Jailbreaking IPhone

[LWS_71]

Hey people,

Just wondering if anyone has got a jailbroken iphone. Just wanted to know if its worth it? Is it hard to do?

Cheers in advance

Lee

[coleman258]

Would also like to know about this.

[MunkyBoy]

I've got one.

It helps in some aspects, I.E installing apps that are in cydia that would never be allowed in the app store... but you have the downside that if you dont know what you are doing you can fuck it up pretty easily.

You have to ask yourself, why do you want to do it?

If you actually have a reason, I can help you :P

[P90PTS]

Send me your iPhone plus 15 bucks and it'll be done you'll have it back next day.

Winner.

[haz_pro]

ill do it for a tenner;)

or, if u have more then one brain cell follow this link here. (http://blackra1n.com/)

Download either mac or windows version and follow instructions, very easy to do.

One blackr4in is installed just use it to install cydia and your away!

take 10 minutes tops!

[Ryyy]

Does this make your iPhone slower haz_pro?

[pdrake007]

Mine has slowed down very slightly, but its worth it for all the extra features it gives you, jailbreaking is no where near as difficult as it used to be, with blackra1n you literally press a few buttons and you are done, if it messes up just load up itunes and restore your phone back and try again

[haz_pro]

Mine has slowed down very slightly, but its worth it for all the extra features it gives you, jailbreaking is no where near as difficult as it used to be, with blackra1n you literally press a few buttons and you are done, if it messes up just load up itunes and restore your phone back and try again

What he said, difference in speed is minimal for what you get in return.

[sshaxx]

definately worth it, it just opens the phone up and theres suddenly so much more it can do.

if you havent already then do it

[LWS_71]

Cheers for the help guys. Think im going to do it tomorrow. Phone salesman in phones4u told me to do it as well haha. Seemed like a well alright bloke.

[Ryyy]

Does anyone know how to install themes?

I installed Cydia, then Winterboard but dont know how to drag & drop the Themes onto my iphone?

Helpz!

[haz_pro]

you download the themes in cydia and it installs them into winterboard, then you open winterboard and activate the themes/part of themes, you want to use. send me a pm if ur still having trouble.

[MarkyG]

Is it worth Jailbreaking? I had problems with my unlock bar not actually moving across, only did it when charging from the wall socket. But seemed to have problems when I was charging and trying to do anything.

Like loading contacts up it would click on photos instead and load up app store!! lol

As soon as i unplug from charging it works ok. Just not entirely sure i want to go back to a jailbroken phone. If I'm honest im a little shady on everything with iPhone. Im jsut a hardcore PC techy :)

[P90PTS]

I used blackra1n for mac the other day, it is available for PC too. Wow its soo easy, took about 30 seconds.

[haz_pro]

I used blackra1n for mac the other day, it is available for PC too. Wow its soo easy, took about 30 seconds.

yep this what i use, sooo easy.

To the guy above you might want to reformat the phone and rejailbrake it, i have never had this problem.

[P90PTS]

I'd been waiting for a workable Mac Blackra1n for so long! To think it used to take me about a day to do my 2 iphones and a couple guys in work! Now its 15 mins!

[Ryyy]

I've fucked off Jailbreaking, everytime I do it, I get the poor iPhone in Recovery Mode everytime I switch it on then off.

Doesnt make the phone slower from what I can tell, but you really dont gain alot like people say you do.

Just a few 3rd party apps and to be able to customize your Phone.

Plus it voids your warranty, which is guttttiing if it breaks!

[P90PTS]

Ry,

I've re-jailbroken mine with blackra1n. Its unbelievably easy!

As for the warranty, yes it voids it, but if you un-Jailbreak it they have no way of finding out ;)

[Ryyy]

What?
So if you restore it they wouldnt know?

Hmmm...

[haz_pro]

What?
So if you restore it they wouldnt know?

Hmmm...

This is true, how would they find out since its completely formatted.

have you used blackrain? it may work better then previous jailbreaks u have used.

