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who on here is NOT jailbroken and ...

Been JBing since the first iphone. I do it because i love gadgets and like to tinker with em. For me its fun. Some people play Xbox..I JB and tweak. Well...OK i play Xbox too. Battery life on a JB iphone? Weren't people just complaining about the battery life on their stock iphone after one of the recent firmware updates?
 
I've been jailbroken in the past but am not right now. For the most part I have not experienced stability or significant battery drain issues when jailbroken.

Many of the apps when jailbroken (but not all) rely on MobileSubstrate extension (SB Settings, TetherMe, 3G Unrestrictor) to run.

Mobile Substrate uses iPhone system resources pretty much at all the time to power the above apps and other apps (it's always running in the background). MobileSubstrate is written in such a way as to minimize its footprint and use as few system resources as possible...but it does use some, which I find impacts iPhone performance a little. (BTW, an app like FakeClockup can provide some perception of help with this). Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing MobileSubstrate (which I believe is written by the DevTeam). MobileSubstrate is both necessary for many jailbreak apps to do their thing and is exceptionally well written...it does it's job about as good as it can be done...it just by design uses system resources.

Jailbreaking in and of itself should not impact battery or performance but when you add extensions, apps running in the background like SB Settings, etc., performance and battery life could be impacted (really, how can they not be?).

For many (most) this is a worthwhile tradeoff to get increased functionality. A phone like the iPhone 4, with it's increased memory, handles this performance hit pretty well. An iPhone 3G or even 3GS are really at risk for a major performance hit when you start adding in the jailbreak apps that run in the background.

With earlier versions of iOS 4 (4.0, 4.1) the performance hit was essentially unnoticeable. With iOS 4.3 (4.3.1, 4.3.2) you experience the performance hit a little more due to the iPhone having more difficulty running the "more bloated" version of iOS. If history is our guide, it is likely this trend wil continue until the next iPhone comes out which will likely have either a faster processor (dual core like the iPad 2), more memory, or increased megahertz (or all of these things). Then things will seem new and fresh again until software updates slow it down all over again.

So, I'm not jailbroken right now as I like to install the new iOS updates right when they come out without waiting for a jailbreak. In addition, I don't want the slight performance hit provided by MobileSubstrate, and I can survive OK without the tweaks jailbreaking offers...at least until I change my mind again and jailbreak..LOL

Just my opinion of the real cost of jailbreaking.
 
i have no need to jailbreak. the only thing i would use it for is maybe a better lock screen. beyond that, a stock phone does everything i want it to do.
 
Tried Jailbreaking many a time over the time I've owned an iPhone (3G and now 4).

To be honest, it just comes off as cheap. I know some people like customisation, but these people should seriously consider an Android handset. I don't like opening my phone up to foreign code, I like knowing that anything I put on my phone from iTunes is safe and authorised. The whole installation process of Cydia, the white text code and what have you, just comes across as incredibly amateurish.

Some of the home screen themes that people post in the other section are beyond hideous, yet these people think they look "awesome" because it's given them customisation. Each to their own. I feel that jailbreaking cheapens the experience of the iPhone, not enhance it.

I installed the likes of FakeClockUp, BiteSMS, Winterboard, various Lockscreen tweaks (what is the obsession with having the weather on your lockscreen btw?), and many more. I admit I downloaded some hacked games, Sonic 4 and DoDonPachi Resurrection but I now legally own both having tried them at the time and liking them. The other stuff I just thought, "Ok, tried that ... what now"?

I downloaded tweaks like Barrel for the UI, and as cool as it looked ... it didn't feel like an iPhone, so I found myself resorting to the stock animations within minutes.

I feel that iOS as it stands is a great UI, even with the slight animation stutters on 4.3.2, but if I wanted a hacker experience I'd have gone for an Android.

So no, I'm not missing out.
 
Can't imagine going back to stock. JB features I will never live without:

iRealSMS
Activator
Lockinfo
SBSettings
SBSchedule
Unrestrictor
Themes
Tetherme
 
There seems to be two groups of people here

people deciding what they like

people being told what to like
 
I just did it recently because I was getting bored. So I figured.. why not? Anyway, I haven't explored it much, but being able to use FaceTime at Disneyland was really nice. It doesn't seem to have resulted in any additional issues either. All very smooth, so far.
 
I'm a long-time jailbreaker, and plan to keep it that way. My most used JB apps are like many others: SBSettings, BiteSMS, etc. 2 that I haven't seen mentioned are the Google Voice extensions - I am a big GV user and these are indispensable for me. Couldn't do without them.

