As I mentioned in a previous post, I gave in to temptation and jailbroke my iPhone 3GS last night “ via the new purplera1n jailbreak application. Since late last night I ‘ve had a chance to play around a fair bit with my newly ‘freed ‘ phone.
I have to say I feel a bit like a jailbreak newbie again, as it ‘s been a fair while since I ‘ve run my phone jailbroken for any substantial length of time “ and I ‘m just getting to know my way around a few newer jailbreak apps. Even so, I ‘ve got some very early, Day 1, quick impressions of running the 3GS jailbroken.
An Old Friend Is Doing Well
I always mention SBSettings when talking about jailbreak apps I ‘ve missed the most when running my iPhone ‘stock ‘ (non-jailbroken). It ‘s good to see that this app works as well as I remember “ to do things like toggle on and off battery-burning services like 3G, Bluetooth etc, and make it much easier to manage them with far fewer taps than on a stock phone “ and has even added a few nice new capabilities since I last saw it.
The most notable of its new abilities is management of running processes “ as in, it lets you display what apps / processes are currently running in the background and choose to close any of them from the same process display screen, or free up memory.
Speed Is Still Great, but Stable Is No Longer My Phone ‘s Middle Name
I have not noticed any ‘lag ‘ or slowdown of the iPhone since jailbreaking. It is still super quick at every activity I use it for.
It is not behaving like the Iron Man that it was prior to jailbreak though, at least in these early stages. Since jailbreaking just before 11:00pm last night (around 18 hours ago) I have had these incidents:
As the install of SBSettings completed, it showed a Restart Springboard button on its Cydia install page. On pressing that button, the iPhone looked as if it was attempting the respring and then completely locked up. Would not even power off and needed a hard reboot to get past that. (the install went fine after the hard reboot)
When using the Stack app, three times I tried to tap on the Settings app from within the default stack, and all three times I got an ugly Springboard crash that initially acted as if the phone was going to lock up again, then showed me this error screen and required a respring:
Immediately after installing the mQuickDo app (for apps switching) all icons on all the phone ‘s home screens became unresponsive. I could swipe to move between home screens, but could not launch any apps. I ended up doing a restart of the phone, and the issue was resolved.
It ‘s possible that some or all of my issues thus far could be down to user error on my part, but I ‘m not immediately thinking of why that would be the case when reviewing each incident (and I ‘ve been taking pretty good notes to track all this stuff). The purplera1n install is beyond simple “ literally one click “ and said it completed successfully and reported no errors. Same goes for the Stack and mQuickDo installs “ pretty simple, just choose the version of each for 3.0 firmware, hit Install, and Confirm “ and again, no errors reported.
In any case, the scoreboard on the stability side of things does not look good on Day 1 “ with the jailbroken 3GS boasting one forced restart, one complete freeze-up requiring a hard reboot, and multiple Sprinboard crashes “ all in less than 24 hours. The 3GS prior to the jailbreak had a grand total of zero forced restarts and zero Springboard freeze-ups in 30 days.
Oh, and I ‘ve avoided installing Winterboard or going anywhere near themes so far based on advice from a trusted friend and expert over at the EIC forums (Tinman) “ so that is not a potential cause of any stability issues.
Those are my very quick, very early impressions of running the iPhone 3GS jailbroken “on Day 1 after the purplera1n jailbreak. I hope the speediness will continue. I hope the stability issues will be a fluke, not a constant (that would be a dealbreaker on remaining jailbroken or not), and I am discovering that one of my very biggest wants with the iPhone is fast app switching (more on that soon).
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