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Who thinks jail breaking is worth it?
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Worth it to me.
But I'm on one of the last fully untethered jailbreaks so I don't deal with the BS that those on semi-untethered jailbreaks deal with.
But I'm on one of the last fully untethered jailbreaks so I don't deal with the BS that those on semi-untethered jailbreaks deal with.
My 5s is on a semi-untethered jailbreak, but re-jailbreaking is no hassle at all. I don't reboot my 5s that often.
I'm currently waiting on the iOS 11.0-11.1.2 jailbreak to settle out and for Saurik to update Cydia and mobile substrate. No hurry here.
I have an Activator action that reboots my phone every weekday morning at 7:30am. Except for the respring that iBlacklist needs to do I boot jailbroken - no having to use an app to rejailbreak.
Granted that's not much of a hassle for most people but I've read about some of the problems people have had on 9.2 and above.
If you have no issues that's great.
At least it's not the original 74-step jailbreak. What a pain that was; one goof and it was back to step one.
So will there be an eclipse on cydia app? So I can have a true dark mode if I jailbreak?
[doublepost=1514699931][/doublepost]Also one thing I’m worried about is if I’m on an early version of iOS 11 I won’t get the fast wireless charging and my phone may not work in the cold weather. I take it a jailbreak won’t fix any of those issues right? Sorry about the stupid questions I just never had a jail broken iPhone.
[doublepost=1514699931][/doublepost]Also one thing I’m worried about is if I’m on an early version of iOS 11 I won’t get the fast wireless charging and my phone may not work in the cold weather. I take it a jailbreak won’t fix any of those issues right? Sorry about the stupid questions I just never had a jail broken iPhone.
Always had my iPhone 3G and 4th gen iPod Touch jailbroken. That was iOS 2 - iOS 6, the golden era of jailbreaking.
I don't think jailbreaking is worth it anymore since iOS 7 though.
Jailbroke my iPhone 5s on iOS 10.2 two days ago. Installed 3 tweaks, which I made sure were completely compatible and all, and... had a blue screen (kernel panic freeze, forcing me to hard reset) in less than 24 hours, just for opening WhatsApp to check my messages like every morning. Jailbreaks these days are unstable crap.
I don't think jailbreaking is worth it anymore since iOS 7 though.
Jailbroke my iPhone 5s on iOS 10.2 two days ago. Installed 3 tweaks, which I made sure were completely compatible and all, and... had a blue screen (kernel panic freeze, forcing me to hard reset) in less than 24 hours, just for opening WhatsApp to check my messages like every morning. Jailbreaks these days are unstable crap.
I used to jailbreak my iphones back in the hay days, iPhone 4,5s.
I just don’t have the time or patience to do it anymore. Also a lot of apps such as banking apps or RSA security token apps which I use to remote login to my desktop at the office will not work on an iPhone that has been jailbroken. I cannot live without using those apps.
I just don’t have the time or patience to do it anymore. Also a lot of apps such as banking apps or RSA security token apps which I use to remote login to my desktop at the office will not work on an iPhone that has been jailbroken. I cannot live without using those apps.
I was into jail breaking in earlier days of iPhone and iOS. Can’t remember doing it since the 4S days and don’t find anything important at all. I just don’t have the time or energy to go through these things anymore. I like the way iOS works out of the box.
I think that comes down to what you do with it.
A common assumption is that a lot of jailbreakers are involved in theming their brains out, installing tweaks and going nuts.
That isn't why I jailbreak.
I have a set idea of what I want. When a jailbreak releases and I have a stock phone I jailbreak and I set my phone up the way I have it in my head. As devs update their tweaks I move forward. Once I get where I am going that all stops and I leave it alone.
Other than wallpaper I haven't changed anything in about a year or so. My phone is where I want it to be and I only mess with it when I need to. I've been on iOS 9.0.2 and jailbroken since October 2015.
It's been very stable, but then I value my jailbreak over any tweak or app and I don't install or allow stuff to remain installed that has proven to cause problems.
Note: I have a wife in school, two kids and a full-time job.
I use both exCon and TSProtect. Haven't had any issues with my banking apps, or my credit card apps.
I have a 6+ and an iPad Mini 2 on untethered jailbreak and a 6S on the semi.
