Say Yes To Bossprefs, No To SBSettings
I constantly run into posts online that talk about how SBSettings slows them down or drains their battery life, and usually there are always SBSettings fan boys right there to spread misinformation that SBSettings runs smooth as a whistle and doesn’t effect performance or battery life. Truth is, SBSettings has to run in the background, and because it runs in the background 24/7 , it makes your CPU work harder, which, common sense, makes your system slower, and the more your CPU is used, the faster your battery will drain. Common sense these SBSettings fan boys don’t want you to be aware of.
SBSettings and other Cydia apps that run in the background aren’t designed to make your system slow. But they do. Ford Pintos weren’t design to blow up when hit from behind. But they do.
It’s sad that the makers of Bossprefs have abandoned all development of this simple little program that allows you to open it to turn settings on or off, without if having to run in the background and slow your performance down. Turning wifi on or off doesn’t work on OS 3.0 and the developers laugh at the idea of anyone wanting them to fix it. Their attitude is “You idiot, why are you using Bossprefs, you should be using our SBSettings program you retarded little monkey you.”. So Bossprefs is kinda’ useless for turning things on or off, but there are other uses for it.
So what are some of the benifits to Bossprefs? Well I’d like to start by pointing out the benefits of SBSettings, and to point out that the poor little orphaned Bossprefs does the same things for you.
Bossprefs / SBSettings can;
- Hide icons; gotta’ icon that you don’t want to see anymore (Stock app, Contacts app), you can hide them
- Customize which buttons / toggles are displayed on the app page
- Add the iPhone 3GS’s numeric battery display to your iPhone / iPod Touch (i.e. “47%” next to your battery icon)
There’s a lot Bossprefs does that SBSettings also does, so if you need any of those functions (hiding programs or displaying the battery percentage), get Bossprefs instead of SBSettings.
There’s a funny quote I came across from a forum user from Tokyo named “mavis” in response to the SBSettings fan boys, and where he / she says
I really wish I had one those magical iPhones that doesn’t slow down when it runs out of RAM due to stuff like MobileSubstrate running! You guys are really lucky to have phones with plenty of RAM!
No matter what anyone says, people who are running jailbroken apps in the background, like SBSettings, will have a slower iPhone. Don’t believe me? I have actually been around people who had jailbroken iPhones, like the Neocell 2G was (before I had the Neocell 3GS)… but that’s where the similarities ended. Their iPhones would be slow as dirt compared to mine. When I’d ask’em, “Dude, how can you put up with the lag?”, you know what their answer was? “I didn’t realize it had gotten so slow.”. And you know, these are the same people who are saying “SBSettings doesn’t slow down your iPhone…” and “I run apps like SSH and SBSettings and I’m just as fast.”. …You see what I’m sayin’?? A lot of these SBSettings fan boys people aren’t “liars”, they just don’t realize, or are in denial, of how slow their iPhone / iPod Touches are.
One guy, my age, that I meet at T-mobile while paying my bill, was a jailbroken and unlocked iPhone 2G, like I was, and was clearly embarrased by the lag of his jailbroken iPhone compared to mine (he didn’t have Winterboard installed, but had SBSettings, SSH and who knows what else). His excuse for being slow? “Oh… oh… let me reboot… That’s why I’m slow, I’m faster when I reboot.”, this guy, a self-proclaimed active member of jailbroken forums, was speaking to me in a rude “Yeah, I know what I’m doing, you don’t” tone about SBSettings. I said to him “You’ve gotta’ reboot just to ‘fix’ your speed? Dude, I don’t ever gotta’ reboot my ****, I’ll reboot maybe once a week.”. Once he booted up (after like five minutes, it was nuts), he was faster. “See? SBSettings, SSH, it’s all good… Nice and quick.”. I grinned and said “So yeah? Let me open somethin’ real quick…”. On his iPhone (which was in a cheap, $0.2 rubber case), I opened Safari, loaded a page, then opened his iPod (didn’t play anything, just opened it), then opened his email, then hit the home button (when you reboot, Safari and iPod aren’t running in the background). I told him, grinnin’ again, “Do what you were just doin’ again now…”. He looked at me sheepishly, like he realized I knew a lot more about iPhones than I lead on. When he went to open an app or swipe through home screens, there was that classic lag.
I said to him, “Wow… my iPhone’s been runnin’ for four days now without a reboot, and yours has been running for what… two minutes now, and already there’s lag.”. I said to him “It can’t be because of SSH or SBSettings running, now could it?”. He muttered “Uhh…” and before he could find a response, I said “Na, you probably just need another five minute reboot…” and I, showing how much I appreciated his snobbish rude attitude earlier, said “but I don’t got time to wait around for you to reboot, I gotta’ pay my bill.” and left him be. People like this are the ones responding in forums like this.
In the end, though, don’t take my word for it. If you wanna’ use SBSettings, go for it. It’s important for you to form your own common sense and screw this groupthink mentality most people have.
Peace, J
