There are now two major full-fledged jailbreak tools floating around in the wild. So which one should you be using? Does Chimera jailbreak better than Electra jailbreak or Electra is better? Answering this question is challenging because We all are having the same problem I guess. Read the whole article to know about it.
Chimera Jailbreak
Chimera is a semi-untethered jailbreak meaning that if you reboot the device, you will need to rejailbreak again. If you try to open the Chimera app but it keeps crashing, you need to reinstall it with Cydia Impactor.
Electra Jailbreak vs Chimera Jailbreak
- Both Electra & Chimera is released by same developers. CoolStar Lead developer of the Chimera as well as Electra. He is Also, he has developed many iOS apps such as ClassicSwitcher 3, 3D Switcher, Anemone. Other developers including nullpixel - He is a iOS researcher and famous jailbreak developer, tri'angle - a tweak developer / Jailbreak developer, Ninjaprawn - developer and Security Researcher.
- Chimera released for iOS 12 & higher versions jailbreak & Electra works with iOS 11.4.1 to iOS 11 jailbreak only.
- Electra & Chimera both are semi-untethered Jailbreak which is need to re-run the JB app again on every reboot
- Chimera fully compatible with A12 devices including latest iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and Electra does not compatible with A12 devices.
- Electra supports to install Cydia once Jailbreak process completed and Chimera supports install latest Sileo.Sileo is a new modern package manager. You can install & manage packages easier with Sileo. It is a development of CoolStar and the Electra team. They introduced Sileo because Saurik does not update Cydia continuously. He took a long time to update against jailbreak release tool.
Chimera Jailbreak issues
- “Error 404” - when installing the substitute update or any other updates.For this Go to the Sources tab refresh the list.
- “PreferenceLoader does not work” error
Solution - Cephei and other preference bundles need updating for A12. - "Failed to remount the filesystem" error
Solution - Delete iOS 12.2 updates from your iPhone Storage in settings.
And run this application on Airplane mode. - iPad Pro (A12x) Chimera not working.
- "You're offline" error with apple music.
- Missing the Sileo icon but it says jailbroken.
- Chimera Jailbreak is not compatible with iOS 12.1.3, iOS 12.1.4, iOS 12.2 and iOS 12.3 beta.
