Last week we saw the Pangu8 untethered jailbreak for iOS 8 and 8.1 released. In order for this to work properly, Cydia author Saurik had to make some impromptu fixes to the Cydia Substrate. The new Pangu Untether 0.2 was rolled out yesterday and a number for additional bugs have been addressed in a new version of Substrate. If you have jailbroken your idevice on iOS 8 using Pangu, then this is a very necessary update as it fixes issues with booting, syncing, and other major challenges that the jailbreak community faced over the past week.
A lot of jailbreakers presume that achieving an untethered jailbreak is as easy as simply installing Cydia on your device and then going ahead and installing tweaks. This is so not the case, as we have seen with the Pangu jailbreak for iOS 8 / 8.1. There are a number of components that have to operate together and Cydia Substrate is fundamental to the entire process.
Pangu's roll out of iOS 8 – 8.1.x Untether 0.2 yesterday exposed a number of new bugs in Cydia Substrate and Saurik and his team has really quickly come through with an update. The Cydia Substrate 0.9.5014 fixes a few bugs reported on iOS 8 with 0.9.5013, including “apps do not install”, “iTunes does not sync”, and “icons are gone”. This issue sometimes led to devices being unable to boot without disabling Substrate. Cydia Substrate 0.9.5014 is the main update even though Saurik has followed up with version 0.9.5015 with a fix for OpenSSH.
What this all means is that the new Pangu Untether and Cydia Substrate should work together now and it is recommended that anyone that has already jailbroken their iOS 8 device should go ahead and install both as quickly as possible. The Untether 0.2 package is available through the Pangu app, while Cydia Substrate 0.9.5015 is available on the Cydia/Telesphoreo repository. You can of course simply launch Cydia, tap on Changes and then upgrade.
The issue with freezing on the reboot of a device that is lock using a Passcode or Touch ID has yet to be rectified, so you will need to disable this feature for the time being. Pangu8 really is shaping up to be a great jailbreak tool even with a couple of kinks still needing to be ironed out.
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