[swsmpbaby985]

I successfully jailbroke my iPhone 4. When I launch Cydia I'm presented with the "Home-Cydia" page. Where do I go from here?

I see something about "SHSH: iOS 4.2.1"

[rknowlt]

You're going to want to go to the sections tab at the bottom and start downloading any of the multitude of packages ("apps") that will open a whole new world of iPhone customization and functionality to you.

[swsmpbaby985]

I believe I done that.

What are some of the best recommended apps? I downloaded (at least I think I downloaded SBSettings) not really sure how to put it to use however. I'm also looking at the MiFi app, however the only accepted forms of payment are amazon.com and or paypal.

[rknowlt]

Well there is no "best" ones. SBsettings might be the exception as THE best though. You use it by sliding across your top status bar at ANY time. You can change it to a variety of gestures though. Check some of the other threads in the jailbreak forum here and you will learn a lot about some of our favorite jailbreak applications and tweaks.

[BLiNK]

biteSMS is a must have. once you use this you'll laugh at the native SMS and never look back

biteSMS

[pilotnh]

You might want to read the multiple threads here on "must have apps".

[swsmpbaby985]

biteSMS would always cause the phone to crash and be in safe mode....so far this has been a less than pleasing jailbreaking experience

[BLiNK]

trial & error is a must with the jailbreak sometimes. hang in there

go to Cydia > Manage > Sources > Edit > Add > paste this: http://cydia.bitesms.com/ > Add Source

install biteSMS app when done

[swsmpbaby985]

Thank you. That fixed it, that app no longer crashes.

Now the only thing I need to do is try to save the SHSH stuff..

[Mustang5Oh]

biteSMS is a must have. once you use this you'll laugh at the native SMS and never look back

biteSMS

I never unserstood why people thought this till I bought it last year and holy cow I can't believe I waited so long! biteSMS is by far the best reason to JB!

[swsmpbaby985]

Did my visual voicemail become non functional now? When I tap on the visual voicemail icon it just dials my voicemail rather than being "visual".


And BrianT I'm the same way about biteSMS I'd see people discuss it all the time and asked myself, "big deal, it's a texting app" now I'm just using the 14 day trial version and so far...I prefer it over the default texting app.

[BLiNK]

FullScreen for Safari. awesome tweak!

FullScreen for Safari fixes for 4.2.x and improvements | iPhone News, Help and Guides

[swsmpbaby985]

I'm sorry but what is all of that? /\ /\

[swsmpbaby985]

I just came across this link How to Save SHSH Blobs Directly From iPhone, iPad, iPod touch Using iSH**** | Redmond Pie

And was wondering if it's a safe alternative for saving SHSH?

I haven't yet saved my SHSH as I was having a hard time finding out how to do so. I was also wondering the importance of saving them, what are they used for?

As I've said before, I'm new to actually jailbreaking and therefor probably should have done more "research" prior to jailbreaking.

[swsmpbaby985]

After downloading the SHSH from the link i posted earlier is there anything else I need to do or am I "good" as far as being jailbroken goes?

[mysterio]

After downloading the SHSH from the link i posted earlier is there anything else I need to do or am I "good" as far as being jailbroken goes?

You are good, for now.

[swsmpbaby985]

Thanks what do you mean though..."for now"? Lol

[rknowlt]

Thanks what do you mean though..."for now"? Lol

If you want to know what he means by "for now" you need to be more specific about what you mean by "good."

[swsmpbaby985]

By "good" I mean, do I have anymore backing up to do in the event I ever decide to "go back to jail" (un-jailbreak)

Are there any security risks I have to be on the look out for now that I've jailbroken? I remember reading something once about there being a bug that only affected jailbroken iPhones, if I'm not mistaking I think they said you'd have to some how change something about the SHSH...

That is what I ment by "good".

[gerwen]

By "good" I mean, do I have anymore backing up to do in the event I ever decide to "go back to jail" (un-jailbreak)

Are there any security risks I have to be on the look out for now that I've jailbroken? I remember reading something once about there being a bug that only affected jailbroken iPhones, if I'm not mistaking I think they said you'd have to some how change something about the SHSH...

There used to be a vulnerability related to SSH. It was running automatically, and the default username/password was well known.
Afaik, it is no longer running by default, you have to enable it manually, and if you can figure that out, you can figure out how to change the default passwords.