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Unofficial Poll:Jailbreak or not ?

ValentineNicole said:
Haha, I personally don't jailbreak - for three reasons:

1) I've broken my iPhone. More than once. If I jailbreak my iPhone, they won't replace it. As of now, they've replaced it instantly both times I've had issues (one, I kept getting a white screen of death. two, the ringer switch broke)

2) I like AT&T. Maybe it really is awful, but I really have never had an issue.

3) I like being legit. I don't want or need "free apps" and "cool screen backgrounds."

That said, NO ONE is going to jail for jailbreaking. NO ONE. I don't care if you walk in the Apple store and tell them your phone is jailbroken - it's just not going to happen, lol.
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Who said it won't get replaced if your jailbroken? Dude, freaking restore your phone before taking to the Apple Store and that is it...WOW. I exchanged my old 3G twice (I simply restored before taking it to the Apple Store) and that is it. I like being legit? HAHA. You mean you like being plain and uncreative.
 
Pika said:
Jailbreaking:

- Crashes & instability
- Malfunctioning & safety
- Invasion of privacy
- Exposing children to age-inappropriate content
- Viruses & malware
- Inability to update software
- Cellular network impact
- Piracy of developers' applications
- Instability of developers' applications
- Increased support burden
- Developer relationships
- The Apple/iPhone brand
- Limitation on ability to innovate

Apple made it clear right here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743

If you damage your iPhone, Apple won’t fix it. Some of my friends have damaged their jailed iPhones and gotten full replacements! This is not a possibility for someone with a jailbroken iPhone. Apple will just say, “The reason it’s not working is because you hacked it.” Hacking your iPhone is not sanctioned by Apple, so whatever you do is at your own risk.

A majority of the iPhone apps on installer are absolute pointless. Also, people make a lot of apps just to prove the point that it is possible, but actually do nothing helpful for the user. I have two examples. I downloaded this one apps called cowbell… You tap on it and it makes a cowbell noise, this is self explanatory. There is also an app that lets your record videos, but only 5 seconds long. Then, the only way to get it onto your computer it to SSH into your iPhone. Trust me there are a lot more apps that do nothing helpful than apps that cool or help you get things done.

You love your iPhone and it already does everything you want it to. You just have to live for 4 months, knowing it can do so much more. It’s a great iPod, a great phone and a great internet communicator. Why should you jeopardize that?
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Im confused, are you talking about the appstore or Cydia? Please tell me that is not one of your reasons not to jailbreak, when the AppStore is FILLED with absolutely useless apps (that cost money, no less!). Find me something as equally useful in the appstore as Lockscreeninfo (WHICH IS FREE!) or SBSettings (which is FREE!) or QuickSMS. Oh, or Cycorder. Which lets you record video on any iphone, for as long as you want. WTF?

You, sir, know nothing about jailbreaking. Please don't pretend that you do and turn away others.
 
again thats all crap i have as well as im sure many other Jail breakers have never expeireced and Jailbreak wont crash or melt iphones at all again please stop being a apple cust serv suckup and again stop posting the same crap
 
If you don't trust Apple, then why did you buy an iPhone in the first place and not an HiPhone ?

Jail-breaking is like installing OS X on a PC but instead you install a fake iPhone OS on an iPhone... How stupid is that ?

Changing the Apple logo with a Pineapple ??? What the s*** is that?
 
It's very simple. Jailbreak, try it out, if you like it keep it, if you don't restore. Done.
 
Pika said:
Jailbreaking:

- Crashes & instability
- Malfunctioning & safety
- Invasion of privacy
- Exposing children to age-inappropriate content
- Viruses & malware
- Inability to update software
- Cellular network impact
- Piracy of developers' applications
- Instability of developers' applications
- Increased support burden
- Developer relationships
- The Apple/iPhone brand
- Limitation on ability to innovate
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Please, stop spamming!
Same old crap
 
Pika is just bitter.....

Some people have had issues with jailbreaking. Most of them are fixed with very little pain.

