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Benefits of Jailbreaking?

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Hi, i received an iPhone 3G for Christmas, so i don't know much about them.

Could you kindly tell me the pro's and con's of Jailbreaking an iPhone?

Thanks 🙂
 
Another one? Really?

AND in the wrong section.

If you go to the jailbreaking forum you'll find multiple threads with this exact question answered.
 
if you need to be told the benefits of jailbreaking, then it probably isnt for you 🙂

to be honest, i've had an iphone for about a year and jailbroke my old (2g) once... it never lived up to the 'glamor' of jailbreaking so i re-locked it. i've been happy with my phone (and my new 3g) since.


if you really wanna do something constructive with your new phone, i suggest grabbing a squaretrade warranty to protect against accidental damage 🙂
 
The only thing that leads me to jailbreak again with each new firmware is Categories. I can't live with my phone without being able to put my apps into folders.

Having a 'Games' folder reduces my springboard from a complete, unmanageable mess of icons which takes me ages to find what I'm looking for, to a pleasant three page joyful experience.

Why oh why can't Apple add this functionality themselves and then I won't have to jailbreak anymore.
 
Not Worth It!

:apple:My old iPhone was jailbroken and it bricked no warrenty. Everything you really need is in the app store!:apple:
 
lostprophet894 said:
Disagree. 99.4% of App Store apps are useless blather (here's looking at you, Pull My Finger).

Cydia offers way more.
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lol 99.4%?
you've only found 60 useful apps out of 10,000+?
someone gave up to quickly.
there's hardly been a time that i've thought "it would be awesome if there was an app that did _______" and wasn't able to download it from the appstore.
I've jailbroken, and the only things i really use are winterboard, qik and occasionally PdaNet.
for the average user, and most of the not average users, jailbreaking really isn't worth your time.
i've been jailbreaking since 1.0.1, and i've reached a point where i really have no reason to do it, because there's a better solution now.
 
How is it not worth your time? It takes like 3 minutes.

And I was wrong. 99.96%.
There's only 3 apps that rate space on my phone.
 
Before the app store and in the early days of the 1st gen I jailbroke my phone and I loved it,so much added functionality but now with the app store I personally find jailbreaking useless. Also, I tried to jailbreak a month ago, it didn't work for me, I couldn't download anything.

ChrisN
 
Steve Jobs himself would have a jailbroken phone if he didn't run Apple. Please. He invented a device in his youth that circumvented putting money into payphones and made calls for free. Does that sound like someone who would respect things like end user agreements? lol

I don't jailbreak though. Too much hassle for what you get these days. If Flash started running on a jailbroken iphone with any degree of stability I'd change my tune though. 🙂
 
i too used to be jailbroken but have since re-locked. just wasnt worth the hassle. i never really found anything on there that was worth all the trouble. i did however nab netshare, if i wouldnt have, i'd unlock for pdanet
 
barkomatic said:
Steve Jobs himself would have a jailbroken phone if he didn't run Apple. Please. He invented a device in his youth that circumvented putting money into payphones and made calls for free. Does that sound like someone who would respect things like end user agreements? lol

I don't jailbreak though. Too much hassle for what you get these days. If Flash started running on a jailbroken iphone with any degree of stability I'd change my tune though. 🙂
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imobilecinema does a decent job on many flash sites. It's not flawless, but its a work in progress.
 
What "hassle" are you guys talking about? I'm jailbroken and I don't have any hassle, except that it takes a little longer to restart (good thing I rarely turn my phone off).

How could somebody say that there is nothing you can't get from the AppStore?

SBSettings? That should be part of the Springboard, but it isn't and it cannot be replicated by anything in the App. Store.

The rest has been beat to death, I won't go into all that.
 
Being jailbroken gives you many advantages. You can have stuff running in the background. You can have different SMS apps, so if you want to text widescreen. The ability to lojack your iPhone. Etc.

I can go onto a website right now and see where my iPhone is at.
 
nickspohn said:
Being jailbroken gives you many advantages. You can have stuff running in the background. You can have different SMS apps, so if you want to text widescreen. The ability to lojack your iPhone. Etc.

I can go onto a website right now and see where my iPhone is at.
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what app is that?


op: please search
 
If you actually care about downloading files online to your device like movies/PDFs and such you NEED to jailbreak. You have no filesystem access without jailbreak apps. These devices have the potential to act like a full computer but apple won't allow the functions on app store apps. If I could jailbreak this 2nd generation iPod Touch I received for Christmas I would right now..
 
I like the idea of changing my themes, different lockscreens, WiFi/3G/Edge indicators, video camera, wallpaper in the background, SMS, and as Nick mentioned, LoJack for my iPhone...😎
 
Here's a quick tip... don't jailbreak. I performed a jailbreak on my 2g several months ago and even though I had plenty of signal, I was periodically (not always) missing calls. People would call me and it would ring and ring on their end before ending up at my voicemail. Something about the jailbreak jacked up the phone functions of the PHONE. Granted, I would rape a goat for the video recorder option, the ability to change my background and icons, the ability to have apps run in the background etc...but I'm not willing to give up the functionality of a phone to achieve this.
 
patdesignsinc said:
Here's a quick tip... don't jailbreak. I performed a jailbreak on my 2g several months ago and even though I had plenty of signal, I was periodically (not always) missing calls. People would call me and it would ring and ring on their end before ending up at my voicemail. Something about the jailbreak jacked up the phone functions of the PHONE. Granted, I would rape a goat for the video recorder option, the ability to change my background and icons, the ability to have apps run in the background etc...but I'm not willing to give up the functionality of a phone to achieve this.
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Jailbreaking has come a long way in the past few months. I suggest you try it again before downing it.
 
OrangeDog said:
Jailbreaking used to be great, now it's just overhyped and doesn't come near living up to the hype.
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You're wrong.

Jailbreaking is worth it just to get the basic functionality of other phones (video camera, full sms features, mms). The iPhone does all of those things quite well, better than most other phones.
 
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