[Ryyy]

Look here.. This is what my iPhone 3GS keeps doing. Its on 3.1.2.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/iphone-jailbreaking/1123681-phone-always-going-into-recovery-mode-after-jailbreak.html

I cant jailbreak it without it going into Recovery Mode, I wouldnt mind getting a few wallpapers / themes on it but its too much hassle!

help me lol

[haz_pro]

ahhhh yes, i think i mentioned this in a previous post.

With the new release of the 3gs, the boot rom has changed. This means it can only handle a tethered jail break, basically everytime you turn the phone off it has to be re jailbroken, sucks doesnt it?

Until they figure a way to get around it i wouldnt reccomend jailbreaking as it would be a lot of hassle to have to keep jailbreaking, especially as alot of the stuff you can install from cydia require a reboot.

[Ryyy]

Ha, yeah I'll wait til some l33thax0r comes along and fixes it for me

[MarkyG]

That is the only problem with blackra1n. But as said earlier the BootROM has changed so there is no way around it at the moment.

Fortunately my battery doesnt die easily as im not on it 24/7 so it is no problem for me, plus i have a charger with me at all times in case it does switch off, so its not too bad

[Ryyy]

Cheers people for the advice btw.

[b0t13]

i just got one and done it, its well worth jailbraking just find an easy tutorial online if ur stuck but its really easy

think u need to have the latest itunes, get the latest blackra1n too and it shud be done really easy just click the button on black ra1n and nothing else and let it work its magic..

[SaxGeek]

Don't ever send your iPhone to somebody to get it Jailbroken. I will help you for free.

MSN: cj.skate@hotmail.com

Basically, the iPhones/iPod Touch's Operating system is locked to only allow signed apps to be installed to the iPhone/iPod touch.

The only people who can sign apps is Apple, so basically they can control what applications go on the device, so installing unsigned apps unlocks a whole new world of features on the iPhone - for example Apple restrict applications viewing the system files, whereas unsigned applications have no restrictions - this allows you to modify the system and add more features, skins e.t.c.

Basically the act of jail breaking is removing the check behind the system.

Then once the device is jailbroken, usually an (unsigned) application called Cydia is installed. Cydia is an AppStore equilivent, but for unsigned applications.

Your iPhone won't slow down after jailbreaking. It may slow down if you are to start running applications in the background as this uses more RAM (random access memory) of the iPhone, much like what happens with your PC - you open more applications/programs your computer will run out of ram and start writing to the hard drive (writing to ram is faster than writing to hard drive)

Anyway, that was a long one..
Any other questions about iPhone's e.t.c.
Feel free to ask me, Registered Apple Touch Developer :P

SaxGeek
(now you know why my name is SaxGeek)

[SaxGeek]

By the way, Blackra1n sucks so bad in my opinion.

One rule I always use.

Only ever trust the iPhone Dev team: http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

Blackra1n isn't developed by the iPhone dev team = don't trust it.

I've used BlackRa1n before and it's always been a bit dodgy and I prefer to do it properly.

SaxGeek

[SaxGeek]

ahhhh yes, i think i mentioned this in a previous post.

With the new release of the 3gs, the boot rom has changed. This means it can only handle a tethered jail break, basically everytime you turn the phone off it has to be re jailbroken, sucks doesnt it?

Until they figure a way to get around it i wouldnt reccomend jailbreaking as it would be a lot of hassle to have to keep jailbreaking, especially as alot of the stuff you can install from cydia require a reboot.

It's not all of the 3gs' only the latest versions of the 3gs have a new bootrom.
It's not really that you have to re-jailbreak it, you merely have to help it with booting by connecting it to your pc and running a command, it's the same as the iPod Touch 3g - Don't worry, it'll be cracked. :P

Back when I had an iPod Touch 2g on a tethered jailbreak I used to run linux on my iPod video - run a lead from my iPod Video to my iPod touch and run the command from my iPod Video and boot my ipod touch up on the move like that :P

SaxGeek