please forgive me for this non-suse topic!!!
I am using Suse on my workstation since the 1990s and since recently, I also use Mac. The problem with the mac-forums, however, is that most of the people are hopeless and the general level of competence is much lower than here.
Besides, there are a lot of dubious websites out, and my hope is to find here some more reliability…
are there some people that own an iphone4 and that tried to jail-break it?
(as far as I know, jail-break is legal since recently).
I would like to use the iphone as a wireless and portable router into the G3 network.
I think that it’s just Apple who get tetchy when ppl jailbreak the iPhone. There’s no prohibition legally re jailbreaking the phone AFAIK. It’s for purposes of adding free apps to the phone, not for breaking copyright on the apple offerings (isn’t it? CMIIW).
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Well, not sure if you can compare it really, but i broke in my mp3 player and wiped out the software (toshiba) and as i learned the same can be done with cameras.
I feel that it a telephone is not that different really. But there are some things to consider. It may depend where you live. Europe has other laws than the US.
Jailbreaking is legal in the US since July 2010 (see →here), in other countries the legal state of such an action remains unsure.
→XPwn Offers a way to jailbreak an iPhone on different platforms. →Spirit and →Ultrasn0w seem to be the two most common ways to jailbreak.
I have no experience with jailbreaking, though, since I do not own any Apple products. Also please note that you should check the legal state of jailbreaking in your country yourself.
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A friendly place to converse about your adventures with openSUSE, your weekend, your boss, your new car, and generally stuff that doesn’t fit somewhere else
As I said already, it doesn’t break the rules, but I think this is an undesirable topic here. Nonetheless, I think the thread will die due to lack of interest in it anyway.
I think it’s still okay to discuss this topic here. I do not see how this thread can be considered ‘undesirable’ (in open source terms, jailbreaking is a good thing). Either way, the general purpose of chit-chat is offtopic within this thread anyway.
It’s undesirable if it creates problems for the forum for no useful return. Surely you do not interpret the rules so rigidly that you do not give the mods some leeway in judgement.
Should I start a thread on a civil disobedience howto? Or maybe post every day links to the doings of some airhead celebrity?
Anyway I’ve said my piece, it’s really no skin off my nose. The only Apple product I have is a old Shuffle so I have no interest one way or the other in jailbreaking the iPhone. But I’m sure that there are better forums than this. While it may be flattering, I don’t believe for a moment the OP’s idea that because openSUSE forum readers are more technically oriented, this necessarily means that they know more about iPhone internals.
So since you want only relevant posts, I’ll be glad to oblige you. I did think a bit of what the OP was asking in technical terms and it is slightly interesting.
AFAICT he wants to use the iPhone as a router.
Well you can get 3G modems that are also APs, but then you wouldn’t have the SIM available for the iPhone so what do you do about voice calls. Presumably he wants to keep that. In fact, preventing people from running VoIP over 3G connections is part of the Apple/phone company business model, which is again one of the reasons why Apple/phone companies don’t like jailbreaking.
Then what do you do about downstream connectivity? I don’t think you could turn the iPhone into an AP, and run a DHCP server on it. So you would have configure any peers manually to route to the iPhone.
Maybe you could use BT, but the bandwidth would be awful.
So it seems to me that the changes to the iPhone kernel would be quite drastic if it were possible at all.
If I had free time and unlimited iPhones to brick, it might be an interesting hobby. But I haven’t either.
So there you go, about 33% useful posts from me instead of 0% from the others. lol!
As the author of that link wrote: “…but the real problem is the hassle of finding accurate, helpful information on how to Jailbreak iPhone”, but this link could be interesting. But luck or not, this link looks actually quite competent, thanks!
Intuitively, I am less worried about this app and installing it than jail-breaking the iphone. While the app I guess I can always remove, the jail-breaking can brick my phone which is something I would like to avoid
There are discussions in these forums about synching iPods all of the time, and iPhones have been similarly discussed from time to time. Jailbreaking doesn’t seem to be that far of topic, as there are a lot of people here using Apple appliances.
That’s probably because those apps rely on kernel functionality that is exposed by jailbreaking. As a parallel, imagine you could not use any of the netlink or ioctl calls to control the network interfaces in Linux - you would not be able to turn it into a router.
