iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Jailbreak

[Dymetrie]

Stupidly noobish (yet on topic ) question...

If I jailbreak my iPhone 4, will this restrict iTunes/AppStore/backups or anything that I normally do (except for iOS updates, of course)?

[Will]

I hate Apple computers with a passion, but I much prefer using the iphone in general than most other smartphones I've used. However, at my next upgrade in August, I think i probably will move away from apple for a bit and see, I'm sick of having to use itunes, and I don't want to jailbreak my phone.

I think the interface on the iphone is awesome, in fact, it's so easy to do everything, but at times, the limitations are also piss poor. Furthermore, you can't just save a document onto your device, it just stays in the email attachment or the webpage you've opened.

I want the slickness, intuition of the iphone, but with ability to save documents, and not have to use itunes to sync my phone. I'm hoping that by august a decent contender will come along.

The iphone 4 and the OS is great, in fact it'll probably be quite difficult to use another phone - the iphone is so slick and quick, and in fact I've got used to it's limitations and just accept that I cannot do some things on it. However, I don't want to jailbreak for fear of losing data and causing me more grief - as I'd forget I had done it and do something which causes something worse to happen.

Ultimately I am still a bit of a geek, and whilst I don't want to have to worry about configuring my phone (and that's the big sell for me for the iphone) I also hate not being able to configure my phone! LOL!

Having to jailbreak the phone to make it do what you want seems counter intuitive to me.

In fact, sod it, I'm going back to my nokia 3210! lol!

[Desmo]

Originally Posted by Dymetrie

Stupidly noobish (yet on topic ) question...

If I jailbreak my iPhone 4, will this restrict iTunes/AppStore/backups or anything that I normally do (except for iOS updates, of course)?

Nope, no restrictions apart from iOS updates. I still use iCloud, iTunes Match and everything without any problems. Of course if you did run in to any problems then just a restore to the latest iOS and you're back to normal again. Officially it will invalidate your warranty but a quick restore in iTunes and nobody will know you were jailbroken in the first place.

[Dymetrie]

Cheers, Jamie

The girls have gone swimming so I have a few hours to play. It's very tempting to dabble on the darker side of iOS

[Kitten]

Jesus, these people who keep steering the thread back on-topic.

Inconsiderate Bastids

[Dymetrie]

Originally Posted by Kitten

Jesus, these people who keep steering the thread back on-topic.

Inconsiderate Bastids

Well I could comment on the fact that, to me at least, Android is looking far more attractive due to the lack of premium.

In May I can upgrade my phone. I'll have had my iPhone 4 for two years (ish) by then so will definitely be looking to get something new.

There's no way I can afford the premium to get an iPhone 4S. However, I can upgrade to an SGS2, on a cheaper contract, without paying anything for the handset. Hopefully, by May, the Nexus or the Lumia 800 will also be free on a sensibly priced contract so I have some more choice.

The handsets may not be cheaper in actual cost, build quality or what they can do; but they certainly are when it comes to getting/renewing a contract. However, if I had the money I'd stick with iOS because it (usually) does what I want it to do how I want to do it (caveat: I am allowed to change this opinion without warning, at any time).

Back on topic (), iPhone is jailbroken and I'm investigating. Not incredibly impressed so far (add ons just seem slightly less fluid, and the advertisements are much more intrusive) but I'll keep playing to see how I get on with things.

[Desmo]

Depends on what you're adding Dym, most of the things I originally listed like lockinfo and biteSMS are paid for apps. Even on cydia, not everything is free but they're good enough for me to pay for them. It is crazy in a way....the one thing that makes lockinfo good for me is that I can see further ahead in the calendar than iOS notification centre allows which is only the current or next day. It's such a simple thing Apple could do but they choose not to.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Kitten

Jesus, these people who keep steering the thread back on-topic.

Inconsiderate Bastids

Apologies to Desmo for my part in the thread drift

[Dymetrie]

Originally Posted by Desmo

Depends on what you're adding Dym, most of the things I originally listed like lockinfo and biteSMS are paid for apps. Even on cydia, not everything is free but they're good enough for me to pay for them. It is crazy in a way....the one thing that makes lockinfo good for me is that I can see further ahead in the calendar than iOS notification centre allows which is only the current or next day. It's such a simple thing Apple could do but they choose not to.

I've only kept SBSettings, so far, which I think is a fantastic tool, but it just seems slightly less fluid than native iOS stuff. It's definitely something I'd love to see included in the notification centre (of course, opening up the API to allow 3rd party widgets, or useful widgets, would enable this).

Themes look lovely, but I haven't found (a free) one which works properly, they all seem to leave a couple of stock icons unthemed. I guess this is so you buy the paid for theme (or I'm doing it wrong) but I find it frustrating.

I also tried to install swype, but the resource won't load properly and googling has failed for me, so far

Only day 2, though, I've got another 4 months before I decide to write it off as too much effort

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Any suggestions for cool/useful apps would be appreciated, of course!
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[A Place of Light]

TBH I find ios to be a little more polished and stable than Android, for one simple reason. Much like the Mac, the developers can be almost 100% sure what hardware is inside the target device and this allows them to fine tune everything to the nth degree. Android, by definition cannot do this and never will until (if ever) we reach a point where the lowest spec Android handset can run its OS without hindrance.

That said, my problems with the phone dont even exist for some people, and for them the phone is the best handset for them......sadly I'm not one of them even though I'd like to try one if only for changes sake.