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The last time I had a jailbroken phone was at the time of iOS 2, back then I didn't think it was worth it. What has changed in the last four years?
by Gurrewe 14y ago
The last time I had a jailbroken phone was at the time of iOS 2, back then I didn't think it was worth it.
What has changed in the last four years?
- mofrodo 14y agoMods such as SwipeSelection and Auxo did it for me. Features that I think Apple should have thought of to begin with.
- seanc722 14y agoI do like having OpenVPN and better wireless scanning/details.
- stock_toaster 14y agothere is a official openvpn support in the appstore now, fyi.
- marchdown 14y agoWhat do you use for wireless scanning?
- seanc722 14y agoSorry late response... One is WiFi Analyzer. Shows Channel, strength, encryption, ssid. Has a nice little great with signal strength along with min/max/avg. Not sure if you can get it from appstore now as someone else pointed out can get OpenVPN officially there now :) Also... I'm curious as to why Apple hasn't added a SBSettings / NCSettings type feature as most other smartphones have toggle buttons in the "notification area" which make life a lot easier.
- OWaz 14y agoBeing able to have f.lux on my iPhone. http://stereopsis.com/flux/ http://stereopsis.com/flux/
- haxxorfreak 14y agoAdBlock in MobileSafari is also nice
- yareally 14y agoJailbreaking doesn't let you write to /etc/hosts? disclaimer: ignorant, but curious Android user.
- xinsight 14y agoReversing engineering apps is always educational. You can see a lot just with a class-dump of an unencrypted binary.
- kalleboo 14y agoI want to do it so I can enable LTE on my network that Apple doesn't have a special deal with
- wvenable 14y agoYou can enable chrome as the default browser and allow it to use the Nitro engine.
- ihuman 14y agoYou can also give it a full-screen button. And a save to [insert read later service here] button.
- darkstalker 14y agoEssential things for me: having openSSH running so I can upload files to my device from linux, and installing a custom "hosts" file to get rid of advertising.
- hn-miw-i 14y agoThe most important part of jb for me is the ability to run an host based firewall, and have per application rules. I use FirewallIP on iOS 5, I hope it works on iOS 6. I block hundreds of ad and tracking servers as global policy. This functionality doesnt exist on android... I've yet to find anything except moxies firmware for the nexus (now MIA) that has this.
- casca 14y agoI've been running FirewallIP on iOS 6 for a few months now, it works great.
- casca 14y agoFirewallIP is my killer IOS app. Once I can get the equivalent for Android, I'll happily leave the Apple ecosystem.