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Will removing Winterboard Increase my iPhones Preformance?
- Thread starter Hydrocity
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You don't exactly have to delete it, but having a customized theme on your phone does in fact slow it down. Especially if you don't restart your phone for awhile.
Im using a theme called Illumine (?)
Other jailbroken things are:
5 icon springboard
5 icon dock
SBSettings
Backgrounder (Dont use it much)
Cycorder (?)
I think thats about it. I havnt restarted my iPhone for like 3 months...Ill do that tonight
Other jailbroken things are:
5 icon springboard
5 icon dock
SBSettings
Backgrounder (Dont use it much)
Cycorder (?)
I think thats about it. I havnt restarted my iPhone for like 3 months...Ill do that tonight
Wow 3 months. that's insane. If you have sb settings i can see you lasting that long (if you close and kill apps regularly) but jesus your phone must suck right now haha
Your phone must be toooo slow.
Umm yeah you might want to start deleting things lol.
When my phone was jailbroken, all I used was a theme and quick reply and it was very slow.
Even after a restart, in a couple hours with moderate use and his phone will be fairly slow again
If you really cant handle the slow. Learn how to backup your iPhone files and directly SSH the files into there correct places. That way it will not have to be loaded by winterboard(I think this works, I have never tried it myself).
I would just get rid of backgrounder.
I would just get rid of backgrounder.
All that stuff will def slow down a 3G. All you need to do to see the impact each of these have is by disabling the MS extensions in SB Settings. Think WB is slowing down your phone, turn off the WB MS extension.
Personally I thing the 5 row column and springboards are impacting you more. But if you want to get rid of WB you can manually change the icons to Illumine.
Its kind of a give and take though. I have much more on my 3G, but the stuff he has is kind of essential for the jailbreak experience (IMO). Is my 3G slower? Sure. Is it too slow? Not really, if I want all the advantages of having that stuff. If anything, he could get rid of the 5 icon springboard.
For me, I have 5 icon dock and infinidock (so nice to have, which Id add if I was him). I also have infiniboard, but thats another one thats not essential.
Oh, and he didnt mention Categories. Another essential app, IMO.
I agree, but this was for the sake of his issue. Perhaps I was a little long-winded, but all he needs to do is disable its MS extension with SBSettings to judge what kind of impact it has to the 3G's performance.