Why Jail Break?

[ChrisZA]

My iPhone would be broken already if THAT clipy'd come back...

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by ChrisZA

My iPhone would be broken already if THAT clipy'd come back...

Poor little Clippy, no one loves him.

[jsuplido]

My top 5 reasons to jailbreak:
1. themes (larger lockscreen pic at flickr)
2. magazines on my Kindle for iPhone
3. hClipboard
4. Cycorder
5. Emojis

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by jsuplido

My top 5 reasons to jailbreak:
1. themes (larger lockscreen pic at flickr)
2. magazines on my Kindle for iPhone
3. hClipboard
4. Cycorder
5. Emojis

Magazines? Interesting.

Thanks for the list. I'll check them all out. More fun stuff to play with!

[ahintz]

I finally broke down last night and jailbroke my iPhone 3G. Other then the issue with USB on the new MacBooks/10.5.6 it was surprisingly easy. Few things I'm loving so far:

Backgrounder - I can listen to Pandora while reading Kindle for iPhone
PDANet - I can tether my iPhone and MacBook, and everything works (Mail, Safari, iChat, etc.)
Categories - my home screen is so much more organized now!
Netatalk - easy way to get files off the iPhone as if it was just another Mac on the network
Cydia - super easy to find and install all the software I mentioned above

I've been generally pretty happy with my iPhone in its stock configuration, but these are some nice additions. Now, if I lost them tomorrow it wouldn't be the end of the world, but I'll enjoy them while they work. I expect iPhone 3.0 (check Engadget/your favorite Apple blog on Tuesday) will break all of this at least for a little while.

[jsuplido]

I only have Asimov's SFM. Which I get from Fictionwise in mobi format. I was surprised it has colored covers!

Enjoy!

Joel

Originally Posted by daffy4u

Magazines? Interesting.

Thanks for the list. I'll check them all out. More fun stuff to play with!

[jsuplido]

Great to hear!

And yes, any firmware update will always wipe out jailbreak mode. I wouldn't mind though if 3.0 would have all the features I like

Originally Posted by ahintz

... I expect iPhone 3.0 (check Engadget/your favorite Apple blog on Tuesday) will break all of this at least for a little while.

[ahintz]

Originally Posted by jsuplido

Great to hear!

And yes, any firmware update will always wipe out jailbreak mode. I wouldn't mind though if 3.0 would have all the features I like

If iPhone 3.0 lives up to even half the expectations for it, I expect I won't be missing the stuff I've gotten by jailbreaking too much.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by ahintz

If iPhone 3.0 lives up to even half the expectations for it, I expect I won't be missing the stuff I've gotten by jailbreaking too much.

Why has Apple ever released all the fantasy stuff that people predict/expect them to release?

BOb

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by mbp

3) Using my iphone as a way to connect my laptop to the net. With an unlimited data plan its pretty useful.

Make sure that you check your phone contract to ensure that this is permitted. Certainly in the UK, "unlimited" data plans for mobiles very often prohibit using the phone as a "modem" for a laptop.

[ahintz]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Make sure that you check your phone contract to ensure that this is permitted. Certainly in the UK, "unlimited" data plans for mobiles very often prohibit using the phone as a "modem" for a laptop.

As does AT&T at present with the iPhone. Best sense from experience with AT&T is that if you use it sparingly, you will be OK. Use it as your primary Internet connection, you will probably have issues. That said, AT&T is within their rights to come down on you, so use it at your own risk.

[nathanb]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

With the new Amazon Kindle book app available through the iTunes store, I'm seeing more posts about jail broken iPhones and iPod Touches being the only way to get the Kindle books on a computer.

Is it true that the only way to get Kindle books off your iPod Touch is by jailbreaking it? What do I do then?

Thanks.

[RobbieClarken]

Originally Posted by nathanb

Is it true that the only way to get Kindle books off your iPod Touch is by jailbreaking it? What do I do then?

Thanks.

No, you can also use a backup extractor. If you still want to jailbreak your iPod Touch, google "RedSn0w". Once it is jailbroken you install a program called OpenSSH on the iPod Touch and browse your iPod files using a program like WinSCP.

[PieOPah]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Make sure that you check your phone contract to ensure that this is permitted. Certainly in the UK, "unlimited" data plans for mobiles very often prohibit using the phone as a "modem" for a laptop.

O2 have recently released an update which disables the Tethering - personally I never used this anyway so really don't care...

I used to have my iPhone Jailbroken and absolutely loved it.

Using a variety of different 'apps' and Gadgets, I had a lovely clean desktop (Springboard) with a live clock, calendar and weather icon on it. Unfortunately, when 3.0 was released, this seemed to really make things quite tough for me to run. The phone would regularly crash, some apps wouldn't load or would quickly crash out and in general the phone ran a lot slower. I have since begrudgingly restored my phone to its limited condition.

On a seperate note, I had to send it back to be repaired because the WiFi stopped working. At first I thought it was because of he jailbreak but have since learned that it is a widespread problem!

My hope is that when I get my phone back they have taken pity on me and upgraded me to a 3Gs...

[carlobee]

i've heard lots of good things about jailbroken iPhones. i haven't did a jailbreak on mine but i am planning on doing it. what really are the disadvantages? can i still go back to 3.0.1 if i wanted to?