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Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by NamTaf »

hilko wrote: post #40
kape wrote: post #21

I haven't Jailbroke my iPhone for a few years. I did out of curiosity, but updating OS was just too much pain. Been thinking what are the real benefits of doing that? Why? Is it customizing UI, adding more effects? Or is it just downloading apps outside app store? I think it brought value when we didn't have notification center etc, but still people doing it?

I still use it for SBSettings, which allows me to turn bluetooth, wifi, etc. on by swiping the top of the screen. And I use it for tethering or setting up a wifi hotspot from my phone (MyWi). Plus a bunch of other things :).

Consider NCSettings. It's slicker than SBSettings and doesn't require activator if you're one of the many who have a thing against activator. It builds itself into the notification centre rather than replacing it with its own.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by imissmyjuno »

antirez wrote: post #127

Not worth it because the parallel jailbroken world instead of being something full of free and interesting things is poor and full of things that you need to pay for, but, 5 times the average app price on iTunes. I'm not going to get instabilities and hard to upgrade devices just for SBSettings or alike. Unfortunately too many people only jailbreak so that they can install software for free. That said it completely s…

Please don't lump everyone wanting to JB into the same (laughable, to me) SBSettings or the even more presumptuous pirating use cases. For example, I'm in Canada, and my favourite music service is Grooveshark (Spotify is not available). The only way to get the Grooveshark iOS app is through jailbreaking.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by dmazin »

saurik wrote: post #126
stevedc3 wrote: post #80

The jailbreak community, who overall do very good things for users, are shooting themselves in the foot by not having the Cydia store work properly once you jailbreak --- the store is totally down, servers slammed. They had 6 months to prepare for this? why don't they correct it? people's first impressions (who have never jailbroken before) are that the process is terrible. I am referring to the Cydia store by @sauri…

Look, I mostly do this because I find it meaningful. It pays miserably, and yet people always act like I'm making tons of money off of it, so a ton of people hate me and I don't even get to self-medicate by staring at a massive pile of cash. I've built a lot of really cool assets, but they (even the Cydia Store) are totally reliant on security flaws in something that is becoming more secure every day, so the work is…

Don't listen to haters saurik, you own.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by nacs »

saurik wrote: post #98
nacs wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By the time a patch is publicly released like this, I'm sure Apple will have it decompiled and know what the exploit is within weeks if not days since the actual exploit code won't be much code to analyze (as opposed to digging through all of iOS like the jailbreakers have to do find an exploitable location). Plus, Apple I'm sure has plenty of software/hardware debuggers they can attach to their own hardware that'd l…

(Days matter.) Another issue is that open-sourcing the exploit makes it easier to use for nefarious purposes in the mean time, and it isn't like knowing exactly how the exploit works actually helps end users protect themselves, due to Apple's platform policies. In essence, this is all a really dangerous ethical tightrope to be walked.

It's an honor to get a response from the great saurik himself, especially on a day when I'm sure you're very busy trying to keep Cydia up.

Thanks for the info.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by pseut »

antirez wrote: post #127

Not worth it because the parallel jailbroken world instead of being something full of free and interesting things is poor and full of things that you need to pay for, but, 5 times the average app price on iTunes. I'm not going to get instabilities and hard to upgrade devices just for SBSettings or alike. Unfortunately too many people only jailbreak so that they can install software for free. That said it completely s…

I jail broke for "protect my privacy" and shell access. Way better than sbsettings

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by yareally »

supercoder wrote: post #135

As a developer the jailbreak is conflicting. On one hand it's good to get all the cheap skates off ios 5.1 but then alternatively were going to see a bigger piracy spike now.

That's an awfully big assumption that only pirates don't update to the latest and greatest device. Especially when many can't afford to and a smaller community does actually jailbreak to mod their devices. Some I know that went back to iOS from Android were waiting for a jailbreak so they could mod stuff.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by watmough »

illuminate wrote: post #72
ansgri wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always wonder, how can you U.S. guys tolerate this stupid carrier lock-in with year-long contracts? When in other parts of the world they are planning or already have laws obliging carriers to provide call forwarding to your new number after you switch away.

"I always wonder, how can you U.S. guys tolerate this stupid carrier lock-in with year-long contracts?" How? Because we have a limited competition between carriers in the US. We "tolerate" because until very recently, there were not unsubisidized plans available (and even still, there are very few being offered.)

T-Mobile is pretty reasonable.

Unlimited data, with 2Gigs at 'high' speed for $40 / month, with 1000 minutes and unlimited texting.

Pretty decent deal. This is one of the 'Value' plans, with no subsidy.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by nvarsj »

justinwr wrote: post #51

The last time I jailbroke my devices they slowed to a crawl and crashed frequently. Felt like I had installed Windows on my iOS device. I'd much rather have my walled garden of reliable bliss. I'll still donate to the cause however. Keep up the fine work gents! :)

Actually, that's just standard iOS behavior.

Disclaimer: ex-iPhone user now on Android

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by seles »

It worked for me, but now I am getting error "HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error" in cydia

It looks like this also happened to people alot when the jailbreak for iOS 5 first appeared, so I am pretty sure cydia is just getting flooded with traffic from hoards of newly jailbroken users.

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