Comments on: iPhone 3GS Jailbreak – Day 1 Quick Thoughts

By: End Of Tenancy Cleaning

End Of Tenancy Cleaning — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:19:08 +0000

Yes, the battery life reduces with jail breaking. I am 100% sure about this as i I and some of my friend tried it.

It reduces the battery life about 35%

Regards

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:29:28 +0000

Thanks – I'll certainly keep posting about the jailbreak experience. I may also do some mini reviews on apps – truth is, I'm not running many JB apps at all as yet.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:28:24 +0000

In reply to Tom. Interesting. I haven't installed that many things as yet, and I'll need to check back and remind myself which ones use MobileSubstrate.

By: Ian Chilton

Ian Chilton — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:00:35 +0000

Very interesting – please keep up the progress reports / thoughts.

Also it would be great to have some round ups/mini reviews of what Jailbroken apps you are running!

Thanks,

Ian

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:38:20 +0000

About Battery Life:

Heard from somebody that it's maybe the "amount of usage" of MobileSubstrate which reduces battery life.
This could mean if you just have installed one app which uses MobileSubstrate it has only little impact and if you install 3 or 4 it will be worse…

Anybody else on this track? Love WinterBoard and SB Stuff but also don't wanna reduce battery to 4 hours 😉
Thanks again!

By: patrickj

patrickj — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:05:30 +0000

In reply to Tom. I haven't installed Winterboard as yet, so no experience for me at this time. I am thnking I probably will install it soon though - not sure yet, but leaning that way.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:43:01 +0000

In reply to Jaime Cordoba.

Yes – I mentioned the app – called Stack. Apparently it was not the 'proper' version of it, which is in Alpha stage right now. So I've since removed it from the phone.

Thanks for the info on Winterboard and battery life.

By: Jaime Cordoba

Jaime Cordoba — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:50:21 +0000

It seems that you have an app loaded that is not compatible with 3.0 that's why your springboard is crashing. I myself installed lock calendar and had my springboard crashed, so I removed it. That was like a month ago, and ever since I have not had any crashes or instability issues with my 3GS. I have winterboard installed and had never had any issues with it. I can’t really say anything about battery life because I always had all my iphones (1G, 3G, 3GS) jailbroken (not unlocked) when ever I bought them. Although I have realized that my 1G phone had better battery life than the 3G and 3GS.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:29:00 +0000

I did the jailbreak on my 1 week old 3GS 2 days ago – works okay though battery life seems to be reduced with apps like WinterBoard – what are your experiences? Thanks in advance!

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:01:58 +0000

In reply to bornslacker. I've always had very good results when using Pwnage (and even older) Dev Team jailbreaks, but I've also heard all good things about purplera1n .

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:54:24 +0000

In reply to Brian.

Thanks for the comment. I did get Stack out of Cydia – and I thought I'd heard it was only in Alpha and wondered about that. I'll remove it now. SBSettings is a long-time favorite of mine, so I have no lasting qualms about it, or about the jailbreak process itself – I just wanted to share some notes and experience with purplera1n. I realize others' mileage may vary.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:51:59 +0000

In reply to Shobizz3000. Good to know. Tempted to try out theming, will see how things go.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:50:56 +0000

In reply to David. I'm not hugely concerned about it, and hope this will not be a continuing feature. Having said that, it honestly doesn't create a great first impression, given how the stock phone was 150% rock solid.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:49:06 +0000

I am very tempted to try out theming again – always enjoyed it in the past, but will be taking it a little slow this time round (or at least that's what I'm saying for now).

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:32:09 +0000

Couple thoughts. Your post sounds like you got Stack from some repository through Cydia. Currently the 3.0 build of Stack is in ALPHA testing and only available from the author directly. If you got it from somewhere else, that would be a good reason for any issues. Also, as it is still alpha, it's still likely to have issues. I personally have had zero problems with it, but I didn't ever try it with the default stack it comes with. I immediately removed all those apps and added all my music apps. I regularly launch Pandora, Last.fm and the iPod app through Stack.

I also never experienced a crash, lockup, or forced safemode reboot while installing or using SBSettings. I have bene using it for about a month now with no problems. I'm not trying to claim there's no way it has any issues, but I just don't want you to think instability with jailbreak is even remotely commonplace. In fact my 3GS has been jailbroken since the day purplera1n was released and I never once had a crash or lockup until two days ago when I decided to give GriP a try.

Again, I'm not trying to discount your post. Your concerns are legit, I just know myself and many many others have not had any stability issues while being jailbroken, so there may be some other factor coming into play. Either way, welcome back to the jailbreak world. Go install Backgrounder and start streaming music in the background with Pandora or Last.fm while still making full use of your phone. 🙂 🙂

By: Shobizz3000

Shobizz3000 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:56:10 +0000

Hey PJ, i've been running my 3GS jailbroken with redsnow since the day i got it(2 weeks now). I will say at first i had a few of those respring messages. I was never able to figure out what caused them. i myself though it might have been an issue with winterboard, but with you not even having it installed i don't believe that was the case. I can say it was only initially, and i haven't had an occurance in about a week.
Also, I don't know what Tinman's reasoning for advising against it, but i myself have had no issues at all with it. I'm running a vista theme that completely KILLED the ram and functionality of my old 3G. But the 3GS handles it effortlessly and i'm running around a consistent 120-130 mb free ram. Give it a shot!!! 🙂

By: David

David — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:13:38 +0000

Some AppStore apps instruct to reboot after installation so I don't think it is too concerning. Assuming after reboot it all runs fine I think it is acceptable, no?

By: aflorence

aflorence — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:47:51 +0000

In reply to HUTCH. While I certainly respect Geohot's skills, I was swayed by the Dev Team's comments about the initial wifi and other issues due to incomplete kernel extensions with PurpleRa1n. I've heard that the PurpleSn0w unlock is clean and some say is better than the Dev Team's re-purposed YellowSn0w (RedSn0w) but my limited choice of carrier in the US makes it pointless for me.

By: bornslacker

bornslacker — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:21:47 +0000

I used the purplera1n jailbreak and have winterboard installed. Some themes cause it to go into safemode, others do not. The one I have running now is stable and nice. I couldn't live without my jailbreak.

By: HUTCH

HUTCH — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:18:25 +0000

I'm too naive to know for sure, but I wonder whether using Dev Team's JB would provide a more stable system?

By: kelly

kelly — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:20:11 +0000

i have had my 3GS jailbroken for 2 weeks…i did have a couple springboard crashes but i had TONS more on my 3.0 JB 1st Gen.

i will say i have had NO issues with Winterboard. You should install it…i see NO problems at all.