Are you Jailbroken or Not?

[Jeremy]

Jailbreaking is running away with it in the poll... interesting.

 

[Tunnelrunner]

Yeah, the results kind of surprise me too. There more JB'rs among you than I thought.

 

[JustinHorn]

Jailbreaking is running away with it in the poll... interesting.

I would assume that this would be higher for jailbreak just because if you are nerdy enough to go on a forum about the iPhone (like me) you are more likely to jailbreak (even though I don't).

 

[Txdogs]

Jailbreaking is running away with it in the poll... interesting.

I'm surprised too. I wish more members would join in and vote so we can really see what the numbers reflect.

 

[Voltaic Shock]

I want to but I have the light leak issue. I need to return mine before I JB -

 

[justjulia]

I'm both! (One for domestic, one for internatinal travel)

 

[Leanna Lofte]

I haven never jailbroken my iPhone. I will admit to considering it at times, but I just don't want to deal with the risks and such. I'm happy with my iPhone the way it is. It seems as though more people need to restore jailbroken iPhones than "legit" ones. That would just annoy me.

 

[shutter]

I haven never jailbroken my iPhone. I will admit to considering it at times, but I just don't want to deal with the risks and such. I'm happy with my iPhone the way it is. It seems as though more people need to restore jailbroken iPhones than "legit" ones. That would just annoy me.

I think your right, more people do need to restore JB than legit, but the reason is simple, they are pushing the envelope with their phones, I doubt many who JB for themes, mms, copy & paste and a couple other small apps need to restore anymore than anyone else. It's the ones that got to have the latest greatest JB apps

 

[Nellybelly333]

I haven never jailbroken my iPhone. I will admit to considering it at times, but I just don't want to deal with the risks and such. I'm happy with my iPhone the way it is. It seems as though more people need to restore jailbroken iPhones than "legit" ones. That would just annoy me.

I agree with you here... I don't think I will be jail breaking my iphone. I have seen to many people in the help forum panicking!

 

[603doug]

Stopped at an ATT store to pick up a cable and the young lad behind the counter noticed the five icon dock etc on my phone and started to tell me about how I junked the phone and my first born was going to turn into a newt. Time I left he was going to jb his tonight, corporate had fed him a bunch of crap of all the problems he would have. Pointed him to this forum to answer any questions

 

[melwan]

@603doug: lol nice

The average JB does NOT result in any problems whatsoever (at least that was my experience and the experience of everyone who I JB their phones - ~30+ people). Installing apps from Cydia (avoid Installer) is exactly like installing apps from the App Store.

Problems tend to result from testing out beta apps, using Installer (few apps from it anyway), and manually deleting system files (duh lol). Other than that, I am running ~15 apps/extensions from Cydia (including five rows and five columns extensions, LiveClock, Weather Icon, etc...), plus have 3 apps running in the background using Backgrounder and I experience zero issues.

 

[LILBRT]

Best thing ever JB how can you have a phone with out MMS what was apple thinking.

 

[JustinHorn]

Best thing ever JB how can you have a phone with out MMS what was apple thinking.

Easy, by adding email instead

 

[Jeremy]

Easy, by adding email instead

Zing... so true.

 

[kyleshaNKLES]

Yeah Steve jobs doesn't like pictures....

LOL!

 

[ctt1wbw]

I just did a jailbreak. Not that I really needed to, but I wanted to see if I could do it. Plus, I absolutely can't stop fiddling with my iPhone. The only time I'm not fiddling with it is when I'm sleeping or in the shower.

 

[kyleshaNKLES]

Yeah I know it's that rush you get of unlimited possibilities!!! LOL...

 

[blue ox]

no ... not jailbroke

 

[Stevie No-Wonder]

If there were "huge" benefits (for me), I'd jailbreak... but so far, I haven't read of anything that would compel me to (and I keep up on ALL the jailbreak apps - discussed here, anyway). I have everything I want (need) non-jailbroken right now.

Like llofte said, there's just too many negative outcries for me to consider it (right now)... and it's not a question of fear, or lack of confidence (I'm a web developer of 10 years, I think I can handle it). It's rather a matter of me not completely trusting the DevTeam as much as I trust Apple, I guess. People can repeat the fact that most problems are caused by user mistakes over and over, but I'm just not totally convinced (yet).

Contrary to what some very adamant people here have accused me of in the blog comments, I am NOT opposed to jailbreaking (just their stubborn denials that problems exist - whatever or whomever the cause). Maybe if future Jailbreaking features become far more numerous, while Apple continues not keeping up with wanted features, my feelings will change.

 

[Skywalker]

iPhone nut!

I jailbroke my iPhone four months ago and I love the freedom to do what I'd like. I'm a visual person so I learned how to design my own Clone Wars theme. I have a cool winterboard, slider, weather backgrounds, text background, etc.

I like the fact that I can now use a videa camera (Cycorder) and a better camera (Snapture).

I also like the Categories tool where you can seperate your apps into sub folders, which makes it easy to seperate games from fun apps and productive apps.

My one favorite jailbroken app is the StatusNotifier. You can customize how you get notified from e-mail, text, reminders, ect. I have mine set up to tone (remind) me every half hour, which you can also see from the unlock screen.