Help me pick a new cell phone [POLL]

[dhyde79]

Since reading this I have done a lot of research due to the possibility of my understanding of jailbreaking being wrong, and there is not a single reference to this log anywhere on the internet. I'm not doubting what you said, but for that to be true all IOS devices would need an eeprom or nand/nor flash, some type of non-volatile memory to store the log. From what I understand there is only one data-storage chip in IOS devices which is completely erased when restored in DFU mode (due to that being where the entire IOS is stored). I haven't been able to find a single account on the internet where someone took an IOS device into apple and was turned away due to it previously being jailbroken (I did find tons of stories of people being turned away for being smokers around their Apple products). I even read a few where they took their IOS devices in jailbroken and they either shook their finger at them and replaced it anyways, or told them to take it home and unjailbreak it then bring it back. I would really like to know more about this log in IOS, who better than an Apple tech? Thanks for the info.

well, mind you, I'm not an apple employee, but a verizon employee, but trained in capacity by apple. the information they've given us is that the iphone 4 and 4S have a system level log file, and a utility at the apple stores or the center that approves/disapproves warranty on devices internally is able to read and see what apps have been installed and uninstalled, and if any known jailbreak has been installed, the warranty is denied. whether or not this is true or not is yet to be seen, it's why I suggested taking a previously jailbroken 4S that's been reverted to an apple store and asking them to check and see if it had been or not. unfortunately I can only go off of what they've told us since we don't get that software in store to try to do those checks....we can't even do a restore on a phone....not sure if the restriction is on the carrier side or the apple side, but, it's there nonetheless....

 

[AbuseTheElderly]

Thanks for the info, I'm going to look around and see if I can find more info on that. The only thing that WAS public knowledge was that in IOS 4.2 they implemented a Jailbreak "Watermark" that would store an unchangeable flag, yet jailbreak developers said the feature was quietly removed in IOS 4.2.1.

 

[Oz_X]

Loving my i4!!! Quite the elegant device. I thank everyone for their input

 

[dhyde79]

GAH!!! iPhone 4, not i4.....that drives me crazy....just like it's an iPod Touch, not an iTouch....

 

[dhyde79]

Thanks for the info, I'm going to look around and see if I can find more info on that. The only thing that WAS public knowledge was that in IOS 4.2 they implemented a Jailbreak "Watermark" that would store an unchangeable flag, yet jailbreak developers said the feature was quietly removed in IOS 4.2.1.

quietly removed, or just hidden better