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iOS Jailbreak/Unlock |OT|
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Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Alright. Sick of the limitations of non-jailbroken iPhone.
I have downloaded shit loads of software from app store on my non-jailbroken iphone 3GS, most of which is worth a lot and has a massive filesize e.g. TomTom. If I jailbreak (currently 4.1), do I lose the apps/data/files?
I have downloaded shit loads of software from app store on my non-jailbroken iphone 3GS, most of which is worth a lot and has a massive filesize e.g. TomTom. If I jailbreak (currently 4.1), do I lose the apps/data/files?
black_vegeta
Member
Got damn, restoring an IPhone from backup is painful.
Almost done.
Almost done.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Tell me about it. Something always goes wrong on my end and it takes hours to get things back to how they were before :lblack_vegeta said:
Great King Bowser
Property of Kaz Harai
Just updated my own 4.01 3GS up to 4.2.1 and finished restoring. I know your pain.
Now, is it normal to have such little storage space in / ?
Now, is it normal to have such little storage space in / ?
Technosteve
Banned
any of you guys that got xbmc installed on atv2 figured out how to install the giantbomb plugin? maybe i should make a separate thread
BuggyDClown
Member
Really, even with MyWi my battery is running fine. What iPhone?caliblue15 said:
I'm running an iPhone 4 and jailbreak on 4.2.1, haven't noticed my battery draining quickly what so ever.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Yeah, that's definitely not normal. My battery life seems to have improved after a restore-jailbreak as it drained while in standby mode prior to this. If the drain-full recharge doesn't work, I'd recommend restoring the phone and then rejailbreaking.caliblue15 said:
rc213 said:
I unlocked, but I use ATT... so unless it is searching for new networks at all times, something was up..
I may just rejailbreak with rc6.
Edit: Based on changelog, no point in that.. may just setup as new phone and just restart... I've had this backup since my 3G....
EricHasNoPull
Banned
caliblue15 said:
Yep I am also experiencing some battery issues, I miss my 4.1 JB already, is there anyway I can go back? I shouldn't jumped the gun on this 4.2.1 JB.
This is mostly STANDBY time, I had to answer to two quick phone calls which both lasted less than a minute. According to this site STANDBY time on an iPhone 4 should be around "300 hours!!"
Here's me Tracking my Battery (mostly in Standby) for a span of 17 hours, not cool man, not cool!! I want my Battery back!!
dream
Member
Yeah, I see intermittent battery problems like that too on my iPhone 4 after going from 4.1 to 4.2.1.
Oh yeah, iBooks. I get a "there is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks" error when I try to open a purchased book. But that happened to me back when I was using 4.1 too.
Oh yeah, iBooks. I get a "there is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks" error when I try to open a purchased book. But that happened to me back when I was using 4.1 too.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Can't say I'm noticing any battery issues.
All working just fine for me.Sh0k said:
EricHasNoPull
Banned
It's definitely depleting slowly by itself on Standby, I could almost go for two days with regular to minimum phone usage when I was on J.broken 4.1.
I doubt the phone now we last more than 22 hours even just on Standby
Is there a way to go back to 4.1? my Baseband is the latest 3.10.01 but Cydia did say it has my SSH backed up for up to 4.2.2Beta etc.
Or I guess my second option is to start fresh as a new phone ( it's a hassle) even though I got my contacts connected to Outlook etc. and I doubt it will make much difference.
I doubt the phone now we last more than 22 hours even just on Standby
Is there a way to go back to 4.1? my Baseband is the latest 3.10.01 but Cydia did say it has my SSH backed up for up to 4.2.2Beta etc.
Or I guess my second option is to start fresh as a new phone ( it's a hassle) even though I got my contacts connected to Outlook etc. and I doubt it will make much difference.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Your issue is likely the unlock. Just remove ultrasn0w or whatever you used to install e unlock...or just restore 4.2.1 and jailbreak without unlocking.EricHasNoPull said:
It's the unlock.
EricHasNoPull
Banned
dream said:
Sorry I've never done this before (Used Tiny Umbrella) I am usually content with my JB and I stay there...
what's the "TSS server"? (Is there a good link?)
And are you sure going back to 4.1 is going to resolve this issue? or it might not even help anymore?
IIRC I used Redsn0W back in July 2010?? to jailbreak the 4.1 firmware.
How do I go about doing this now?
EricHasNoPull
Banned
Dreams-Visions said:
Rogers is my official carrier, I don't have my phone unlocked or even have Ultrasn0w installed through Cydia for that matter.
