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A tethered jailbreak means that YOU CAN NOT TURN OFF YOUR IPHONE or iPod TOUCH and YOU CAN NOT LET YOUR IPHONE or IPOD RUN OUT OF BATTERY if you did any off these things on your tethered jailbreak you will have to BOOT your device which mean you will have to re jailbreak your packages

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