On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:23:28 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 2/16/13 1:52 PM, Urin Asshole wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:49:48 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:11:29 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

Corporate America likes the iPhones over the Androids.

Yes, and exactly for Greg's reasons that the iPhone is closed, it is
what it is and therefore everybody's is the same.

That is also the reason corporate America embraced the IBM PS/2
PCs.Guys were not buying mail order cards and loading shaky drivers on
their "work" machines. Everything was licensed and verified that it
would not conflict with anything else. You didn't have all those IRQ
conflicts and drivers stealing each other's resources.

I had all the PS/2 parts I wanted and ran them for years until I
started wanting to do things IBM did not think a PS/2 user needed. I
was not going to trade IBM's vision for Apple's vision of what I
wanted so I went for the open hardware of WinTel and I deal with the
conflicts I might encounter.

I am sure Harry understands that if an ap he buys "bricks" his phone,
it is on him to fix it now.

Well, here's a little tidbit. So one of the apps I got from Harry's
list.. iBlacklst bricked my iphone. wouldn't boot up past the apple. I
got into it with SSH, renamed the Application folder .. found out how
on the web, no big deal. The phone booted up. So, I renamed the folder
back to the original name, then got into Cydia, removed the app, then
downloaded another one to fix the icons not displaying properly. I
restored the phone from the last backup (itunes creates one when you
sync... the only hassle I had was remembering the backup password, but
I found it) All I had to do past that was put some of the icons back
in some folders. Too about an hour.

Oh, and **** you Harry. Heh..




I think the phrase "bricked" has devolved. The way I learned it,
"bricked" meant, basically, destroyed and unlikely to come back to life.

By that definition, I've not bricked any of my smart phones. I have
inadvertently put them into "safe mode" on occasion, but the recovery
was easy.

As for iBlacklist, I had a minor issue with it regarding keyboard entry.
The keyboard would turn blue and cover the input areas. I could fix it
temporarily by a respring. So I sent an email to the app's author, he
told me it was a known issue, and pointed me to a software workaround
that in fact works, and also told me the next app update will have a
permanent fix.

I'm pretty careful about what I load onto my computers or smart phones
or tablets. Compared to many users, I don't have many Cydia apps on my
iPhone. And as you point out, there is plenty of help on the web.

My definition is when it won't boot up not even safemode. That's what
happened. I've heard of hurlers (people who throw their phones when
they're ****ed off).