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Is your iPad jailbroken?

Is your iPad currently jailbroken?

  • Yes

    Votes: 72 42.1%

  • No

    Votes: 99 57.9%
  • Total voters
    171
If they would think about allowing xbmc on the app store I would think about not jailbreaking.

I just can't find anything else that can play mkv with ac3 sound in 1080p (albeit low bitrate)
 
LaunchpadBS said:
I JB mine to try apps before I spent the money on them, sick and tired of paying money for cr@p because it had the highest 'rating' based on 'real user' reviews, I thought Apple would have done something about the false reviews by now.
Anyway I use it for that and some of the UI tweaks but not nearly as much as my iPhone.
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You could always watch youtube videos of apps before you buy, or read reviews. Pirating is just not right.
 
All 3 are jail broken.
i like the itunes feature of "Not on this ipad"
187 legit apps
47 legit cydia apps
pirating is a pain in the butt.
however, i do have 3 apps not so legit because shortly after i purchased them a new upgrade was posted with adverts. So I run the older versions on one of the ipads.
the 3 iphones are all jail broken and all apps paid for
 
I jail broke mine straight away, had a day of messing around with it and saw no advantage of it, reset it that night.

I've reset three other peoples iPads too since then to remove the jail break after they obviously thought the same.

After all the build up I was expecting something, well, better than that. :confused:
 
Nope, I prefer not to worry about what baseband I'm on and stuff. Shame that I have to jailbreak my iPhone as I bought it off eBay.
 
My devices are jailbroken but i never install any tweeks or any mobile substrate plugins or any of those ghastly looking themes. I try to keep things as "Apple" as possible.

I jailbreak for:
1)To fix the animation lag issue in 4.3.x
2)To enable battery percentage on 4th gen iPod touch
3)To enable multitasking gestures on my 1st gen iPad
4)To install a respring utility so i don't have to clear the multitasking tray
5)For DataDeposit, which backs up all my apps data straight to Dropbox
6)For a pretty green arrow button that points down
 
I was jailbroken up until yesterday. Didn't take advantage of the jailbreak on the iPad like I did on the iPhone so I didn't see the point or keeping it.
 
Jailbroke my iPad 2. Love me some free games. All I use it for other than stealing atomic browse too. It's fun to do bad things :cool:
 
Mine is jailbroken. I see absolutely no down side to it. It simply opens up a second appstore to install cool stuff from. I mean what does 4.3.4 / 4.3.5 offer that 4.3.3 doesn't and I can have the extra functionality, so having the latest version doesn't even matter.

It really is a no brainer.
 
My iPad 1 is jailbroken as well for multitasking gestures, retinapad, sbsettings, the pandora skip hack, and MyWi mostly (mywi's paying dividends right now because AT&T's lovely dsl is down at the moment, ugh). I use the gestures a lot to warrant the jailbreak, sbsettings is still an amazing hack, and MyWi definitely comes in handy for situations like this, simply because I cannot justify both giving up my unlimited plan and paying $15 extra for the rare exceptions I would tether, so jailbreaking is great for me.

Jailbreaking will still have some advantages going forward even with iOS 5 since Apple haven't implemented a quick switch for settings; optimized iPhone apps for iPad in terms of resolution; may not put multitasking gestures in for iPad 1; and doesn't allow me to tether every now and then without changing my entire iPhone data plan. Those are my justifications for it...
 
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