Creative uses for a jailbroken, forcibly tethered iPhone?

[GFLPraxis]

Odd title, I know. I've got my mother's old first gen iPhone, which she destroyed with water damage.

Interestingly, after leaving it in a bag of rice, I've gotten it to a functional state- when plugged in.

When I unplug it, it functions fine until the screen turns off, at which point it goes into an indefinite reboot cycle (apple logo appears, disappears, reappears, rinse repeat). Same thing happens if I try to boot it up while not on power.

But as long as it remains plugged in, it functions fine.

So, does anyone have any thoughts as to interesting things I can do with an iPhone that has to be plugged in? Right now I'm thinking of running a web server on it...but I was curious if anyone had any better ideas.

 

[pixelated]

use it as a mini display connected to your computer - iDisplay
or a game controller for those simple Rom games - joypad

 

[anthdci]

restore it back to some original OS then put it in for one of those recycling schemes, you should get a fair bit cash in exchange for it

 

[GFLPraxis]

Hadn't seen iDisplay before, that's cool

restore it back to some original OS then put it in for one of those recycling schemes, you should get a fair bit cash in exchange for it

Recycling schemes?

 

[FSUSem1noles]

use it as a paper weight that can play music and movies..

 

[Applejuiced]

Sell it on ebay.

 

[gwynne]

I use a very old iPod that's in a similar state to play one of those nature tracks ('long soothing rain') on loop at night when I sleep (hooked up to some speakers obviously).

 

[luvu01]

as you said when it unplug and the screen is off the phone wont turn on again until you plug it in again? if so. i think you should download neverlock in cydia and use it as a regular iphone i guess.