# Possible to upgrade to 7.0.4 from 6 to retain jailbreak and fix facetime?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 30, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-upgrade-to-7-0-4-from-6-to-retain-jailbreak-and-fix-facetime/687318 "2014-04-30T00:01:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-upgrade-to-7-0-4-from-6-to-retain-jailbreak-and-fix-facetime/687318/1 "2014-04-30T00:01:53Z")

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So as of today, it appears that Apple broke FaceTime to force everybody to upgrade. Not cool. Facetime will work again on 7.0.4 and up.

Full jailbreaking can be done on 7.0.x

I am running 6.2 on both my iPad and my iPhone. Both are jailbroken.

Is it possible for me to limit my upgrade to 7.0.4 by using a 7.0.4 ipsw to both jailbreak and upgrade simultaneously? Or sequentially, bypassing Apple altogether?

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**Author:** ![goldmund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a4c791/32.png) [@goldmund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goldmund)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-upgrade-to-7-0-4-from-6-to-retain-jailbreak-and-fix-facetime/687318/2 "2014-04-30T01:33:25Z")

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Unfortunately, no. Installing a firmware requires it to be signed by Apple, and this is keyed to the hardware ID of your device. They stopped signing 7.0.x shortly after 7.1 was released.