Given the proof of concept demonstrated by Wirelurker, wouldn't using this tool be kind of stupid?
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'Pangu' Jailbreak for iOS 8.x Now Available for Mac, Compatible with Newer Apple Devices
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+1. Shame on Apple for not providing anything similar for almost three years (the initial release of f.lux for iOS).
My first attempt to jailbreak a 3 bricked it. My attempts are logged here somewhere for posterity.
I had just bought a 3gs and figured 'What The Hay', got 'nothing to lose', except for the old 3. I tried everything people suggested short of going to the Genius Bar to recover it. Nothing worked.
I really highly doubt that I will ever jail break another iDevice ever. I don't have the money to replace anything that bricks, plus the 'juice to squeeze ratio' isn't there for me.
But, sure, go for it...
Let us know how it works...
An additional hour of restoring / setting your device up a year (or half a year, counting in the frequency of past iOS6/7 JB releases) isn't that much...
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User error.
And, as has been pointed out above, you can't permanently brick a device via JB'ing. You can always restore in iTunes.
I've JB'n several of my iOS8 iDevices (being a dev, I have almost all major iDevice models). No problems so far.
Of course, I don't install much JB stuff, only
- f.lux
- my own JB tools (call recorder & video bitrate & video oversamling configurer etc - see the Hacks forum here for more info) written by myself
- PasswordPilot
- Insomnia (essential for connecting to the Net via Nokia hotspots)
- iFile
- DisplayRecorder
- as soon as it's made OS8-compliant, the absolutely essential ("thanks" for Apple's still not providing proper BT support) AirBlue Sharing
etc. That is, no silly themes. It's mostly themes that mess up / slow down iDevices.
Not meaning to sound racist but I can't trust this Chinese mob as far as I can throw them. I've jailbroken EVERY iOS device I've owned but after hearing what Chinese companies are doing using similar techniques I dunno...
Can I trust a bunch of guys who pirate dev certificates and previously promoted the exact cracked app store that's been at the centre of all these viruses. How do I know it's not jailbreaking AND installing a trojan as well?
I'm gonna keep my iPhone 6 sandboxed... it has most of the features I used to JB for anyway. Only one I need is the ability to block unknown callers and my stalker seems to have gone away so for now I don't need that.
Can I trust a bunch of guys who pirate dev certificates and previously promoted the exact cracked app store that's been at the centre of all these viruses. How do I know it's not jailbreaking AND installing a trojan as well?
I'm gonna keep my iPhone 6 sandboxed... it has most of the features I used to JB for anyway. Only one I need is the ability to block unknown callers and my stalker seems to have gone away so for now I don't need that.
Lol, we Europeans won't have Apple Pay for months? years? So at last we have an advantage over you
It wasn't just me that had problems, so bite me.
I tried iTunes. You think I've been here this long and not tried that? The 3 would just reboot over and over again. I got an opinion on the problem from someone off board that said that it was a compatibility issue with something that was on my 3, and that I should have done a restore to a new iPhone before I tried breaking it. Didn't know if that would have helped, and I wasn't going to sacrifice my new 3gs to find out.
So, if jail breaking is for you, it makes you feel like a rebel, a 'bad guy', or fills a need for you, than do it. Don't slam people that tried it and had a bad result. You aren't helping anyone by doing that.
On the plus side, I have heard that it IS more stable (this one perhaps excluded?) and I *was* tempted to jail break my iPad mini, but that's as far as it got.
I wish it had worked in my case. If nothing else, just to see what it's all about. A friend of mine did his 3gs, and it worked well for him. Then he went back to iOS.
Distributing / installing pirated apps does NOT require stolen dev certs. You'd only need them (more specifically, private push / IAP certs) for submitting apps to Apple themselves to, say, direct push messages to themselves.
Otherwise, app pirates are NOT interested in certs stored on iDevices.
Are seriously trying to say that you use your iPhone as an iPod and never turn off the music?
I know many had problems. Nevertheless, when done properly and following guidelines (no OTA devices etc.), JB'ing should not go wrong / brick a device.
And I state this as someone that has JB'n tons of different iDevices under tons of iOS versions ever since 2008.
f.lux seems to be of questionable value to me, but never having seen it in operation,whatever. I really am not a fan of the latest Touch that does not have an ambient light sensor, and wish there was a fix for that 'mistake'. Perhaps an app that adjusts the brightness down in the 'nighttime hours'?
Does f.lux massage the hardware in a way that Apple doesn't allow? It would seem odd that they either allow it, or incorporate that functionality in their iOS if it's really that popular.
Does f.lux massage the hardware in a way that Apple doesn't allow? It would seem odd that they either allow it, or incorporate that functionality in their iOS if it's really that popular.
Install f.lux on your desktop (both Windows and OS X are supported) and you'll love it. You won't ever want to go back to the bluish shimmering of the screens.
It's also essential on iDevices. Many only JB for f.lux.
Ah that 'Hour' of restoring is largely dependent on how much information you have on your phone. I have a 128GB phone. Then you have to reenter login info for all your apps. All in it would be probably half a day, for something that right now is as simple as hitting one button and waiting two minutes.
Big difference.
As much as I love jailbreaking for my Lato Light and hiding the system stuff I don't want, iOS 8 is still too buggy.
I would rather wait three more months for them to find something else they can poke into. I feel like developers themselves will end up forcing you to upgrade because they don't want to get stuck with people blaming them for stuff that was an iOS 8.0 issue that is fixed in 8.1.1 or whatever newer update comes out.
We're still weeks from a lot of the major tweak updates coming out and those guys have to build upon this disaster.
This wasn't like in iOS 6 where a simple security update was pushed out.
I would rather wait three more months for them to find something else they can poke into. I feel like developers themselves will end up forcing you to upgrade because they don't want to get stuck with people blaming them for stuff that was an iOS 8.0 issue that is fixed in 8.1.1 or whatever newer update comes out.
We're still weeks from a lot of the major tweak updates coming out and those guys have to build upon this disaster.
This wasn't like in iOS 6 where a simple security update was pushed out.
I've heard this before: "The phone company didn't steal your dime. The phone company gets millions of dimes every day. They wouldn't single out your dime to steal."
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"You're jailbreaking it wrong."
Believe what you want man, jailbreaking saves iOS products for me. No jailbreak = no buy. I don't want nanny state computers
use firewall ip7 and block all connections if you are a paranoid tin foil hatter
