since ios 8
i dont want to upgrade to IOS 10 cause i dont want to renounce to JB and dont want a slow old machine, so it possible to upgrade to IOS 8?
somwhere i read that is not possible for some reason....any trick?

thanks
 
Not possible. No trick.

You can only upgrade/downgrade to a version of iOS that Apple is digitally signing. They stopped signing versions of iOS 8 a long time ago.

The time to upgrade to iOS 8 was when it was current. You missed the upgrade window. So, now your choice is jailbroken on iOS 7 or iOS 10.
 
what about using odysseusOTA2?
what about using another devices with IOS8 (i have an iphone with ios8) ?
 
mastoppa said:
Hello i am an ipad 2 owner with IOS 7 (jb) evrything has worked fine for me until now and the reason i have never upgraded is because i read about ipad 2 getting slower with newer ios (i use it with intensive cpu music apps)
now though many new apps has a feauture which is available only since ios 8
i dont want to upgrade to IOS 10 cause i dont want to renounce to JB and dont want a slow old machine, so it possible to upgrade to IOS 8?
somwhere i read that is not possible for some reason....any trick?

thanks
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God, I'd KILL to get 7.0 on my iPad 2! Don't, under any circumstance, upgrade! You'll be left with a device so laggy as to be unusable. I went to 8 (from jailbreak 5.1!) and regret it to this day. I then went to 9 thinking how bad could it be? It was even worse.

Stick with 7. You won't be able to get the latest apps, but at least you'll have an iPad that's usable. 6 and 7 where the golden age of iOS. Clean, light and simple.

The only reason Apple let's these older devices upgrade all the way to 9.3.5 in the iPad 2 case, is to brick your machine so you buy a new iPad (which I reluctantly did).
 
bufffilm said:
What app do you need...just curious.




He can upgrade to 9.3.x if he wants to and thus go hog-wild in the App Store, but I wouldn't.

:)
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[doublepost=1477507628][/doublepost]i need a feauture called "ableton link" in the music apps world ... apparently it works only with ios 8 or newer...
 
mastoppa said:
[doublepost=1477507628][/doublepost]i need a feauture called "ableton link" in the music apps world ... apparently it works only with ios 8 or newer...
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Thanks for replying...I guess you have some pondering to do.
 
bufffilm said:
He can upgrade to 9.3.x if he wants to and thus go hog-wild in the App Store, but I wouldn't.

:)
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is there something special about the iPad 2 that allows it to upgrade to that specific firmware even if it's not signed?
 
Actually if it is indeed the iPad 2 and not the iPad Air 2, the OP can only update to iOS 9.3.5 as iOS 10 is not supported on the iPad 2. iOS 9.3.5 has no jailbreak and the iPad 2 is a 32-bit device so iOS 9.1 would have been the last jailbreakable version for that device.
 
eyoungren said:
is there something special about the iPad 2 that allows it to upgrade to that specific firmware even if it's not signed?
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Apple is still signing 9.3.5 for the iPad 2 and 3.

That won't change even when it's moved on to iOS 10. Which it did.
 
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