Anyone Can Install iOS 5 GM Seed But BigBoss Warns Against It

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Posted October 5, 2011 at 6:32pm by iClarified

The latest version of iOS 5 seeded to developers can be installed by anyone without the need for a registered UDID; however, BigBoss is strongly warning that non-developers do not install the GM Seed.

Here are his reasons:

1) iOS5 GM Seed will expire and once jailbroken you will not be able to use over-the-air updates and get to iOS 5 Final.

2) Official release is in just seven days.

3) Important tweaks such as activator are not ready or not released yet.

4) It's current a tethered jailbreak for all but the old bootrom 3gs.

5) iPad 2 owners cannot jailbreak.

6) Many internal changes will affect the functionality of your current tweaks.

7) No hactivation.

Hit the link below to read BigBoss' elaboration on these points...

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t11chb - October 11, 2011 at 6:24pm

WTF, iPhone 4S arriving early in some parts of the world & have this version of iOS 5!

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Egil - October 5, 2011 at 7:41pm

None of the previous GM's ever expired on me... Is this a fact or a guess? most earlier GM's were the same build number as the official release...

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Alex HQuest - October 5, 2011 at 6:58pm

Uh, NONE of the GM builds ever required a registered UDID to be installed on. Not sure how much of news is that.

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Tom - October 5, 2011 at 6:37pm

So it looks like none of those apply to people who have given up on bothering to jailbreak, thankfully. Gotta say, after installing 5 on my iPad 1 last night, it's like a breath of fresh air into the device. I was gonna sell it a couple weeks ago, glad I didn't bother. The additional features make it like a different device, versus the iPhone where it just makes it better.

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JonDigital - October 5, 2011 at 7:11pm

To to clarify if you are not concerned with jailbreaking at all installing this GM seed of iOS5 will not harm my device? I can be patient until next week if need be. Is the GM of 5 the final version that we will get, as consumers, next week on the 12th? Thanks!

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Jeff - October 5, 2011 at 10:18pm

Tom, Elaberate on Whats new in the iPad over the iPhone?... Myself will Wait also as I Jailbreak jsut to customize the Iterface some and tinker. But if there is something fro the iPad (for the same reason as you) I'd like to hear. I was thinking of a iPad2 myself, but want it jailbroken...

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