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Jailbreaking your iPhone is a very bad idea.

klamse25 said:
I have owned every iPhone up to the 3GS (soon, the 4th iPhone) and I have jailbroken each device, each time giving it "another chance."
About a month after each time I jailbreak it I restore because of the poor performance and battery life.
It makes the phone so much buggier, and technically is illegal.
It's a plus to those who don't jailbreak to get updates w/o having all the data deleted from your apps.
There's a reason Apple doesn't allow it.
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I completely agree with you. I have jailbroken my 3GS twice, but i always wind up restoring because the performance difference is completely noticeable. i would put my JB'ed phone next to an un-JB'ed phone and the unjailbroken phone smokes my JB phone.
 
First and most important Jailebreak FTW


labman said:
also I have said before I personally walked a store with a jb phone was told to do a restore and to come back in a few days. Nobody voided my warranty and Steve Jobs doesn't make harassing phone calls in the middle of the night! yelling JB or you ruined my phone etc.
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I took my jailbroken 3g in for dust under the screen. It was the first time I had noticed it and I was pretty smokin. Took a while with some back and forth but he finally replace my phone. I simply yet firmly discussed with him how me changing the software of the phone had nothing to do with the hardware letting dust in under the glass.

Another time I went in with my 3gs (the replacement I received after my first 3gs had dust under the screen 4 days after buying) and I didn't have an apt so I went back to the "genius" desk and asked if they could squeeze me in. Mr. Helpful asked me what the problem was so I told him. Mr. Peckerhead said in a loud voice from across their little counter "how did that happen". I informed him it's a known issue and he looked at me like I had 4 eyes. Oh well, I guess genius is a subjective name.
 
I've just restored my 3G back to 3.1.3 after jailbreaking two weeks ago.

Personally, I found my iPhone more sluggish and less responsive when doing simple things like pressing the home button to return to the home screen ... my "animation" (screen fading and apps zooming on screen) simply stopped happening no matter what I opened. At that point I only had Winterboard installed.

I'm nor going to have a go at jailbreaking or tell people doing it to atop, it's their phone and their decision and I can see why people do it. It's simply not for me.
 
klamse25 said:
I have owned every iPhone up to the 3GS (soon, the 4th iPhone) and I have jailbroken each device, each time giving it "another chance."
About a month after each time I jailbreak it I restore because of the poor performance and battery life.
It makes the phone so much buggier, and technically is illegal.
It's a plus to those who don't jailbreak to get updates w/o having all the data deleted from your apps.
There's a reason Apple doesn't allow it.
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Thanks for the three year old news :rolleyes:
 
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Jailbraking is done in order to make the device more versatile and Apple does sell them in some countries, they are called factory unlocked. More exensive - yes but depending on your case it is worth spending extras.
 
I think jailbreaking is just wrong cos you get a world of cracked apps, robbing hard working developers from their cash.


Maybe you don't, but jailbreaking makes it possible.
 
Mike777 said:
I think jailbreaking is just wrong cos you get a world of cracked apps, robbing hard working developers from their cash.


Maybe you don't, but jailbreaking makes it possible.
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No, wrong. The cracked apps repository does not come preinstalled with the Jailbreak. You have to add it yourself. And when you do add it, Cydia warns you about it containing cracked apps. The repositories that are preloaded on there, will never accept cracked applications. Anybody can make a repository. The people who made the repository will get in trouble, not the people downloading the apps, since they are the ones distributing it.
 
Mike777 said:
I think jailbreaking is just wrong cos you get a world of cracked apps, robbing hard working developers from their cash.


Maybe you don't, but jailbreaking makes it possible.
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I can pirate and crack all sorts of apps on my computer. Yes, I'd be performing an illegal activity, but that doesn't make my MBP or OS X illegal. Jailbreaking is the same way. I JB but don't pirate or crack apps.
 
Mike777 said:
I think jailbreaking is just wrong cos you get a world of cracked apps, robbing hard working developers from their cash.


Maybe you don't, but jailbreaking makes it possible.
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That's like saying you shouldn't use the internet because you get a world of pirating. But you still use it don't you? You can use something without doing that stuff.
 
grapes911 said:
I can pirate and crack all sorts of apps on my computer. Yes, I'd be performing an illegal activity, but that doesn't make my MBP or OS X illegal. Jailbreaking is the same way. I JB but don't pirate or crack apps.
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Exactly.
 
ILikeToJB said:
No, wrong. The cracked apps repository does not come preinstalled with the Jailbreak. You have to add it yourself. And when you do add it, Cydia warns you about it containing cracked apps. The repositories that are preloaded on there, will never accept cracked applications. Anybody can make a repository. The people who made the repository will get in trouble, not the people downloading the apps, since they are the ones distributing it.
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Actually, the people who made the repository and the people who downloaded the apps are breaking the law. The uploader is more likely to get in trouble with the law, but the downloader is still breaking it as well.
 
