Jailbreak apps affecting core apps

[blakespot]

I was running a jailbroken iPhone some months ago, but noticed Safari would hang repeatedly and I needed to hard reboot the iPhone several times a day. (This was not necessary prior to jailbreaking.)

I recently jailbroke my unit again and now have a total of 2 full "pages" of apps installed. Somewhere along the line here Safari began losing touch responsiveness. After a bit of use, touching the screen does nothing in Safari. A hard reset is needed to get back in business, but then it happens again.

I wonder what the affending app / combination of apps is?

I wonder how extensively Apple will test apps registering to be placed in the iTunes App Store for this kind of thing? Will they use a "super (real or virtual) iPhone" that is capable of loading every app in the store onto it simultaneously to see how things pan out?




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[Jeav93]

what did you use to jailbreak your iPhone? i'm guessing that might be the problem...

[Oliver]

I had these problems on 1.1.4 as well, jailbroken with ZiPhone.

[mavis]

Kind of unrelated, but ...

When I upgraded to 2.1 I was THRILLED at how quickly apps loaded. Two days later I used QuickPwn to jailbreak, and immediately noticed that everything was a little more sluggish - not 2.0.X sluggish, but not as fast as 2.1 vanilla.

Yesterday afternoon I was checking out Installer, added community sources, and then it crashed when I exited. I experienced my first ALoD on 2.1, which kinda made me angry. I was at work, so I downloaded and installed iTunes real quick, and restored my phone. WOW - once more, it was speedy. When I got home I restored again (yeah yeah, whatever. I didn't like having my firmware loaded from a garbage WinXP machine at work) and installed a bunch of apps, all my media, etc. Still, quick - noticeably faster than my QuickPwned installation.

So, take it FWIW. I'm sticking with my heinous vanilla 2.1 - as much as I desperately want WinterBoard, I'll take a responsive UI over a pretty one any day (though it really sucks that we have to choose one or the other) ...

[xUKHCx]

I have been running 2.1 custom firmware made by Pwnage Tool. It has been super quick with everything running fine.

I have lots of applications both from the app store and from cydia (totalling 5 1/2 pages) with no problems whatsoever. I have heard some people have had problems with Quickpwn.

What non-app store applications do you have installed?

[iPwnerNet]

I guess the only solution to this is only to install applications that you will really be using. I've been using Winterboard but that really slows down the iPod Touch. I ended up uninstalling it because I didn't really need it.

[D.Sync]

That's why you shouldn't jailbreak it unless you're totally sure what you'll be doing. I'm definitely not going to jailbreak anytime soon, or in the future.

[nickels]

I jailbroke mine with quickpwn 2.2 and my iPhone 2g is as fast and responsive as ever. I have 8 pages of apps installed, and safari is just as fast as ever.