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Apple Outs Anti-Jailbreak Update

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the longer-than-i'd-expect dept.

Stoobalou writes "Apple has issued an emergency update for devices running the iOS 4 mobile operating system. iOS 4.0.2 plugs the security hole exploited by the iPhone Dev Team to allow pain-free jailbreaking of the iPhone 4 and its manifold siblings as well as... actually, that's about it."

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  1. Re:Already an issue.. by am+2k · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problematic part is that iPhone 2G users won't get an update but are still susceptible to this bug, so they're SOL. Additionally, iOS 4 sucks on the iPhone 3G (nearly no new features, but much slower), so many are reluctant to update.

  2. Re:Already an issue.. by z1ppy · · Score: 5, Informative

    iOS 4 sucks on the iPhone 3G (nearly no new features, but much slower), so many are reluctant to update.

    iOS4 doesn't suck on the 3G if you do a clean wipe of the OS before moving to 4. This has been a known issue for some time now. Wipe your 3G, then move to iOS4. I know plenty of folks running iOS4 on their 3G who absolutely love it. They have no issues with performance or it suck-ing. If you upgraded and already experience performance issues, backup your phone, restore to factory settings, upgrade to iOS4, then restore from backup. Problem solved.