Hello,
As you may have noticed, I am new to this forum. I came here due to the fact that this community is more flexible in terms of jailbreak discussion etc in comparison to the official Apple community page. However, enough introduction. Let me get to the point.
I own an iPod Touch 5th Generation. When purchased, it came pre-installed with iOS 7 and, strangely enough, bear a strong desire or the now over 2 year old operating system iOS 6. You're probably thinking, "Stop living in the past!" however, for what I need my iTouch for, it's fairly understandable that I would usually not have any need for the newer OS such as iOS 7, or iOS 8 (Which runs very poorly on the iTouch 5). My reasons for wanting the iOS 6 operating system for my device is simply because the user interface is much more preferable in my eyes than the later iOS 7. The flatter, brighter design is undoubtedly not to my taste at all. I have had this opinion for nearly a year now, but have never been able to successfully downgrade my device for obvious reasons (6.1.3 is no longer signed, iTunes thus refuses to restore with that firmware blah blah blah).
Recently, it is apparent that a tool has been developed that has been claimed to be able to successfully downgrade an iOS device running iOS 6, 7 or 8 etc. At first, like any of you reading this probably would, I presumed this was some sort of scam. After claims had been made that the tool infact worked perfectly for them (for example on their Facebook page). My question is, has anyone here tried this? Has it worked for you?
Here is a link to the page:
https://irevert.wordpress.com/
Or alternatively,
http://ios8-ios7downgrade.blogspot.co.uk/
I was thinking about jailbreaking too for an iOS 6 theme. My problem is (Yes, indeed I do sound fussy) that the themes out there currently (that I've seen) are limited in their redesigns. For example, I could apply an iOS 6 theme for its icons, a classic lock screen tweak and a status bar tweak, but the settings menu layout would still be the same. Allow me to demonstrate.
Here's it what the settings menu would look like if I applied specifically "iOS 6 Complete for iOS 7" theme:
As impressive as it looks, I was hoping there'd be something else able to replicate the look of the classic UI, like so:
The only problem with jailbreaking would be, if I wished to unjailbreak it would require me to restore my device via iTunes. Doing this would result in the installation of iOS 8(.1.2) which I do not want whatsoever.
Any help/helpful opinions regarding this would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
As you may have noticed, I am new to this forum. I came here due to the fact that this community is more flexible in terms of jailbreak discussion etc in comparison to the official Apple community page. However, enough introduction. Let me get to the point.
I own an iPod Touch 5th Generation. When purchased, it came pre-installed with iOS 7 and, strangely enough, bear a strong desire or the now over 2 year old operating system iOS 6. You're probably thinking, "Stop living in the past!" however, for what I need my iTouch for, it's fairly understandable that I would usually not have any need for the newer OS such as iOS 7, or iOS 8 (Which runs very poorly on the iTouch 5). My reasons for wanting the iOS 6 operating system for my device is simply because the user interface is much more preferable in my eyes than the later iOS 7. The flatter, brighter design is undoubtedly not to my taste at all. I have had this opinion for nearly a year now, but have never been able to successfully downgrade my device for obvious reasons (6.1.3 is no longer signed, iTunes thus refuses to restore with that firmware blah blah blah).
Recently, it is apparent that a tool has been developed that has been claimed to be able to successfully downgrade an iOS device running iOS 6, 7 or 8 etc. At first, like any of you reading this probably would, I presumed this was some sort of scam. After claims had been made that the tool infact worked perfectly for them (for example on their Facebook page). My question is, has anyone here tried this? Has it worked for you?
Here is a link to the page:
https://irevert.wordpress.com/
Or alternatively,
http://ios8-ios7downgrade.blogspot.co.uk/
I was thinking about jailbreaking too for an iOS 6 theme. My problem is (Yes, indeed I do sound fussy) that the themes out there currently (that I've seen) are limited in their redesigns. For example, I could apply an iOS 6 theme for its icons, a classic lock screen tweak and a status bar tweak, but the settings menu layout would still be the same. Allow me to demonstrate.
Here's it what the settings menu would look like if I applied specifically "iOS 6 Complete for iOS 7" theme:
As impressive as it looks, I was hoping there'd be something else able to replicate the look of the classic UI, like so:
The only problem with jailbreaking would be, if I wished to unjailbreak it would require me to restore my device via iTunes. Doing this would result in the installation of iOS 8(.1.2) which I do not want whatsoever.
Any help/helpful opinions regarding this would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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apple gave it to me for free even