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iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Fixes Exploits Used for Evasi0n Jailbreak
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I suspect this is a troll statement. You obviously never jailbroke and if you did, didn't know what to do with it.
Either way, glad your happy being spoon-fed by mommy apple.
Really? My jailbroken iPhone 5 (with 18 tweaks installed) runs smooth as butter, with zero crashes, no slowdowns and the battery life feels the same as it has for these past few months pre-jailbreak.
I am not lucky. People who complain about these problems just aren't doing it right. Restore your phone, and set it up as new. A lot of battery problems come with stacking updates. Stock iOS has problems, people. Doing a clean install almost always remedies them.
Setting up your phone as new also allows you to go through and disable any features that may be draining battery, or to re-add any accounts into your mail settings that may be draining battery.
Then you jailbreak. Then you don't install tweaks that are notorious for crashing, which I think Auxo and Winterboard are apart. I have Zephyr (plus others) and there are zero crashes, period.
Do it right, and your phone will be fine. Really sick of seeing people complain over solvable problems, especially when it's not always the jailbreak that's at fault. I'd bet Apple is too after they release every update, especially the "my battery is so poor now!" issues people seem to have.
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I haven't jailbroken since the early iOS 5 days. I just found that sometimes things like battery life would take a hit, or the phone would reboot unexpectedly. It could have just been a placebo effect though.
FaceTime over cellular was the last thing that I cared about, and while I hate my provider, at least I have tethering included in my plan and they don't restrict FaceTime at all.
I think the biggest motivator for me these days NOT to jailbreak is the fact that I don't have to plug my phone in to my computer to update anymore. Obviously jailbreakers aren't updating their phones as often as non-jailbreakers, which isn't that often anyway, but it's such a time consuming process that I just can't be bothered with, all for the sake of having a fifth icon in my dock.
To each his own though.
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I've had an iPhone since 2007 and have NEVER set up a new phone since the day I bought the original.
I believe this whole "clean" install thing to be a bunch of hot air. Any time I see someone spew out this non-sense I think of the people that think their computer is too slow because they have too many mp3s on their hard drive.
FaceTime over cellular was the last thing that I cared about, and while I hate my provider, at least I have tethering included in my plan and they don't restrict FaceTime at all.
I think the biggest motivator for me these days NOT to jailbreak is the fact that I don't have to plug my phone in to my computer to update anymore. Obviously jailbreakers aren't updating their phones as often as non-jailbreakers, which isn't that often anyway, but it's such a time consuming process that I just can't be bothered with, all for the sake of having a fifth icon in my dock.
To each his own though.
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I've had an iPhone since 2007 and have NEVER set up a new phone since the day I bought the original.
I believe this whole "clean" install thing to be a bunch of hot air. Any time I see someone spew out this non-sense I think of the people that think their computer is too slow because they have too many mp3s on their hard drive.
Working in computer repair I hear that mp3 argument all the time however I am not convinced that iOS handles everything perfectly for you in the background when you restore from a backup. I believe that there is room for error and because Apple obscures a lot of complexity from you (that being the main appeal of their devices after all) this error may very well be hidden beneath pretty settings interfaces that tell you everything's OK. If you don't agree with that then that's fine. I don't know you, your phone/settings, or your usage, so your scenario may be perfect for you.
When you go and layer 3rd party tweaks onto your phone yes problems can happen. Jailbreaking is a patient balancing act of finding the right tweaks that play nicely together and you will encounter hiccups along the way. I just think that your mileage will be much better if you layer all that secondary stuff onto a flawless install of iOS.
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i'm waiting for iOS 7 to have a NCSetting like tweak and i probably will never jailbreak again. Although i dont have my iPhone jailbroken anyways since i'm testing iOS 6.1.3 beta 2.
please iOS 7.
i think jailbreaking has become more of a customization than a necessity nowadays.
please iOS 7.
i think jailbreaking has become more of a customization than a necessity nowadays.
umm... wrong.
So naive aren't you? You may think this "vendor" is looking out for your interest..but really they are not.
Yeah, but David Wang of the evad3rs team says that exploits used by the evad3rs to make the jail real tool are being patched by Apple in the next 6.1.3 update.
From the article...
