The Dopamine jailbreak for A12-A15 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 took the jailbreak community by storm, especially given the tool’s compatibility with TrollStore’s perma-signing capabilities to lend a semi-untethered user experience.
But more recently, attention has shifted focus to the version 1.1 update that project lead developer Lars Fröder (opa334) unleashed on the public just last week.
The long list of bug fixes and improvements in Dopamine version 1.1 should have technically made it the most stable version of the tool to date, but mixed reports from users (a near 50/50 split) suggest that the update could have introduced more issues than expected.
These statistics come after Fröder shared a poll on Twitter that attracted the input of followers who may have been using the tool — of course, there’s no way to filter out non-Dopamine users from this poll, so gauging the accuracy of the results is a tough call.
Unfortunately for Dopamine users who have been experiencing issues after upgrading to version 1.1, these near 50/50 polling statistics highlight that the issue isn’t affecting everybody and that it’s very possibly a placebo effect.
Add to that the fact that Fröder can’t reproduce them, and I’ll even suggest that I haven’t personally experienced random reboots myself, so these issues could very well be related to a user’s jailbreak tweak library as opposed to the jailbreak itself.
In previous Tweets, Fröder suggested that he has been unsuccessful in reproducing the reported “random reboots” that are allegedly more prevalent in Dopamine version 1.1 in some cases than in Dopamine version 1.0.5, this of course being based on user reports.
Initially, Fröder suggested that this could have been related to an issue with the PPLRW-by-writing-to-page-table solution, but then later backtracked and said he couldn’t be entirely sure that it was indeed the issue, which underscores the complexity of the issue at hand.
For what it’s worth, a random reboot isn’t necessarily the end of the world. Simply turning your phone back on again and re-jailbreaking with Dopamine will get you back up and running again and the perma-signed nature of the Dopamine jailbreak means that you’ll never be marooned by the requirement of using a computer to re-sideload the app as previous jailbreaks have required.
If you’re experiencing issues with Dopamine post-version 1.1, then you can participate in Fröder’s poll to help contribute to the statistics. Even more helpful would be providing Fröder with logs that could help shine a spotlight on the root cause so that a future update can fix the problem, if there is one.
Have you been experiencing random reboots after using Dopamine version 1.1? Share your experience in the comments section down below.