Hi I've not jailbroken mine but I helped set up a friend's iPhone that came jailbroken and unlocked. My observation is that, unless you want to unlock your iPhone (i.e. enable it to take sim cards from any carrier) then it's not worth doing. A good majority of the apps, including the jailbroken app manager Sidea, are not accessible in the slightest as they are not written using the iPhone's native toolkit. Remember that a good majority of these apps would never be approved for that reason alone, let alone anything else they might do. Further, certain things you can install such as custom icons and background apps and the like can really screw with Voiceover. The phone I helped with came with backgrounder installed which is an app that can force any other app into the background without closing it. However, the custom icon badges backgrounder used to tell you which apps were backgrounded rendered status information under the icon useless with Voiceover. For example, instead of hearing "Mail, 1 new message" you heard something similar to this (the number varied) "mail, wb_badge_label 0x2d4a883 new message." It essentially rendered a quick glance at any icon that has an accompanying badge to show new items useless, and that includes the phone app with missed calls showing. In addition to all that, of course, it does void your warranty. My advice: don't bother.
Jess wrote: > Hi all IPhone users, > > Have any of you jailbroken your IPhone? If so, did it impact VoiceOver at > all? Did it cause your IPhone to become a brick? What are the benefits of > Jailbreaking? > Jess -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
