So I know there's only a tethered jailbreak for IOS 5. I know if I power off the phone I will have to boot it tethered. What about if I go in to sbsettings, and do a restart. Is that also a scenario where I will have to boot it tethered, or not? Is it a rebooting thing, or just a power off thing....
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question about tethered jailbreak
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I understand that with a tethered JB you can respring without being connected to your computer and you have to be connected to reboot, or restart (if your phone dies or something). What happens if you are not connected to your CPU and you reboot? Doomsday? Nuclear weapons get set off? War games? 
Also, any suggestions to the best JB out right now for iOS 5?
Also, any suggestions to the best JB out right now for iOS 5?
I understand that with a tethered JB you can respring without being connected to your computer and you have to be connected to reboot, or restart (if your phone dies or something). What happens if you are not connected to your CPU and you reboot? Doomsday? Nuclear weapons get set off? War games?
Also, any suggestions to the best JB out right now for iOS 5?
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I understand that with a tethered JB you can respring without being connected to your computer and you have to be connected to reboot, or restart (if your phone dies or something). What happens if you are not connected to your CPU and you reboot? Doomsday? Nuclear weapons get set off? War games?
I'm also curious about this. I've never done a tethered JB before, and I'm considering it.
If my phone reboots while away from the computer for whatever reason, will my phone be unusable until i get back to my computer, or will it boot into "normal" mode and work like an un-JBed phone?
It will be unusable. However, bear in mind that you don't need to go back to your iTunes-synced computer to restart the phone. You can connect to any computer and run the small redsn0w executable to reboot your phone.
I installed redsn0w at home and at work. I'm at one of those places 80% of the time, so I decided to go with the tethered JB and haven't had any problems. The only precaution I take is not to install Cydia apps unless I'm in front of one of those computers.
You win a free jb for being the 100th person to ask this question.
When's the last time your phone spontaneously rebooted? Probably never.
You win a free jb for being the 100th person to ask this question.
When's the last time your phone spontaneously rebooted? Probably never.
Ever had a Droid?
respring will clear RAM, a respring can be done on a tethered jailbreak
the only time i ever do a hard reset or "reboot" is when its required to install a cydia app/tweak or if my device freezes