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General Why I'll be sticking with iOS 7.1 jail broken than iOS 8
- Thread starter theapplefanboyj
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Use aptbackup and it will download just about everything you had installed through Cydia. I had a few things I still had to install but it got most of them.
Overnight, I updated from 7.0.4 to 7.1.1 and it took about five hours from backing up my Air to restoring. I hadn't backed up in three months so it took two hours to backup. Restoring took about two hours as well.
Overnight, I updated from 7.0.4 to 7.1.1 and it took about five hours from backing up my Air to restoring. I hadn't backed up in three months so it took two hours to backup. Restoring took about two hours as well.
And back up all Winterboard skins/badges/docks that i edited to my personal preference (800MB and counting), iWidgets, SBHTML, GroovyLock addons, plenty of tweaks data such as Flex, HomeScreenDesigner, not having to troubleshoot which tweak is making X happen, battery drain, crash, memory leak and so on. A quick example, i updated HomeScreenDesigner yesterday and it took time removing two recently updated tweaks to find out it was HSD causing respiring when opening folders. Like many over here i don't consider myself a casual jailbreaker, i don't jailbreak to pirate apps, or download a single tweak and call it a day, my JB'n iPhone has been customized in details to my taste so it's not easy to jump into every update just because it's jailbroken.
^^Exactly!
And I've got stuff tweaked that was marginally working on iOS 6 that either will break on iOS 7 or will have to be tweaked again to work in iOS 7.
For a number of reasons to me, iOS 7 is worth NONE of this work.
Only draw back is that future updates of appstore apps will start to drop ios 6 support, somewhere you will have to make a switch.
I always follow @MN advice: try to stay on the highest JBable firmware.
The ios 7/8 GUI is just something to get over, i had foldericons for a longtime with all kinds of neat customs folder icons, but now use taptap folders and the stock icons.
Personal preference.
That's true. I already had a fight with one dev about his app being an "update" for iOS 6 when it was clearly an iOS 7 update only. He refused to help me because I was jailbroken. So, I gave him the middle finger in writing and side loaded the last iOS 6 update from my iPhone 3GS back on to my iPhone 5. Later he finally made the update iOS 7 only. I like his app and I bought it long before this, but because of the way I was treated, I will never buy the app he has for Mac OS X.
I hear what you're saying, but the only critical thing I need on my phone is the actual phone app itself. Everything else is extraneous. As long as I can make a phone call I'm fine. Even texting I can sacrifice.
However, long before any of that happens I'll have the iPhone 6, which will have iOS 8 anyway.
Yes, personal preference. My iPhone 5 will stay on iOS 6 and when replaced by my iPhone 6 it will assume the media device roll that my 3GS had. It won't matter then what's working or not and at that point with the iPhone 6 I will have to adjust. Hopefully when iOS 8 is jailbroken I can apply one of the few dark/black themes that are out there so I won't have to suffer too much.
But not on my iPhone 5.
I've had apps require 7.1 already when I was on 7.0.6. I'm sure support for iOS 6 will dwindle quicker when iOS 8 is out since it has all the new APIs.
I don't have the details on this, but I thought I read somewhere it was done for earlier betas on an internal basis... rusty memory now. Not sure if the hole has since been closed since its now further into development.
http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/28yamh/blackgeek_has_modified_pangu_to_work_on_ios_80/
man i'm the opposite. i'm already running iOS 8 on my iPad mini, and kept iOS 7 on my iPhone, but am looking forward to iOS 8 on iPhone 6.
Never existed in the public.
Sn0w said that it would take a lot more than a simple hex edit to get pangu working on ios 8 betas as ios 8 fixed a lot of things it used.
While I'm not denying that blackgeek got it to work on ios 8 beta 2, we still don't know how and can only presume that he must have used something that could not be released publicly (yet).
iOS 7.1.1 5S Jailbroken + Ayeris + Color Profiles = <3!!!!!
I've got that theme. . . what color profile do you use to enhance it?
i just got the ipad air 7.1.1 stock. can i jailbreak. the evasi0n site says 7.0.x.
use PanGu
en.pangu.io