iPod Touch / iPhone Wireless Toggle App

[QueHuong]

To conserve battery on my iPod Touch, I always switch off wireless when not in use. Is there an app that I only need to tap the icon to toggle wireless on and off, as opposed to going into Settings, sliding the button, then pressing Home, then running my internet app.

 

[pm]

The only one that I know of is SBSettings which is a jailbreak app available under Cydia. Beyond jailbreaking, I doubt that there will be a legit Apple app for this because it isn't an operation Apple allows access to.

 

[gorcorps]

SBSettings alone is worth jailbreaking, seriously. All the shortcuts are great. It has toggles for wifi, 3G, edge, airplane mode, OTF brightness control and all work as expected. Definitely saves a lot of frustration going through all the damn settings menus.

 

[QueBert]

another vote for SBSettings, one swipe and I have access to a ton of stuff. If you don't want to jailbreak, there's not going to be any one touch solution for you.

 

[QueHuong]

That sucks. I have the iPod Touch 2nd Gen w/ OS 3.0 - will jailbreaking it be irreversible? If something goes terribly wrong, can I still revert back to the original state? And would you guys recommend QuickPWN or something else? I'm really out of the loop with jailbreaking news.


Also, a general question on the Touch's memory architecture. With my 16GB model, how much memory do I have for running apps? Is it like the computer where the 16GB storage is entirely separate from the RAM? If I install too many apps, will it actually slow down the performance of the Touch?

 

[pm]

Jailbreaking is reversible. It modifies the main processors firmware image by allowing write access to the restricted filesystem. If you want to remove the jailbreak and bring the Touch back to iPod factory spec just do a clean restore from an Apple firmware image. Unlocking iPhones has been, at various time but not currently, a difficult to reverse process. But for iPod Touches, unlocking isn't necessary.

QuickPWN is long gone. You need a tool called "redsn0w". Do a google search on "iphone dev blog", click the first hit in google, and then click on redsn0w on the left-hand side of the screen.

The Touch has, if I remember right, 128MB of RAM and then 8/16/32GB of Flash "disk" space. You have ~40MB of RAM to run apps and this can run out if you are doing things like playing music while using Safari, but it's rare. If you are concerned, there's a free app called "Free Memory" which maps your RAM and attempts to free it up.

As far as "disk" space, it's my understanding that as of OS 2.0, all apps are stored in the large partition of the OS and so you can have as many apps as you can fit in the main memory of the device - ie. 8GB. There was a pre-OS 2.0 issue with jailbreak apps loading into the OS partition. This issue doesn't exist any more.

 

[QueHuong]

Thanks everyone for the info.