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iOS 5 Jailbroken

I'll have to echo sephire's response. I received an old 2G iPhone because my brother had outgrown it when he bought a 3GS. It was jailbroken and I kept it jailbroken when I upgraded it because there were some very useful tools/apps out there. On my iPhone 4, I haven't felt the need to jailbreak it. The only thing I've done is be careful to not upgrade the firmware (preserving the ability to unlock and resale value).
 
Sephire said:
For me there is no point anymore jailbreaking iPhones.
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Each new version comes closer for me. I still like my themes though, and there's no SBSettings equivalent in ios yet. Plus a few other little tweaks (like "mark all as read"), but overall stock iOS is pretty solid anymore. I remember when I first had an iphone, you had to jailbreak even to get copy & paste.
 
akugami said:
I'll have to echo sephire's response. I received an old 2G iPhone because my brother had outgrown it when he bought a 3GS. It was jailbroken and I kept it jailbroken when I upgraded it because there were some very useful tools/apps out there. On my iPhone 4, I haven't felt the need to jailbreak it. The only thing I've done is be careful to not upgrade the firmware (preserving the ability to unlock and resale value).
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The unlock is the key reason for me to jailbreak. But then, I lose the 3g on T-Mo's system.
 
I think these companies should realize that every engineer they hire and pay salary there is always a 17 year old in his room playing computer games that is 100x smarter than they are and can hack their security in a matter of hours because they are bored.
 
Arg, an the iPad 2 remains unjailbroken. How annoying. It is really starting to frustrate me. It is freaking June now people, where are my jailbreak goodies?!?!

Oh well, at least I can move to iOS 5 on my iPhone. I won't touch an iOS update without jailbreak, as I use too many jailbreak programs/features. That is probably my hint from the big Steve Jobs in the sky that I need to move to Android....
 
the break they are talking about occurred on an older itouch that already has big holes that apple cant fix with firmware. the title is misleading. i saw no mention about any iphone being broken yet.
 
hanoverphist said:
the break they are talking about occurred on an older itouch that already has big holes that apple cant fix with firmware. the title is misleading. i saw no mention about any iphone being broken yet.
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The iPhone should be the same. The limera1n bootrom exploit makes a tethered A4 jailbreak nearly trivial. Which is why I'm surprised this is even news.
 
There is really no reason for me to jailbreak my phone anymore as well. Lockinfo has been replaced with the new notification system.

I will still probably jailbreak it, but there is no real app that makes me want to do it immediately.
 
DivideBYZero said:
:hmm: Title is 'iOS Jailbroken'.
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lol i knew putting those two sentences next to each other would come back and bite me. two different statements, thats why there was a period between them.

also, i didnt notice it was a 4th gen, and that they would be so similar in JBing. makes sense tho.
 
I like jailbreaking for MyWi. I very rarely use it (I think twice so far for 5 minutes at a time), but I like having the capability available if necessary.

poofyhairguy said:
Arg, an the iPad 2 remains unjailbroken. How annoying. It is really starting to frustrate me. It is freaking June now people, where are my jailbreak goodies?!?!
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RC18 of redsn0w will have iPad 2 compatibility.
 
Aikouka said:
I like jailbreaking for MyWi. I very rarely use it (I think twice so far for 5 minutes at a time), but I like having the capability available if necessary.
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Yeh, wifi hotspot is the single biggest reason I would consider it. Verizon wants another $20 a month to do that. Bleh.
 
I jailbreak for Installous. That's probably it. But given its questionable legal status, this really isn't a legitimate reason to JB anyway 😀

Oh and faking GPS location on my iPod Touch for Foursquare checkins. Not that I fake checkins, but sometimes they can't locate you on Wifi for some odd reason and AT&T's craptastic network prevents my phone from checking in... or I'm overseas with no data plan.

The last thing I used was MobileNotifier, but hopefully iOS 5 solves any need for a separate notification system.

Edit: This is a tethered JB right? The test is always for the untethered JB...
 
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DLeRium said:
I jailbreak for Installous. That's probably it. But given its questionable legal status, this really isn't a legitimate reason to JB anyway 😀

Oh and faking GPS location on my iPod Touch for Foursquare checkins. Not that I fake checkins, but sometimes they can't locate you on Wifi for some odd reason and AT&T's craptastic network prevents my phone from checking in... or I'm overseas with no data plan.

The last thing I used was MobileNotifier, but hopefully iOS 5 solves any need for a separate notification system.

Edit: This is a tethered JB right? The test is always for the untethered JB...
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Please don't tell me you pirate paid apps through Installous. My friend showed me that when I first jailbroke my phone and I removed it promptly. I saw no other use for it than to pirate paid apps on the market. Have the decency to tell the app makers you don't agree with their prices by simply not getting the app at all. :|
 
Red Storm said:
Please don't tell me you pirate paid apps through Installous. My friend showed me that when I first jailbroke my phone and I removed it promptly. I saw no other use for it than to pirate paid apps on the market. Have the decency to tell the app makers you don't agree with their prices by simply not getting the app at all. :|
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If iPhone had the Android return policy (15 minutes), I wouldn't use it. As it stands for me, it's a trial platform for Apps that doesn't have a Free/Trial version
 
zerogear said:
If iPhone had the Android return policy (15 minutes), I wouldn't use it. As it stands for me, it's a trial platform for Apps that doesn't have a Free/Trial version
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Same I use installous as a demo/trial and if I enjoy it I buy the full app if I don't I just delete it.
 
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