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RyaN
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On 2008-11-26 23:18:27, scouser_75 wrote:
Oh man, Ryan, please dont tempt me!!
Come to jailbreak, come to jailbreak 
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anonymuser
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On 2008-11-26 16:03:46, RyaN wrote:
With mine being jailbroken there's a lot more drain on the battery than normal...
This puts me off quite a bit 
TBH, I spent the last year or so tweaking and hacking my Tytn II to get it the way I wanted, and spent the whole time just wishing that HTC or Microsoft had done the job right in the first place, because most of these third party hacks bring as many problems as they solve.
With the iPhone, it really is pretty much perfect when it comes out the box, and so far I've no compulsion to mess that up. The "classic" design suits me fine
It'd be a different story without the Appstore - I could never have lived with the original iPhone and no third party apps at all - but with all the official stuff available now, I'm quite happy to make my phone my own that way. I actually agree with Apple's approach in limiting what badly written apps can get up to in the background.
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RyaN
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Yeah I totally see your point... the appstore does give the iphone that extra lease of life that it didnt have before. To be fair though i only mentioned the jailbreaking being a drain on the battery because of things like SSH. Under normal usage, themes, icons, widgets, Intelliscreen etc etc really dont consume that much battery. Of course, it's a no brainer that a jailbroken iPhone will consume a little more battery than a stock iPhone and i can see this is the angle you're coming in at. As long as you're happy that is the most important thing... one mans meat is another mans poison  |
Barachus
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hey Ryan so you decided to buy intelliscreen? i guess the other version deosnt work properly in 2.2? what is the name of that font? looks smart |
whentheleveebreaks
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i assume if i jailbreak my 3G it'll wipe everything off of it first? so i'll lose texts, settings etc?
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Barachus
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On 2008-11-27 12:09:09, whentheleveebreaks wrote:
i assume if i jailbreak my 3G it'll wipe everything off of it first? so i'll lose texts, settings etc?
nope, only a restore wipes your data |
RyaN
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yeah i decided to bite the bullet and purchase... customer appreciation month @ Intelliborn too so it's only $9.99 atm which is a decent price. Version 2.29 doesnt work properly with 2.2 (as discussed before) and 2.30 was to fix these issues, and already today 2.32 is released. I just wanted to ease of being able to update it immediately in Cydia when updates are released.
The font is called Neo Sans (i think!) Decided i needed a change...something a bit more clean and simple! Found a couple of amazing links for lockclock fonts and system fonts. I think you can install Neo Sans and loads of other fonts directly to your phone if you put this source in Cydia http://xsellize.com/cydia
Also once you've installed this source, install this source http://cydia.hackulo.us/ You'll find 2 very very nice little programs to install there |
Barachus
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cheers, does that mean i can install the fonts directly thru cydia? and not need to SSh? |
whentheleveebreaks
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Don't you have to restore from custom firmware to jailbreak it? Or once thats done does it use the backup file to put you settings/messages/calls back?
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RyaN
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nup. You can use QuickPwn to jailbreak. The only real need to use a Custom Firmware for an iPhone 3g (using Pwnage Tool) is if you want to preserve the baseband and stop the firmware automatically updating it - this is if you are wishing for a soft-unlock in the near future from the iPhone dev team. I'm personally always going to use my iPhone with O2 so it didnt matter to me |
RyaN
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On 2008-11-27 12:19:15, NoKia wrote:
cheers, does that mean i can install the fonts directly thru cydia? and not need to SSh?
Yep, exactly that. Although there isn't a direct preview immenently available as per normal circumstances. However within Cydia it links you to a forum page @ xsellize, and there are screenshots of each font.
One thing that strikes me about this is that for people that havent already backed up the original Helvetica fonts could come in to trouble.
And as for that 2nd link i gave you...you'll be amazed at what these programs do |
whentheleveebreaks
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On 2008-11-27 12:22:28, RyaN wrote:
nup. You can use QuickPwn to jailbreak. The only real need to use a Custom Firmware for an iPhone 3g (using Pwnage Tool) is if you want to preserve the baseband and stop the firmware automatically updating it - this is if you are wishing for a soft-unlock in the near future from the iPhone dev team. I'm personally always going to use my iPhone with O2 so it didnt matter to me
Cool, i shall use quickpwn then, im not leaving 02 s well so i'll do what you did.
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Barachus
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lolololol ....i just added the second source, it all just got a little easier! amazing
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RyaN
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haha NoKia... yes very much so! Simply amazing... a stunning couple of applications. They'll all sync with your itunes too when you get home
@whentheleveebreaks Yeah quickpwn is the way to go then. You wont lose any of your settings/texts or anything as it doesnt do a full restore. Make sure you backup beforehand anyway though |
whentheleveebreaks
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doing it reet now
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