"Wang tells me that he's analyzed the 6.1.3 beta 2 update and found that it patches at least one of the five bugs the jailbreak exploits, namely a flaw in the operating system's time zone settings. The beta update likely signals the end of using evasi0n to hack new or updated devices after the update is released to users, says Wang, who says he's still testing the patch to see which other vulnerabilities exploited by the jailbreak might no longer exist in the new operating system."
As someone who is also running many of those tweaks, i would say no, not really. It is nice but once the novelty wears off i always wonder why i cared to put all that mess on my phone.
It's great that Apple listen's us, the normal user's and remove's any security theats. As the iOS offers everything I need, I see no reason Apple to turn every rock when fighting against security flaws. Apple is doing it right.
I know some of you people want to jailbreak your device's, but that should't be normal user's problem. If you dont like secure and simple iOS, you can allways go to Android.
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Sorry about my english
I know some of you people want to jailbreak your device's, but that should't be normal user's problem. If you dont like secure and simple iOS, you can allways go to Android.
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Sorry about my english
About stealing....
Surely, many people are tempted to jailbreak to steal apps and music. And there are others who jailbreak just to improve the functionality of their phones. I admit to being tempted to wanting to steal a few apps, but realizing that developers work hard for meager pay has often stopped me from doing that.
I suspect that there aren't that many people who jailbreak for stealing apps and music. Anyway, it would be difficult for the average Joe who just jailbroke his phone to even figure out how to steal apps.
There are always going to be jail-breaks until 
moves to a protected memory model OS platform.
They patch a hole. Another one will always be found.
moves to a protected memory model OS platform. They patch a hole. Another one will always be found.
You're probably right about not many people wanting to steal apps / music etc.
And no, it's probably not as simple as I thought. In the long run, especially
for 99 cent songs and apps, "easy" beats "free."
Easy or not, common or not, stealing or not, jailbreaking probably isn't doing much harm.
The minority who steal probably wouldn't pay for anything anyway.
I believe this is a bug with Auxo, i get it too. Theres apparently been an update submitted which may fix it.
Yeah... iOS is mature enough that there aren't a ton of features that you need to JB for - quick toggles, true multitasking, and in-app SMS are the big ones left.
Really, this reminds me of the old OS X theming days. Back when I started Xthemes in... 2004/2005, there were a lot of people who hacked OS X to theme it/swap icons/etcetera. Nowadays the OS X customization market has all but dried up. It'll happen to iOS, in due time. But it won't until iOS hits 'good enough' status for most people and/or the people who run the exploit groups/Cydia lose interest.
Really?
Legit question here:
I thought you could do one of a couple of things if you're currently not jailbroken:
1. don't accept the 6.1.3 update. I'm being propmted right now to update to 6.1.2. I haven't done it yet.
2. Restore from a backup from before 6.1.3.
So let's say right now on 6.1.1 I get prompted for 6.1.3 tomorrow (whenever) and install it. If I want to JB can't I just go back to a backup on my computer from 3 weeks ago and still JB?
Sorry, I'm a n00b
The Vendor in this case, is APPLE. They've responded by patching the exploit, so no-one else can maliciously use it.
You obviously do not know how bugs are fixed in relation to security vulnerabilities. For example, IOS 6.1's announcement coming via the Bugtraq mailing list, Secunia advisories, CVEs, etc.
Not to toot my own horn, but being a sysadmin and ISO, I know that a hell of a lot more and better than you realize. Yet you call me naive.
BL.
Ironically, I jailbroke my phone to purchase iFile and download VLC.
Cyndia is a store still and they do have some decent stuff on there, though I do admit that some of those apps are probably more for piracy than actually well thought out applications.
Tweaks my iPhone needs or it will be useless for me:
1) Action menu
2) Auxo
3) IntelliScreenX
4) Zephyr
Nothing more..
I don't need pirate games or pirate movies or free whatever or useless hacks!
I need tweaks that let my phone be useful
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If you update to the latest you are screwed. DONT UPDATE
1) Action menu
2) Auxo
3) IntelliScreenX
4) Zephyr
Nothing more..
I don't need pirate games or pirate movies or free whatever or useless hacks!
I need tweaks that let my phone be useful
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If you update to the latest you are screwed. DONT UPDATE