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iOS 5 Jailbreak Issues
It didn’t take us too long to update out iPhone 4 with the latest untethered jailbreak from Redsn0w, so a few niggles here and there are to be expected – especially as this jailbreak uses a new exploit. I started to notice a few issues with the iOS5 jailbreak straight away. Although the jailbreak process was very simple this time, getting things working again was a bit trickier.
Straight away, Cydia didn’t install properly and left me with a white icon that wouldn’t launch. To get Cydia running I needed to reboot the iPhone and then it was fine. Next I redownloaded X-Backup. I had this on my iPhone running the iOS 4.3.3 jailbreak and it is supposed to backup all of the Cydia sources and installed programs, so when you upgrade your jailbreak you can reinstall the app, launch the backup and all of your old sources, apps and settings will be automatically reloaded. Well, that’s what’s supposed to happen. When I launched X-backup, my backup file wasn’t there so I had to manually search Cydia for my sources.
Next, I went to resync with iTunes – but none of my Apps would sync. It turns out that this jailbreak doesn’t automatically apply Appsync so I had to manually add it.
None of these are huge problems, but they did make the update process harder than it should have been.
The biggest problems are that the iPhone seems to crash quite a lot now, and probably 50% of times I restart the springboard it doesn’t recover and I need to hard reset the thing. Also, when the springboard restarts I get a lot of extra icons that seem to give me system information but not much else so I need another restart to get rid of them.
I’m sure much or all of this will be fixed with future versions of Redsn0w or any other jailbreak and none of the issues are deal breakers, the jailbreak always beats the stock iPhone.
Let me know if you have had any issues with your jailbreak.
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