I let someone borrow the Lexus for the night, which has GPS navigation… but I got a phone call that I had to come out to then to somewhere I’ve never been, and the location’s hard to find… and it’s at night. Normally I’d be like “Na, I won’t be able to find it without GPS…” but I decided to say yes and try to see if Google Maps and the Neocell’s non-GPS location could help me. Maybe using GPS turn-by-turn navigation isn’t needed.
Man was I wrong… I mean, the cell tower only location features (2G iPhones don’t have GPS) did ok for long distances… I can tell it would work perfectly fine for driving long distances from city to city or state to state. But for finding complex things in a city or town, it’s little more than you following Mapquest “paper” directions and seeing your location based on a mile or so.
That was my real experience using Google Maps as a GPS subsitute. I’ll take it over static, text and image only directions… but it’s so not the same as GPS navigation. But at least if I’m ever without GPS navigation, I can wing it with Google Maps, even if I may make a few wrong turns.
Peace, J
So I’ve got the Neocell’s OS 3.0 reinstalled and jailbroken now, and I’ve got all my non-jailbroken apps and media reinstalled… I haven’t touched Cydia or installed any jailbroken apps, and I’m just noticing the amazing speed perormance. I’m talkin’ speed compared to how the Neocell was when it was running good with the jailbroken apps working.
Right now I’ve got nothing installed… and the speed’s much faster than when I had my jailbroken apps installed. So that either means one of two things… either the quick speed is from having the OS reinstalled and it’ll slow down some after I’ve used it some more, or one of three jailbroken apps are slowing the system down. If it is that, the only apps it could be would be BossPrefs, Inspell and Backgrounder.
There could be one other thing… Winterboard. If you read my posts from before, I had Winterboard installed. It made **** so slow and I removed it. But maybe that messed up crap and helped to make things slow.
So I’m gonna’ run a little experiment… I’m not gonna’ install Backgrounder or Inspell to see if performance stays snappy. And in fact, since BossPrefs doesn’t work for wifi, I’m not gonna’ install it at all.
Here’s the reason speed’s so important to me. Speed is “ok” while in apps, but for switching between apps… that’s where speed’s the biggest issue. Someone comes up and says “Where’s the location…” of something. No prob, right? It can be if **** takes a long time. You’ve got the address in Notes. Gotta’ open it up, select the note… then, click the link to open the location up in Maps, then let’s say you wanna’ add the location of it to your contacts. Well if your gonna’ get delay and sluggishness between each action you make, it really becomes frustrating and embarasing. “Opps… wait… Wait…”
So I’m runnin’ the Neocell naked for a while to see how things go before I install Backgrounder or Inspell. Then I’ll let ya all know what kinda’ results I found.
Peace, J
So that push notification “fix” didn’t fix crap… of course. In fact, it changed up some file in the OS that caused major slow down to the system. …Great, gotta’ reinstall.
I’ve been busy, so for the past week I’ve been havin’ to deal with a sluggish iPhone. This is the first time I’ve time to work on the Neocell. So that’s what I’m doin’ right now. Restored the Neocell to blank OS 3.0, then jailbroke, and now I’m restoring some of the files and media back. Still got a long way’ta go to get everything back to what it should be.
Just let this be a lesson for anyone tryin’ to get the push notification working… it ain’t workin’ yet.
Peace, J
You hear there’s a fix for push notification for jailbroken iPhones? Yeah, there is… don’t mean the ***** works though.
First a little info, jailbroken iPhone’s with OS 3.0 don’t have push notification. And they never will unless a new jailbreak is created, or if there’s a fix that’s applied to your phone. In other words, it ain’t gonna’ just start working out of the blue.
There are two “fixes” for push notification. And, well, neither of them work… at all. At least for me and a **** load of other people out there. I think it’s safe to say that you can’t trust random freakers commenting on whether something works or doesn’t work on the net. But when someone like me says it, that holds more true.
I mean it doesn’t for me and I spent two hours with both fixes and neither did ****. And worst, I’ve got a slowdown in my system now and need to reinstall my OS to get rid of whatever crap that wasn’t removed (and I removed most of the changes made). Not to mention it also removes your password for your email and exchange services.
Do you wanna’ put yourself through this? I so don’t recommend it at all. Let people like me try out **** like this, and if we get it working, then we’ll let you know so you don’t have to go through crap like this.
Peace, J