Jailbreak and play around. If you get tired of learning how to make your phone more personal and get more out of it then you can restore it back to vanilla.

Personally, I like jailbreaking and do it for my friends that are less savy on the topic. And I use diskaid quite frequently to fix things that get a little screwy, something that I never thought about doing a year ago.
I have deleted the root but through a google search fixed the phone.
I have been through countless restores due to messing around. All in fun and I look at it as part of the game.

Click on the link in my sig and you will see apple's stance on jailbreaking :rolleyes:
I am sure Pika is an outstanding citizen that follows every law and rule to a T. :eek:

If something happens to your phone restore from a back up. If you are bringing it in for a warranty issue then restore as a new phone and don't sync anything.

To me jail breaking is like doing 5 of the speed limit, over clocking a processor and so on.

Risks, sure there are some risks but crashes and so on for me and my friends are few and far between us having a blast with our phones.

Enjoy and good luck with your decision...

Oh yeah the dark side of down loading cracked apps and movies are just as available as they are on the internet for PCs. How you use them is up to you.
 
budkid said:
Don't jailbreak....

support your app developers.
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Jailbreak...

support your app developers.

Just in case you didn't know, apps which get distributed through cydia/icy also need to be developed - so why do you seem to think that they should get any less support than app store developers? They are bringing a whole lot of ideas to the iPhone community (and Apple) by providing innovative feautures for the iPhone.

E.g. copy&paste: This was implemented on jailbreaked phones first before apple officially implemented it in a VERY similar way.
 
Pika said:
Jailbreaking:

- Crashes & instability
- Malfunctioning & safety
- Invasion of privacy
- Exposing children to age-inappropriate content
- Viruses & malware
- Inability to update software
- Cellular network impact
- Piracy of developers' applications
- Instability of developers' applications
- Increased support burden
- Developer relationships
- The Apple/iPhone brand
- Limitation on ability to innovate

Apple made it clear right here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743

If you damage your iPhone, Apple won’t fix it. Some of my friends have damaged their jailed iPhones and gotten full replacements! This is not a possibility for someone with a jailbroken iPhone. Apple will just say, “The reason it’s not working is because you hacked it.” Hacking your iPhone is not sanctioned by Apple, so whatever you do is at your own risk.

A majority of the iPhone apps on installer are absolute pointless. Also, people make a lot of apps just to prove the point that it is possible, but actually do nothing helpful for the user. I have two examples. I downloaded this one apps called cowbell… You tap on it and it makes a cowbell noise, this is self explanatory. There is also an app that lets your record videos, but only 5 seconds long. Then, the only way to get it onto your computer it to SSH into your iPhone. Trust me there are a lot more apps that do nothing helpful than apps that cool or help you get things done.

You love your iPhone and it already does everything you want it to. You just have to live for 4 months, knowing it can do so much more. It’s a great iPod, a great phone and a great internet communicator. Why should you jeopardize that?
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You:

- Work for Apple
- According to a previous post, spam this everywhere
- Are just blatently lying and being highly biased

Jailbreaking is fine, it's virtually impossible to perminately damage your phone with it unless you delete your bootloader or something.

I did it with my iPod touch but not my 3GS because it's just too much hastle on that these days.
 
fabian9 said:
Jailbreak...



E.g. copy&paste: This was implemented on jailbreaked phones first before apple officially implemented it in a VERY similar way.
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As was MMS; swirly

Remember the iphone isn't capable (wasn't capable) of doing MMS.... Nw Apple and ATT are making a big deal :rolleyes:
 
Pika said:
Jailbreaking:

- Crashes & instability
- Malfunctioning & safety
- Invasion of privacy
- Exposing children to age-inappropriate content
- Viruses & malware
- Inability to update software
- Cellular network impact
- Piracy of developers' applications
- Instability of developers' applications
- Increased support burden
- Developer relationships
- The Apple/iPhone brand
- Limitation on ability to innovate
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:rolleyes:

You're silly. I could go through all those and say why you're talking rubbish, but I think the OP's got the general point from others. The fact that you even mentioned Installer in your original post shows you're years out of date anyway. Also your last bullet point actually made me laugh. Jailbreaking limits the ability to innovate? How'd you work that one out? And what on earth does "the Apple/iPhone brand" have to do with it?


polobreaka said:
because you download pointless apps doesnt mean everything is pointless in cydia/etc. in fact there are many helpful apps that helps the user itself.backgrounder, kirake, sbsettings, and categories are the reasons i JB. my phone is a lot more effective with these JB apps than your phone will be.

you can talk down as much as you want about JB, but your phone wont ever be as useful as mine.


