Jailbreaks & Rootin'

DreadStarX · Mar 11, 2014

Ok. So I'm curious..

What are the benefits for Jailbreaking an iPhone/iPad, and Rooting(replacing Bootloader/ROM). Whats the biggest benefit of it all?

Also, evasion released their iOS 7.x.x release.

- Thomas

tom982 · Mar 13, 2014

DreadStarX said:
Ok. So I'm curious..

What are the benefits for Jailbreaking an iPhone/iPad, and Rooting(replacing Bootloader/ROM). Whats the biggest benefit of it all?

Also, evasion released their iOS 7.x.x release.

- Thomas

Ah, now where do I begin?

I used to have a rooted HTC Wildfire running CM7 and loved it - it was also overclocked so it didn't run as painfully slow as normal, but as it wasn't the fastest of smartphones, that was about all I could do on it. I've now got an iPhone 5 which is jailbroken with evasi0n7 running iOS 7.0.6 and it's so much nicer than the stock OS! You can change whatever you want with the appearance; here's what my current setup is like:

Lockscreen

(The wallpaper is animated depending on the weather. I need to fix the Forecast/DynamicText clash though)

Homescreen

Guest Mode

(Allows access to my phone to anyone, but disables certain apps)

Control Centre

Notifications

Calendar

(Ryan Petrich ported the iOS 7.1 calendar to 7.0.X)

As you can see, it's a little different than the stock OS, and that's only the tweaks that change the appearance. The main tweaks I have working behind the scenes are:

Accelerate - Speeds up all the animations
Activator - Perform actions based on what I do (e.g. three finger tap enables wifi)
AdBlocker
AirBlue Sharing - Send any file via bluetooth
Barrel - Custom animation between page changes
biteSMS - Adds a lot of features to the Messages app
Chrome Downloader Plus - Adds the ability to download files in Chrome
f.lux - Available for PC too: f.lux: software to make your life better
Five Icon Dock
Flex 2 - Modify apps
Forecast - Animated lockscreen weather wallpaper
Gregorian - iOS 7.1 calendar ported to 7.0.x
Gridlock 2 - Put icons anywhere you want
iFile - File manager
MyWi 7 - Tethering app
Nitrous - Faster Javascript engine
Phantom - Removes the Snapchat timer and adds other features to it (my friends hate me for this one )
ProTube - Watch and download any YouTube video
Remote Messages - I can login to my phone via my browser and send texts from my computer

You really can do anything you want to your phone :)

Tom

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