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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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I can't think of a compelling reason to jailbreak my iPhone in 2013, and I suspect that's true for a lot more people than it was in the past.

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...)

In regards to sharing, I believe your provider can detect this and charge you more.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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post #5

I can't think of a compelling reason to jailbreak my iPhone in 2013, and I suspect that's true for a lot more people than it was in the past.

I was thinking about this yesterday. I have a few small things, like setting chrome as default, etc. If it's simple enough, I may as well!

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...)

In regards to sharing, I believe your provider can detect this and charge you more.

I'm on an MVNO who doesn't care, but the settings for the network the MVNO runs ontop of override it with a different APN. It's times like this I really hate Apple's operator-relationship BS.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Depending on what kind of relationship Apple have with your carrier, different features are disabled or not. For instance, LTE is disabled unless an operator has their network whitelisted by Apple.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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From Jay Freeman's (saurik) twitter:

So, I got no lead time on evasi0n7, nor was I asked for an official iOS 7 Cydia; I was not given builds, nor was I asked for things to test.

In fact, @evad3rs didn't even try my testing build of Substrate I gave core developers, so they didn't notice a fundamental incompatibility.

This means they are going to have to push a new version of their untether to fix this oversight before I can push newer builds of Substrate.

As there was also never a tethered jailbreak for iOS 7 that had fully working kernel patches I haven't been able to test much at all myself.

I thereby have no clue what will or will not work, or even what evasi0n7 includes; I hope that people bear with me as I figure this all out.

(In particular, I will point out that the build of "Cydia" included is not official, and couldn't really include the fixes I'd been making.)

(Also, it's 5 AM here; I'm quite tired and had been intending to go to sleep, so I don't have the brain power to react to this all quickly.)

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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post #5

I can't think of a compelling reason to jailbreak my iPhone in 2013, and I suspect that's true for a lot more people than it was in the past.

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.

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