gonna try out some of the stuff ive heard mentioned

Winterboard..works fine on my 8GB 3G. Didn’t see any speed changes with or without. Or battery droppage. With themes, some of them can be pretty large. Those I would assume would create some lag and battery issue. I created my own theme and kept every thing to a minimum.

SBSettings…have to look up what Lazlow stated. Never heard that happening. I have SBSettings but I am not having any heat or battery issues. Well, I did have the percentage issue (dropping a % close to every minute or so), I just assumed it wasn’t working correctly, because by the time it showed 50%, my battery icon was still at least 3/4 or more full.

I used to be addicted to SBSettings, using it all the time in 2.x to turn on / off WiFi or the accelerometer, and I was very excited when it was updated to 3.0 basically at the same time the 3.0 OS released. However, I noticed that after I installed 3.0, my iPhone was overheating ALOT, and the battery life was completely shot. When I had the percentage battery on, I could see my battery drop 1% every minute. It was ridiculous. So I restored my phone, rejailbroke, reinstalled apps, and still the same problem. Then I Googled around and read that other users have been having the same issue when they have SBSettings installed, so I uninstalled SBSettings and voila! No mysterious overheating, and my battery life is back to normal. I really hope BigBoss fixes this soon…

As for Winterboard, I had it installed once upon a time, and it made my iPhone run so ridiculously slow! Everything was twice as choppy as it usually was, apps were crashing all the time, etc. until I Googled around and was advised to uninstall it. Am I the only one who has these performance problems with SBSettings and Winterboard?

As for the other apps, I am in LOVE with Backgrounder (Backgrounder + Internet RadioBOX = why I bought my iPhone), and it’s pretty much the only reason I jailbreak!

lol what was your excuse for the warranty?

probably because bitesms is better and cheaper. I think irealsms is like $12 usd

SBSettings is a cross swipe, while qTweeter is a downward swipe.

Unfortunately, I get a “Size Mismatch” error when I try to install qTweeter. Maybe it will get fixed soon.

Much like people defend iPhone battery life by saying “it drains faster than a Blackberry because you use it more,” backgrounder drains the battery faster than a “regular” iPhone only insofar as you use things more.

• If you have backgrounder installed, but are not running anything in the background, you will see minimal or no impact on your battery.

• If you are constantly streaming Pandora in the background while you do other things, your battery will drain pretty fast — only slightly faster than if you were running Pandora separately, but it will seem much faster, because with backgrounding you will keep listening to Pandora far longer and more often than if you had to keep it as the only running app.

If you like things like streaming music, backgrounding lets you get a lot more out of your phone, but you have to learn a more personalized use vs. battery life equation.

Disclaimer: This was my experience with 2.2.x, as I unjailbroke at 3.0 and have not re-jailbroken.

NOBODY EVER BRICKED HIS IPHONE WHILE JAILBREAKING. A simple restore will fix ANY Problem.

backgrounding works in 3.0 but only the basic backgrounding, nothing else.

I will never understand why apple makes the lock screen so pointless. Lots of real estate to show important custom user information.

It’s a spell checker and it’s automatic….when you make a mistake it underlines the word in red and then you highlight it using the magnifying glass, then it takes you to its dictionary and you choose the correct spelling.

It’s much more simple then I made it sound….try it out if you want your letters or emails to be mistake free…it works GREAT!!

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Although I know that I’m in violation of Apple’s software agreement, I know I can restore at any point. And I will not install any AppStore programs that have been pirated.

My biggest complaint is that there’s no central “gallery” of themes, and many of the themes are incomplete. (Tried a Cubs theme that left many programs without an icon at all). Otherwise, it’s nice to be able to give my wife and stepson the numeric battery status that my 3GS has, the customization of winterboard is great, and I look forward to using Skype on 3G and in the background (incoming calls).

It uses the iPhones camera as a real-time barcode scanner, to scan various products such as books, CDs, DVDs, Games etc. It’ll then use google product search and amazon to search for that product.

I’ve found this program is amazing and works extremely well, much better than anything the app store has to offer.

Good list, though, Jeremy. I don’t use Winterboard or Twitter, so those two wouldn’t be on my list. But I know a good chunk of people use both. I’ve seen some pretty amazing Winterboard themes that are definitely tempting, but I have no problems with the default ‘theme’ along with Five Icon Dock and Stack.

@jtz5: Technically you can immediately update to 3.1, but you will no longer be jailbroken. If you have a desire to be jailbroken again in the future, it’s strongly recommended to wait until the 3.1 jailbreak is released before performing the upgrade. There may be some extra steps necessary in order to work around any locks Apple may have implemented.

After jailbreaking, I can’t auto update to 3.1 when Apple releases it, right? I need to wait until a new jailbreak is ready for 3.1?

I found Winterboard a bit of a hog.. dont use it anymore…

Other four for me?

Winterboard (still no keyboard support in 3.0, though)

Qik (Thanks for the video on the 3gs, Apple…but I’ve got a year left on my contract and want video)

Backgrounder

Snapture- (Apple, if you CAN zoom on a 3g, why does it take an outside app to actually DO it?)

@Glenn_CO: I have winterboard on my 3GS and it runs fine. I have a springboard background, lock screen, slider, and battery all changed with no issues. On the 3G/2G it might run slow and cause lag, but many say it is ok on the 3GS as long as you don’t go overboard with themes.

The jailbreak community seems to have a bright future with the way Apple has been keeping the App Store on lockdown lately.

Yeah and Rene the super crazy fan of apple what do you think about this?!