Dreams-Visions
Member
there has to be something running in the background.dream said:
maybe something you installed in Cydia. I think if anyone is having these issues, they should list what they've installed from Cydia so that we can figure out the culprit.
When I go to sleep with my battery at 100%, I wake up and its always between 100%-98%. Without fail.
i see it now. I mistook your post with one of the other posters.EricHasNoPull said:
I can only recommend listing what you have installed in Cydia (maybe simple screenshots) to see if we can parse the list. if you're using normal stuff and this is happening, I'd think a simple restore and re-jailbreak would address the issue. but I'd presume that something abnormal is going on that can be addressed.
dream
Member
EricHasNoPull said:
I don't know if going back to 4.1 will help. I'm not going to bother doing it myself just because I hate restoring my iPhone. But if you want to try it out...
http://thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.com/
What you'd want to do is grab Tinyumbrella from there, download a copy of 4.1, then follow the instructions in Tinyumbrella to install a fresh copy of 4.1 to your phone (make sure Tinyumbrella has your SSHs saved). You can just use redsn0w or limerain or whatever to jailbreak it afterwards.
Dreams-Visions: all I have installed is 3G Unrestrictor and SBSettings. And, like I said, this doesn't happen all the time which makes it tricky to try to diagnose. It's not really that big of a deal to me though - I just thought it was kind of weird.
Dreams-Visions
Member
I can't recommend fucking with TinyUmbrella if you haven't done so before. It can get very obtuse if everything isn't perfect. I spent several hours trying to get a phone to work again after trying to use TinyUmbrella. but maybe I'm the only one with that kind of experience.
EricHasNoPull
Banned
Dreams-Visions said:
Well here is everything I have installed in Cydia. These were exact same apps I had while on iOS 4.1 before yesterday and I can assure you guys battery usage/depletion was normal.
As you can see I don't go crazy with Cydia Apps, I just need my essential apps ( 3G Unrestrictor, DisplayOut etc. )
Dreams-Visions said:
Yeah I never played around with TinyUmbrella before either, even though I've been jailbreaking my first iphone (2G) since January 2008, I think I am going to stay away from this method unless it's last resort. sounds scary!
Look at this bullshit I lost 3% of my Battery by barely touching my phone!!
Probably did nothing more than (slide to unlock to home screen and snap a screen grab!!) during those 45 minutes!
EricHasNoPull
Banned
If the iOS firmware is 4.2.1 then YES she can jailbreak it via Greenpois0n RC5_b4 (RC6 now apparently) on Winows or OSX.
if it is anything higher than 4.2.1, then NO I guess not.
if it is anything higher than 4.2.1, then NO I guess not.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Sh0k said:
The Game Center issue is a bug related to the software used to install pirated software, not the jailbreak. This thread, and GAF, are not suitable places to talk about pirating software.
Dreams-Visions
Member
nothing unusual there at all. :-/EricHasNoPull said:Well here is everything I have installed in Cydia. These were exact same apps I had while on iOS 4.1 before yesterday and I can assure you guys battery usage/depletion was normal.
As you can see I don't go crazy with Cydia Apps, I just need my essential apps ( 3G Unrestrictor, DisplayOut etc. )
only app I've never tried is the DisplayOut app. I'll install it and see if I get any battery life changes.
otherwise, I have everything you're using and my battery life has been unaffected.
EricHasNoPull
Banned
Sorry, I didn't realize it was for Unlocking for T-mobile purposes (Should have read better)dream said:
Yeah jailbreaking it is possible, but NOT Unlocking it for use on T-Mobile.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Tried the new Greenpoison RC6 on my ATV2. Works great, now I'm untethered.
One problem, and someone has already pointed this out on the XBMC forums, the jailbreak seems to screw up SSH on the ATV2. I can still use XBMC and everything else and all the built-in stuff, but I just can't SSH into the box anymore.
One problem, and someone has already pointed this out on the XBMC forums, the jailbreak seems to screw up SSH on the ATV2. I can still use XBMC and everything else and all the built-in stuff, but I just can't SSH into the box anymore.
EricHasNoPull
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Shall I retry to jailbreak my iphone 4 with RC6? (to fix battery issues) or it's not gonna make much of a difference, since RC6 was released only to include Support for ATV2??
minor effort
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eznark said:
I'm kinda wondering the same, too. Before jailbreaking I'd heard enough warnings about SBsettoings and other SpringBoard changes depleting battery life quicker. I'm wondering if I'm imagining more battery drain being there than there actually is. It has me watching that battery percentage like a hawk.
About these battery problems, exactly the same happened to me a couple of months ago.
