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Evasi0n Jailbreak Installed on 1.7 Million Devices Since Monday Release
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I jailbroke iOS 6 on my 3GS a few months ago and I personally wasn't impressed that much. I couldn't find many tweaks that were useful to me and a lot of them were poorly developed so had lots of bugs. I think now that the iPhone 5 and 4S are jailbreakable the quality and amount of tweaks may improve, if it does, then I will jailbreak again. But right now, a few gimmicky springboard themes and some notification centre toggles just isn't eniough for me.
I only install a few - and only one, SBSettings, is really an essential. But I do also like Activator a lot (that would be #2 on my list).
Activator lets you tie just about any gesture with just about any action. I've been sold on that one since my old first-gen iPod Touch's home button stopped responding... but, given it was already jailbroken, I was able to assign a swipe across the status bar as mimicking a press of the home button. That meant I still had a functional device rather than a pretty paperweight.
I also install OpenSSH, which on rare occasions has been useful.
I just jailbroke my 4S and I'm wondering what I should do to get better battery life out of it. What are these "tweaks" you mention in specifics? I already have a toggle panel in my notification pane I added to turn off radios I'm not using but I don't have SBSettings (as I feel it'd be redundant).
What generally eats battery and what can I do to make sure I avoid certain downloads (or know which downloads I have) that use battery in the background? Here's just a list of the apps off the top of my head I have on my 4S.
Winterboard/Dreamboard (though I generally use the Winterboard with the Cups HD Theme and that's it, nothing else in winterboard is being used).
Bolt
BlurriedNCBackground
Mobile Substrate (I don't really know what this is but it's in my installed list so I put it in haha)
NCSettings
NoNewsIsGoodNews
NoStoreButton
Zeppelin
That's all I have. Is there anything that I should be doing to maximize battery life? Will using Winterboard have a big hit on battery life or will Dreamboard be much worse?
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Serious question...why is it awesome that some people care about jailbreaking?
I don't care one way or the other whether folks jailbreak...that's their business.
I'm just curious why you think it's "awesome"...a wonderful thing to do?
jb, just another way to stick it to the man
I've never stolen an app - but I have purchased a couple of apps that are only available on the Cydia store.
Yeah. Jailbreaking an iPhone is hacking, just that the hole is discovered by someone else and an app compiled for your use.
Check the Cydia store for "evasi0n 6.x untether". I don't think you need to re-jailbreak, you just need the untether part.
Having said that... I generally don't do the tethered jailbreak - so my 3GS was still on 5.1 until Sunday.
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Does this Void the Warranty?
I have an iPhone 4s and 5, both under AT&T contracts.
Will jailbreaking void the Apple warranty or violate the AT&T contracts?
Obviously I can't use the jailbreak until a contract ends, so what's the point?
I have an iPhone 4s and 5, both under AT&T contracts.
Will jailbreaking void the Apple warranty or violate the AT&T contracts?
Obviously I can't use the jailbreak until a contract ends, so what's the point?
It's pretty funny how jailbreaking an idevice and rooting/bootloader unlocking a Android device has different meanings "sometimes". On Android your trying to get the latest and greatest vanilla Android operating system without all the crap. On iOS people are taking the latest and greatest and adding crap to it.
I love all the tweaks that Samsung has done to the Note 2 but I love the feel of stock Android on the phone as well. Wouldn't be possible without bootloader unlocking. My only issue with the iPhone is that Apple is relentless and will try to keep the system locked down with each and every update. Going months without a true unlock would drive me crazy. Shame that you can't just load up ROM's without Apple relocking the device. Samsung/Verizon could try 24/7 to relock my Note 2 but as long as I stick to custom ROM's or stock ROM's that have been pre rooted they can't touch me.
I love all the tweaks that Samsung has done to the Note 2 but I love the feel of stock Android on the phone as well. Wouldn't be possible without bootloader unlocking. My only issue with the iPhone is that Apple is relentless and will try to keep the system locked down with each and every update. Going months without a true unlock would drive me crazy. Shame that you can't just load up ROM's without Apple relocking the device. Samsung/Verizon could try 24/7 to relock my Note 2 but as long as I stick to custom ROM's or stock ROM's that have been pre rooted they can't touch me.
More like being a script kiddie, in other words.
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Apple says it MAY refuse to service iPhones that have been jailbroken. So if you're not comfortable, don't do it.
However I would point out that a jailbreak is fairly straightforward to remove, and at that point Apple would likely have no evidence the phone was ever jailbroken.
Now in the special case where a user is also applying a software-based unlock (you would know if you'd done this - it's not part of a normal jailbreak), then this can leave evidence behind because the phone's baseband may not be the standard one. When I purchased my 3GS, the former owner had unlocked it using what was known as the iPad Baseband 06.15.00 unlock, which left you with a phone that you could not apply a normal Apple update to (until recently - RedSn0w can fix this now). The issue is not all basebands can be unlocked with the ultrasn0w tool, so people who need that have to jump through extra hoops to avoid the normal baseband update that comes with all iOS changes.
If you can't figure that on your own, then you really shouldn't do it.
Bad stuff can happen if you install or uninstall the wrong packages that will show up in that setting.
Being able to set Chrome as my default Browser and Google Maps as my default Map application. This is so when I click on Links it opens Chrome and when I click on Addresses it opens Google Maps.
I also like the customised notification bar so it matches the colour of the application icon that is making that notification.
I also use the new Auxo multitasking thing so I can see a small image of my open apps in the task switcher instead of just the Application icon.
I use the notification menu quick access to Bluetooth/GPS/3G/Wifi so I can quickly turn things on and off easily.
