Lockinfo and notified pro with grip notifications. Oh and fakeclockup. That's basically all I have. It has never changed my battery life, and those few tweaks I've added have made the phone a lot more useful.
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Lockinfo and notified pro with grip notifications. Oh and fakeclockup. That's basically all I have. It has never changed my battery life, and those few tweaks I've added have made the phone a lot more useful.
Takes but a few minutes
You dont have the time but yet you have time to post in a forum about a phone
+1 jailbreaking takes no effort and the time it takes is inconsequential. For example my boss came over to watch the bulls game and asked me how I had all those features on my iP4. He had his MBA that he syncs his own iP4 with and I proceeded to jailbreak his phone, install all the necessary packages, and ssh my themes that he like and by the time the half was ever he was good to go.
It's my work phone. I trust Apple more than I trust iPhone Dev Team and the jailbreaking community for stability, security and performance. But if my iPhone wasn't my work phone and I had lots of time to waste, then I'd jailbreak, customize and mod to my heart's content.
As much of you already said, I love the reliability of a non-jailbroken iPhone. I see threads (on a ton of forums) filled with pages and pages of problems people are having with there jailbroken iPhones. It seems that a large part of jailbreaking includes problems that go along with it. I'm totally fine with my non-jailbroken iPhone and so far, I haven't had 1 problem.
Problems occur no matter what. But yes I do agree more problems would occur from jailbreaking. Mainly because you're adding tweaks to your device that were not created by Apple. Although I've never had any problems yet, someone who knows nothing about jailbreaking, could have several problems while going through the whole process.
I've been jailbraking since the 3g and have not once had a problem with stability or battery life. I jailbreak primarily for tweaks and to make it more useful, thought I have a clean simple theme (Glasklart HD). I hate when people have insanely annoying and busy lock screens with moving backgrounds and obnoxious icons. I'm really OCD with my home screen - one page, 10 icons in 2 rows (5 icons each row, 7 are folders)
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I wonder people who "chose reliability over eye candy" talking from experience or just saying because Apple said so?
I really don't find my JB'd iDevices less reliable - I have a couple of them in the family - so I consider it as a myith" or part of Apple's PR - which I understand. I don't use eye candies just some useful tweaks that Apple left out from their iOS.
Anyway, it's a personal preference I just can't agree - from experience - on the "less reliable" part.
I really don't find my JB'd iDevices less reliable - I have a couple of them in the family - so I consider it as a myith" or part of Apple's PR - which I understand. I don't use eye candies just some useful tweaks that Apple left out from their iOS.
Anyway, it's a personal preference I just can't agree - from experience - on the "less reliable" part.
I'm also with you. The "Less reliable" argument is what drives me nuts. I've jailbroken each and every iPhone i've had, on all updated software. It's just not true. Each "New" jailbreak usually has a few tweeks, but they are worked out within days, if not hours!
That is all.
That is all.
I think it's because of the 'If you jailbreak you will lose your warranty' but in reality a quick restore fixes all problems. No one wants to lose warranty on a device they dished possibly $600 out for. That's really the only thing I can think of.
I've been Jailbroken on 4.2.1 and also 4.3.2, however I'm back to stock now. The phone does what I need it to do as it is. I Jailbroke those two times to try Grooveshark mobile and while I did try a few other things, Grooveshark was the only reason I did it. I've now ditched Grooveshark.
I can agree all resons why people don't want to JB their stuff but the "less reliable and shortens battery life" is simply not true...
Also, I don't agree with people who try to convince iPhone/iPad newbies about the necessity of the JB as some of my collegaues are doing this. Most of the users can live without JB and be perfectly happy with their device.
I just need the some of the enhancements/tweaks that JB offers...
why not?
You're missing out.
If I have to choose between an iPhone and jailbreak, I'll choose the jailbreak.
Oh wait, I need both.
I'm jailbroken but a lot of people don't want or need most of the things you get when you jailbreak. IMHO being non jailbroken is more reliable than being jailbroken. I have had minnor issues but not that big of a deal.
Riiiight. No problems I call BS on that. Everyone has a problem. People have problems with there non jailbroken iPhones.
