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Originally Posted by Hugh R
Thanks Randy for the heads up. I need my phone and would not want to have to hook it up to a P/C to jump start it. Not worth the headache to me. So the MyWi will kill the phone if the battery dies and you don't have the ability to plug into a P/C or Mac?
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Not the MyWi app but the current jailbreak tool itself - called Redsnow.
Dev-Team Blog
The above link may be a little too much info for some folks since it is the official iPhone Development Teams blog site - some call them hackers.
All the commonly used jailbreak tools involve simple instructions and a couple of mouse clicks to pull off. Redsnow is no such tool.
To clear up a few things, first you have to jailbreak the device which allows the phone to accept apps which have not been certified by Apple.
Generally when you jailbreak an app called Cydia is installed which is an alternate App store.
MyWi is an app from that store.
Lots of great things happen when you jailbreak. You can completely customize your phone - how it looks and performs. No real downside except voiding the warranty but all you have to do is restore the original iOS thru itunes and you are good to walk into the apple store.
Best JB apps are SBsettings and Backgrounder. SBsettings allows you to refresh the springboard without completely rebooting (if an app is giving you trouble), reboot with a single click, turn on/off individual processes of the phone without going into the Settings folder. Lots of great features you will use everyday to control the phone.
Backgrounder allows the phone to truly multitask. Selected apps will run in the background - unlike apple's version which is basically useless.
Keep on eye on the above link - when the new tool is released, it will be on that site.