QuickDo (formerly known as mQuickDo) had been a staple on my jailbroken iPhone 3GS for quite a while – serving as a great way to launch a set of favoite apps straight from the iPhone lock screen and a decent app switcher while using the iPhone as well. It’s no longer a staple, and it’s no longer even enabled.
Unfortunately – as I’ve posted about before – the app is very temperamental and tends to just go crazy every so often. By that I mean that it forgets the location I’ve assigned it to (places itself at top rather than bottom of the iPhone screen) and lately it also just refused to use gestures as I asked it to. So no matter how many times I asked it to use a long swipe right or left for app switching, it just wouldn’t do it.
It also seems to interfere / conflict with lots of other jailbreak apps or extensions that make use of screen gestures. I’ve found problems when trying to use any bottom of screen based gestures on other extensions when QuickDo was active – and on the few occasions I’ve tried it at the top of the screen, it has interfered with SBSettings and others.
More than anything though, I just got tired of QuickDo flat out refusing to stick with the settings I assign to it. With it swapping itself from bottom to top and not letting me use gestures as I set them.
As much as I have liked the app, I’d just got to a point where the amount of frustration it caused was greater than its usefulness. Now that extensions like Circuitous allow me to do things like switch to running apps straight from the lock screen, I just don’t need the hassle of QuickDo anymore.
I had contacted the developers ages ago for help on issues with the app, and never received even a single suggestion for a fix – in fact I mostly just got back denials that there could possibly be any issues with the app.
So QuickDo has become a quick don’t for me. Disabled and likely soon to be deleted. Of course, your mileage may vary with the app, but I’m scrapping it until there is some evidence that it will operate more solidly.
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