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by ttol 5802 days ago
Lost my FaceTime capability after jailbreak.
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matthew-wegner 5802 days ago
Looks like MMS vanished too, at least for me.

UPDATE: You can work around by doing a backup first, jailbreaking, and then restoring from backup (which just copies settings/etc over). Stays jailbroken. If you have a pre-jailbreak backup apply that to fix.

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matthew-wegner 5801 days ago
Cydia has now released an update to their base package to fix this. It's a permission problem (can manually fix via SSH too):

chmod 755 /private/var/mobile/Library; chmod 755 /private/var/mobile/Library/Preference after that Reset Network Settings

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ttol 5802 days ago
confirmed. wonder what else is broken.
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ttol 5802 days ago
People on twitter are saying if you jailbreak from jailbreakme.com, and then do a full restore, you will get FaceTime/MMS functionality back. Unconfirmed
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spahl 5802 days ago
Damnit! Why did I click on this link... I didn't even need this...

Full restore failed for me. I'm trying this procedure: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=10298203&post...

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dhimes 5802 days ago
Damnit! Why did I click on this link... I didn't even need this...

Talent does what it can, Hackers do what they must :)

(Apologies to Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

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jerrytap 5801 days ago
I bricked my Iphone the first time I ran the jailbreak. Here is what I did to get it working again. 1. Start itunes and plug your iphone into your computer. Nothing will happen right now, just do it. 2. With your iphone plugged in and itunes started hold down the home key and the top button. 3. Keep holding down both buttons during the reboot and blank screen. Don't let go until you see a disk and a usb cable. 4. Select restore from itunes.
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spahl 5801 days ago
It was not bricked. It was Facetime/MMS that disappeared.
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