IOS – How to update the jailbroken iOS 6.1 iPhone to iOS 6.1.2

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I had jailbroken my iPhone last month when I was using iOS 6.1, and currently iOS 6.1.2 is available, which solves some battery issues (I am really suffering from these), so I want to update to iOS 6.1.2.

Would you kindly give simple steps to do that so I don't damage my device? I am not much of an expert on this, so your help is very welcome.

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It is recommended to update your Jailbroken iOS device by doing full restore form iTunes. In order to preserve your apps, contacts etc. perform a backup in iTunes by right clicking on your device and selecting back up option.

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You need to restore the device to install a clean version of iOS and then re-jailbreak (OTA updates simply do not work and using the update feature in iTunes can leave behind data that will eat away at your disk space).

It is actually good form to set the device in DFU mode (rather than just hitting restore in iTunes) and then let iTunes take it from there. Once the device is upgraded to 6.1.1 and jailbroken, you can then safely restore from your backup.

Your question (and many additional topics related to jailbreaking) is actually covered on jailbreakqa.com, the official information and help site for jailbreaking.

You cannot "preserve" a jailbreak.

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This thread over the FreeBSD forums suggests that pf works on iOS. Disclaimer: I haven't tested this myself.

Edit:

pfctl -sr

as root returns:

No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled

and no rules whatsoever, but it seems that pf is there

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