IPhone Users: Jailbreaking

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I always thought jailbreaking and unlocking were the same. Guess not.

I’m really interested in jailbreaking mine so I can tether it for internet use.

Anyone done this?

thinking of using this site:
http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/06/how-to-jailbreak-iphone-os-30-on-windows-mac-using-redsn0w.html

but I don’t want to run into problems of messing up and ruining my service.

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I have one and have been curious about this as well.

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every time I click on a jailbreak thread I read it as “jailbait” and open it expecting to see pictures of high school girls

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Me too…

Has anyone else noticed a SEVERE decline in AT&T service? I’m dropping like 10 to 20 calls a day…

Do you think that jail-breaking it would fix any of the service related issues?

JF - Didn’t you get married recently or something? Congrats and best wishes if I remembered correctly! (and sorry for confusing you if I did not)

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yeah i had my buddy jail break mine. best thing i ever had done. i downloaded a graphing calculator and a gameboy advanced emulator on it for free then the thing had payed for its self. it gives you a free app store. any app or any of that stuff free i even downloaded a bineural sound wave that was supposed to give me a boner i was not satisfied

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[quote]angry chicken wrote:
Me too…

Has anyone else noticed a SEVERE decline in AT&T service? I’m dropping like 10 to 20 calls a day…

Do you think that jail-breaking it would fix any of the service related issues?

JF - Didn’t you get married recently or something? Congrats and best wishes if I remembered correctly! (and sorry for confusing you if I did not)[/quote]

Jail Breaking will do nothing for call quality/service. All it does is let you run unauthorized apps on the phone.

In general it is very safe, I know many people who have done it (myself included) and nothing has ever happened to our phones. I havent done it in a while so I forget which one I used, but I think Redsnow is a good one.

If you are still on the 3.0 software you can just youtube “iPhone 3.0 internet tethering” and they will show you a little website to go on the phone to and what to do there. This was one of the “fixes” in the 3.1 update though, killed this modification.

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damn, I have the 3.1 version.

I assume, I should just go about jailbreaking it then

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would this be worth it?

http://www.automaticiphoneunlocker.com/index.php?affid=7

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[quote]angry chicken wrote:

JF - Didn’t you get married recently or something? Congrats and best wishes if I remembered correctly! (and sorry for confusing you if I did not)[/quote]

yup, and thanks. I made a thread yesterday about it if you want to see a few pics

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Theres free ones online, i jailbroke mine and my girlfriends but then she updated to 3.1.
So if you find a decent way to do it on 3.1 thats relatively easy please let me know.

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As mentioned earlier, Jailbreaking is NOT the same as Unlocking. That former allows you to run programs not sanctioned by apple (Such as sharing the internet like a wireless router via the iphone) and the latter lets you use the phone on a different network other than AT&T.

Repeat - Unlocking does not open your phone to use more programs or customizations, that is what jailbreaking does. It only allows you to use the iPhone on other cell phone networks.

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you mean no ones gonna ask about my boner sound?

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I had it done before the 3.0 update.

You can undo it too, if you need to - but the effort involved in backing and and then restoring everything was just too much of a headache to do again after the 3.0 update was released.

Also, you need to un-jailbreak everytime a new update comes out from Apple.

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:
I had it done before the 3.0 update.

You can undo it too, if you need to - but the effort involved in backing and and then restoring everything was just too much of a headache to do again after the 3.0 update was released.

Also, you need to un-jailbreak everytime a new update comes out from Apple.[/quote]

You could also just not update

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[quote]WhiteTiger711 wrote:
RSGZ wrote:
I had it done before the 3.0 update.

You can undo it too, if you need to - but the effort involved in backing and and then restoring everything was just too much of a headache to do again after the 3.0 update was released.

Also, you need to un-jailbreak everytime a new update comes out from Apple.

You could also just not update[/quote]

And miss cool features like shaking the phone to undo something?

NO WAY!