OK, so I have now jailbroken my iPhone 3G, and now my iPhone 3GS several times now. I always have to restore my phone because of several reasons:
iPhone 3G:
1. Phone lags alot
2. Battery life goes in the toilet
iPhone 3GS:
1. Battery life goes in the toilet
I tried an experiment over the past few days. I jailbroke my 3GS by doing the following:
1. Restore iPhone as new phone (no backup restore)
2. Synced my programs/music/contacts with iPhone
3. Jailbroke using redsnow 0.8
4. Opened Cydia and installed all updates.
5. DID NOT INSTALL ANY OTHER PROGRAMS!
Over several days, I was really disappointed in the battery life. I charge my phone overnight, and take it off each morning at 6:30 AM. By 5 PM, my phone was giving me the 20% battery life warning.
So, I restored the 3GS again. This time, I restored as new phone (no backup restore). I did not jailbreak. By dinner time, my battery life is over half with roughly the same usage.
This really irks me for several reasons. First, I don't understand why simply jailbreaking the phone would kill the battery. Second, I don't understand why the Devteam won't admit that it kills the battery.
I have a few theories:
1. Jailbreaking requires an active program to run in the background that detects things like syncing with iTunes, etc. It then actively blocks iTunes from detecting the jailbreak. A program running in the background certainly would explain reduced battery life.
2. Maybe Apple can detect the jailbreak, and purposely runs a background process to kill the battery so users are forced to restore again, and thus admit Apple is all knowing.
Thoughts? Experiences?
iPhone 3G:
1. Phone lags alot
2. Battery life goes in the toilet
iPhone 3GS:
1. Battery life goes in the toilet
I tried an experiment over the past few days. I jailbroke my 3GS by doing the following:
1. Restore iPhone as new phone (no backup restore)
2. Synced my programs/music/contacts with iPhone
3. Jailbroke using redsnow 0.8
4. Opened Cydia and installed all updates.
5. DID NOT INSTALL ANY OTHER PROGRAMS!
Over several days, I was really disappointed in the battery life. I charge my phone overnight, and take it off each morning at 6:30 AM. By 5 PM, my phone was giving me the 20% battery life warning.
So, I restored the 3GS again. This time, I restored as new phone (no backup restore). I did not jailbreak. By dinner time, my battery life is over half with roughly the same usage.
This really irks me for several reasons. First, I don't understand why simply jailbreaking the phone would kill the battery. Second, I don't understand why the Devteam won't admit that it kills the battery.
I have a few theories:
1. Jailbreaking requires an active program to run in the background that detects things like syncing with iTunes, etc. It then actively blocks iTunes from detecting the jailbreak. A program running in the background certainly would explain reduced battery life.
2. Maybe Apple can detect the jailbreak, and purposely runs a background process to kill the battery so users are forced to restore again, and thus admit Apple is all knowing.
Thoughts? Experiences?