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iPhone iOS 8.1.1 BETA patched PanGu (confirmed by PanGu dev.)
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haha I know. But just to let the people know who are waiting for a Mac tool(not in the near future) for PanGu. I think, if you still need to jailbreak but waiting for a Mac release, this could be useful info 😉
From A Buick 8
macrumors 68040
The biggest challenge with the US-based jailbreakers was that they could not use Apple's code to create the exploit and be subject to lawsuits, whereas Pangu probably doesn't care.
With that said, I think Pangu will be releasing an iOS 8.2 or 8.3 jailbreak as well.
Dwalls90
macrumors 603
Blobs have been useless for quite some time.
Simply just DO NOT UPDATE. Your phone will not update all by itself.
Problem is if something goes wrong when trying to JB and you have to restore, you will only be able to restore to 8.1.1
Dwalls90
macrumors 603
True, but thankfully this hasn't really been an issue for many JB iterations now.
You can force-boot into safe mode by holding the volume up button when booting, which should allow you to isolate your buggy/troublesome tweaks.
Of course, if you were to go into iFile or OpenSSH and delete lots of large files required by iOS, then yea, you'd be screwed and forced to restore (or to retrieve these from another source) - but that's just plain stupid.
iOS 8.1.1 BETA patched PanGu (confirmed by PanGu dev.)
I'm not talking about people already jailbroken in speaking about those trying to jailbreak. It is very possible their first attempt screws up (I.e. They do not follow directions and leave pass code on). If they have to restore after an unsuccessful attempt that may be screwed.
I'm not talking about people already jailbroken in speaking about those trying to jailbreak. It is very possible their first attempt screws up (I.e. They do not follow directions and leave pass code on). If they have to restore after an unsuccessful attempt that may be screwed.
got556
macrumors 6502
My phone came with 8.0.2 straight out of the package. So you may get lucky and it comes with that or 8.1 now that it's been out a while.
famoussasjohn
macrumors 6502a
Mine shipped with 8.0.2 and that was shortly after it was released. You might get lucky!
Applejuiced
macrumors Westmere
And once 8.1 stops being signed by Apple make sure you don't install any old or incompatible packages so you don't take any risks of having to restore and be stuck on the latest 8.1.1
Dwalls90
macrumors 603
I'm pretty happy with my 7.1.x jailbroken devices... but I am also intrigued by some iOS 8 features.... ahhhhhhh decisions!
Dwalls90
macrumors 603
Move to 8.1 or you are about to be stuck on iOS 7 until the next iOS 8 jailbreak.
pollybrowne
macrumors regular
Has any info been released w/re to (or would anyone care to make a educated guess based on the avg amt of time between the beta and public release of past iOS updates) approximately when that might be/about how much time we are probably looking at before Apple stops signing 8.1?
famoussasjohn
macrumors 6502a
Sometimes a few hours, sometimes a few days. Also depends on if they have another mishap like they did with 8.0.1 which I don't think will happen again. Definitely recommend to do it ASAP to avoid getting stuck trying to restore and not being able to complete it because they stopped signing for it.
