how about NOT jailbreaking and enjoy a seemless and pretty much rock stable os as it it was released?
i see no reason at all anymore to jailbreak
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I totally agree... I stopped jail breaking after ios 4.... Never really treated my battery wellOriginally Posted by eflixxx
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I enjoy being able to use custom icons, text tones, Springboard layouts, scrollable folders (so I don't need 3 "games" folders), and many other things that, for no real reason, Apple has decided to lock people out of.Originally Posted by eflixxx
Take Siri and the Notification Center, both of these "New" updates are old news for the JB community, it's just Apple catching up to what people were already able to create.
PS: This seamless and rock-stable OS has already crashed on me three times from factory reset and upgrade to iOS 5.0.1.
Once while updating, leaving me in DFU mode.
Once while opening "Music" (anyway to merge the Video and Music icons like they were in iOS4? Seems a bit unnecessary.) it locked while loading an empty music collection.
Once while checking my Contacts list, which now shows empty or complete on a whim.
Battery drain is still a problem on 5.0.1, which was the supposed reason for it's release. I think the update was only released to counter-act a known JB exploit with the Battery Fix being a blatant lie from Apple.
Jailbreaking allows you to do more with your iDevice in whatever way you want to. Do you want a different lock-screen? Go for it. Do you want a battery that is filled with fire? It's there. Do you want a DrawRace 2 theme? Make it (Cause I never uploaded it to Cydia, sorry).
Apple's current practice of arbitrarily locking features, just because they can, doesn't make those features any less appealing to millions of users. I like having different text tones for different people. I don't like the new "Features" of iOS 5 being rehashes of JB apps that have been out forever, and barred from the App Store.
It leaves the same taste as the old Microsoft IE debacle. They are locking out developers and making copy-cat programs that aren't available to people with older hardware (for bogus reasons) unless they Jailbreak.
Siri not capable of running on any hardware without the new chipset? Ridiculous.
I had more true customization features available on my old BlackBerry 9130 (Pearl) than what is available on a stock iPhone 4.
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Originally Posted by Oski
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I still haven't successfully jailbroken, though.
custom icons? really? ok. i prefer a stable os before cosmetic changes.
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Jailbreaking doesn't make it unstable.Originally Posted by eflixxx
then why do all jailbreakers complain about stuff not working?
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Because they don't know what they are doing. My phone was stable until I received an OTA carrier settings update. There are also problems that people face when using Cydia Apps that make massive changes to the way iOS displays, such as WinterBoard and DreamBoard. I had stability issues with those as well until I decided to backup my phone's file system and then edited the files directly to put my custom icons and wallpaper in place of the stock ones without using an app to do the dirty work.
I don't recommend anyone else try it without some extensive research on the subject, in case you remove vital files.
The apps I used were My3G, which removes the WiFi connection demands of most apps. FiveIconDock, so I could have Phone, Messages, Email, iPod, and Settings on my dock with everything else in folders. FiveIconSpringBoard, which allows 5 icons to be in each horizontal row. InfiniFolders, so all of my System apps, compass, calc, stocks... Could all be in one place.
It was rock solid until Verizon made me update my settings.