I have my 6S+, 7+ and two SEs on 11.1.2 and iPad Pro also waiting for the JB to come out soon.
I have my 6S+, 7+ and two SEs on 11.1.2 and iPad Pro also waiting for the JB to come out soon.
Ok but say I jailbreak my iPhone and don’t like it can I just delete the app and it will be like it was never on there?
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Yea that’s what I’m waiting on
You can…but you'll run into problems.
iDevices have two partitions on them. One is a user partition and contains all the apps you install and your data. The system is installed on a system partition and stock, you the user, have no direct access to it.
Jailbreaking tends to move things around on the system partition which makes them out of place when you revert to stock simply by updating.
Deleting the app does not remove Cydia. So there is that. You may try to delete Cydia by restoring. That doesn't remove any of the jailbreak pieces and probably won't get rid of Cydia. That forces an iTunes restore as new which means if you have no backup you lose all your data.
If you are no longer interested in a jailbreak, I suggest, deleting the app, backing up, then doing a DFU restore/upgrade via iTunes, THEN restoring from your backup.
That removes the jailbreak completely (which gets rid of the app and Cydia) and removes any potential problems going forward stock.
You don't have to use DFU (an iTunes restore as new will work) but I recommend it and it's how I revert to stock when I need to upgrade.
Well atleast there is away to do it. I may love jailbreaking and want to keep it. I just wanted to make sure if I dont like it I can get rid of it.
At least it's not the original 74-step jailbreak. What a pain that was; one goof and it was back to step one.
But those that could do it were gods to those that couldnt
Oh, you can always get rid of it. It's just how.
I use DFU Mode restore/upgrade as new because it's a direct connection to the firmware and there is no question that any previous jailbreak is being wiped.
Some people don't want to go through the hassle of that, but I've been doing it this way since iOS 5 and it's always worked for me. My current profile has survived from iOS 5 all the way up to iOS 9.0.2 through three different iPhones.
Never Jailbroke an iPhone, but rooted many an Android. Was experienced at it, and if an issue arose I knew how to get out of trouble. A lot of times we recommended to newbies not to run Custom Roms on your Daily Driver. Would that recommendation apply to the OP if he wants to Jailbreak for first time? Or, is Jailbreaking much safer than rooting Androids?
Did it up till iOS 9 and it became too much trouble with too little benefit. Rooting many an Android now, for fun.
You can't run a custom ROM on an iPhone. That's a higher level of exploit that we currently do not have.
I believe it was somewhat possible back during the iPhone 3GS/4 days but those phones also had a bootrom exploit which Apple patched with the 4s.
As far as safety - you can't brick an iPhone via jailbreaking. DFU mode will always recover the iPhone and if it does not then you have a hardware issue which is something entirely different.
Nowadays I would only do it after the device is out of warranty and around 2 to 2.5 years old.
I jailbroke my iPhone 4 on iOS 7 and rolled it back to iOS 6 even though I lost some apps at the time. Still have the phone and play with tweaks every now and then. I then jailbroke my 5s but I didn't roll back to any previous iOS. Tbh I just wanted to get rid of that ugly dock and use the pre iOS 6 classic icons. Then earlier this year I unjailbroke it restored it back to stock iOS 10.3.3 and traded it in. Currently I have an 8 plus on iOS 11 and have no immediate plan to jailbreak it even though I know one is out.
At some point I will jailbreak my iPad 3 which is on 9.3.5 and I want to put it on iOS 5 or 6. I had very good experience with Pangu before, but I may try a different one next time.
I jailbroke my iPhone 4 on iOS 7 and rolled it back to iOS 6 even though I lost some apps at the time. Still have the phone and play with tweaks every now and then. I then jailbroke my 5s but I didn't roll back to any previous iOS. Tbh I just wanted to get rid of that ugly dock and use the pre iOS 6 classic icons. Then earlier this year I unjailbroke it restored it back to stock iOS 10.3.3 and traded it in. Currently I have an 8 plus on iOS 11 and have no immediate plan to jailbreak it even though I know one is out.
At some point I will jailbreak my iPad 3 which is on 9.3.5 and I want to put it on iOS 5 or 6. I had very good experience with Pangu before, but I may try a different one next time.