So now that I’ve got the Neocell 3GS and I’m able to run jailbroken applications with ease, such as Backgrounder., you’d think I’d now use SBSettings since I have twice the CPU power and twice the memory for my iPhone 3GS 32GB, right? Wrong. Here’s why…

SBSettings is a great little jailbroken app, for those of you who don’t know, that allows you to swipe across the top of your phone to turn off and on very important things, such as your wifi, bluetooth, adjust your brightness, ect. But the problem is that SBSettings has to run in the background 24/7 of your iPhone, whether your using it at the moment or not. As I’ve said before, SBSettings will slow your system down. But this was for 2G and 3G iPhones, which for any’a y’all that didn’t know, are the same exact speed (everything, but internet of course). I’m a public advocate, I guess you could say, for keeping your jailbroken speed as close to non-jailbroken devices. So I tell any and everyone I know not to use SBSettings because of the impact it has on your speed.

But now a select few, including myself, have iPhone 3GS’s. Twice the memory, twice the processor power, yada yada yada… Does this mean “Yay, me gets SBSettings now…” and everything’s fine and dandy? Freak no. It’ll just slow down some of the speed advantage you have of your 3GS. Now, unless you wanted to buy a 3GS just to run apps like these, regardless if your 3GS is slower than other 3GS’s… fine. But I know the majority of you out there rockin’ a 3GS got it for the speed, among other things. SBSettings will, of course, eat into your speed.

And here’s another reason not to get SBSettings, or Bossprefs for that matter… being able to turn wifi on or off don’t work. Nope… didn’t work for the Neocell 2G, and it doesn’t work for the Neocell 3GS. I mean, for me, that’s the whole point of using SBSettings or Bossprefs is to turn bluetooth and wifi off. If I can’t turn off wifi from either app and have to go into the settings section of the Neocell to turn wifi off, I might as well turn bluetooth on or off while I’m there. I mean that’s the point of the apps, so for me, functionality of the apps is straight up broke.

So should you use SBSettings? It’s your choice… but if it ain’t good enough for the Neocell 3GS, how are you dissin’ your own 3GS and saying it’s good enough for you? (And if you’ve got a 2G or 3G iPhone, it’s not even a choice because you will become sluggish). Don’t make your 3GS be like the crappy stick figure below…

Peace, J

The new Neocell 3GS. What can I say about it, but “andale, andale, ariba!!” Yeah baby. The speed of my new 32GB 3GS iPhone is so amazing. You have no idea how amazingly fast the speed is. Let’s start by comparing the speed of 2G / 3G.

We’ll take the old Neocell for example. Being jailbroken with OS 3.0, I couldn’t run Pandora in the background for very long without it crashing (closing in the background from running out of memory). And we’re talking about doing simple things, like typing in the WordPress app. In short, running a program in the background such as Pandora would crash in about two minutes or less… and if it didn’t crash, it’d make the system so sluggish while running something in the background it wasn’t even worth it.

Now we compare the same settings and systems for the Neocell 3GS. I’ve been running Pandora in the background 70% of the time I use the Neocell (including driving places) and Pandora hasn’t crashed once. Not one single time. I’ve even ran it in the backgound of some intensive applications. I’ve been running Pandora in the background while the Tomtom car navigation app runs with zero lag, as well as in the background to some video games, such as Geodefense. You heard me right… not once crash or even lag since I got the Neocell 3GS.

I can’t believe the speed this baby’s got. It’s amazing. Now, for those of you who have a 3GS and are jailbroken, don’t be temped to go out and load it up with all this jailbroken garbage like Winterboard of SBSettings (you heard me right). Having a 3GS is like upgrading from a truck to a sports car. Don’t go loading up that sports car with a trailer full of wood. That sports car will still be faster hauling wood than your truck was, but it’ll no longer be as fast as a sports car. Don’t go loading up your 3GS with jailbroken garbage, or you will make it no faster (even slower) than a non-jailbroken 2G or 3G iPhone.

Peace, J

This is nice and something brand new to me… In Backgrounder, you can control Backgrounder by the power button instead of the home button. This is a much needed feature because of the stupid voice control thing is set for the home button when held down.

I actually love havin’ the control be up at the top because sometimes I’d get “minimize” and “close” confused since they’re on the same button.

Peace, J

Backgrounder, I luv ya baby. So… so… so glad’ta have you back!!

As you can tell from my excitement that I’ve got Backgrounder runnin’ successfully on the new Neocell.

For those of ya new to theneocell.com, I was (am) a big supporter of Backgrounder, the jailbroken app that let’s you run programs in the background. (I’m running Pandora in the background while I type this post in WordPress app as we speak). Well I stopped using Backgrounder because the old Neocell (a 16GB 2G iPhone) could barely run anything in the background and, to keep the speed of OS 3.0 up and keep it as snappy as an unjailbroken iPhone, u had to uninstall it and stop using it. I’ve said before that, if / when I get an iPhone 3GS, with it’s faster CPU and more RAM, I was gonna’ try Backgrounder again as it should be able to do it’s thing without causing the system to be sluggish.