EDIT: just because im JB doesnt mean i pirate software/apps. i support any app developers. i have purchased all my non-free apps. have receipts to prove if you think all JBers are bad.
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Exactly. I had BIG problems with battery life on 3.0 (jailbroken and unjailbroken) so I jumped ship to 3.1 as soon as it came out. Using my phone became so much more difficult and annoying compared to the convenience I was used to.

ValentineNicole said:
Haha, I personally don't jailbreak - for three reasons:

3) I like being legit. I don't want or need "free apps" and "cool screen backgrounds."
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That really depends on the person. I've bought everything on my phone, including my jailbroken apps. I also don't change how my phone looks. I always say that the only bad experience I've had jailbreaking was when I started customising everything, the phone slowed right down.

Pika said:
How many times do i have to post this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743
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People all over the net have pointed out that that article's insane.

Pika said:
It's a downgrade. No 3.1
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There is 3.1 for the 2G and 3G, just not for the 3GS (yet).

bruinsrme said:
As was MMS; swirly

Remember the iphone isn't capable (wasn't capable) of doing MMS.... Nw Apple and ATT are making a big deal :rolleyes:
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My 1st gen phone's still supposedly not capable of MMS (despite having used Swirly for months), yet it's running MMS in my messaging app like any other phone thanks to a hack in Cydia.
 
Ill come out and admit this to i use hackulos a few times but mainly if its a app thats more than $3 I wanna make sure the app is good and not garbage every app i tried from hackulos that I have liked I have purchased if I dont I delete it.
 
I used to jailbreak. After I used a friend's 3GS I restored back to stock on my 3G. It's probably just in my head but it felt very laggy. Also I buy my apps, I spend more than I should but it's something I really enjoy. With this 3.1 upgrade the OS does pretty much everything I need it to do so I don't really see a point in hacking my phone anymore.
 
Scott99 LISTEN TO ME AND READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look, there is nothing wrong with jailbreaking! People who are against jailbreaking and have not yet jailbroken, Have NO Idea what they are missing! You guys should not pay attention to Apple's littlew support thread, because all this supposedly bad stuff bout jailbreaaking is all fixable and blockable. If something goes wrong with your phone when you jailbreak, you can fix the problem no matter what! Can't do that when your NOT jailbroken. Apple can't catch you. If u break ur iPhone and need to get replaced, restore iPhone and they won't know it was ever jailbroken. If the screen broke and don't turn on, the Apple can't know it's jailbroken anyway.

You are missing out on A LOTTTTTTTT cause you haven't jailbroke!!!!! The iPhone is jailbreaking! Without it there would be no AppStore and there'd be just a lame phone.

I can personally help you out with jailbreaking and anything else after you jailbreak. !!!!!!!!!!!TRUST ME, JUST JAILBREAK YOUR IPHONE!!!!!!!!!!! Just PM me with any questions you may have and I will be glad to help you out!!:) ha. There's nothing to worry about. Apple limits so much if you don't jailbreak. If you do jailbreak you can do anything on your iPhone. There's so many useless apps that cost money in AppStore. Forget all the crap. Cydia is wayyy better. So if you have any questions, just ask or PM me!! And you don't gotta worry about viruses or anything. Apple is wrong when it comes to jailbreaking! Ignore their thread about jailbreaking on their site!I hope you decide to jailbreak!:)

So trust, just jailbreak your phone! It is welllll worth it!
Remember if you have any questions ask me and I WILL clear up this pointless dabate for you!
 
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