Will an untethered iOS7 jailbreak exist for iPhone 4's right away, or are there not people actively maintaining such updates?
Posted May 1, 2013, 8:25 PM UTC
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The tethered jailbreak generally takes some time to prepare (days, if that) but historically has come out well before the untethered release
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Isn't limera1n unteathered. I wouldnt expect the teathered jailbreak to come out before a bootrom one.
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The tethered one is the bootrom one.
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limera1n is geohot's jailbreak utility. It uses an undisclosed bootrom exploit and comex's Packet Filter Kernel Exploit to achieve an untethered jailbreak on newer devices. The following devices are supported:
http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Limera1n
I thought with the bootrom exploit you can install whatever you want on the device.
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So then why can older devices with the bootrom exploit have only a tethered jailbreak on 6.1.3 and not an untethered one at all?
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An tethered** jailbreak for the iPhone 4 and below will always be immediately available following an iOS update due to the bootrom exploit.
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You are blatantly wrong, the A4 bootrom exploit does not allow for an untethered jailbreak.
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Whoop. I should have caught that.
Got my words mixed up. My apologies.
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I get that, but does somebody maintain limera1n or whatever it would be called?
Would you use limera1n on iOS6? Or is it called something else each time.
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You don't need to maintain it. LimeRa1n takes advantage of a hardware exploit.
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But it requires a userland exploit to be unteathered. What is stopping a person from modifying iOS7 and adding a userland exploit?
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If you can find one, then go ahead. You'll need to find a way to implement it, which is the only reason jailbreaks take so long. Plus, Apple is constantly patching exploits that they find, and when adding new content, they open new ones, meaning you have to act quick in finding and exploiting these holes.
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One does not simply 'modify' the iOS
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The jailbreak is normally for all iOS devices. And if one isn't supported it is usually the newer phone.
Edit: I don't know why I got down voted...
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I'm not asking about "the jailbreak" though.
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"Will an untethered iOS7 jailbreak exist" what are you asking then?
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FOR IPHONE 4.
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I said that in my comment before. "all iOS devices". That means iPhone 4, 5, iPod Touch.
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Assuming iOS 7 is available for the 4 and that iOS 7 doesn't bring the 3GS and 4, you can tethered jailbreak it. The only device that's untethered no matter what iOS update is thrown out, is the iPhone 3GS on the old bootrom. That's the only device.
"Assuming iOS 7 is available for the 4". iOS 6 will be the last on the 3GS, while iOS 7 the last on the 4. If they made 6 available for the 3GS, but 7 not for the 4, that would be ridiculous. iOS 8 won't be available for the 4, as the trend would have it.
I don't see that trend continuing.
If you have a bootrom exploit that lets you flash modified versions of iOS what stops you from introducing your own userland exploit to iOS?
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