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Iphone Jailbreaking and Unlocking In-Depth | How to Jailbreak iPhone 4S

What Is iPhone Jailbreaking?

Iphone jailbreaking refers to the practice of “hacking” your iPhone (or iPod Touch/iPad etc) to get read/write access to core files in the device’s operating system that are normally off-limits to users of the device. In practice, though, when most people jailbreak, they don’t manipulate these core files directly. That would be risky and would greatly increase the risk of bricking your iPhone. Instead, they use inexpensive software to do the jailbreak, and then manipulate the core files by using “jailbreak apps” from sources such as Cydia.

You Don’t Lose Functionality

Ok, so that sounds like a lot of “geek speak”, but it’s really not that complicated. What you are doing when you jailbreak is simply to apply a hack to your iDevice that allows you to do more with it than Apple wants to let you do. More on the benefits of jailbreaking in a moment. You can still use the regular app store, make calls, and otherwise utilize your iPhone the same way that you did before you did the jailbreak. The iOS stays the same – for most purposes, the process is transparent. No, jailbreaking doesn’t take anything away from your iPhone, it just adds the ability to do more cool stuff with it.

2 types of jailbreaks.

These are tethered and untethered. Normally, a tethered jailbreak is found first for a given iOS and is made available for anyone who isn’t willing to wait for an untethered version. A tethered jailbreak means that every time you reboot your iPhone, or if it runs out of batteries etc, you’ll need to rerun the jailbreak software in order to make it functional again. This is a very simple process that simply requires you to connect your iPhone to a computer and run the software while it boots. But it can be a pain, since you have to be near a PC or Mac that has the jailbreak software installed on it any time that you want to reboot the iDevice.

An untethered jailbreak is the preferred type. This is a classic iPhone jailbreak, which allows you to reboot your iPhone, iPod, or iPad on the fly without having to worry about connecting to a computer while you boot up. You can basically reboot your iPhone at will, just as you would if it wasn’t jailbroken.

Recently, a “semi-tethered” option was released for those who wish to jailbreak iPhone 4 as well as for any device running iOS 5. This means that you can reboot your iPhone without being near a computer and still use the critical features, such as being able to make phone calls, send text messages, utilize the web browser etc. However, certain features (including all jailbreak apps and Cydia) will still be disabled until you are able to get to a computer and rerun the jailbreak software.