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Is there a way to get MyWi without rock at all on iPhone 4?
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There is not an "official" way to have MyWi without Rock at the moment, it is a dependency (if you remove Rock it wil remove MyWi), they already announced that they are working on a rock free version, For what I hear it is ready they are just working in licensing issues.
Same issue, now they haven't said anything yet about a RockFree version as yet.
Its a matter of preference really. I have just had bad issues with rock. Sometimes it can cache itself an unlimited amount of times and take up half of your phones space.
Nothing wrong with Rock, however my personally experience with it have been horrible (to be fair I haven't use it for a long time, so it could very well be improve by now), I got countless instability issues, bad garbage collection while uninstalling and more, so I just stay away from it since them.
Many people are happy with it.
I have been running Rock with MyWi since the new Jailbreak release on iPhone4 with 4.0.1 and have not had one single crash, screen freeze or error yet! No lag and no loss of performance or battery use.
Keeps Fingers Crossed and Knocks on Wood
Keeps Fingers Crossed and Knocks on Wood
I believe it can be uninstalled through Cydia.
I'm wary of it because of that crash in May that did force me to restore my iPhone. But it has been stable since then.
What's so bad with Rock? other than having another program on your phone that you will never use but that one time.
Is there a performance decrease when just having it on your phone?
Is there a performance decrease when just having it on your phone?
You can uninstall through Cydia but it will take MyWi with it. If your are not using MyWi then you can uninstall without any issues.
It directly infers with mobile substrate and causes all kinds of compatibility problems with other apps.
Ah...so what is mobile substrate? I have that on my phone as well. but i don't know what it is used for.
Actually, the conflicts were with RockExtensions, and they were a pain. Just having RockApp on your phone is not an issue. It's just there to get the license data resolved. If anything tries to install RockExtensions, run like hell!
We might have word on a no-rock version fairly soon, according to a post on modmyi from a couple of days ago:
http://modmyi.com/forums/mywi/712185-mywi-no-rock-not-being-updated-no-upgrade-path-provided.html
(posts near the end of the first page are relevant)
http://modmyi.com/forums/mywi/712185-mywi-no-rock-not-being-updated-no-upgrade-path-provided.html
(posts near the end of the first page are relevant)
Mobile Substrate is the framework that Cydia use, is basically the combination of dynamics Libraries that developers and Cydia use to interact with your phone (similar to DLL on Windows). Rocks uses Rockextensions (also a set of dynamic libraries) these 2 don't play nice to each other, and them programs start having issues.
Other than what you already heard, a big problem was the cache getting huge due to some issue with Rock. It could essentially take up all the space left on your iPhone. Sure, it’s faster and smoother than Cydia, but for all the reasons you’ve seen in this thread, it is best to stay away from it. However, plenty of people have never had a problem. I’d rather have a stable app like Cydia, which I’m not going to use much, than an app like Rock that could cause me to have to restore my phone.
Leave it alone. In layman terms, tt is the framework which allows all your apps to interface with the springboard. It also acts like a fail-safe or buffer for protecting the rest of the OS from crashes due to a rogue app.
Edit: Or what maturola wrote with more flowery language.