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What are the advantages of jail breaking iPhone 5?
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Start reading the forum, you find out soon enough what a JB can bring you
What are the advantages of jail breaking iPhone 5?
It's fully customizable, all kinds of addons, tweaks and apps, you can setup your phone the way you like it, not how apple likes it
It's fully customizable, all kinds of addons, tweaks and apps, you can setup your phone the way you like it, not how apple likes it
Jailbreak offers the same benefits for all iPhones, and I love my iPhone 4 jailbroken. Not slow at all.
Better than android!
It's very hard to break your phone with JBing, basically just as hard as breaking a non-JB phone.
It's very hard to break your phone with JBing, basically just as hard as breaking a non-JB phone.
Well, what are the features about android that you like? This way we can tell you if it can be done, and why it would be better. With no information, this is like me telling you a BMW is better for you than a pickup truck.
Jailbreak allows you to do almost everything an android can do, while using apple's hardware.
What's better to you is not better to me. What's better to me is not better to you.
It'd probably take a lot less time to list the disadvantages: there aren't any.
With a jailbreak you can completely customize the look and feel of the software, set up physical button shortcuts, add toggles, tether, etc, etc. The list goes on and on.
With a jailbreak you can completely customize the look and feel of the software, set up physical button shortcuts, add toggles, tether, etc, etc. The list goes on and on.
You could actual start reading the posts in this forum it will give you all the information you need, have fun!
The advantages are numerous!!
For just about every nuance you might encounter with iOS, a remedy is available via JB and Cydia.
The lack of homescreen toggles is a major bugbear for many. NCsettings is a stylish and efficient solution.
The inability to customize icons or change the overall look of the UI is something a lot of people consider contributes to the staleness they associate with iOS. Custom themeing remedies this.
Some folk hanker for widgets. iWidgets is another app that brings widgets to the homescreen.
Springtomize is a clever lightweight tweak where so many aspects of the UI can be altered and/or manipulated like the size of the icons, the color of the labels, the visibility of the labels, the number of icons displayed on the dock etc etc etc
Accelerator is an app that speeds up the rate at which all those pretty animations happen. By doing so it gives the impression of an overclocked device running way faster than stock. It's very clever and very effective without actually placing any burden on resources.
Bytafont for changing those all important fonts and don't joke, people go batty over fonts, present company included.
These are just a few examples of the jailbreak goodness available out there.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. All Apple needed to do for iOS 7 is endorse jailbreaking and the jailbreak community. The value it brings to their products far out weighs the negatives.
For just about every nuance you might encounter with iOS, a remedy is available via JB and Cydia.
The lack of homescreen toggles is a major bugbear for many. NCsettings is a stylish and efficient solution.
The inability to customize icons or change the overall look of the UI is something a lot of people consider contributes to the staleness they associate with iOS. Custom themeing remedies this.
Some folk hanker for widgets. iWidgets is another app that brings widgets to the homescreen.
Springtomize is a clever lightweight tweak where so many aspects of the UI can be altered and/or manipulated like the size of the icons, the color of the labels, the visibility of the labels, the number of icons displayed on the dock etc etc etc
Accelerator is an app that speeds up the rate at which all those pretty animations happen. By doing so it gives the impression of an overclocked device running way faster than stock. It's very clever and very effective without actually placing any burden on resources.
Bytafont for changing those all important fonts and don't joke, people go batty over fonts, present company included.
These are just a few examples of the jailbreak goodness available out there.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. All Apple needed to do for iOS 7 is endorse jailbreaking and the jailbreak community. The value it brings to their products far out weighs the negatives.
