Comments on: Apple Released iTunes 8.1 – Faster, Smarter, Better

By: yhn

yhn — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:19:04 +0000

Hi, I am in a bit of trouble. I am trying to unlock the iphone 2g but have just downloaded itunes 8.1 today. Now I don’t know how to get past the first step as it asks me whether I have an AT&T account or make a new account. I am with Tmobile. Please advise!

By: Simon Ng

Simon Ng — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:49:23 +0000

@Skylight,

I think there should be no problem for jailbreaking on iTunes 8.1. But appreciate you can come back and share with other your jailbreak experience.

BTW, I took the photo at a Greece island, Santorini.

By: Skylight

Skylight — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:38:46 +0000

Thanks Simon. I took the plunge and updated to iTunes 8.1 on my iMac. I can confirm there was no problem at all syncing and hope there is no problem when I need to jailbreak in the future. I’ll refrain from updating on iTunes on my MacBook Pro, just in case. BTW what is that landscape behind you – looks very familiar but too small to really make out…

By: Simon Ng

Simon Ng — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:51:31 +0000

@skylight, I’ve just tried out the jailbreak and upgrade an iPhone from firmware 1.1.1 to firmware 2.2 with iTunes 8.1. It works perfectly.

I’m not sure if iPhone Dev team will make an official announcement on that. If you’re still worried about jailbreaking via iTunes 8.1. Then stick with iTunes 8.0.2.

By: Skylight

Skylight — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:58:52 +0000

Some time has passed since Apple released it’s iTunes 8.1 update but I cannot find any official “all is clear for update” or “do not update”; not by Dev-Team or anyone else… Am I missing something?

By: Hank

Hank — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:26:38 +0000

Alex has a valid point, never know what could be in it. I’ve had my phone jailbroken for some time and several iTunes updates have come out. Each time updating with no issues. The concern is with the firmware updates for the iPhone that you need to wait until the dev team has ok’d. With news of iPhone OS 3.0 coming out soon, that is what you should wait for. When you plug in your iPhone, iTunes should prompt you about a firmware upgrade for iPhone that you can refuse. But as Alex said, might hold off

By: Alex Chai

Alex Chai — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:19:58 +0000

i think it’s better to hold off the upgrade first, until the dev team confirms it’s fine. i wouldn’t want to risk anything, in case apple is planning something evil… :S

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:01:37 +0000

So….I have an already jailbroken iphone (thanks simon), done with QuickPwn….. how will upgrading to the new version of itunes effect my device? Or do you only need to worry when re-jailbreaking or jailbreaking for the first time? Any ideas people?