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I thought factory unlocked is legal and jailbraking is not that is why if you tru to update a jailbroken iphone it gets locked.
 
I jailbreak my iPhone. If I decide to get the iPhone 4 this summer, that will also get jailbroken.
 
grapes911 said:
Actually, the people who made the repository and the people who downloaded the apps are breaking the law. The uploader is more likely to get in trouble with the law, but the downloader is still breaking it as well.
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Yes, this is true, I mean people steal things all the time? Right I mean if you find a quarter are you going to go to jail? The cracked app downloaders, so to say, aren't going to get into trouble at all usually, since there is a bigger person to take down, the actual distributor. And look at all these torrent sites, why aren't they being shut down? And why isn't the cracked apps distributor's website being shut down? Honestly I just think that the police don't care what goes on online, except threats. Shouldn't they be out stopping gun fights and gangs and stuff like that? I mean thats probably their philosophy.
 
drpellypo said:
How is jailbreaking possibly 'illegal'? I bought the phone. It's mine. If I want to drop it in a puddle, I can. if I want to unlock the operating system, I can. I paid for it and I can do what I want with it!
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I could break it without jailbraking it, it's mine I can do whatever the hell I want with it
 
RoadMax said:
I thought factory unlocked is legal and jailbraking is not that is why if you tru to update a jailbroken iphone it gets locked.
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This is pretty wrong. A factory-unlocked phone is unlocked, period. You can jailbreak it, wipe it, update it, re-jailbreak it, whatever you want and it will always be factory-unlocked. A non-factory unlocked phone (i.e. jailbroken and then unlocked using something like blacksn0w) will become relocked if you update to 3.1.3, since the new baseband version cannot yet be unlocked.
 
Let me clarify my point above. I didn't say that jailbreaking automatically gave you pirated software. I said it makes it POSSIBLE to use pirated software.

Without jailbreaking in existence, there can be no appstore piracy...

And what do you really gain from jailbreaking your devices anyway? What do you do, on a daily basis that you can't do using apps from the appstore? Perhaps what you do is in the extreme minority and the minority are always the most vocal.

Using my iPhone I have seen nothing I wanted to do except maybe record video, and frankly the 3gs has a far better experience for it what with a decent CPU and GPU.

So maybe all this jailbreaking nonsense is just people pirating after all.
 
Mike777 said:
Let me clarify my point above. I didn't say that jailbreaking automatically gave you pirated software. I said it makes it POSSIBLE to use pirated software.
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Driving a car makes it possible to kill pedestrians. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop driving. Maybe thats a ridiculous analogy but so is your point. Just because some illegal activity is possible doesn't mean I have to do it.

And what do you really gain from jailbreaking your devices anyway? What do you do, on a daily basis that you can't do using apps from the appstore?
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Lockinfo is a big one for me. I love having my notifications and calendar on the lock screen. Also I turn my phone into a wireless access point. Plus the amount of free (and legal) applications available is awesome.
 
hamlinspahn said:
Are you trying to start a fight, I'm with you but I think we are the minority on this one. The Jailbreakers just don't get why it is wrong.
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Yes, How dare you decide what to do with your own property!!!
Are you out of your mind? You want WALLPAPERS??? LOCK HIM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY, JUDGE, HE LIKES WALLPAPERS ON HIS CELL PHONE
 
Ive had my iphone 3gs for close to a year now, I must say after jailbreaking my phone and downloading a lot of these various apps (blacklist, sbsettings , backgrounder, quick reply, etc) I felt like it really made my iphone the best phone on the market for me...although when i did make the switch i made it from an htc touch pro 2, which I gladly gave to my brother as a present since it had been replaced by sprint for free....poor guy, still has it. :confused: He'll learn...eventually.


So as for jailbreaking, I'm all for it. Besides you're not technically doing anything wrong if you're paying for the apps you get at cydia, trust me it's worth paying for some of these apps, this is coming from a guy that had the crappy HTC touch pro 2 and back then they had no apps, although I hear they now have 70k, I'd rather buy my occasional 1 or 2 apps a month and keep the developers than have free software that was available a year ago when i had my phone.
 
The iPhone wouldnt be as good if you couldnt jailbreak it and would be just another phone. Jailbreaking is what makes it great and it is a much better device when jailbroken. Some people fret that it is a bit buggier and even though i cant say for certain because ive never had one that wasnt jailbroken, ......id rather have it a bit buggy than not have a jailbreak on it.

As for being illegal. It isnt illegal. It is my phone and i can do whatever i want with it. If they dont want to warrant it because of what ive done, that is their perogative.
 
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