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TVs Ian
Jun 1, 2000

Such graceful, delicate creatures.

Bummey posted:

cool so can I finally upgrade from 8.1.2?

They stopped signing 11.3.1 like a week or two ago, so only if you have the blobs for it.

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TVs Ian
Jun 1, 2000

Such graceful, delicate creatures.

FuriousAngle posted:

Well, it can hurt to try if jailbreaking it means I can't return it, which I'm pretty sure it does :) But if there's a chance that jailbreaking this device can get even one or two of the apps I kind of need for this to be useful in any way I'll probably take it. That's why I'm asking here before I devote any time to what could be a losing battle.

Also, they don't have to support old apps, they can just make them available... kinda like Android does. But that isn't really keeping in the spirit of "forcing people to keep upgrading".

You can usually remove a jailbreak by doing a restore through iTunes (possibly with DFU mode), it's not permanent.

On the other hand, you're REALLY not going to get a great experience using an iPad 2, even if you get the old versions of apps on there. Pretty much everything is going to crawl at this point. In my repair shop, we're down to maybe one a month on those, everyone is just replacing them now since they're nearly unusable, even the old folks who only use email and the browser.

An iPad 4 or maybe a Mini 2/3 (don't spend extra for a Mini 3, it's identical to the 2 aside from having Touch ID) would probably be about the minimum to get halfway decent performance. Or hell, an iPhone 5S on Wifi if you don't need the bigger screen.

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