Jailbreaking the iPhone
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- ESKEMA0
Things I have only from Jailbreak (and use):
- SbSettings
- MobileTerminal
- iFile
- BiteSms
- Five Icon Dock
- Pretty Much Every App Store Apps for free ( I do end up paying for the ones I really use every day, because I want to..., but being able to try almost every single one is a nice plus)Cons:
- Sometimes there's messy stuff ( not that messy, just things you think "that was/is weird!"
-... not much else- forgot:
Mount iPhone through Wifi network, SSH, and keepawake.ESKEMA
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- raf0
SB Settings is an annoying piece of fuck ugly interface, it was so much better when it was just BossPrefs. Still, it doesn't really add much.
- comicsans0
Malware, no quality control on software, risk of errant software compromising your phone e.g. running down the battery. The potential to void your warranty exists, how real a risk it is I don't know.
Tons of advantages? I've seen nothing compelling.
- moldero0
advantages = most apps are free.
- rosem0
as a developer I'm worried about device fragmentation.
I'm a fan of apple's lockdown as it makes development a lot easier.
- Miguex0
as a user:
I did it because my roommate (developer) said it was better and he would do it for me if I wanted. It's very easy to do, (just takes time cause you want to back up your phone before doing it).Sites like apptrackr (mentioned above) will help you get most "apple approved" apps for free, and cydia or something like that, will give you access to an "undeground apple store" with all the rejects, some free, some you pay for.
The only advantage for me is that you can tether your phone/laptop (use 3g/ 3gs/ 4g on your computer by using phone as modem)
The free apps? well most apps suck anyways, think about it, how many apps you REALLY use that didn't came w the phone? you buy them, and in 2 weeks you never used it again (except VERY few exceptions). So free apps is really not on the positive side, you are basically stealing and for what? you might find this cool if you JUST got your iphone and you want to try every app out there, but that will pass.
I just wanted to use OSCulator, but it wouldn't run on my current OS, so I had to upgrade, and if you use the current OS then you can't have it jailbraked, I decided to go back to apple's prision environment with the rest of the sheeple. Hello OSCulator I love you (for a few weeks at least).
Maybe in a couple of months I'll go back to jailbreaking it, when they upgrade the spirit, only because of the tether thing.
It doesn't hurt to try it, it takes 2 seconds (minus the backup) so just give it a spin and see if you like it.
- Miguex0
Negative side:
someone mentioned phone being not stable, but if you are on the current OS4, well you probably know how that feels anyways, so going back to a previous version will only help you, as is not as bad.You need to read a lot on how to install apps, or add more servers on Cydia, I'm not very techie, I managed to do it but it took me a few tutorials on youtube, and for a while I couldn't run the 3 apps I stole, they were like 99cts anyways, so all that time I spent figuring out how to make it work was not worth it to me, eventually they worked and only bought 1 of them, the other ones I can live without haha
- partdeux0
Is there a jailbreak yet for the IOS4? Im in europe right now and want to be able to unlock it so that I can use it here. paid $100 for 25Mb of data for the time being. Pretty shitty if you ask me.
- Hombre_Lobo0
Mine is jail broken and its a lot better.
Voiding warranty?
Ive read forum posts of people jail breaking their phone, having problems then taking it to an apple store, leaving the jail break icon on the spring board (which you can easily remove) and people who work there do notice it and dont even care.Also you can un-jailbreak your phone and do a restore then take it to an apple store and they wont notice. A developer testing it to see if it was once jail broken might do, but the store wont.
ive jail broken mine, then restored it to non jail broken for testing purposes, its easy.
Get it jail broken, there really aren't any disadvantages to my knowledge.
- raf0
My iPhone was always jailbroken and I never had any problems due to this.
Pros - features Apple doesn't want you to have, ie
—iPhone Delivery - text receipts (available on any other phone since always);
—iFile (file manager and viewer, lets you keep and play videos in non-iTunes format);
—Terminal (if you're a geek).Other than these, I don't think there are many features you're missing these days, ever since Apple implemented copy-paste.
- Hombre_Lobo0
Agree with raf. I like having control of my phone.
- bjm0
Is there anything that lets you stream (over wifi) any media file type to your iphone from your macbook? I doubt it, would be sweet though.