Good to know.
No jailbreak for official 7.1 now for sure, even though that was a pipe dream.
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General TUTORIAL: This is how you can remove expiration from 7.1b2 to preserve JB in iOS 7.1!
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Good to know.
No jailbreak for official 7.1 now for sure, even though that was a pipe dream.
I am part of the league of extraordinary beta 2 gentlemen didn't you know? b2 it is then
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I've just been experimenting with betas and expiry. If for some reason the beta date passes and something has gone wrong with your plist hack make sure you have Open SSH installed (also recommend changing root password if you do).
Then, if your phone is displaying the Activation screen that happens after beta expires, you can still SSH into it and change the system date manually back to a date before the expiry and fix whatever went wrong.
Terminal command for changing date is:
date {mmddhhmiyyyy.ss}
mm = Desired Month
dd = Desired Date
hh = Hour
mi = minutes
yyyy = Year
ss = Seconds
e.g. this command:
date 012023402014.40
will set time back to 20 January 2014 11.40:40
This has worked for me with a device that I forced to go past the expiry date.
I've just been experimenting with betas and expiry. If for some reason the beta date passes and something has gone wrong with your plist hack make sure you have Open SSH installed (also recommend changing root password if you do).
Then, if your phone is displaying the Activation screen that happens after beta expires, you can still SSH into it and change the system date manually back to a date before the expiry and fix whatever went wrong.
Terminal command for changing date is:
date {mmddhhmiyyyy.ss}
mm = Desired Month
dd = Desired Date
hh = Hour
mi = minutes
yyyy = Year
ss = Seconds
e.g. this command:
date 012023402014.40
will set time back to 20 January 2014 11.40:40
This has worked for me with a device that I forced to go past the expiry date.
Do you expect this to be an issue with proper plist modification?
Good to know anyways, maybe I should install OpenSSH. It's a battery drain though, no?
That's how I recall it in previous iOS versions
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In some of the much earlier firmware versions, it was a drain. Haven't noticed a drain for quite a while.
In my case via Wifi since the Activation screen lets you connect to a Wifi network.
The reason I came across this was that I was experimenting with expiry on a spare device to ensure I was protected and when I pushed date forward the expiry hack didn't work.
Turned out what I'd done was to not remove the ReleaseTypeKey and had only spoofed build and version number. But the interesting thing was that even after I'd set clock back, removed the ReleaseTypeKey and then tried reboot, I was still forced back to the Activation screen for an expired beta.
Needless to say I have since tested both my live b3 devices by setting clock to 1 April and both do boot up properly so maybe just an anomaly. But either way, I feel glad to have a few tricks up my sleeve to try if something goes wrong before I'd have to accept defeat and go back to 7.0.4 (if I absolutely had to and was still able to by then).
Ok thank a lot for the info, good to know that ssh always is ok!
And so the remove of ReleaseTypeKey is really important
I am also with beta3 and looks really stable (just one freeze at the beginning but no more now and sometime blue screen when turning off which produce a repring but not a big pb).
And so the remove of ReleaseTypeKey is really important
I am also with beta3 and looks really stable (just one freeze at the beginning but no more now and sometime blue screen when turning off which produce a repring but not a big pb).
And you can always disable it via both CC plug-ins and standalone switchers.
Doesn't hurt to have afc2add installed as well(for ifunbox and the like). If for whatever reason you can't get ssh working when you need it.
Haven't noticed issues with having either installed.
Haven't noticed issues with having either installed.
In the plist where you spoof 7.0.4, I have the right number changed, 11B554, and the beta key deleted. The version still says 7.1. Do I need to change it to 7.0.4? Under settings, general, about, it says 7.1 too. I moved the date ahead and resprung, and nothing bad happened. Did I spoof right?
I think you done did good.
Spoofing has only proven to allow certain jailbreak tweaks to download vs beta 7.1 without the spoofing.
I spoof it to 7.0.4 to allow non-7.1 tweaks to install then switch it back to 7.1. I also have SystemVersion.plist backed up to my computer and iFile.
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I don't have any technical info to support this but I switch back as well since things seem to behave better on restarts and resprings when it's set to 7.1. Build number always kept spoofed of course.
Isn't the build number (11B554) the whole spoof? Do some of you change the other number from 7.1 to 7.0.4?
As braddick mentions a few posts earlier, changing to 7.0.4 enables Cydia purchases and downloads. Doesn't guarantee they'll run properly on the betas though
Fwiw I have had 0 booting issues on 7.1b3 spoofed to 7.0.4 at first opportunity.
7.1b2 had the flashing apple logo occasionally. Again spoofed to 7.0.4 at first opportunity. (While making the other plist changes).
This is on iPad air
Spoofing to 7.0.4 allows purchase / installation of certain tweaks that fail to proceed on 7.1. It has no effect on compatibility , like someone else mentioned.
7.1b2 had the flashing apple logo occasionally. Again spoofed to 7.0.4 at first opportunity. (While making the other plist changes).
This is on iPad air
Spoofing to 7.0.4 allows purchase / installation of certain tweaks that fail to proceed on 7.1. It has no effect on compatibility , like someone else mentioned.
