I’m Jailbroken Yo!
OK, so it’s official, I actually jailbroke my iPod Touch and while it is cool to ssh into my Gentoo machine from my iPod there are some disadvantages to Jailbreaking.
The first problem I have faced is the battery life, or the shortening of it to be precise. Even though I did install OpenSSH I do make sure to turn it off after I have finished using it. Yet my iPod’s battery life has significantly decreased since I jailbroke it. I guess that’s a price you have to pay to have an open iOS device.
Secondly there’s the voiding of your warranty which may not seem like such a big deal but when you’re messing around with the firmware that’s when things are bound to go wrong. It’s kind of ironic if you think about it. Of course you can restore your device and get your warranty back, but then you might as well have never jailbroken it in the first place.
So that’s what I have to say. Now, don’t get me wrong, there are tons of reasons to jailbreak your iOS device, but for freedom you have to pay the price.
3 Responses to I’m Jailbroken Yo!
I disagree with everything you said. Why? Because I thought that would be a cool opener to my comment.
But seriously, this seems like a negative persuasive piece. You only focused on the bad parts of jailbreaking, and didn’t mention more than a single good one. But, let me just start replying to your post: First of all, I know everyone says your battery life decreases when you jailbreak, but is that actually true? Or is it just true on the iPod touch? (I do remember my battery life being a bit bad when I had an iPod touch, but I think I eventually attributed it to using Cydia too much, which does seem to drain your battery). On my iPhone, I get a pretty good average battery life. I don’t actually remember the last time my battery got down to 20%, or even 50%, actually. I could go six hours without charging and it’ll be at like 85%. There may be other underlying causes to this: are you using push email? Do you leave a lot of apps backgrounded? Is your brightness all the way up (it should be at 50%)? Because it sounds like something else is going on, and I never turn off SSH. (Ooh, btw, did you remember to change the root password?) I run OpenSSH and Netatalk all the time. Yahoo! Answers agrees with me. Just wondering, because jailbreaking is fantastic 
. Also, your second point is a bit of a self-contradicting non-issue. If you read my recent post on jailbreaking, yes, jailbreaking can cause problems, but they can all be fixed. And I’m not even sure what that last line is even saying: just because you can get your warranty back, there’s no point in jailbreaking? Please elaborate.
Lol, I tend to sound very angry while writing negative replies to posts, but in real life, I’m giggling and chewing on candy /notreallybutwouldntthatbegreat? But really, I think the advantages of jailbreaking far outweigh the non-existant or negligible disadvantages. Also, “pay the price”? Last time I checked, jailbreaking was free.
/loliliketoendwithajoke
Well, firstly I only talked about the bad stuff because I haven’t really discovered anything truly amazing yet, and also I would have thought that most people know what jailbreaking is and what you can do with it. Secondly I have noticed a significant decrease in battery life of my iPod since jailbreaking (not that it was that great to start with). I do have push email enabled, but I’m not sure if any of the email protocols I use support it (POP3 and IMAP). I have email fetching set to 1 hour. I don’t use backgrounder as I’m sure it would drain my battery even more and I have my brightness set to auto as my iPod uses it camera to adjust the brightness to the adequate level.
Secondly, I only sshed into my iPod once to install a deb package so I could get Mobile Terminal working. So no, I haven’t changed my root password.
Thirdly, since when has Yahoo Answers become a reliable source of information?! Have you seen the questions people ask there?
And now to clear things up. What I meant was that if you somehow damage the firmware you can restore your device through iTunes, but then you have to go through the process of jailbreaking it again.
Sorry for all the confusion. I was kind of rushed in writing this. I’m sorry, it won’t happen again. Please don’t sue.
I totally wills sue!
But yeah, do us all a favor and install Scrobbl. It’ll change your life. 
Turn off push email, even if none of your email accounts support it (IMAP does in fact support it), but you can increase email checking to every 15 minutes (that’s what I have). The automatic brightness setting doesn’t actually use the camera to judge an appropriate level of brightness, it uses the ambient light sensor, but yes, that’s a good thing to use. 
Third, you most definitely have to change both the root and mobile passwords for your iPod on SSH because that is one of the few ways to get actual viruses on a jailbroken iPod: people use the default passwords to get into your device and do stuff. Fourth, while my inclusion of the Yahoo! Answers question was more of a joke simply confirming what I was saying because I didn’t really feel that it was too badly explained, there is no reason why that question should be in any way invalid. You say that people ask strange questions on Yahoo! Answers, and, well, that question was not a strange one. Case closed. You can’t kill all the sheep just because one of them slept with a pig. I still stand by that jailbreaking should not affect your battery and that something else must be the problem. I mean, you don’t even have an iPhone (sometimes hacktivating can cause severe battery drain). And I still think your last thing is a non-issue: so, you have a little trouble jailbreaking that results in you restoring your device and going through the process of jailbreaking again? So? Jailbreaking takes like five minutes and can end up saving your life! /justkiddingbutreallyomg 