Nothing worth jail breaking for... There's gotta be a pretty compelling reason for me to do that (and possibly void the warranty) and I haven't found one. I won't jailbreak for mywi either... I don't think it's ethical to steal data from att.
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Nothing worth jail breaking for... There's gotta be a pretty compelling reason for me to do that (and possibly void the warranty) and I haven't found one. I won't jailbreak for mywi either... I don't think it's ethical to steal data from att.
I see your point. But here's my take on it.
1. It's legal - Library of congress ruled that jailbreaking, rooting and other software modifications are allowed to a device that a user owns.
2. Warranty - you can restore/remove the jailbreak and your warranty is unaffected
3. Motivation - besides MyWi, there are better notifications, widgets, customizations (such as camera volume buttons, launch programs from voice search, themes, VNC server, etc, etc)
4. Data - I pay AT&T for unlimited data, whether i use it on my iPad or iPhone is my choice.
Smoking is legal too. Something being legal isn't in-and-of-itself a compelling reason to do it.
That's questionable. While they may not know, it could be considered fraud since you are knowingly rolling back your JB in order to hide the policy violation. That said many state consumer protection laws would require Apple to prove a link between the JB and the damage before they could legally void your warranty.
This is a good point, but it diminishes with each iOS release. Also many of these tweaks are buggy or interfere with existing functionality. For example many of Activators gestures conflict with the UI of apps.
You may not like it, but your mistaken. Read your contract.
For the record, I do JB my iPhone; but the suggestion that it has no downside is simply wrong. At a minimum JB requires longer waits between official releases, frequently reduces performance/stability and makes resolving warranty claims more difficult.
I'm currently sporting stock 4.3 and may not JB it again. Tethering via wifi was the last compelling reason for me to JB.
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You brought up very good points.
Yes, I agree that jailbreaking is risky and may reduce stability, but I am more than willing to take that risk. I would not buy an iphone unless the jailbreaking was a possibility.
I am a hacker with all of my electronics. I have hacked Android phones, Playstation 2, TiVo, Nook, Routers, etc, etc. It's fun and more often than not adds features for little or no cost.
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I don't know all of you guys are on about. I'm using the new hotspot with my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 and it doesn't disconnect unless I put the iPad to sleep. Then when I wake up it reconnects automatically. if I come in range of WiFi it connects with that and then automatically reconnects to the hotspot when I'm out of wifi range. If yours is doing something different something is wrong.
I don't know all of you guys are on about. I'm using the new hotspot with my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 and it doesn't disconnect unless I put the iPad to sleep. Then when I wake up it reconnects automatically. if I come in range of WiFi it connects with that and then automatically reconnects to the hotspot when I'm out of wifi range. If yours is doing something different something is wrong.
Miwi 4.0 has never failed me, I've had Miwi since the first version came out for the 3g/3gs
Why is your computer crashing, that's pretty random
Why is your computer crashing, that's pretty random
Thanks for the reply. How long does it take to reconnect once you wake the iPad back up? I'm wondering if there's an issue with my software or hardware.
I don't have an iPad but if it reconnects to normal wifi after waking it ought to reconnect to an iPhone using wifi as it's the same thing. I suppose that's where the confusion of it not doing so comes in?
A bit more clarification... It's not just my iPad that won't reconnect. My MBP today also performed the exact same way. In Airport it didn't even see my iPhone (after both went to sleep) until I went into settings of the phone and tapped the personal hotspot button again. And this was after the MBP was connected to the phone successfully and used for a while.