Well it seems to be doing good so far. But, I know from experience that I need to wait about a week or so to see if the system slows down in speed at all.

But… so far so good.

Peace, J

Oh yeah, this is ‘freakin’ tight *** ****. I was able to run Geohot’s Blackra1n. Sure ‘nough, I’m jailbroken now. I’m not 3.1.2, but **** that version, I don’t care about it. I’m simply glad to have a brand new iPhone 3GS and to be jailbroken (OS 3.1).

I included some screen shots of the process of installing Cydia. I’m fully jailbroken now and runnin’ with a brand new iPhone, The Neocell 2.0, and now I’m runnin’ on America’s fastest network. Freak yeah. I got me a lotta’ customization hacking and other goodies to try out. Hello Backgrounder…

Peace, K

Ugg… ‘nother ******’ jailbroken app I’ve had to uninstall. **** too, I loved Inspell. Amazing app. Truly… amazing. But the little ‘freaker was slowin’ down the system… and started slowly makin’ typin’ unbearable. I mean, what was I to do?? I’d deal with people who had iPhones with OS 3.0. What am I to do with spelling on the Neocell but have it be sluggish? Brag to non-jailbroken OS 3.0 iPhone users:

“Well I’m customized, I actually got spellin’ on my iPhone.”

“For real? Oh my god. Girl, come see this, this boy’s got spelling on his iPhone… Show us.”

“‘Ight, check it out… wait… the Notepad app’s not, wait… gotta’ wait for the, um… keyboard will take just a sec… it’s… ‘freak, come on… do something… it’s really not that slow when, oh, ok, it’s ready.” *tap tap tap* “See? Spelling.”

“Wow, that’s awesome… but, um, why is everything so slow?”

Yeah, um… **** that. And here’s the worst part… besides Adblock, it’s the only jailbroken app I have running with my system. I’m not even using Backgrounder. That’s pure sluggishness, Inspell, all by itself. And it’s not Adblock doin’ it because didn’t install Adblock until after Inspell started making the system sluggish. And no, I didn’t have nothin’ funky added into Inspell, just the normal app and everything that came with it (just the English dictionary, no other languages).

So how bad was the sluggishness? Bad… You could feel it just swiping through springboard pages (springboard is the icon desktop thing). Once I uninstalled it and anything else that was also installed with it the speed came right back after a reboot. It absolutely was Inspell. That’s sad man… that’s real sad.

The Neocell’s speed is almost the exact same as non-jailbroken OS 3.0 iPhones (you really can’t tell the difference), so ****’s runnin’ top notch now, but… I miss Inspell and Backgrounder.

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

Most of you that are runnin’ the jailbroken OS 3.0 should know by now, but the Dev-team hasn’t figured out how to get push notifications working for our jailbroken versions of OS 3.0 yet.

What’s this mean? This means none of us runnin’ any jailbroken version of OS 3.0 has push notifications. They’re trying to figure how why it’s not working, and hopefully once when they get a jailbroken version of OS 3.1 created after OS 3.1 is released, they’ll figure out why push notifications don’t work.

Kinda’ sucks… no, really sucks. It’d be great to have that for IM apps. But yo, I ain’t complainin’. I care more about more features being released for Backgrounder than push notifications personally. I can minimize an IM app to the background if I really have to. Although, minimizing drails battery life so bad, push notifications wouldn’t.

Peace, J

So it appears that some iPhone 3G S users have reported heat issues. Like, we’re talkin’ extremely hot kinda’ heat. Some iPhone 3G users have had the same issues.

Well what’s funny is that, for the first time, I experience this issue last night. I was runnin’ WunderRadio in the background via Backgrounder while browsin’ the net… charging at the same time. I was connected to wifi. It’s important to note that I was playin’ the music from the speaker at full volume. And the back was getting warm… not hot, but warm. Not just that, but it also seemed like it wasn’t getting a charge.

Here’s the deal though, I had Bluetooth on at the time. I normally have Bluetooth off if I’m not rollin’ in the Lexus, but I decided to leave it on once at home. Once I turned Bluetooth off, although… no heat. Huh…

So that’s really interestin’ right there. Somethin’ to keep in mind. As far as the iPhone 3G S, if it does have a heat issue, if it’s a big enough deal, I’m sure they’ll fix it by the time I get mine later this year. If not, ****… I ain’t worryin’.

Peace, J

This is funny. I’m readin’ somethin’ about iPhones, and I came across this article…

“While the 3.0 software allows a limited level of background operation for add-on applications– its App Store stocks more than 50,000, a wealth of choices other smartphones can’t match — it doesn’t let you switch among multiple programs. If you want to listen to a Web-radio program while writing an e-mail, you’ll need to get a phone like a BlackBerry, T-Mobile’s G1 or the Palm Pre.”

Ain’t that funny? Now I’m not gonna’ say the person who wrote the article is wrong, it’s just funny when I see people sayin’ stuff like that… ‘cuz it makes me feel like I’ve got a “special addition” iPhone that can background, thanks to the jailbroken app Backgrounder.

Peace, J