SBSettings Vs. BossPrefs
Posted in Jailbroken Apps on 12. May, 2009
So there’s still a lotta’ searchin’ goin’ on on the site about SBSettings, and a popular one is “SBSettings vs. BossPrefs” and also “SBSettings performance”. So let’s get into that.
SBSettings vs. BossPrefs. Which is better and which should you use? First, know that SBSettings is sorta’ like an upgrade of BossPrefs. Think of SB as Windows Vista and Boss as Windows XP. SB and Vista can both do more than Boss and XP, but runs down your system to a point where it’s really not worth it. Windows XP (Boss Prefs) technically does less, but people don’t use Windows Vista (SBSettings) because of how horrible it runs. That’s kinda’ a good way of comparing the two.
Boss Prefs is just an app you quickly open and turn things on and off. What the developers decided to do was make a “better” version that, instead of you having to open an app, they would make a program run in the background where you could swipe your finger across the screen and bring up your little on-off buttons.
The reason the developers think SBSettings is far better than Boss Prefs is the fact it runs in the background, but that’s actually the reason that makes it bad… it runs in the background.
The iPhone OS can only handle so many things running in the background and when you have things running in the background, it of course slows things down some. I talked about it in detail before, and SBSettings does slow your sytem down.
SBSettings and Boss Prefs both have the same things, they can hide icons and a bunch of other stuff. But there’s one thing SBSettings can do that Boss Prefs can’t; brightness. SB can give you quick access to your brightness. Boss Prefs can’t.
With Boss Prefs, you can double tap your home button and bring it up, but it closes out the app you were working on. SBSettings, you can bring it up over your app, turn something on or off or change brightness and go right back into your app. But, SBSettings eats into your performance in order to do this. You’ll actually use SBSettings less than 1% the time your on your iPhone, yet it runs in the background 100% of the time your using your iPhone. See what I’m sayin’?
When comparing the two, I do love SBSettings, but I don’t recommend it to anybody… any-body… over Boss Prefs. We need to find ways to keep our jailbroken iPhones as quick as regular iPhones, not find ways to slow them down.
Peace, J
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