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[gamerxxl12]

Hey all, I'm planing on jail breaking my iPad mini and I was wondering if there is any "Risks" and what are the advantages and disadvantages of jail breaking.

-Thanks

[Sarcasm]

Risks: None, if you have a touch of common sense and can follow instructions to the letter.

 

Advantages: Don't make me write an essay

 

Disadvantages: None that come to mind

[TheSLSAMG]

The true disadvantage with jailbreaking is a decrease in performance. Or at least that is what I have observed from jailbreaking iPod Touches.

[epkoc]

Ipad mini can't be hard bricked by jailbreaking. if it gets bricked you can just flash it again

[JDGaulin]

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The true disadvantage with jailbreaking is a decrease in performance. Or at least that is what I have observed from jailbreaking iPod Touches.

How? This makes no sense. 

[amiah137]

If you follow the instructions to jailbreaking properly you shouldn't have any problems. They get easier to jailbreak each iteration. Once you jailbreak, you will have a whole new world open to you. There aren't any disadvantages that I can think of to jailbreaking. 

 

Btw if you are planning on doing it now, have you checked whether you are able to jailbreak now. You can jailbreak devices that are on ios 6.0 to 6.1.2. 

 

Have fun jailbreaking

[TheSLSAMG]

How? This makes no sense. 

I said that the disadvantage to jailbreaking is that it may/will have an impact on performance. This is from my experience jailbreaking an iPod Touch 4G.

 

It made a pretty good amount of sense.

[KamiKatze]

An apple product without a jailbreak is worthless.

 

Jailbreaking obviously let's you tweak the OS and customize your device the way you like.

 

The performance will get worse though. I had an iPhone 3 GS and i loaded like 20+ tweaks into it. Apple missed out on so many essential features, even today so you basically can't stop tweaking once you jailbroke your device. The little tiny tony CPUs of apple's devices can't handle that extra load, so yeah... Also your RAM will be constantly full once you aquired a hand full of tweaks.

[qwertywarrior]

i never understood why JBing slows down a device

personally ive never noticed it but i did notice it on other devices

 

ive read that some Jailbreakers dont implement their JB utility well "bugs"

[JDGaulin]

I said that the disadvantage to jailbreaking is that it may/will have an impact on performance. This is from my experience jailbreaking an iPod Touch 4G.

 

It made a pretty good amount of sense.

Actually, It doesn't make sense. I have jailbroken 2 ipods and an iphone and I immediately found they booted faster, loaded web pages faster and even some apps. I assume because you are removing / disabling certain software on the phone. I do find it strange that your ipod touch got slower after jail breaking... unless the device can detect a jailbreak and throttle the phone or the jailbreak was just poorly ritten... 

 

This is the same for android roms. Most custom roms are faster then stock roms because they remove bloatware and optimize the OS / kernel. 

[Stewie]

Actually, It doesn't make sense. I have jailbroken 2 ipods and an iphone and I immediately found they booted faster, loaded web pages faster and even some apps. I assume because you are removing / disabling certain software on the phone. I do find it strange that your ipod touch got slower after jail breaking... unless the device can detect a jailbreak and throttle the phone or the jailbreak was just poorly ritten... 

 

This is the same for android roms. Most custom roms are faster then stock roms because they remove bloatware and optimize the OS / kernel. 

 

It's not strange at all, you're installing additional tweaks onto the phone which will eventually affect its performance. When I had a jailbroken iPhone, I didn't install a lot of tweaks so I never suffered from considerable slow down.

 

I've read removing launch daemons will improve performance, but I never tried it so I can't comment on it. As far as I'm aware, a standard jailbreak does not disable anything to increase performance.