I don't know about that. I think MyWi is the best reason to jailbreak, but there are lots of good apps out there that are not part of iTunes. Such as Categories which allows you to do folders much better then iOS4 ie you can have as many apps as you want in a folder. You can use Winterboard so that you can display a different icon scheme, background, and add 5 apps to the dock. You can add a really cool shortcut menu to control wifi, 3G, BT, screen brightness, ringer, rotation lock, etc. by swipping the top edge of your screen. You can have the phone tell you if you have any emails or texts without signing on to the phone. My favorite is the app that lets you change AT&T to whatever word you want on the top of the screen. Lots of stuff the iPhone should do, but doesn't.
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I don't know about that. I think MyWi is the best reason to jailbreak, but there are lots of good apps out there that are not part of iTunes. Such as Categories which allows you to do folders much better then iOS4 ie you can have as many apps as you want in a folder. You can use Winterboard so that you can display a different icon scheme, background, and add 5 apps to the dock. You can add a really cool shortcut menu to control wifi, 3G, BT, screen brightness, ringer, rotation lock, etc. by swipping the top edge of your screen. You can have the phone tell you if you have any emails or texts without signing on to the phone. My favorite is the app that lets you change AT&T to whatever word you want on the top of the screen. Lots of stuff the iPhone should do, but doesn't.
iPad = Big big battery for all day hotspot
To me the main benefit of using an iPad as a hotspot is that it has a huge battery and when you turn off the screen it will pretty much run all day on a single charge as a hotspot. I have done this many times with my iPad 3G, and it's awesome. Every other device that I have used as a hotspot basically needs to be plugged into an outlet to get any type of useful battery life.
To me the main benefit of using an iPad as a hotspot is that it has a huge battery and when you turn off the screen it will pretty much run all day on a single charge as a hotspot. I have done this many times with my iPad 3G, and it's awesome. Every other device that I have used as a hotspot basically needs to be plugged into an outlet to get any type of useful battery life.
sign me up. questions:
1) can i still use the Apple Store?
2) does it mess up itunes syncing or backups?
3) what happens when the next release comes out?
...those are the sorts of unknowns that have not lead me to jailbreak yet, and i havent had time to google around for answers.
thanks!
whats crazy is -- AT&T's model is like your ISP charging you for each computer you have on your home internet subscription! we'd be shocked! outraged!
ok so ive read how one can jailbreak the iphone, run MyWi, and use the data on the ipad. cool.
but whats the flipside scenario -- if i didnt want to jailbreak the phone but would jailbreak the (wifi-only) ipad, whats the gist? what technique does it employ and what does it cost? im a US customer.
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you should get yourself to an optometrist and have those peepers checked out if you cant see on an iphone.
With 3 ITA tethering is free 
Always been
And these things sometimes break other things.... The you start to install other crap and you have super unstable and slow phone. 99% users i know with jailbreak done it for pirated software and it is sad. Sure myfy is very nice and i agree.
Always beenAnd these things sometimes break other things.... The you start to install other crap and you have super unstable and slow phone. 99% users i know with jailbreak done it for pirated software and it is sad. Sure myfy is very nice and i agree.
You actually made my point in your second sentence. The best reason to jailbreak is to tether.
1) Yes.
2) No. (Though if you restore / upgrade to a non jailbroken iOS version, this app won't sync back to the device obviously)
3) You install it from Cydia as any other app. I don't know if future versions will cost more, but I'd guess it's a pay-once-use-forever deal. It usually us.
Tethering a laptop thru an iPad? No, that's not cumbersome at all
If the iPad could tether thru an iPhone, I'd buy one tomorrow. No way I'm paying at&t for a second data plan.
Or... thru like any phone with bluetooth. That would be nice for iPod Touch too.
awesome thanks for #3 i meant the next OS release -- how does a jailbroke phone upgrade to 4.2, etc?
I do it with my broadband card, so I would think it would work similarly with a tethered iPhone...
Connect to the internet through the broadband card/iPhone. Go to system prefs, sharing, internet sharing. Create your own network name and password.
Click start sharing. That easy! Connect your iPad to your new network and you're golden.
I do it with my broadband card, so I would think it would work similarly with a tethered iPhone...
Connect to the internet through the broadband card/iPhone. Go to system prefs, sharing, internet sharing. Create your own network name and password.
Click start sharing. That easy! Connect your iPad to your new network and you're golden.
Connect to the internet through the broadband card/iPhone. Go to system prefs, sharing, internet sharing. Create your own network name and password.
Click start sharing. That easy! Connect your iPad to your new network and you're golden.
I do it with my broadband card, so I would think it would work similarly with a tethered iPhone...
Connect to the internet through the broadband card/iPhone. Go to system prefs, sharing, internet sharing. Create your own network name and password.
Click start sharing. That easy! Connect your iPad to your new network and you're golden.
You know, jailbreaking is great and all, but it's an inelegant solution. For one, at this point practically every reason to jailbreak is gone. Multitasking, Apple did it better. Folders, brilliant. Find My iPhone is free now. Et infinitum. However, AT&T is still cockblocking our advanced networking features. I want my phone to be a router. Or tether via USB/Bluetooth. I want it free because it costs AT&T nothing. And I want to do it without invalidating my warranty and installing a performance sucking and buggy layer on top of iOS. Let's see someone create an ipsw with MyWi built in, or tethering reverted back to the way it was when the BenM hack worked, or someone create a fully signed MyWi ipa, or or or etc. There's tons of ways to do this if someone took the time to find them. Unfortunately, I don't know how to program in Object C. Anyone that does could probably implement any one of these fixes within a few hours. Let that stand as a challenge to anyone on here that can code in C.
Why the hell are you replying to a thread that has been dead for almost 2 months? Jesus H Christ, read the f_cking date of the final post and ask yourself, "Is it stupid to respond to a thread that old?"
I am fairly relaxed but when I see people do things so outstandingly stupid I can't help but have to vent my frustration at them.