Found Footage: More new Stack features for jailbreak iPhones

How about an iPhone dashboard too? One-click weather and news and such all in one place

For the longest time, I was terrified of bricking my iPhone during a jailbreak. I had had to purchase my iPhone at a non-subsidized rate and didn't want to void my warranty. This was the primary reason that I wouldn't even think about doing it.

After the announcement of the 3GS at WWDC, I checked with AT&T about my upgrade options. I had purchased my iPhone in January 2009 at the non-subsidized rate. Yes, I signed up for the contract, but I didn't get any discount on the phone and AT&T reset my upgrade date to September 2010. After 20 minutes on the phone with customer service and going to the retail store, waiting in line, and then being told there was nothing that they could do for me, I walked out of the store, drove home and immediately downloaded Qwkpwn for 2.2.1.

I wanted to be able to use cut & paste, video recording and some other items on my iPhone 3G. Granted 3.0 would give me the cut & paste, but would not meet all of my needs.

I am kicking myself now for not doing this earlier. With themes, SBSettings, Winterboard, custom keyboards, video recording, etc, I have now found my iPhone to be far more useful and customizable. I patiently waited for the release of the 3.0 jailbreak. While I never got Pwnage Tool to work for me, I did get redsn0w to work and now have all the functionalilty that I want.

If AT&T and Apple really want to make "power users" happy, they will have to find a way to incorporate the thousands of ideas and applications being produced by the developers in the jailbreak community. I have really become an Apply fanboy over the last 2 1/2 years, but there is so much more out there than they allow.

This looks nice, but I still think the best (and easiest) solution would be to allow vertical scrolling in menus. This way, I could categorize apps by page and simply scroll through them. Stacks, while looking cool, would really not be that big of help, especially since you can only place 16 apps in a stack which is the same limitation you are already faced with.


For example, I have about 40-50 games on three screens. For this example, I am starting on the home page: With stacks, I would have to have three stacks and if I don't remember which stack each particular game is in, I need to click in and out of each of them. Not only that, but I need to flick to the the next page where I would most likely put those stacks since they aren't all going to fit on the home screen. With vertical scrolling, I would only need to flip through a couple of pages and then I would have access to ALL of my games. Scroll down and there it is.

Overall, I guess it is really a matter of opinion, but stacks is more eye candy than useful on the iPhone IMO.

I use to say that when 3.0 came out (before it actually came out) i wasnt going to jail break cause all the main features i wanted were integrated. but once I updated... it was about a week before I jailbroke it regardless. I wanted SBSettings, I never realised how much I relied on it. and I always love stacks, but this is so much cooler! i already donated, now im just waiting for the seed. :)

@AloysiusSnuffleupagus Great!! Thanks. I will try that. I am new to the whole terminal game, but will jump in and give it a whirl.

I jailbroke my 3G within weeks of getting it. Heck... even jailbroke the original iPhone too. Why? Because I can customize it to my liking. Now with the tether enabled I don't even have to use PDANet anymore. PDANet worked fine with the Vista side of my iMac but there is no way to use it with a USB connection on the MAC side. Now I don't have to worry about it. Why do I tether? Because my WIFI connection SUCKS in my house. Whenever it craps out I tether. Works great.

This looks great!!! I donated to the cause because I believe that iPhone developers like this can help improve the phone. My question is, how do I go about getting the alpha on my iPhone for testing? Any donators out there with advice? Thanks.

@ bassplayer2408
checkout the devs team website if you don't believe any1 jailbreaks their iPhones. Plus the argument that 3.0 made jbing a thing of the past is garbitch. SBsettings, video ringtones,SSH, video recording(2g,3g) r just a few reasons y people still do it. U keep sleeping in that apple cave if u want to.

@bassplayer 1. You obviously don't know many people. 2. Some of us catch the bikini model, and 3 Basements are the new offices.

With all the people owning iPhones, I don't know anyone with a jailbroken phone. Give it up with the jailbreaking already. It's like chasing a bikini model you'll NEVER get... and for God sake, Dev Team, get out of your parent's basement :)