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who on here is NOT jailbroken and ...

have had an iPhone since the first day... (was an employee of apple retail then) and have never jailbroken one... never will. I need my phone to work all the time and be reliable, no way I am taking the chance of causing it to not work even in a partial sense. I saw enough people at the Genius Bar with issues from jailbreaking and using odd apps.
 
walterwhite said:
have had an iPhone since the first day... (was an employee of apple retail then) and have never jailbroken one... never will. I need my phone to work all the time and be reliable, no way I am taking the chance of causing it to not work even in a partial sense. I saw enough people at the Genius Bar with issues from jailbreaking and using odd apps.
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What do they do with jailbroken iPhones / customers?
 
Che Castro said:
Takes but a few minutes

You dont have the time but yet you have time to post in a forum about a phone ;)
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BS

I thought about jailbreaking once.

After an hour of reading contridictory information all over the internet I decided I really didn't have the time to invest in this little hobby.

And that was just to get started. How much would I have to read if something went wrong?

Since there's no official central place for all this info, it gets kind of hard when you see people saying different things on different message boards. Who do I trust? Damned if I know.

Forget it. Too much trouble. I'm happy for those of you that spend the time to lean all that stuff. Enjoy it. But it's not for me.
 
Small White Car said:
BS

I thought about jailbreaking once.

After an hour of reading contridictory information all over the internet I decided I really didn't have the time to invest in this little hobby.

And that was just to get started. How much would I have to read if something went wrong?

Since there's no official central place for all this info, it gets kind of hard when you see people saying different things on different message boards. Who do I trust? Damned if I know.

Forget it. Too much trouble. I'm happy for those of you that spend the time to lean all that stuff. Enjoy it. But it's not for me.
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You're kidding right? Nothing can go wrong, you sync it to iTunes and you're back to stock. Big deal.

Too much trouble? I can't tell you how much time and aggravation it saves me. (BiteSMS, SBSettings and no ads, unlimited skips on Pandora to name a few)

You're always on this message board just read what people say. Get one app/update at a time. Don't go crazy.

I don't even know why I care about pushing people towards it because I could careless what people do. But it's really made my phone much better. I can never go back to stock. But I guess if you don't know what you're missing it's different.
 
Small White Car said:
BS

I thought about jailbreaking once.

After an hour of reading contridictory information all over the internet I decided I really didn't have the time to invest in this little hobby.

And that was just to get started. How much would I have to read if something went wrong?

Since there's no official central place for all this info, it gets kind of hard when you see people saying different things on different message boards. Who do I trust? Damned if I know.

Forget it. Too much trouble. I'm happy for those of you that spend the time to lean all that stuff. Enjoy it. But it's not for me.
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Clearly, the right decision for you. Making changes takes work. Some people expend the effort to get the benefits, some people do not. The jb process itself takes 5 - 10 minutes. It was worth it for me. YMMV.
 
Been jailbreaking since the first jailbreak came out. No reliability problems here and I've really enjoyed the OS enhancements. Just my two cents.
 
Jailbreaking does not affect iOS stability. With the iPhone 4 it has no effect on battery life either.

Installing junk from untrusted cydia developers certainly can affect these things. I'd say if you're susceptible to installing Windows-crashing junk on your PC, then you should stay away from jailbreaking.

However certain cydia packages really add to the iOS experience in such a way that I would sorely miss them if I went back to stock. Apps like BiteSMS, SBSettings, Fullscreen Safari, Facebreak, Activator, MyWi all add enormous enhancements to iOS and do not impact performance/visual quality in any way whatsoever.

My greatest and really only complaint with jailbreaking is that updating the iOS version kills the jailbreak until that version is jailbroken. In a way this keeps me from being a test-animal for the latest bugs (like the recent battery drain issues), but it is an annoyance for sure.
 
Small White Car said:
BS

I thought about jailbreaking once.

After an hour of reading contridictory information all over the internet I decided I really didn't have the time to invest in this little hobby.

And that was just to get started. How much would I have to read if something went wrong?

Since there's no official central place for all this info, it gets kind of hard when you see people saying different things on different message boards. Who do I trust? Damned if I know.

Forget it. Too much trouble. I'm happy for those of you that spend the time to lean all that stuff. Enjoy it. But it's not for me.
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That's BS.

You just need to do a couple of minutes reading on the dev team's blog to find out the latest supported iOS version.
Download the IPSW.
Wait for PwnageTool to do it's thing.
Flash the IPSW to the phone.
 
My 2 cents is that you shouldn't jailbreak anything but a IP4 (or if you can't follow simple instructions) Just because the older phones don't have the power. I know some will disagree.

But if you have an IP4 and you're too lazy to jailbreak, then it's your loss. If you enjoy taking extra steps to do simple things like turning on wifi/Bluetooth and other stuff in settings or paying for crappy apps before playing around with them before you pull the trigger, then jailbreaking is not for you.

I just installed an app where it stops apple from tracking you and erases all the info in that new file that's been discovered.
 
