What is a Jailbreak?

By David Amoyal → Thursday, May 8, 2014

With a Jailbreak access in the System of your iPhone and get more possibilities for external programs to install and use. With the risks a...

What is a Jailbreak?
With a Jailbreak access in the System of your iPhone and get more possibilities for external programs to install and use. With the risks and benefits afflicted, is a Jailbreak, now also for laymen easy to shape. The question of what exactly a Jailbreak brings, we will answer you in the following guide.

What is a Jailbreak?

In a Jailbreak open the file directory of your iOS device, so your iPhone or iPod touch. Colloquially: you chop your iDevice. You release your iPhone from the dependence of the manufacturer Apple, are independent from iTunes and can use third-party software that was originally not for Apple products. In short: With a Jailbreak you win certain freedoms to use with your iPhone. Imagine, you can remove the write-protection of a document on your computer; this is similar to an iPhone-Jailbreak. Important: do not Confuse the Jailbreak is not with an Unlock. Is your iPhone unlocked, it means that any SIM card can use; however, this has nothing to do with the Jailbreak to do. If you decide for the Jailbreak, install a program Manager (Cydia or Rock) on your iPhone, your information from so-called Sources (lists).

Jailbreak fixes problems when Tethering
With a gejailbreakten iPhone, you can bypass the separate volume calculations of the Tethering feature, and you can even activate. Tethering assumes the possibility of Internet connection sharing; So you can have the iPhone as a Modem to use.

Chop for the safety
Hackers are usually it, the vulnerabilities in programs make you aware of: If it's a Hack, a program to "crack", must be somewhere to be a security problem. The iPhone is for hackers so interesting, because a Jailbreak unfortunately, many security holes open. Since the Jailbreak is ultimately nothing more than a hacked operating system, shows, however, the positive side of the Hacking programs.

The iPhone itself is an attractive device. But with the iOS its surface remains, except when you Use the corresponding Apps rather limited. In a gejailbreakten iPhone / iPod touch via Cydia (Installer) number of pre-made Themes download, alternatively, you can quite easily create them yourself. With the program Winterboard change also the appearance of the Firmware in an almost countless variations.

System control
The iPhone and the iPod touch offer you a lot of possibilities, but these are the original iOS limited. You will have your iPhone gejailbreaked, the possibilities of your device allows to take full advantage of.

Censored Apps
Apple has been frequently accused of censorship; among other things, it has, for example once a dictionary, not an in-house App Store, manage, because words like "ass" or "bitch" in it were. Via Cydia will also be of Apple blocked applications published, so that you in the selection of their used Apps much more freely.

Caution: Void Your Warranty
The biggest risk you with a Jailbreak enter into, is the fact that your warranty will be lost. A Jailbreak is legal, which decided in the year 2010 is a U.S. government Agency, but the manufacturer's warranty does not apply if you use your iPhone or iPod touch jailbreak. Do you want the doubtless advantages of a Jailbreaks so, do you expect this, in case of technical problems is not supported by Apple.

Update: Please wait
A further disadvantage is that when Software Updates the back of the queue. Jailbreaks can logically only be published if the next Version of iOS to be hacked. As long as you can use any new features of the latest Version of the iOS. So far, the Hacker, however, to fix and published the latest gejailbreakte Version no later than a few weeks after the iOS Update from Apple.

Is the Jailbreak something for you?
As mentioned above, it is now also for laymen, simply, the iPhone or the iPod touch jailbreak; you will find instructions on the Internet. If you are ready to take risks in order to take advantage of you decide to quietly for a Jailbreak. For example, if you may not reflect any new iPhone-Generation chase and your warranty period already expired, decreases the risk already. However, if they are still in the middle of the warranty, and they fear that, in the event of a defect hundreds of euros for the repair to pay, let your iPhone is better as it is. Later, you can still jailbreak.
Glen Johnson

I'm Glen Jonhson. A full time Technology Blogger.

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  1. As the article suggests and concludes Jailbreak has nothing to do with unlock. Many people prefer jailbreak their iPhone to remove the network restriction. But they don't realize the disadvantages of it. These are the reasons why I chose remote unlocking service from TheUnlockArena.com to unlock my iPhone which didn't require a jailbreak. This method of unlocking was permanent too.

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