A5 iphone 4s and iPad 2 Jailbreak Complete!

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 23 Jan 2012 at 23:43

It surprises me that with jail breaking unlocking the massive potential of the iPhone (properly jailbroken iPhone becomes the most incredible phone ever)
Apple hasn't adopted the really good features such as quick reply from bitesms (I am gobsmached this still is only an extension)
lockinfo
sbsettings and probably after 5 years of the device that no stock theming application has been launched. I know apple don't like people to mix everything up and give a bad image to the phone but its look is really dated.

JonnyGLC · 24 Jan 2012 at 00:18

I'm finding bitesms a bit glitchy at the moment, can't quite put my finger on it but it's just not as snappy as it should be on the 4S. So that's gone for the time being!

inogen · 24 Jan 2012 at 02:42

PaulyD said:
Cleverpin will do exactly this, or if its charging, playing music etc

Ta for that. Just the Job!

Does anyone know of any tweaks or apps that will allow me to set the Auto Lock so it doesn't come on when it's plugged in?

Also, I'd like to be able to customise ringtone / sms / alert volume by time and / or location.

Kinda like what MyProfiles does for iOS 4.

I can't find anything like this...

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 24 Jan 2012 at 08:45

A random name said:
I'm finding bitesms a bit glitchy at the moment, can't quite put my finger on it but it's just not as snappy as it should be on the 4S. So that's gone for the time being!

I am finding this too

PaulyD · 24 Jan 2012 at 14:11

Same here for bitesms, just doesnt seem to gel as well as it did on the iOS4.

Tempted myself to just remove it for the time being, really do just want the quick reply feature of it.

Is there anything else that offers just the quick reply functionality?

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 24 Jan 2012 at 14:27

Its no where near bad enough to remove it. Its just not got the polished feel. Still great.

runing.man · 24 Jan 2012 at 14:56

After jailbreak is it still ok to connect and back up with iTunes ?

Thanks

morkfromork · 24 Jan 2012 at 15:15

Yep no problem with backing up to itunes.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:48

morkfromork said:
Yep no problem with backing up to itunes.

Yes but be wary of if you have things like more than the allowance icons per folder and you restore.
Lets say you have 24 icons in a restricted folder of 8 then when your phone is restored I usually find my stock springboard is a little borked.

photoshop · 24 Jan 2012 at 17:58

BiteSMS is sluggish for everyone on iOS5. They haven't fully mastered iOS5 as its a major change.
They are working on it

Its not as bad on my 4S as it was on my 4 but still not as snappy as other apps.

pdw8 · 24 Jan 2012 at 22:05

I've just managed to do the major reason I wanted to jailbreak. I can now tether my iPad wifi with my Blackberry so can now use it anywhere. I'm on O2 unlimited data so no additional bills either.

Cheetah Designs · 25 Jan 2012 at 00:30

Is there any reason not to Jailbreak? Anything that you can't do after you jailbreak?

Steve_bullockuk · 25 Jan 2012 at 07:45

Cheetah Designs said:
Is there any reason not to Jailbreak? Anything that you can't do after you jailbreak?

Nope.

Edit: It used to be the case that you could not access iBooks once Jailbroke, but even that got a work around.

Jay794 · 25 Jan 2012 at 07:49

Cheetah Designs said:
Is there any reason not to Jailbreak? Anything that you can't do after you jailbreak?

Best question ever!

Jailbreaking is worth doing purely because of 3G unrestricter, facebreak, SBSettings and Winterboard

Cheetah Designs · 25 Jan 2012 at 11:05

Steve_bullockuk said:
Nope.

Edit: It used to be the case that you could not access iBooks once Jailbroke, but even that got a work around.

Wow, I was under the impression that you lost functionality by jailbreaking. Is there a decent guide I can follow to jailbreak my iPhone 4s?

Jay794 · 25 Jan 2012 at 11:09

Cheetah Designs said:
Wow, I was under the impression that you lost functionality by jailbreaking. Is there a decent guide I can follow to jailbreak my iPhone 4s?

www.remondpie.com

Look up Absinthe A5 5.0/ 5.0.1 jailbreak

Cheetah Designs · 25 Jan 2012 at 11:25

Once jailbroken...what are the "must-have" apps/tweaks?

Jay794 · 25 Jan 2012 at 11:32

Depends what you want to do, a good start would be:

Winterboard - for theming/changing the icons on your device
SBSettings - Quick access to wifi/data/brightness toggles
Infinifolders - enables you to have 1 Games folder with all your games in it, instead of 3
Graviboard (if it works) - A bit of fun
iFile - If you download stuff to your phone

Google "2011 must have sources for Cydia" add all of those to Cydia before you do anything, then install the steffwiz repo and then the All Sources repo. that should set you up for pretty much anything

Cheetah Designs · 25 Jan 2012 at 11:46

Hmm...everything but the last step worked for the Jailbreak. It reset my device but I still have the Absinthe icon rather than the Cydia one.

EDIT: Did it again and it worked.

utajoker · 26 Jan 2012 at 15:59

ipad2 jailbroke easy peasy on mac

backing up iphone then will do that too.

any ipad users, i highly recommend retinapad.