I'm jailbroken and yeh it's good for battery draining lol had my phone locked doing naff all and after about an hour I think I lost like 15% of battery been considering going back to stock.

but I jailbreak for bitesms mainly and sbsettings and adblocking
 
kramerica20 said:
You would be surprised at how many working professionals need a jailbroken iphone.

I didn't want to jailbreak. I just realized my stock IP4 would be less efficient/useful than the Blackberry Tour I left it for. Among other things, Lockinfo (notification) is vital.
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Lockinfo rules!! So great to see Calendar and touch of button. MyWi as well. I travel a lot for business and keep debating on whether to keep it jailbroke or not. Those two always come back as reason enough. BiteSMS is a little buggy for me but good enough.
 
blueroom said:
What do they do with jailbroken iPhones / customers?
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When diagnosing potential hardware issues the phones must be restored to factory software. If its something as obvious as physical damage, or the issue is determined to be caused by the software, then warranty is void and repair is at cost.

I jailbroke every iOS device I have had, just to see what it can do.

Its my personal belief that only people willing to learn how to do it, and are willing to maintain it should jailbreak, everyone else is just asking for trouble.

I have an HTC Desire Z now, rooted.
I am okay with a high maintenance device.
 
I have gone back and forth with jailbreaking a few times. I like a lot of the things on there, mostly lockinfo, mywi, and sb settings. Lockinfo and sb settings should be standard on iPhone in my opinion.

Right now I'm not jailbroken. I go back and forth with it- sometimes I really miss my tweaks, but I have had problems in the past with the phone getting buggy. With any luck iOS 5 will have more stable versions of some of those features, but I won't hold my breathe.
 
My 3GS was Jailbroken. i liked SBSettings and Lockinfo a lot, as well as having a custom background. Since i got my iPhone 4 i wasn't really bothered about jailbreaking again, i just got used to stock i guess. i miss lockinfo some times and i'm really hoping iOS 5 makes use of the lockscreen. notifications are my biggest gripe about iOS.
 
Definitely worth Jb'ing. Nothing wrong with battery life, and phone occasionally randomly shuts off.

Worth the time saved with the texting/reading mail/many other features? Yes.
 
JB'd since 4.2.1 and have had no stability or battery problems at all. My phone is my life so I waited quite a while before trying it. I'm so pleased with the results that I kick my self now for having waited so long.

Lockinfo alone is worth the very small investment in time to master the JB arts.

I use my phone on my motorcycle on my commute. One of my indispensable packages is VoiceActivator which allows me to program custom Voice commands since I can't touch or see my phone while riding.

If all you know about JBing is what you read a year or more ago, then you likely don't know about JBing at all. The state of the art has improved tremendously with many clear 'how-to' sites and easy instructions. And the risk is zero. If you don't like it, just restore to OEM via iTunes.
 
MastahRiz said:
Fact: Ignorance is the #1 reason for not jailbreaking.
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:rolleyes:

Regardless of anecdotal evidence to the contrary, jailbreaking IS a security risk. That's how it works. It's a crucial part of what jailbreaking "is". You've bypassed the signed certificate and sandbox model of iOS apps.

Whether or not you have any issues is another matter, of course, but please don't say that there aren't any security concerns from jailbreaking. There most certainly are.
 
bpaluzzi said:
:rolleyes:

Regardless of anecdotal evidence to the contrary, jailbreaking IS a security risk. That's how it works. It's a crucial part of what jailbreaking "is". You've bypassed the signed certificate and sandbox model of iOS apps.

Whether or not you have any issues is another matter, of course, but please don't say that there aren't any security concerns from jailbreaking. There most certainly are.
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but remember the security issues are also present on a non jailbroken phone. How do you think they jailbreak it in the first place?
 
AdrianK said:
That's BS.

You just need to do a couple of minutes reading on the dev team's blog to find out the latest supported iOS version.
Download the IPSW.
Wait for PwnageTool to do it's thing.
Flash the IPSW to the phone.
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Should I back up my SHSH files? A lot of people say yes, but mostly depending on what phone and OS I have.

So let's get into that. Should I do it? How do I do it? What do I use it for in the future and under what circumstances? Look at that, I just created another 20 minutes of blog reading for myself with one simple question.

It's cute that you think you can just throw out 3 steps as if that's all there is to it. It really isn't as simple as you all try to make it sound.

Look, I've never said a single bad thing about people who want to do that. I just don't think it's worth the time for ME.

The LPT said:
but remember the security issues are also present on a non jailbroken phone. How do you think they jailbreak it in the first place?
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Well, unless you jailbreak without diong this:

http://www.cultofmac.com/how-to-change-your-iphones-default-ssh-password/20871

Then you're worse off than a stock phone. I wonder how many people jailbreak without knowing that? Oh, look...it's something else I had to learn by reading blogs. This is my point. There's a ton of stuff to learn. It's not as simple as pushing a button.
 
The LPT said:
but remember the security issues are also present on a non jailbroken phone. How do you think they jailbreak it in the first place?
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Huh? No, those security issues are NOT present on a non-jailbroken phone. Otherwise you could run non-Apple apps on a phone without jailbreaking it.
 
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