Recently jailbroke my iPhone. What's good in the world of Cydia?

[Eric Perry]

Hey guys,

I just jailbroke my iPhone using Greenpois0n a month ago or so. It's an untethered 'break on ios 4.2.1. It's working great so far.

Some of the best Cydia apps I've installed include:

Winterboard
AppSync
DaemonTool
FolderCloser
iAdKiller
LiveClock
Lockdown Pro
MxTube
NoSpot
PhotoAlbums+
ShakeToUndo Killer
Xpandr
biteSMS
Installous
SBSettings
Backgrounder
BrowserChanger
FakeClockUp
IconRenamer
RecentDelete
WeatherIcon
Inspell
iFile
MewSeek
Iconoclasm
Etc.

Any other great apps I should maybe know about or test drive? I've done my share of Googling on the subject, but haven't found anything else really cool. Let me know what y'all got!

[jady]

Can you download a port of Android 2.3?

[chi-town_mike]

havent messed with an unlocked iphone since the first ones came out. People still do that?

I'll have to check some sources to see whats new.

[MJ5150]

I did the JB on my iPad, it was blah. Cydia is difficult to navigate.

The Bart Simpson chalkboard app is fun for about 30 seconds.

-Mike

[wilser]

PopupBlocker and the Infini* tools are great. Infiniboard and Infinidock will let you add scrolling icons to a page or the dock respectively. Also PDANet.

[Eric Perry]

Thanks Wilser. I have AdBlock and iAdKiller on mine. Works to block everything. Even the ads on Cydia and Installous.

[DigMe]

Just to revive this thread a bit -

Wow! I just discovered Bluetooth Mono (an SBsettings addon) in Cydia and I'm psyched to finally find an app that will let me use my plain old Plantronics Voyager Pro like it's a wired mic/headset. Now I can use it to dictate in Dragon and I can listen to podcasts through it. Best of all it's free.

bc

[Quickie]

OK. What's "JB" mean?

[Eric Perry]

JailBreak

[Quickie]

Originally Posted by Eric Perry

JailBreak

OK. What's that mean?

[Eric Perry]

Originally Posted by Quickie

OK. What's that mean?

Here ya go...

iOS jailbreaking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Quickie]

Originally Posted by Eric Perry

Here ya go...

iOS jailbreaking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks Eric. So this is a thread about stealing applications? Got it.

[Eric Perry]

Originally Posted by Quickie

Thanks Eric. So this is a thread about stealing applications? Got it.

Jailbreaking has nothing to do with stealing applications. I'm not sure where you read that. Jailbreaking overrides the original OS to allow you to install other apps. There are countless free apps and also a lot of paid apps. I *purchased* multiple JB apps.

Jailbreaking is 100% legal. As per the Wiki article I linked: "Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, argued that jailbreaking is 'legal, ethical, and just plain fun.'" The Library of Congress also deemed jailbreaking to be completely legal.

[MJ5150]

Yeah, I want to know what is being stolen. I spent plenty of money in the Cydia store too.

-Mike

[Quickie]

Originally Posted by Eric Perry

Jailbreaking has nothing to do with stealing applications. I'm not sure where you read that. Jailbreaking overrides the original OS to allow you to install other apps. There are countless free apps and also a lot of paid apps. I *purchased* multiple JB apps.

Jailbreaking is 100% legal. As per the Wiki article I linked: "Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, argued that jailbreaking is 'legal, ethical, and just plain fun.'" The Library of Congress also deemed jailbreaking to be completely legal.

Cool your jets. From what I read, it allows you to use other applications from other companies. In other words, you are getting apps from other companies that were never intended to be used on your phone.

Why do you think they call it "jail-breaking"?

[Eric Perry]

Originally Posted by Quickie

Cool your jets. From what I read, it allows you to use other applications from other companies. In other words, you are getting apps from other companies that were never intended to be used on your phone.

Exactly. But how is that associated with stealing?

Originally Posted by Quickie

Why do you think they call it "jail-breaking"?

Because you can "break away" from the tight constraints of the original OS.

[Quickie]

Originally Posted by Eric Perry

Exactly. But how is that associated with stealing?

Because you can "break away" from the tight constraints of the original OS.

Well, go with me here Eric. You have a cable box. You pay for a certain package. But, you learn to "hot wire" the system so you can get other programming.


Another example.....your phones operating system is say...apple. You jail break the original system so you can now get applications that work on another OS. Say, Verizon. Those Verizon customers who pay for their own "special" apps now have Clyde who owns a completely different OS and brand, downloading apps that the Verizon customers gets for PAYING for his or her service.

Pretty simple. You are hacking into apps that were never offered with your original carrier by "jail breaking" the phone.

Even a blind man can see this is not right.

[Eric Perry]

Originally Posted by Quickie

Well, go with me here Eric. You have a cable box. You pay for a certain package. But, you learn to "hot wire" the system so you can get other programming.


Another example.....your phones operating system is say...apple. You jail break the original system so you can now get applications that work on another OS. Say, Verizon. Those Verizon customers who pay for their own "special" apps now have Clyde who owns a completely different OS and brand, downloading apps that the Verizon customers gets for PAYING for his or her service.

Pretty simple. You are hacking into apps that were never offered with your original carrier by "jail breaking" the phone.

Even a blind man can see this is not right.

The cable example is a poor one because you are clearly stealing other programming.

In the case of the phone, what you are doing is lifting OEM restraints so you can install 3rd part apps. It's the same as installing 3rd party apps on a computer. The only difference is Apple tried to stop you from doing it. Jailbreaking overrides this. Again, the courts have deemed it 100% legal.

And, it's not allowing Verizon, or Sprint, or any other carrier's apps to work on an Apple OS or anything like that. The apps are all 3rd party. Individual developers (read: dudes on computers in their homes) are where essentially all of the apps come from.

[Eric Perry]

Again, no apps are being hacked. None. The iOS is modified to allow the *owner* of the device to make changes they want to make. We do this with Windows computers on a daily basis. By design, Windows allowed us to tinker. Apple did not. How ticked would you be if Windows decided you can no longer make changes to the OS, after you purchased it with your hard earned cash?

[Quickie]

Originally Posted by Eric Perry

The cable example is a poor one because you are clearly stealing other programming.

In the case of the phone, what you are doing is lifting OEM restraints so you can install 3rd part apps. It's the same as installing 3rd party apps on a computer. The only difference is Apple tried to stop you from doing it. Jailbreaking overrides this. Again, the courts have deemed it 100% legal.

And, it's not allowing Verizon, or Sprint, or any other carrier's apps to work on an Apple OS or anything like that. The apps are all 3rd party. Individual developers (read: dudes on computers in their homes) are where essentially all of the apps come from.

OK Eric. I understand better now. Although it may be 100% legal, I think once you start breaking Operating Systems to get more "apps", well, to me it's not right. Morals have very little place in today's world with some.