Great news for jailbreaks. The team behind the Pangu untethered jailbreak of iOS 7.1-7.1.2 has just released a jailbreak for iOS 8 – iOS 8.1 and it’s the first jailbreak tool released for iOS 8 or later. Pangu8 for iOS 8 is available on their official Pangu website and the jailbreak utility is only available for Windows.
Pangu team has provided some important details on their website:
Preparations for jailbreak.
Backup before using pangu jailbreak tool. Although this tool is tested successfully on most devices, we still hope you backup your data to avoid data loss. Please turn off the screen password lock and close the “find my iPhone” feature in the iCloud settings before jailbreak.
the firmware upgraded via OTA may cause failure.
The firmware upgraded via OTA will have a lot of influence factors. If you have several failed attempts, Please try to download the latest firmware and restore your iOS devices. In addition, Pangu (iOS 8) tool now add a function to restore iOS devices and execute automatic activation, you can try click the jailbreak button after restoring, and Pangu will automatically activate your device and do jailbreak.
“Storage capacity is almost full.”?
This is because the jailbreak program will write important files into the system directory and cause alarm, it will not affect the result. When the Cydia be compatible, click on the Cydia will launch the directory moving process.
About afc2?
Because Apple made a lot of adjustments to the system, you cannot use afc2 plug-ins at present.
Do not delete “com.apple.mobile.softwareupdated.plist”
Do not delete “com.apple.mobile.softwareupdated.plist”, otherwise it will cause system failure.
Processing method of jailbreak failure
Please enable the Airplane mode and close Wifi and then try to jailbreak, or if not successful, please restart your devices and then try. If it still fails, please use the Pangu restore function and jailbreak again.
The Jailbreak tool (Pangu8) will work with all the iOS 8 – 8.1 compatible devices:
- iPhone 6 Plus
- iPhone 6
- iPhone 5s
- iPhone 5c
- iPhone 5
- iPhone 4s
- iPad Air 2
- iPad Air
- iPad 4
- iPad 3
- iPad 2
- iPad mini 3
- iPad mini 2
- iPad mini
- iPod touch 5th gen
No Cydia included when you Jailbreak iOS 8 – iOS 8.1 with Pangu8.
The important thing that you need to know about Pangu8 is that jailbreak will not install Cydia at this time. This initial release of Pangu is likely for developers only so they can update their tweak for iOS 8. Saurik needs to update Cydia for iOS 8 in order to make it compatible with the newly updated operating system, that’s the reason why Cydia is not bundled into Pangu for iOS 8. Technically if you jailbreak your device right now, it wouldn’t do any good to all of users as Cydia is outdated for iOS8.
Saurik mentioned that he will work hard to get Cydia compatible as soon as possible.
So, windknown has contacted me, about a half hour ago, via e-mail. He has told me one of the issues that is keeping Substrate from working on the device, which will probably require me to build a little binary patch for dyld as part of the Substrate installation sequence. This was the worst possible day for me, as I'm traveling back to Santa Barbara today (I'm currently in Texas, having come here to give a talk at The Big Android BBQ), which means this will take me a little longer than I'd like, but clearly getting Cydia and Substrate working on iOS 8 is my highest priority. I thankfully think that I actually can start working a little on one of the Substrate issues using an iOS 7 "model" based on the information provided by windknown, which means I'll lose less time to not having all of my devices with me. (I currently have no clue why Cydia itself is not functioning, but will find out later today when I can see it myself.)
Jailbreak Tutorial.
We are currently gathering more information regarding Pangu8 for iOS 8 – iOS 8.1. We will provide a set of instructions in a separate post once we have all the information that we need regarding Pangu8. There’s a possibility that the instructions might be limited due to the current status of this jailbreak tool.
T4L’s recommendation.
Like what we have mentioned above, this release is likely for developers for them to update their tweaks including Saurik for Cydia to be updated for iOS 8. Having Pangu team released their jailbreak tool for the developers means that the next thing that will happen here is that we will be able to jailbreak and install updated tweaks compatible with iOS 8 – iOS 8.1.
Right now we recommend you to just get ready for an upcoming version of Pangu by updating or restoring to iOS 8.1 via iTunes (not OTA). This is just to ensure that you’re ready when a stable version of Pangu is out.
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