I jailbroke my iPhone 4, and everything run absolutely ok, until one day the battery started draining amazingly fast.
I tried to close every single app I had open, and still.
In the end I restored the iPhone and have gone without jailbreak since then, everything fine so far.
Might try again soon, though, I miss SBSettings so much...
I jailbroke my iPhone 4, and everything run absolutely ok, until one day the battery started draining amazingly fast.
I tried to close every single app I had open, and still.
In the end I restored the iPhone and have gone without jailbreak since then, everything fine so far.
Might try again soon, though, I miss SBSettings so much...
EricHasNoPull
Banned
Ok So...I restored it to factory 4.2.1 (not jailbreak) had it like that for a few hours.,.and just like the post above me...The Battery obviously behaived but....
couldn't resist so I jailbroke it once again, this time I only "Updated essentials" on Cydia, also decided to not install DisplayOut or AndroidLock. So far So good, now I'm not even so sure if it was actually that bad before.
I think this is all in my head. I'm pretty content with the battery's performance at this point I guess. I will slowly start adding back more Cydia apps every other day, while keeping a close eye on the Battery "meter".
As it's always the case with a freshly jailbroken iPhone with a new to the market (the scene) Jailbreak...skepticism (regarding battery drain) brews in my head!!
couldn't resist so I jailbroke it once again, this time I only "Updated essentials" on Cydia, also decided to not install DisplayOut or AndroidLock. So far So good, now I'm not even so sure if it was actually that bad before.
I think this is all in my head. I'm pretty content with the battery's performance at this point I guess. I will slowly start adding back more Cydia apps every other day, while keeping a close eye on the Battery "meter".
As it's always the case with a freshly jailbroken iPhone with a new to the market (the scene) Jailbreak...skepticism (regarding battery drain) brews in my head!!
Marty Chinn
Member
Stumpokapow said:
I think I read that happens when you Jailbreak on top of an existing one. If you do it fresh, it'll fix that. I just restored my Apple TV2 and then rejailbroke it and SSH is fine since I had to reinstall XBMC. If you've got things set up in a way and want to preserve that, just ftp into it and save the directory off so you can restore it afterward.
Technosteve
Banned
Stumpokapow said:
http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/how-to/how-to-jailbreak-apple-tv-with-greenpois0n-rc6-on-421/
here is a guide, it uses cydia directly to install ssh. tell me how it turns out might do it later but i don't want to fuck up my xbmc set up
SuicideUZI
Member
I'm having a problem. I decided to upgrade my iPhone 4 to 4.2.1 tonight and try to jailbreak with greenp0ison, however I keep getting this error when trying to do a restore:
First I tried just doing a restore the normal way, but once that didnt work I tried adding 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com to the hosts file and doing a shift + restore, but no matter which way I try I still get the same error and my phone seems to be stuck in recovery mode
any ideas on how I can get this thing upgraded?
First I tried just doing a restore the normal way, but once that didnt work I tried adding 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com to the hosts file and doing a shift + restore, but no matter which way I try I still get the same error and my phone seems to be stuck in recovery mode
any ideas on how I can get this thing upgraded?
Check if you have the newest version of iTunes.SuicideUZI said:I'm having a problem. I decided to upgrade my iPhone 4 to 4.2.1 tonight and try to jailbreak with greenp0ison, however I keep getting this error when trying to do a restore:
First I tried just doing a restore the normal way, but once that didnt work I tried adding 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com to the hosts file and doing a shift + restore, but no matter which way I try I still get the same error and my phone seems to be stuck in recovery mode
any ideas on how I can get this thing upgraded?
red shoe paul
Banned
The battery drain problem is Glassklart/Winterboard and whatever it installs with it. I narrowed it down since I have Make it Mine installed first with no drain problem, then after the Winterboard install, that's when I noticed the problem.
Are you using Tiny Umbrella? Try the suggestions on this page http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1095072&highlight=blockingSuicideUZI said:I'm having a problem. I decided to upgrade my iPhone 4 to 4.2.1 tonight and try to jailbreak with greenp0ison, however I keep getting this error when trying to do a restore:
First I tried just doing a restore the normal way, but once that didnt work I tried adding 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com to the hosts file and doing a shift + restore, but no matter which way I try I still get the same error and my phone seems to be stuck in recovery mode
any ideas on how I can get this thing upgraded?
SuicideUZI
Member
I decided to try to install a fresh install of iTunes on a different computer and tried to restore again and it worked fine, not sure why but i'll take it, now to see if i can get greenp0ison to work