Jailbreaking
- Thread starter gktime
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Santa's Elf said:
I would like to clean up your post here a small fraction; jailbreaking itself is legal as this user has stated is for using third party apps; unofficial themes and other features which apple did not think was good enough or user friendly for it's users. There is; of course an illegal downside to this where you are able to gain paid apps for free; which falls under copyright infringement.
Hacking as a whole is not a crime either. As long as you have paid for (or gained permission to) the product you "hack" it is 100% legal.
Hope I have cleaned up your thoughts and supplied some form of an answer for you.
StripesAndFins
Madly Diligent
Just wanted to say that my friend jailbroke his ipod and it stopped working. Not sure if this happens often, but thought i'd give you a heads up.
Wolfy said:
That is called "bricking". Which leaves the product unusable. This has been proven many times that it is impossible to "brick" said ipod; iphone and ipad. With the system restore feature everything will be set to default settings.
"bricking" occurs when a user doesn't know what he is doing and/or does something incorrect; resulting in patches or rewrites half done; resulting in it being useless.
...however it will void your warranty and the operation of jailbreaking, as well as everything you do with your device after that, is done at your own risk - that means, no official technical support from Apple or its retailers.Gimgak said:
It is also true that iPods, iPhones and iPads, due to their software architecture (basic firmware is stored on an unmodifiable ROM, that also includes disk mode and debug menu) are virtually impossible to brick by software. This is true since the 1st Generation iPod to the last gen iPhone, including iPod Touch-es and iPads.
It's up to you to jailbreak or not.
Do you want a more clear answer than this? 🙂
(this answer is based both on previous knowledge I had, mostly of installing Rockbox on my iPod, and also on the previous answers)
gbl08ma said:
I would like to state here that this is in fact; false. The company Apple have released a service to jailbreak your own ipod, iphone, ipad for you for a small free and will keep all of the warranty of the device. I am unsure if this is the case in other areas of the world but it is the case in the UK; my friend has used this service before.
@Panik: I think you're confusing carrier SIM unlocking with jailbreaking. If not, that Apple measure has not been widely spread nor discussed. I'm questioning because it is strange that having Apple allowing (and officially endorsing!) jailbreaking on UK (a fairly well-known country), would have been highly discussed on the web - and me, at least, didn't notice anything.
EDIT: Searching on the web either doesn't return any positive feedback on what you said... please clarify.
EDIT: Searching on the web either doesn't return any positive feedback on what you said... please clarify.
gbl08ma said:
No; It is a service for jailbreaking your phone. The fee my friend had was £20 and was done in an official apple store. I have not looked on the web for this but I know for a fact that it is around; I companied him while he took his phone to the apple store; he stated he seen it on the BBC news or something.
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