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JBing iOS5
- Thread starter BLOND37
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I am running the tethered jailbreak and it was not complicated at all. It took maybe 10 minutes to download redsn0w and have my iphone 4 jailbroken. Right now I am not going crazy installing everything just going with the bare minimum of Haptic Pro and Lock Info for now. Probably will install BiteSMS after the next Beta release based on feedback I have read it looks stable.
just download rednsow and run it?
hmmm.. see i have a 4 and 4s. was gonna return 4s and use 4.. (and JB 4) but i keep going back and forth on this decison..
If you've already got the untethered JB on the iPhone 4, I say wait for the untethered JB. It should be out soon. My phone crashed with that disastrous Facebook update last week, and I had to restore from scratch, and lost all my JB hacks in the process. I upgraded to iOS5 and installed the tethered JB, but its such a PITA to hook up to the computer whenever I need to reboot. Plus, there are so many little things that keep crashing, causing the phone to restart (not everything is iOS5 compatible yet), so its not really avoidable. Just my 2 cents.
Yes it is really that easy. And for now I would just install the bare minimum because of the tethered aspect.
i had teth not that much of an issue but yea unteth is better
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SERIOUSLY thats ALL?? dont you need the fipsw file or smethibg?
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no offense but you all are telling me to download red snow and run it and thats all.. arent you leaving some steps out?
but dont i need files???
i'm not trying to be dumb or lazy i just aint good with this thing..
(and i dont watch you tube stuf for anythigsorrty)
but fine i'll try it
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so all i do is download red snow and thats ALL I NEED TO DO?
Dont be so harsh on him, he is just making sure. I know, I had all those questions when I was jailbreaking for the first time.
Yes, you just need to download redsnow and it will guide you through the entire process.
clarification: except for iPhone 4S and iPad 2... still not jailbreak for iOS 5 for those devices whatsoever.
I would say if you're this unsure about the process and what's involved in it, you probably shouldn't jailbreak. It's not something I would do without at least a vague idea of what it was I was actually doing.