Jailbreak Iphone 3gs?

bedbug · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject:

RIGHT! I've had enough...

I'M going to have the last word in this...

Here goes.. you ready?...

Darren · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject:

Ok, lets leave it now.
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bedbug · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject:

anothergpsmike · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject:

Um, bedbug, not a flame, but don't give up the day job . .

Darren , are you able answer the backups question that bedbug had - things like if we update the OS I know will un-JB but will it wipe the apps/data from Cydia or a modded Sygic with PGPSW cams? Can we just jailbreak again or do we have to JB then reload everything? Do we know about stuff in the m68ap.plist (e.g I've got the percentage battery on my 3g as it is on the 3gs)

I bet this is answered while I'm typing . .

Ta, Mike

Darren · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:54 pm Post subject:

From memory you have to run the updated iPhoneDev software and then simply restore in iTunes.

Of course the biggest drawback of JB is that you are always on the back foot waiting for them to update after Apple release an OS update.

I don't bother anymore but my wife's iPhone 1st Gen is Unlocked so she can use her T-Mob SIM but she isn't quite as keen as me to install every update so is happy to be on 3.0.
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anothergpsmike · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:09 pm Post subject:

Thanks, sounds a bit suck it and see - not to much to do but will need the cameras - but probably as said before won't bother about updating to 3.1 unless something more useful for us poor 3G people comes out . . .

Is your wife's by any chance passed on by you when you got the newer toy? Don't have to answer - but guess where my 3G goes when my contract is out and/or next years model arrives!

Cheers Mike

mikealder · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:14 pm Post subject:

I have also stuck with 3,0 for deliberate reasons:

1/ The update doesn't offer anything in way of importance to me and the way I use the device, security issues with MMS AFAIK was the last update (I don't use MMS)

2/ It avoids me waiting and messing around Jailbreaking it again.

I have to say since doing this I am more than happy as it lets me mess around with the files/ folders installed in the way I want to - For example when running low on space (mines only got 16GB to play with) I can remove large chunks of map files I don't need on the device.

It also offers the chance to add PGPSW speed cameras to Co-Pilot which works quite well, Sygic which handles them superbly and TomTom where they just get displayed on the map with no warnings - Mike

Darren · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject:

bedbug · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys,

I guess I'm going to wait for the 3.1 jb solution to arrive (and of course 3.1), by which time it will be less likely that Apple will release another update, until hopefully the next generation - at which point I hope to re-contract and update the 3G anyway.

I'm sure there'll be a million reasons to jb, but to be honest, other than adding speedcameras to Co-Pilot, all I want is 'Categories' - Apple's default application management (especially beyond springboard limits) is utterly lame for a company that can do UIs so well.

Thanks again for your input.
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classy56 · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject:

bedbug · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject:

...and to think I actually SANG to try to resolve all this.

Britain's Got Talent gets my time/energy in future...
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anothergpsmike · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:45 pm Post subject:

classy? not - for Pete's sake - have you actually read what you are quoting? Or the context of the other emails?

I was saying precisely what you are? how in hell could you get a nav app e.g. TomTom for free?

Jailbroken or not I said paid apps have to be paid for - unless pirated. You are saying they don't have to!

I don't get permission from O2 - if you want to twist things you could say I do from Apple - so what. What is your point?

Prison - just referring to the possibility - or not - of Apple taking legal action - which is part of the series of postings you seem to have ignored. Ditto the lost revenue - if you take buyers out of circulation.

All meant to be light-hearted really - which most others seem to have understood. But given given your ill-considered fanboy rant - sorry posting - I suggest you read the other postings, including about flaming, in this thread, including solemn promises not to - and possibly stay out of the pub on the way home.

And I thought I didn't make sense . .

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