Hello Krysti, I may have some information for you. Also, Mauricio, the
question wasn't about what you lose if you jailbreak, but whether it
could be done.
Anyway, jailbreaking iOS 6.0 or 6.01 is not really possible right now if
you want untethered, and believe me when I say that untethered is the
way to go. Otherwise you will be depending on a tethered jailbreak, and
it means you have to connect your phone to the computer and run software
when it reboots. Additionally, there has been a very difficult time of
it from the hackers on getting it working right. So, the good news is
that if you wait for the long-awaited untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.1,
it's a good chance it will be made available this Sunday. Now, to
address some of the other things which came up in this thread.
If you have a new iPhone and it came with iOS 6, you can't downgrade.
This is because of Apple signing each firmware installation for your
phone. I don't understand the specifics, but if you Google for shsh
blobs, it will give a better description for it. I have been able to
downgrade in the past before, but that was because I had saved my shsh
blobs from a prior iOS version.
The question I see come up often is if jailbreaking is worth it. I mean,
you lose Apple tech support, and supposedly void your warranty if you
have one. If you find that you need to have your device serviced, then
you can restore and go back to the current iOS and it will be
unjailbroken. Of course you will lose your settings and jailbreak apps,
but that's a risk you take when you go for the jailbreak path. I just
realized I didn't answer my own question on if jailbreaking is right or
not. Like with all things in life, it depends on the user and whether
said user wants to trade in the warranty for certain conveniences. Or
even more importantly, it highly depends on whether jailbreaking will
enhance the user experience for the specific user.
I'll give an example, if you have been using the iPhone unjailbroken and
it's met your needs, or you are really concerned about tech support from
Apple and/or warranty service, then jailbreaking isn't for you. If you
aren't concerned about their tech support or warranty, but you don't
need the enhancements that jailbreaking provides, then again,
jailbreaking may not be for you. I teach new users how to use the iPhone
and even though I'm a huge jailbreak fan, I don't recommend it to my
clients unless they ask about it first, and only if they feel they
really need it.
I could go on and on about all the cool things you can do extra with a
jailbroken iPhone, but the list would be too long. Suffice it to say
that even though I'm using iOS 5.1.1 still on my 4S, I'm enjoying most
of the iOS 6 features due to some sort of jailbreak enhancement. The one
feature I will mention here is probably 80% of the reason why I
jailbreak in the first place. I'm a Google Voice user, and I have
totally integrated my Google Voice number so that even tapping on phone
numbers in text messages or web pages or apps, will use my GV number to
call the tapped number. Furthermore, sending and receiving text messages
using my Google Voice number is seamless and can be done through the
messages app. These are things you cannot do unless you jailbreak.
So, bottom line, I truly hope that untethered iOS 6.1 jailbreak will
come out, but if it doesn't, I'll be sticking with iOS 5.1.1 for a bit
longer.
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On 1/27/2013 8:50 AM, Mauricio Almeida wrote:
well, there probably is. my question to you is though why youw ould do such a
thing if it messes your ability of gaining support from apple in addition to
making you lose all your jail break data every time you update your IOS?
mauricio
On Jan 27, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Krysti <happypuppy...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey is there anyway I can jailbreak my iPhone 4S running ios 6
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