Does 4.2 beta now mean 4.1 jb abandoned?

[maturola]

Tethered as in connected to a PC to do the JB? If that's what you're saying, then yes I have.

Not, "Tether" as you need a PC every time you reboot, as you said you have never done that with any of you previous JB, and that is why all the one you have always used have been untether.

maturola!! Hows it going buddy? I havn't seen you on these forums in a while! Good to see yah back and posting

LOL, thanks for the positive energy and welcoming message!

 

[rwilliams]

With a tethered jailbreak, do you need to be connected to a computer for a restart of the springboard, or just a full reboot? I had Geohot's tethered Blackra1n jailbreak on my 3rd gen iPod Touch, but I can't remember exactly how it worked. If it's only needed for a reboot, then I can live with that. It's the resprings that happen when you update a lot of Cydia apps that would cause me to reconsider using another tethered jailbreak.

 

[Geckotek]

Thats untethered there champ.

tethered works the same way you gotta plug into a PC to Jailbreak it.. but however it hacks into the bootrom or whatever kind of stuff gets done... it gets lost after a normal reboot so you gotta plug back into the pc to get back up and running..

***Dont take my word on that second paragraph****

Uh...thanks "champ".

The terminology is lost on me as tethered would mean attached to the PC during the JB (since that's what the word tether means)....so I would expect my "standard" JB to also be called tethered.

But based on the other descriptions it's obvious there is another type of JB that I have not done before. My apologies for the confusion.

 

[Night Spring]

With a tethered jailbreak, do you need to be connected to a computer for a restart of the springboard, or just a full reboot? I had Geohot's tethered Blackra1n jailbreak on my 3rd gen iPod Touch, but I can't remember exactly how it worked. If it's only needed for a reboot, then I can live with that. It's the resprings that happen when you update a lot of Cydia apps that would cause me to reconsider using another tethered jailbreak.

Blackra1n needed to be tethered only when rebooting, a respring worked fine without tethering.

 

[Cortezbanks]

Not entirely true. There is an unreleased jailbreak that will work on all devices now and forever - until a new hardware version is released. But this is a tethered jailbreak. There are exploits that can be used for untethered jailbreaks. These can be closed by Apple. So the untethered jailbreak will be version specific while the tethered jailbreak will be version non-specific. Of course this is what I've picked up from Chronic Dev-team's posts. What actually will happen and when, only they know for sure.

This line applies to your whole post. Chronic dev hasn't said if it was tethered or not

 

[fsck-y dingo]

That's weird. How does having an erection help your anxiety level?

LOL

 

[TMar]

4.2 is set to release in November and the exploit being used by the dev team and the chronic dev team is a bootrom based exploit. Apple cannot close it without a hardware refresh.

Didn't 3.1.3 prevent the loading of the 24kpwn, that required you to be able to downgrade to 3.1.2 too be able to get on the train?

 

[Applejuiced]

Didn't 3.1.3 prevent the loading of the 24kpwn, that required you to be able to downgrade to 3.1.2 too be able to get on the train?

The spirit2pwn that could be installed on a 3.1.3 had to be on an old bootrom 3GS to get on the train I believe.

 

[TMar]

The spirit2pwn that could be installed on a 3.1.3 had to be on an old bootrom 3GS to get on the train I believe.

Correct, it just flashed the firmware. The point was while they can't fix the bootrom exploit themselves they can prevent them with firmware updates.