New Jailbreak available for 7.1.1 (and should work with upcoming 7.1.2 update)

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So I didn't see this posted here and figured I'd give people the heads up. Apparently a group of Chinese hackers, that ironically enough, got their exploit from a well known iOS 'hacker' from a paid training session, silently released a jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1 (all devices) on Monday.

Some of the more well known iOS hackers have looked at the jailbreak and, besides giving you the option to install pirate Chinese app store, it appears to be free of malware or any of that crap.

Just a word of warning though, it's VERY buggy. I tried jailbreaking my iPhone 5 several times with no success, so make sure you back up your phone before trying it. The team plans of releasing an update sometime soon to fix a lot of the issues.

http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/23/pangu...-jailbreak-released-but-proceed-with-caution/
 
The past jailbreaks DO NOT work with OTA updates!!! I'm guessing this jailbreak is probably no different.

I found this out the hard way and software bricked my iPhone and iPad while trying to perform iOS 7.0 jailbreak.

Here is the steps for those that did OTA updates (i.e. update through Settings on iOS device) . if you updated through iTunes, ignore the following and proceed to jailbreak.

1. Backup your iPhone/iPad
2. Put iPhone/iPad in DFU mode (power and home combo to achieve)
3. Plug iPhone/iPad into a computer and do a restore through iTunes
4. Jailbreak
5. ....
6. Profit?
 
The past jailbreaks DO NOT work with OTA updates!!! I'm guessing this jailbreak is probably no different.

I found this out the hard way and software bricked my iPhone and iPad while trying to perform iOS 7.0 jailbreak.

Here is the steps for those that did OTA updates (i.e. update through Settings on iOS device) . if you updated through iTunes, ignore the following and proceed to jailbreak.

1. Backup your iPhone/iPad
2. Put iPhone/iPad in DFU mode (power and home combo to achieve)
3. Plug iPhone/iPad into a computer and do a restore through iTunes
4. Jailbreak
5. ....
6. Profit?

That's not entirely true. I've jailbroken my iPhone(s) just fine, in the past, after having installed an OTA update (Redsnow and evasion). I know it's recommend to do a clean restore before jailbreaking and some peoples mileage may vary, but I've personally never had an issue with it.

At any rate... clean restore or not, this Pangu one is a tough nut to crack. I've tried it on my Windows 7 laptop, via a Virtual machine (XP) and on my desktop (win 7) and each one puts my iPhone into a boot-loop after it finishes the process. It doesn't seem to matter if the OS is freshly installed, setup as a new phone or restored from a backup. So for whatever reason, it doesn't like my GSM iPhone 5. Oddly enough, though, plenty of people out there are having no issues with it. Strange stuff.

hoping for an update soon.

EDIT: and on a lighter note, apparently there is a 'boot loop' issue plaguing quite a few iPhone 4's that can be fixed by shining a flashlight into the ambient light sensor (I shit you not). I have no idea what that would have to do with the jailbreak as it makes no logical sense, and I even thought it was a joke on reddit for a while, until I saw a video of someone demoing the problem. Sadly, it didn't fix my 5 though
 
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That's not entirely true. I've jailbroken my iPhone(s) just fine, in the past, after having installed an OTA update (Redsnow and evasion). I know it's recommend to do a clean restore before jailbreaking and some peoples mileage may vary, but I've personally never had an issue with it.

At any rate... clean restore or not, this Pangu one is a tough nut to crack. I've tried it on my Windows 7 laptop, via a Virtual machine (XP) and on my desktop (win 7) and each one puts my iPhone into a boot-loop after it finishes the process. It doesn't seem to matter if the OS is freshly installed, setup as a new phone or restored from a backup. So for whatever reason, it doesn't like my GSM iPhone 5. Oddly enough, though, plenty of people out there are having no issues with it. Strange stuff.

hoping for an update soon.

EDIT: and on a lighter note, apparently there is a 'boot loop' issue plaguing quite a few iPhone 4's that can be fixed by shining a flashlight into the ambient light sensor (I shit you not). I have no idea what that would have to do with the jailbreak as it makes no logical sense, and I even thought it was a joke on reddit for a while, until I saw a video of someone demoing the problem. Sadly, it didn't fix my 5 though

Evasi0n has a warning on its site that jailbreaking 7.0.x with updates will result in a boot loop. I got stuck in a boot loop on both my devices that had OTA updates, so I assume it was universally true.

Yeah the Pangu seems more finicky to achieve. I'll try it later this weekend on my iPhone 4S, 5, and iPad and see what happens.
 
Thanks for the heads up!

I was able to successfully jailbreak both my iPhone 5 and iPad Mini WiFi without any issues; although I did painstakingly take extra precautions to back up my devices on both my rMBP and Windows machine, just in case. I've been itching for something like this ever since I accidentally "upgraded" to 7.1.1 from the evasion 7.0.6 jb, on my iPhone. With the iPad Mini, it was already jailbroken on 6.1.5, but now after finally upgrading to 7.1.1 with this jailbreak, it feels like a completely new device! :D

By the way, for those interested, the Pangu team have released the Mac version of the jailbreak tool as well as updating the Windows version, however, in the process of doing so, they've changed to use a different bug to make the jailbreak work:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/06/pangu-ios-7-1-ios-7-1-1-jailbreak-mac-os-x.html
 
Personally i'm not a big fan of the Pangu team. They seem to be burning through all the exploits for quick short term gain. Further more, the exploits they''re using comes from other's.
 
It's not a big deal because they are using exploits no one would anyway
 
It's not a big deal because they are using exploits no one would anyway

Pretty much. It's using a loophole in the enterprise certificate program, so any jailbreakers in the western world would likely get into legal trouble for doing so

Covertash thanks for the heads up
 
Personally i'm not a big fan of the Pangu team. They seem to be burning through all the exploits for quick short term gain. Further more, the exploits they''re using comes from other's.

From an ethics/moral high ground perspective, I can understand and sympathize. Sadly, there's just nothing else available now. Plus, judging by the fact that the Pangu team are able to burn through another exploit shows that multiple possibilities for a 7.1+ jailbreak have existed all this time.

If anything, I have to question why the evasi0n team have held onto these secrets for so long. Even if they were holding out for iOS 8, which it doesn't seem like is the case due to legality reasons, there would not have been any guarantee that the same exploit would have still existed anyway.

ic0nic talks as if he's never received a single dime from his previous work. To play devil's advocate here, I'm willing to bet that if the Pangu team gave a cut of the profits to him, you would not be hearing all this drama now. :p
 
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