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Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by dubya »

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 jailbreak only because it was the easiest way to get data and MMS working on my _unlocked_ AT&T iPhone using Straight Talk. It was a choice of spending $5 for TetherMe or spending hours swapping SIMs or editing backup files.

Now that iPhones are more or less officially on Straight Talk (vie Walmart), there might be a better solution.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by garkrau »

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…

thanks, saurik, for your hard work

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by technosmurf »

technosmurf wrote: post #160
asiekierka wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Odd.

I also checked the shasum by comparing 2 files. The Mega link (Mac client) from the official web page: bd9fe1e58343a5c03295a975697de3e64e65b42c asiekierka's Mac link: bd9fe1e58343a5c03295a975697de3e64e65b42c Both file sizes are the same (9,690,941 bytes, 9.7 MB on disk). Maybe the discrepancy has to do with -a flag for 224, 256, 384, or 512 or something. I think his mirror is safe. It's the one I used to successfully…

Another glitch: the volume controls don't work correctly. No matter what level your volume is at, if you press the down button just once, the volume will go completely to 0! You have to keep pressing up again to reach the proper level. Quite annoying when the volume is a function used so many times a day. Jailbreaking may allow you to get more features, but it usually brings a whole host of headaches, too. I'll probably just stick with the standard iOS system after the next update.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by steed »

Watabou wrote: post #52

Awesome! Does anyone know if SMS GV/Phone GV extension is working or not? I tried the tethered jailbreak on the 3GS and it wasn't working then. Only the Phone GV was working but it was slow. I have an iPhone 5 now and hopefully the day ends early today so I can go home and jailbreak. Can't wait to get NCsettings and Google voice integration!

I installed Sms GV extension, then the iPhone 5 keep rebooting... I recovery it try again, them keep rebooting again.... ><

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by gcb0 »

jawngee wrote: post #90
gcb0 wrote: post #59

So you guys use a closed source program from 'hackers' to be able to fully use your phone? So you have all the disavantages of paying for something and all the disadvantages of using some keygen binary to use as it was pirated. and i'm worried about what lies in the binary blob of my phone's boot1 and radio driver....

I'm sure you're not using a closed source binary anywhere in your day to day usage of computing devices.

not from someone who i know nothing about like this.

i will let you know the last time i install something from a blog.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by supercoder »

yareally wrote: post #137
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.

It's not an assumption, it's a fact. Our stats show that 84% of the pirated copies of our apps in the last 30 days users have been on 5.x.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by marchdown »

seanc722 wrote: post #60
Gurrewe wrote: post #41

The last time I had a jailbroken phone was at the time of iOS 2, back then I didn't think it was worth it. What has changed in the last four years?

I do like having OpenVPN and better wireless scanning/details.

What do you use for wireless scanning?

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by jpxxx »

JonnieCache wrote: post #166
jpxxx wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be clear, you're arguing that [Apple doesn't show adequate concern] about (a theoretical) security (risk to a handset that was discontinued 2 years, 8 months ago)?

3 years should not be the lifecycle of a highly advanced device costing many hundreds of dollars. That is utterly insane.

Well hon, welcome to the mobile industry. Here's your complimentary chalice of mercury.

Re: Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

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Post by seanc722 »

marchdown wrote: post #178
seanc722 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do like having OpenVPN and better wireless scanning/details.

What do you use for wireless scanning?

Sorry late response... One is WiFi Analyzer. Shows Channel, strength, encryption, ssid. Has a nice little great with signal strength along with min/max/avg. Not sure if you can get it from appstore now as someone else pointed out can get OpenVPN officially there now :)

Also... I'm curious as to why Apple hasn't added a SBSettings / NCSettings type feature as most other smartphones have toggle buttons in the "notification area" which make life a lot easier.

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