How to jailbreak any iOS 6 device, including iPhone 5

Steve Williams · Mar 6, 2013

From CNet

by Jason Cipriani

At long last, a jailbreak method has been released for iOS 6 and higher, which makes this the first jailbreak for the iPhone 5........

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39...ailbreak-any-ios-6-device-including-iphone-5/

Peter Breuninger · Mar 6, 2013

I just googled "what does jailbreaking a phone mean" and I sorta get it. I see that can you use the phone on other providers, this seems like a good thing but I was not sure of any other benefit (expect more apps- like we need more apps). Steve are you doing a jailbreak on yours?

Steve Williams · Mar 6, 2013

I did with my last iphone but not with this one. It is perfectly legal. Using the phone with other providers is "unlocking" the phone.. With jail breaking you get a whole new world of apps out there that never made it to the App store etc

Bruce B · Mar 6, 2013

The provider I have, Verizon, has superior service and coverage. No need to hack mine....

Steve Williams · Mar 6, 2013

Jail breaking has nothing to do with service or coverage

Bruce B · Mar 6, 2013

Steve Williams said:
Jail breaking has nothing to do with service or coverage

I thought it had to do with what carrier you chose?? The first iPhones were locked into AT&T

Steve Williams · Mar 6, 2013

You can jail break any phone regardless of the carrier

mep · Mar 6, 2013

I think what Bruce was saying is that he is happy with his service and provider and feels no need to jail break his phone.

JackD201 · Mar 6, 2013

"Open Line" or "Unlock" allows the phone o be used with any GSM carrier. Have not heard of CDMA phones getting unlocked.

"Jailbreak" allows use of unapproved 3rd party Apps.

Unlocking is illegal in many countries. AFAIK Jailbreaking is not, at least not yet

Bruce B · Mar 6, 2013

JackD201;179145Unlocking is illegal in many countries. AFAIK Jailbreaking is not said:
I thought the iPhone was "unlocked" to use any carrier

JackD201 · Mar 6, 2013

Bruce B said:
I thought the iPhone was "unlocked" to use any carrier

Unlocked phones can be bought from the Apple stores but you pay the full price as they are not partially subsidized by your carrier. I'm using an open line 5 on a local GSM network. I wonder how I would go about using it for Verizon. Easy with AT&T, all I do is slip in a SIM card. Really bad service and coverage with AT&T though. When in the US I usually have a throwaway pre-paid plan Verizon Samsung clamshell.

Steve Williams · Mar 6, 2013

"Jailbreak" allows use of unapproved 3rd party Apps.

Unlocking is illegal in many countries. AFAIK Jailbreaking is not, at least not yet

That's exactly right Jack. Jailbreaking for me had nothing to do with carriers or unlocking but rather to use the endless number of Apps that never made it to the apps store

DaveyF · Mar 6, 2013

Interesting thread. Last year a friend of mine was told by AT&T that they would NOT unlock his iphone 3GS even though he was out of contract!. They played him around for a bit by bouncing him from operator to operator and then hung up on him. This did not go over well, so he had another friend ( who is a real techie) unlock the 3GS, jailbreak the 3GS, Unlock his 4s and 5 that were both under contract with AT&T, and jailbreak both of those! He then proceeded to sell all three phones for a substantial amount and went over to Sprint and bought a new iphone 5 at a nice price, pocketing a nice savings..

One thing I learned from the techie is IF you want to jailbreak or unlock your iphone, do NOT upload the latest revision to the OS. BTW, jailbreak is simply getting away from itunes and the app store...I'm not so sure how beneficial that is, but people will pay good money for a jailbroke and unlocked iPhone.

Steve Williams · Mar 6, 2013

It's free to jail break Davey so not sure what you mean. I do agree about the latest version and not jailbreaking

DaveyF · Mar 6, 2013

Steve, it's free to jailbreak or unlock...IF you know how. But it's not simple and definitely not for the non-tech minded. So, a jailbroke and unlocked phone is a much more valuable commodity than a non-jailbroke or locked phone. At least to some people.

JackD201 · Mar 6, 2013

I reckon that a lot of those phones end up overseas.

Steve Williams · Mar 7, 2013

It took me 5 minutes to jailbreak my last phone

DaveyF · Mar 7, 2013

Steve Williams said:
It took me 5 minutes to jailbreak my last phone

Steve, you were in the wrong business before, LOL

. How long to unlock?

Steve Williams · Mar 7, 2013

never unlocked one but bear in mind that jail breaking is legal

When I jail broke my last phone, there was a small downloadable app which when opened jail broke your phone. Easy to do

DaveyF · Mar 7, 2013

Steve, we're assuming that jailbreaking is legal...I dunno as I haven't read the latest Eula, presumably everyone else here has..

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Luckily, I haven't heard of too many unlock/jailbreak police in our neighborhood.

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