It ‘s been almost two weeks since I jailbroke my iPhone 3GS. My original jailbreak, back on July 26, was done with the purplera1n app. After the 3.0.1 iPhone urgent security update was released, I restored, updated and re-jailbroke with the Dev Team ‘s redsn0w method.
As it ‘s been nearly two weeks now (12 days), running the 3GS jailbroken, and since I ‘d previously mentioned that the phone was less stable initially following the jailbreak, I thought I ‘d give a short update on how stability and performance are going now.
The short story is that things have leveled off nicely on the stability front. I have not needed to reboot the iPhone in over four days “ and the last time I did it was only because it was required after an app install, not for any ‘problematic ‘ reasons.
Basically the iPhone 3GS now seems just about as stable as it ever did when running stock “ with no freeze-ups or major crashes, and reboots only required after the install of certain jailbreak apps.
On the performance front, things are still superb “ as they have been the entire time I ‘ve owned the 3GS “ and I really see no noticeable difference in performance running it stock or jailbroken.
There ‘s no lag anywhere in the OS, and everything is still lightning quick.
Also, the iPhone still holds up superbly well in low memory conditions. As you can see in the screenshot at the top of this post, the phone had got down to only 2MB of free memory when I chose to take a look and screencap it for this post. I had no inkling it was that low, as things were sailing along just fine in all my apps.
iStat also was quickly able to free up tons more memory for me once I saw that low number.
So, nearly two weeks in with a jailbroken 3GS, I ‘m finding things to be pretty stellar overall. No regrets on doing the jailbreak (twice). I am not finding bunches of jailbreak apps that I want to get (far less than App Store apps), but I ‘m gradually finding a few that are very good and that let me do powerful things I couldn ‘t do if running stock “ mQuickDo, SBSettings, and Screensplittr would be my best 3 examples for now.
For those of you who are also running the 3GS jailbroken, how are you finding it? Any major complaints?
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