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Absinthe 2.0 Brings Untethered Jailbreak to iOS 5.1.1 Devices Including New iPad

erandall38 said:
I haven't Jailbroken my iPhone since the 3G, maybe 3Gs.

What are the reasons to jailbreak now? You get the apps for free, you can tether 3G to your laptop/iPad right? Anything else new that's happened in the last couple years?
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For me it was only ever about removing the SIM lock. But I've got a factory unlocked 3GS now, which is much more pleasant to use than the redsnowed/ultrasnowed 3G I used until now.
 
slrandall said:
I'm sure this gets asked every time there's a new jailbreak story, but what are some of the current benefits to jailbreaking?

The only one I think I'd be interested in is the quick-reply SMS feature that allows you to reply to a text without leaving an app. It'd be great if Apple implemented that, because I don't think I'm gonna bother jail breaking just for that.

But what else is there?
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Creating wifi hotspot on carriers that dont support that feature is a good reason
 
If my Ipad 3 ever has issues I would just restore a pre-jailbroke back up and take it to Apple Store all would be fine? I bought the 2 yr drop protection.
 
Renzatic said:
Yeah, you just think you're cool. I'll show you what's REALLY cool...

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This is what the iPad was made for. Some of you might go on and on about inter-connectivity, productivity, information at your fingertips. Whatever. All that matters is I can finally play Maniac Mansion on my iPad.

This is the future people...as I imagined it to be when I was 12 back in '92.
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Is that zac mc cracken?

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Kamakzie said:
If my Ipad 3 ever has issues I would just restore a pre-jailbroke back up and take it to Apple Store all would be fine? I bought the 2 yr drop protection.
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Yes just do a restore and you wont have any problems
 
Did anyone manage to get iMessage working with this? I unlocked with ultrasn0w + ultrasn0w fixer for iOS 5.1.1, but SAMPref says "Stockification failure".
 
I'm a little confused. It looks like the jailbreak worked on my phone. Cydia is there and I can open it, but the jailbreak window still says waiting for reboot do not disconnect.
 
well crap. I was all giddy about JBing my iPad3 until I tried to use my Directv app. I saw there's a patch in Cydia but it kept giving me errors. now I remember why I quit JBing in the first place.

oh well, back to stock I go. I can't live w/o my Directv app.
 
I'm jail broken now with 5.0.1, is there a program that will remember my folder and app locations so that I don't have to spend 2 hours putting everything back to the way it was ?
 
ozziegn said:
well crap. I was all giddy about JBing my iPad3 until I tried to use my Directv app. I saw there's a patch in Cydia but it kept giving me errors. now I remember why I quit JBing in the first place.

oh well, back to stock I go. I can't live w/o my Directv app.
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I just fixed this 2 minutes ago with xCon from cydia.
 
Does the Nintendo 64 and PSX emulators still work on iOS 5? Last time I heard they didnt.
 
Once upon a time I got Activator to allow me to click the home button to minimize the current app, hold it for a second to fully close it out. It saved me a million swipe-up/hold/close app/swipe downs.

I dreamed of it allowing me to minimize a running app with the 4 finger pinch & close a running app with a 5 finger pinch.

But then the Activator add-on broke and never worked again. After using this intuitive time saver, doing without it is awful, and makes Apples half-hearted effort at implementing multitouch gestures seem embarrassingly lacking. Positively the most useful tweak to iOS yet.

Wish the dev would get it working again.
 
iCloud Backup with Absinthe

I used iCloud to restore my phone back to normal after updating to 5.0.1 and than I jailbroke using Absinthe v1.


I was wondering if anybody has backed up there 4S using iCloud after the original Absinthe 5.0.1 jailbreak. Than made a final iCloud backup, erased all content and settings.

Than setup as a new phone (without iTunes) and updated to 5.1.1 and repeat the reset process to erase all content and settings. Which after one would be at the start of a new phone and input there iCloud backup info to restore there phone and than jailbreak 5.1.1 using Absinthe 2.0.1.

Has anybody done this process? Was there any problems? The Chronic Dev Team mentions nothing about iCloud after using the first Absinthe. I might of made it a little complicated but I hope that you can get across what I'm trying to ask.

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Kamakzie said:
If my Ipad 3 ever has issues I would just restore a pre-jailbroke back up and take it to Apple Store all would be fine? I bought the 2 yr drop protection.
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if it ever had an issue just restore the firmware or go to settings and erase all content and settings and they'll never know, i've done it tons of times at the end of the my warranty I always return my phone for a exchange and get more time from apple plus a newly conditioned phone or ipad.
 
teamrusnac said:
Hey guys,

I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 running 5.0.1. How do I make the change to 5.1.1 and keep the jail break with this tool?
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pavelbure said:
I'm jail broken now with 5.0.1, is there a program that will remember my folder and app locations so that I don't have to spend 2 hours putting everything back to the way it was ?
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The best way to do this is:
1) Backup your iPhone in iTunes;
2) Restore 5.1.1 (it will say Restore and Update). This will update it to 5.1.1;
3) Set up your phone as a new device and jailbreak it;
4) Install the Cydia apps you need/want previously. If you get an error like HTTP Error 500, try again (it just means the servers are overloaded);
5) Afterward, connect to iTunes, right click your device on the sidebar and select "Restore from Backup"
 
Lost all my apps

i jailbroke my new iPad (iPad 3) and everything went great, then the wifi didn't work so i restarted the iPad but then i lost all the initial apps that came with the iPad what should i do?....i don't wanna restore the iPad as it may take a long time, Please help
 
Can not load PKGBACKUP to get to my backup on Dropbox

I did the 5.1.1 JB by wiping my 5.0.1JB phone clean after I did an iTunes backup and a PKGbackup. My problem is that I performed the 5.1.1 upgrade and the greenpoision 5.1.1 JB and I am trying to restore from my PKGbackup datafile in Drop Box BUT I cannot re-install PKGbackup to begin this process. It must be a 'source' issue but I can not figure out what the source is for PKGbackkup. BigBoss is listed but it can not find the app.

Help is much appreciated.
 
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hkenneth said:
Adding Chinese-English Chinese-Japanese dictionaries to iBooks!
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Ohmygod. I have been using custom dictionaries on OS X since forever. This, and disabling all the stuff in iOS I don't use, has pretty much convinced me now. :O Thanks!
 
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