I use the Siri enhancement so I can toggle settings like WiFi on and off just by asking Siri to do it.
These are the tweaks I use, none of them are really intensive or big changes just nice little things and all but one of them (Auxo) are completely free.
I jailbroke my iPhone 5 yesterday.
I hope that Apple cracks down on this like they do on Samsung and everyone else. Jailbreaking is not the way Apple wants people to use their products. Apple products are perfect the way they are and Apple knows what is best for us. How could anyone possibly think that they know more about what is best for them than Apple does.
Very good points. I was thinking the same thing however, if you average it out (and I have no way of knowing the numbers) to say 1.5 devices per jailbreaker that would cut the number of actual users dramatically. The number can be a lot higher like 2 or 2.5 per user as there are people who own multiple iPads, iPhones and iPods. Then you have to break it down further by version, iPhone 4, 4S and 5. Once you do all that then I think the numbers are rather small when compared to the total number of iDevices in use. With the tens of millions they sell each quarter it would seem like it's less that 1% of all iDevice users.
So while 1.7 million looks great (and it is a good number) it's still a very small minority.
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I definitely don't have 10, but a handful of usability tweaks that I wish Apple would steal^H^H^H^H^Hincorporate.
biteSMS
FolderEnhancer
MultiIconMover
NCSettings
Pull to Dismiss (for dismissing the keyboard on an iPhone/iPod, like the dedicated button the iPad keyboard)
Zephyr
That's it for me.
Ah, I didn't realize that we were still trying to "stick it to the man"! Very 60's!
BTW, what man is that... Apple?
And if you want to stick it to Apple, why do you buy Apple's stuff. Stick it to Apple by denying them your $$$.
"Stick it to the man"...really takes me back!
Anecdotal evidence vs. 1.7 million people? Well, I imagine most of those people just want to bling/customize their iPhone. Hey, I jailbreaked my first iPhone before there was an App Store. I've even jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches for work in the past (custom interfaces).
So I'm not against jailbreaking, by any stretch. But just like PS3/Xbox hacking, there's a decent number of people who just want to get apps without paying for them. Just a reality developers have to live with, and having the hackers making it dead simple to jailbreak your phone is a double-edged sword.
Yeah, you can. I jailbroke my iPhone soon after I got it.
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More like being a script kiddie, in other words.
Yes. It's very unimpressive hacking, but it's still hacking
Again: You can pirate iOS apps without jailbreaking
I don't know why people are having a hard time with this concept but...
You don't have to jailbreak to pirate apps on an iOS device.
Ever since shortly after 3rd party apps were available for the iPhone, piracy has been possible without jailbreaking your iPhone. There were apps that facilitated pirating apps on jailbroken apps, but those have been discontinued by the developer citing "lack of interest and participation from users".
Still, despite this, the iOS piracy communities still exist for directories of iOS app that you can pirate without having to jailbreak your device.
Attributing piracy to jailbreaking is like attributing piracy to the App Store.
Anyone still curious about how much of the jailbreaking community is interested in piracy should do a search through forums regarding jailbreaking. You'll see all kinds of conversations, but very few regarding piracy. Often people get slammed in forums for even bringing it up.
I don't know why people are having a hard time with this concept but...
You don't have to jailbreak to pirate apps on an iOS device.
Ever since shortly after 3rd party apps were available for the iPhone, piracy has been possible without jailbreaking your iPhone. There were apps that facilitated pirating apps on jailbroken apps, but those have been discontinued by the developer citing "lack of interest and participation from users".
Still, despite this, the iOS piracy communities still exist for directories of iOS app that you can pirate without having to jailbreak your device.
Attributing piracy to jailbreaking is like attributing piracy to the App Store.
Anyone still curious about how much of the jailbreaking community is interested in piracy should do a search through forums regarding jailbreaking. You'll see all kinds of conversations, but very few regarding piracy. Often people get slammed in forums for even bringing it up.
3 questions
Hi guys,
Please help ,I have a iPad 4th gen.
1. How do I install software have no idea I download the software on iPad ,have no idea how to put it onto iPad , what do I use to make it work ?
2.Will all my original iPad apps still work if i jailbreak it?
3.If I choose the windows jailbreak ,can I put office on iPad??
Hi guys,
Please help ,I have a iPad 4th gen.
1. How do I install software have no idea I download the software on iPad ,have no idea how to put it onto iPad , what do I use to make it work ?
2.Will all my original iPad apps still work if i jailbreak it?
3.If I choose the windows jailbreak ,can I put office on iPad??
No, it's his anecdotally-driven assumptions against your pulled-out-of-your-hat assumptions. You've done absolutely nothing to show what percentage of those 1.7 million people jailbreak to steal apps - so the 1.7 million number is irrelevant to either side of the argument, at the moment.
I know at least a few of them steal apps, because in the past I've seen a few people admit to doing so right here on these forums. But I have seen nothing to indicate whether the relative number is large or small. I know I've never stolen apps. The person with whom you're arguing has apparently never stolen apps. The few friends I have that've jail broken have never talked about anything but adding customizations or non-Apple-approved apps (e.g. VLC). You've jail broken in the past - is your assumption based on your own past behavior?
Check the Cydia store for "evasi0n 6.x untether". I don't think you need to re-jailbreak, you just need the untether part.
Having said that... I generally don't do the tethered jailbreak - so my 3GS was still on 5.1 until Sunday.
Thanks, that worked! Well, my folders are reverted back to an older state with some apps just taken out of folders and shoved in the back, but it's OK. It might have to do with the fact that I kept accidentally booting it when it was tethered without an exploit. Whenever I did that, the folders were the same way.