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New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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F.Lux It used to take me 30-60 minutes to fall asleep. I jail broke my phone to install f.lux and now I fall asleep in ten minutes or less. If I eventually can't jailbreak an iPhone, I'll switch to android.

You could just stop staring at your iPhone before you fall asleep?

Yes those were the two choices, jailbreak or not stare at the phone before sleep. Very perceptive, aroch.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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I have several to do it. The one that pisses me off the most is not having "Lockinfo". Another one is to be able to share your internet with a PC without begging to your provider. And the list goes on. (facetime on 3G...)

Those things are already possible without jailbreaking.

iPhone on O2 in UK can share connection with PC.

iPhone on GiffGaff (who use O2 networks) in UK cannot share connection with PC.

So, those things are already possible without jailbreaking if you're prepared to change carrier.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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I just installed it and it doesn't work properly. Here's to hoping it gets updated quickly. It may be an issue with MobileSubstrate, as Saurik just pointed out that the evasi0n team gave him no lead on the jailbreak.

Everything's blue for you too? Removing F.lux didn't do anything so I thought it was Mobile Substrate, but removing that didn't do anything until I rebooted the device so I can't be sure. Other apps depending on Mobile Substrate work OK so far, so don't let it turn you off trying things out.

Ah, thanks for that. Guess it really was just f.lux's fault. Still, I'm definitely going to sit this one out with my iPhone for a couple weeks.

Are you using an A7 device? I've heard those are the devices that are having the most trouble due to incompatibilities.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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You could just stop staring at your iPhone before you fall asleep?

Yes those were the two choices, jailbreak or not stare at the phone before sleep. Very perceptive, aroch.

Does being snarky make you feel better about yourself?

I find it hilarious that someone who knows that staring at a bright blue-white screen is going to impact their sleep, continues to do so. It is even more amusing to think that they'd rather drop $400+ on a new Android phone that can run lux/redshift instead of modifying their own behavoir in a trivial way.

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Finally! I've been waiting for an iOS jailbreak to finally be able to use bitcoin related stuff on my iPhone and iPad. It's been a pain so far. This is the first time that the iOS walled garden approach REALLY started to bother me. The other was to do with emulation but that was filed under 'minor nit-pick'.

I need some help understanding this. So, at my job the way I install iOS apps onto phones that are not at the AppStore is that the developers give me the .ipa file and I do: ideviceinstaller -i /path/to/ipafile (You can get this prog by doing "brew install ideviceinstaller", takes awhile) Is there some reason the bitcoin devs can't upload the ipa somewhere and have everyone do that? EDIT: Ah yes, joshstrange & jreed9…

In order for this to work you have to either register for Apple's enterprise distribution program or register your device with a developer account. But since each developer account is limited to 100 registered devices this doesn't really work as a distribution method.

This is actually my only real dealbreaker issue with iOS. The freedom to install my own software on my own hardware without the permission of a third party seems like a pretty fundamental computing right to me.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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Can you elaborate? How can they detect this other than using methods such as looking at your user-agent or TTL, both of which could be controlled on a jail-broken device?

The traffic patterns of a mobile phone and a desktop computer are very different, even if all you do is browsing.

To my knowledge this is usually because the server responds to the browser's user-agent and serves content appropriate for the mobile device. If you override the user-agent and mimic a desktop browser, how would the traffic pattern be different then?

EDIT: I meant to state if you were to override the desktop's user-agent to mimic a mobile device while tethered.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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I would imagine apps that work on undoing iOS7's visual changes are going to be popular. I personally would like one, at least for those icons.

I very much doubt this. iOS 7 adoption rate was the best so far, that probably means people don't mind the new look.

Even people that otherwise like the iOS 7 look will admit that a lot of the stock app icons look like shit. Safari and mail and settings in particular are a bad joke.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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I would imagine apps that work on undoing iOS7's visual changes are going to be popular. I personally would like one, at least for those icons.

I very much doubt this. iOS 7 adoption rate was the best so far, that probably means people don't mind the new look.

Or maybe people don't know about the look until after they've upgraded? The Software Update page on the device doesn't show any screenshots, it doesn't even say anything about the new look.

Additionally, there are lots of apps which only work on iOS 7, so often enough you don't have a choice.

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F.Lux It used to take me 30-60 minutes to fall asleep. I jail broke my phone to install f.lux and now I fall asleep in ten minutes or less. If I eventually can't jailbreak an iPhone, I'll switch to android.

You could just stop staring at your iPhone before you fall asleep?

I don't use my phone in bed. But usually in the hour before bed I'll have to schedule something on the calendar, or set my alarm, etc.

Now, I could do one of the following:

    1. Reorder my life so that I never look at my phone after sundown. 
    2. Jailbreak 
I tried not using my phone for 1 hours before bed, still had insomnia. There's no trivial lifestyle fix that would address the issue f.lux solves.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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Yes those were the two choices, jailbreak or not stare at the phone before sleep. Very perceptive, aroch.

Does being snarky make you feel better about yourself? I find it hilarious that someone who knows that staring at a bright blue-white screen is going to impact their sleep, continues to do so. It is even more amusing to think that they'd rather drop $400+ on a new Android phone that can run lux/redshift instead of modifying their own behavoir in a trivial way.

You should not alter your lifestyle to fit the limitations of your possessions. Rather, your possessions should help you to live the way you want to. If you enjoy staring at screens at night (e.g. for reading), you should buy gadgets that enable you to do so.
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