I don't do any of the customization...no fancy icons, no Winterboard, none of that crap. Of course when you get carried away, you sacrifice battery life and performance. I prefer to stay lean and mean, as much as possible. I have a few key jailbreak apps and a couple tweaks, and that's it. Battery life is nearly the same as a stock restore for me.
 
MisterDisney said:
I really liked BiteSMS, but it was doing odd things, so I got rid of it. :(
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BiteSMS is one of the biggest reasons I am jailbroken...lately though it hasn't been using different text tones. It doesn't always mess up though, so maybe it's just a weird glitch
 
alexxn said:
My phone does what I need it to do....
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You must own a $200 car. Under your logic, a piece of junk on wheels could do the same thing as a $60,000 car. Just a lot slower and less efficient.

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On another note:

If you don't like jailbreaking, so be it. But one thing that I cannot stand is when someone says nothing but negative crap about jailbreak, yet they've never once tried it themselves. How can you say something is not for you and you can live without it when you've never done it? Is that the same attitude you guys have in life? Success doesn't come from living under a box and staying in your boundaries.

If you tried jailbreaking and you just don't think it's for you, that's unfortunate. But at least you gave it a chance. Jailbreaking was announced legal for a reason. Stop living under Mr Jobs and do what YOU want. Not what people tell you is right.
 
I resisted it for a long time. I was worried it would cause my phone to become unstable or put even more strain on the battery. Turns out it just unlocks highly usable features and if the battery isn't lasting as long, it's probably because I'm getting much more use out of it now.
 
Like the second poster said at the beginning, I need my phone to work. I would love to mess around with a jailbroken phone, but I don't have an extra phone to do it. I sold my old 3G iPhone instead. Perhaps when I upgrade again I'll keep my iPhone 4 to mess around with.
 
If you ever decide you don't like it, you can have it back the way it was in about 20 minutes. But like I said, I had those concerns for a long time.
 
FYI: there is a program on cydia that negates those location logs that have been making the headlines. You can't find that in the app store. :D
 
I have not done a jb on my phone yet either. Not because it doesn't open up the iPhone to a better experience, but after coming from android and rooting, and associated problems after I did that, I chose to just let be for now. Will give a try on my iPod since I don't use it anymore, and see how it goes.
 
BZIG said:
why not?

You're missing out.

If I have to choose between an iPhone and jailbreak, I'll choose the jailbreak. :D

Oh wait, I need both.
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Meh. I previously owned a JB iphone. Other than lockinfo it wasn't worth the hassle.
The *only* reason I would JB now would be to unlock. Otherwise? Not worth all the hype.
 
I used to jailbreak. Until I got the 4. I don't mnow what made me keep her in stock form. I like it though. Reliable haha
 
Does amuse me how much people who jailbreak defend their choice by calling non-JB'ers conformist etc....

Anyway onto my point ...

For some of us, Jailbreaking isn't permitted .... if i wanted to use my phone with my company provided SIM card i'd be in breach of our security policy if i ran it JB'd .... whether it represents a real or implied threat i'd rather keep my job.

There has been a couple of cases on iOS where JB app included worm behaviour therefore the threat is real no matter how much JB'ers protest and defend no-security risk standpoint. The breaking of the certificate system within iOS does open it up and with the process now very simple i'd bet there are a lot of people with default root passwords too...

All that said, i have in the past jailbroken my phone / ipod touch on 2 occasions... once when JB first came out and you had to follow a 79 step process of carefully laid out steps to accomplish it and recently when the 4.2.1 JB came out i thought i'd run it for a week to see if things had improved... some of the same old favourites were there and worked well but i really did it for lockinfo .... despite reinstalling it several times, restoring my phone, re-jb'ing and doing it again i could NOT get lockinfo to pick up half of the content (SMS + Mail) .... a colleague runs the same firmware and JB and it worked fine for them and i even let them set it up for me but it wouldn't do it

So for me, it might have improved but not massively and apps still feel twitchy and unstable as they did 3 years ago ... i'm sticking to my vanilla iOS thanks
 
Ever since Apple started unlocking/selling factory unlocked phones as well as the advent of iOS4, i turned my back on the JB community.
 
I have no need to jailbreak my iphone 4 either. I like the apps i can get with the app store. I can tether as much as I want as I get it free as part of my plan. So overall I am happy with the way it is.
 
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