My iPhone is not jailbroken and I like it that way, I find no incentive to jailbreak it. I like to pay for apps (It makes the App Store a good source for making money so new better games come every day, if nobody pays for apps developers will just stop developing), on the other hand I prefer better battery life than some "dumb" tweeks and custom stuff.
I should also add that I like how easy it is to backup and sync a stock phone. I know there are ways to backup JB apps, but lets be honest it's not as straight forward as simply plugging it into a usb port and your done.
I jailbroken every portable apple device i had. ipod touch 1g, iphone 3g, and iphone 4, and i never had any problems, seriously. I dont understand people who go like "OH MY GOD I DONT WANT TO JAILBREAK MY PHONE, IT WILL SET ON FIRE AND KILL MY KIDS". Jailbreaking isnt smashing your phone with a hammer, it's simply opening up more possibilities for it. Homebrew apps ftw
Well that was my "pain" until I found PKGBackup. You can link it with Dropbox and just a simple backup/restore no more messing around...
I had a jailbreak on my original iPhone when there was no App store, but since then I've never really had a compelling reason to jailbreak (particularly a tethered one). When the untethered came out for 4.3.1, I gave it a go again and wasn't at all impressed:
IMO, Cydia is a mess there are far too many adverts scattered around: It looks more like a site hocking dodgy diet pills or a "cure" for male impotence than a serious tool. On top of that, some of the prices for the smallest of tweaks are ridiculous.
The jailbreak lasted about an hour before I decided to go back to stock and I feel much happier with my phone in it's natural state. I'd actually switch the OPs question back round and ask what compelling reason there is for jailbreaking: I have unlimited texts on my iPhone plan, I already have tethering and have no desire to tweak the UI into something that looks like an Android phone (If I wanted a phone that looked like Android, I'd buy an Android )
IMO, Cydia is a mess there are far too many adverts scattered around: It looks more like a site hocking dodgy diet pills or a "cure" for male impotence than a serious tool. On top of that, some of the prices for the smallest of tweaks are ridiculous.
The jailbreak lasted about an hour before I decided to go back to stock and I feel much happier with my phone in it's natural state. I'd actually switch the OPs question back round and ask what compelling reason there is for jailbreaking: I have unlimited texts on my iPhone plan, I already have tethering and have no desire to tweak the UI into something that looks like an Android phone (If I wanted a phone that looked like Android, I'd buy an Android
)I had a jailbreak on my original iPhone when there was no App store, but since then I've never really had a compelling reason to jailbreak (particularly a tethered one). When the untethered came out for 4.3.1, I gave it a go again and wasn't at all impressed.
IMO, Cydia is a mess there are far too many adverts scattered around: It looks more like a site hocking dodgy diet pills or a "cure" for male impotence than a serious tool. On top of that, some of the prices for the smallest of tweaks are ridiculous.
The jailbreak lasted about an hour before I decided to go back to stock and I feel much happier with my phone in it's natural state. I'd actually switch the OPs question back round and ask what compelling reason there is for jailbreaking: I have unlimited texts on my iPhone plan, I already have tethering and have no desire to tweak the UI into something that looks like an Android phone (If I wanted a phone that looked like Android, I'd buy an Android
no good repos = no good stuff
I think i wouldn't be able to live without all the emulators on my iphone
I'm aware of PKGBackup, but it is still additional steps on top of the norm. Not that it's difficult or any thing, but still.
I jailbroke my 2G before the app store, was free for a week or so, then locked it up again. I remember having to use the terminal, copying lines of text from the net and pasting them in. I'm no good with a CLI, and didn't understand what i was doing. I thought it was safer restoring it. I'm perfectly happy with what my iphone and ipad does and haven't felt the need to jailbrake.
i have owned every iphone since the 3g and have jailbroken all of them at some point but i always revert back to nojailbroken since as others have said i need reliability! i use my phone for work and it is critical that it works when i need it to. now some jailbreaks were flawless and others were buggy but i like smooth and fluid over choppy. but maybe i will jailbreak again sometime im always going back and forth.