It ‘s been a little over one week of running my iPhone 3GS jailbroken now. I ‘m a little surprised to say that I think I ‘ll be sticking with the jailbreak “ at least for a while longer. As I ‘ve mentioned before, my main reason for staying jailbroken “ by some distance “ is the ability to quickly switch between apps via the brilliant mQuickDo application.
In addition to deciding to stick with the jailbreak for now, I ‘ve got a few more very quick thoughts on the ‘new ‘ jailbreak experience after having been ‘stock ‘ for a long while.
So here are some very quick thoughts on being jailbroken again with the 3GS:
Stability – overall is good, but not as good as it was when running stock. The 3GS just about * never * required a reboot of any kind “ and certainly not a hard reboot “ when it was running stock. Since being jailbroken I ‘ve had two complete freeze-ups requiring a hard reboot, and multiple other reboots following app installs and similar. This is not a huge deal, and everything has always been just fine after reboots, but it ‘s worth noting.
Performance “ is stellar. I ‘ve seen * zero * lag or slowdowns of any kind. The 3GS still flies. Memory management is still superb “ every time I check it via iStat or Free Memory, things are looking very good in terms of available memory “ and can be hiked up even further with just a few taps.
Battery Life – seems maybe a tad worse, but I ‘ve not tried to measure this properly, so can ‘t say for sure. I have installed Backgrounder but have found I don ‘t need apps running in the background, because they launch just as fast from ‘a standing start ‘ via mQuickDo “ so apart from SBSettings this should not be having any impact on battery.
Jailbreak Apps “ Honestly have not found very many that have great appeal for me so far. I check out new things in Cydia each day, but have still only added a very small handful. I ‘m open to your suggestions, of course.
Cydia “ Speaking of apps, I am using only Cydia so far as my jailbreak app store (have not tried Icy as an alternative yet). While I very much admire the overall role Cydia carries out on the iPhone, I have to say I ‘m not a big fan of its implementation. As in, it is strewn with ads everywhere. I ‘m fine with the folks who make Cydia making some money for their efforts “ I think that ‘s a good thing, but I wish the ads could be (much) less intrusive. There are many pages that take noticeably longer to load, purely while waiting for ads to load. And many that feel extremely messy because they are so littered with ads, making it difficult at times to even spot where there is any actual information about an app on a page.
Themes “ I installed Winterboard a couple days back, but haven ‘t found any themes I really want to use yet. I guess I ‘m a lot fussier than I used to be, but I see lots of themes which look pretty awful to me, and very few that look appealing and / or usable “ as I really don ‘t want a theme that does too much or looks like it may diminish battery life or performance. I ‘m just after a simple theme that adds a little life to my springboard. Very open to suggestions in this area as well.
That ‘s about it for one-week quick observations. For now, app switching will continue to make the jailbreak worthwhile, for as long as performance stays solid.
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TAGS: app switching, Cydia, iPhone 3GS jailbroken, mQuickDo
