What is Jailbreaking
Cydia is a management suite used that can be used when you jailbreak your iOS device. Beside "what is Cydia", A question most of iOS users has been asking, what is Jailbreaking?
What is Jailbreaking?
The iPhone, iPod touch, iPad & Apple TV hack that allow users to gain access to the entire Unix filesystem. In Unix terms, this refers to changing the root of the directory tree to /.
A hack that gains access to areas of the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad that users aren’t supposed to mess with. Typically, this is an immediate prelude to either installing cool programs, unlocking the handset for use with another cellular network, or both.
Through jailbreaking, you are able to add additional applications to your iDevice. It allows you to do so by adding an application called Cydia to your iDevice. It also allows modding (changing) of your iDevice application icons, wallpaper, dock, status bar, chat bubbles, weather backgrounds, keyboard….etc.
There’s actually two kinds of jailbreaks, one of them is a bootrom jailbreak which lasts for ever. That jailbreak like Geohot’s latest Limera1n jailbreak. Limera1n’s exploit is still being used up till now on all iOS devices except the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S (which are recently released after the release of Limera1n).
The second kind is the userland jailbreak. This jailbreak is only made for the current iOS software. In other words, it can be patched by Apple in future iOS software updates.
How to jailbreak?
So you decided to install Cydia? You’ll need to jailbreak. In order to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you’ll need to know the current iOS you’re using. For iOS 5 users, you can get tethered jailbreak from here (iOS 5tethered jailbreaking), semi-tethered jailbreak from here and better wait for theuntethered one. We’re preparing a kind of tool to allow you to find out if your device jailbreakable or not. You can take a look and search on CydiaHelp for more info.
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