iOS debugger suggestion/ assistance

miseaujeu

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I am using a TaiG jailbroken iPhone 5 with iOS 8.4.

When the default debugger, GDB, started returning gibberish sometime around November 2015 I got a different phone and have been patiently waiting for a 9.2+ jailbreak. Since there doesn't seem to be one coming I'm going back to the 8.4.

Does anyone know of a way to fix GDB for my hardware/jailbreak combo? If not how about an active community that might help me figure it out?

I went the route of setting up LLDB and debugserver on my PC but it has the same issue of returning data looking like this
Code:
0x001f000c in _mh_execute_header ()
4: $r2 = 2041261
3: $r1 = 1
2: $r0 = 19582444
1: x/i $pc  0x1f000c:  78 44 00 68                   stmdavs    r0, {r3, r4, r5, r6, r10, lr}

<snip>
0x000a3b38 <_mh_execute_header+248632>:  00 68 90 f8                   undefined instruction 0xf8906800
0x000a3b3c <_mh_execute_header+248636>:  ad 10 11 f0                   undefined instruction 0xf01110ad
0x000a3b40 <_mh_execute_header+248640>:  01 0f 05 d0                   andle    r0, r5, r1, lsl #30
0x000a3b44 <_mh_execute_header+248644>:  01 6e 19 b9                   ldmdblt  r9, {r0, r9, r10, r11, sp, lr}
0x000a3b48 <_mh_execute_header+248648>:  03 21 08 91                   tstls    r8, r3, lsl #2
0x000a3b4c <_mh_execute_header+248652>:  6a f3 bc d2                   adcsle   pc, r12, #-1476395007   ; 0xa8000001
0x000a3b50 <_mh_execute_header+248656>:  02 98 00 f1                   undefined instruction 0xf1009802
</snip>

Thanks,
-M
 
after seeing the latest malware out there affecting even non-jailbroken phones, I would never jailbreak my iPhone.