Been considering jailbreaking my iPhone recently - can anyone give me a quick rundown of the pros, cons, risks etc.? I've looked online and there's so much information it's only serving to confuse!

My iPhone is running version 3.0 software, the reasons I'd want to jailbreak are to allow customisation and installation of apps not approved by Apple.

Biggest risk is you void any warranty with apple.

Given the possible exploding battery issue with the iphone's and touch's, I wouldnt risk it if you want a replacement under warranty.

I wouldn't worry about warranty myself.

It's virtually impossible to brick an iPhone through jailbreaking, and well worth it in my opinion.

It's such a simply process and if you were to be unlucky and develop a fault with your device you can always flash back to a standard firmware version and take it back to O2/Apple- it's no biggie.

I've jailbroken mine since I bought it (running os3) now too. Love having the freedom and extra apps jailbreaking brings...

I think if you had the exploding battery issue (haven't heard of it) I doubt they'll take the effort to check the firmware version.

How long is the standard Apple warranty anyway?

24 months like everyone else.

I thought it was 12months?

I thought it was 12months?

Seems it is - Apple - Legal

I thought I read the 3GS was to be 24months.

Mines been jailbroken for over a year. It's a much more useful bit of kit jailbroken. Go for it.

i thinkit might be the contract you were reading which is 18 and 24 months.

Biggest risk is you void any warranty with apple.

Given the possible exploding battery issue with the iphone's and touch's, I wouldnt risk it if you want a replacement under warranty.

Jailbreak it, a doddle to do and much more useful afterwards. On the Warranty front, I had the home button go iffy on my 3G, stuck FW3.01 back on it and had it replaced by O2 without any quibbles.

Jailbreak utilities like Redsnow have come a long way now and a 3 toed sloth could safely jailbreak one, and restore it if needed.

With a jailbreak there is a wealth of useful free software on Cydia that may never make it to the app store, and with Winterboard there is all the customisation you could need interface / sounds wise. Why that's not taken on by apple is beyond me, out of the box there is no "theme" changer at all.

The only issue I have with the jailbreak is having to reinstall and re-setup all your Cydia apps after an update (and re-jailbreak).

I'm not usually a big one for theming on devices like this. But I honestly don't think I could cope with going back to the default iPhone theme now. And Exchange Unlock has made using work email on the phone much less of a bother.

Considering the only reason I jailbroke was to install ScummVM I've been pleasantly surprised with some of the Cydia apps that I've found that just make the iPhone a nicer device to use (but there's also a whole load of crap to sift though as well - a lot like the app store)

I think if you have one on contract with 02 the warranty runs alongside the contract. So 24 month contract gives a 24 month warranty.

Thanks for the comments/advice! Think I'll probably go for it when I get time to carr out the procedure...

what software are you all using to unlock/jailbreak your i phones any one done the 3gs yet?

redsnow these days

redsnow these days

been look for this software but all i keep gettingis dead ends. been on the web site bt no luck can any one pm a link:thumbup:

thanks tom

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