14 DAY TRIAL // The infamous iPhone Dev Team is urging jailbreakers to stay away from the latest software update from Apple as it will break their hacks and potentially thwart any chance to have their device jailbroken again in the future.
Moments before Apple unveiled its third iPad to the world, iPhone Dev Team member Musclenerd reweeted the following warning to the iOS user base: “March Mayhem...jailbreakers avoid iOS 5.1! See is.gd/4D1FSK for exceptions.”
The shortened URL takes followers to a new post on the Dev Team blog which explains the reasons why jailbreakers should avoid this new release.
“In all likelihood we’ll see the GM ‘gold master’ version of 5.1 this week,” Musclenerd wrote. “DO NOT UPDATE TO 5.1, because you may lose your jailbreak!”, his warning reads.
The rest of his post discusses “the subtleties with this rule, but if there’s only one message to take home, it’s the overall ‘do not update’ message!”, he said. As usual, there are some exceptions. Those are:
· Soon after 5.1 appears on Apple’s public servers (i.e. iTunes starts to offer it), Apple will stop signing 5.0.1 SHSH blobs. · If you have an iPhone4S, the basic rule above is really the only rule: you cannot restore back to 5.0.1 once the 5.0.1 signing window is closed, no matter what (even if you saved your SHSH blobs). · If you have an iPad2 with saved 4.x hashes, you can in fact downgrade to that 4.x but you won’t be able to get to 5.0.1 once the 5.0.1 signing window is closed (even if you saved your 5.0.1 SHSH blobs). · If you have a device earlier than the iPad2, you can downgrade to whatever version you want, as long as you have saved SHSH blobs for that version. You’ll need the assistance of geohot’s limera1n exploit with tools like redsn0w to get into “pwned DFU mode” and bypass the downgrade restriction.
Musclenerd says that, despite this “nuanced landscape,” the basic rule remains the same: “If you update to 5.1 you’ll very likely lose your jailbreak, so don’t do it!”