Is it legal to jailbreak an iPhone in S’pore?

Everything is Illegal la...but if you inform the govenrment and then jailbreak.,..it;s legal. Same like this HDB apartment I bought. Windows done by previous owner were not HDB approved. So the owner had to pay a 'fine' before selling it to me. After the 'fine' ...it got Approval??? HDB dis-approved it on technical grounds, but just because a 'fine' was paid....the Windows got suddenly technically approved! SO, everything is illegal la...until you put money into the pockets of good governance people...then all will get approved! Carry on...jail break the way they want it to.

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the "16-year-old Secondary 4 student, who has jailbroken his iPhone 4 and declined to be named" must be a friend of the "17-year-old technolo---- blogger".

Jailbreaking does NOT harm your iDevice in anyway. I have loads of friends who went ooohhhh ahhhh at my iPhones. Jailbreaking is just the initial process. Some of my friends does not know what to do after jailbreaking. When i first JBed my 3GS over a year ago, i had no idea how to or tips and tricks. The forum pages taught me the do's and don'ts. It's NOT a scary process and it's COMPLETELY reversible.

Let's talk about 3rd party apps that Apple does not allow in their AppStore. Is there an app over in AppStore that tells you the EXACT battery power that you have? How's many mAH it comes with and left with, how many cycles it has went thru. The AppStore alternative Cydia has those apps. While many of you may wonder 'if it's not in AppStore, then it's illegal'. WRONG. Apple disallow ANY apps that lets you look into it's system files. Ask yourself this, in purchasing the iPhones, are you contented if you're NOT allowed to tweak and customise and calling it TRULY your own? I know i wouldn't.

Let's take FaceTime as another example. NON JBed phones are NOT able to use FaceTime over 3G, only WiFi. But it's already available to other dinosaur phones for ages. Being JBed allows me to bypass that limitation and gives me the ability to use FaceTime regardless of my network status.

OK, then there those who says I don't need to be JBed to purchase apps. How many of you actually REGRETTED purchasing an app only to find that it's NOT what you had hoped for. This appiles a lot to 'utilities'. Imagine spending a good amount of USD $0.99s per app and you have a good number of those apps that actually make a dent in your wallet. At the end of the day, you realize, 'Why the HELL did I purchase it in the first place'. No refunds no apparent usage. 1 very good thing about the AppStore is to encourage impulse purchases. Things you think you need but in fact you don't at all. Raise your hand if you purchased a GPS app at an exorbitant amount only to find that it sucks.. big time. While most will not think twice about using cracked/pirated apps (which I don't encourage), it gives us the ability to try the app first before purchasing.

Apple states that jailbreaking voids your warranty. I'm on the fence on this. Restoring/upgrading the iDevice results in factory default being the re-installed. No traces of jailbreaking is visible. So how does it void your warranty? The only way is to send in your faulty unit for repair/servicing with it being jailbroken, with 2 most commonly used features (Cydia and Installous). That is dumb isn't it?

Remember this, Apple want you to use your iDevice as it is. Full of limitations and red tape. Apple considers that no matter what, we as end consumers is only USING their products. That we DON'T own the iDevice that we bought with our hard-earned money. Simply because Apple do NOT want us to tinker with their iDevice.

Share your thoughts..

i not yet jailbreak my iphone, but my iphone already "unstable and not work reliably". Reset by Off and On my iphone doesn't help. Warrenty just over 1 mths ago, It so clear that after 1 year old, my device start to give stupid problem. I so bad luck or the device have time counter for some reason to stop work stable. It might force me to change to other brand.

Duh!!!??? kinda know this information long time ago, guys..... late news..... Is Singapore back dated or media just too slow??? warranty? guys, you still need to pay for exchange if your phone is externally faulty... so i say jailbreak it.jailbreak gives you apps from ALL OVER THE WHOLE!!! unjailbreak only gives you apps from iTunes Singapore.... LAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

everything also money mah. wonder how many lawyers, policemen, politicians, lawmakers had their iphone jailbreak.??

Don't listen to those bull crap by lawyers. Its only the warranty that will be voided. Just jailbreak and d/l as u wish. Furthermore you can revert the phone back to normal. Apple won't make lawsuit on you because u are only consumer. Its not worth it for them when consumers might be apple fans. The app store is ridiculous way to earn extra income. All those stuff should be free when u bought your phone, and yeah monopoly has the right to be ridiculous.

Iphone sux: We paid really high prices for the crappy iphones and face so many limitations on the darn iphones. For the ridiculous prices that we paid, the minimum we expect is to have basic functions to come as standard, not force us to pay for apps to do simple tasks like transferring files/ photos to and from pc to crappy iphones. Apple should learn from good hearted developers like OPENOFFICE.ORG, JAVA, PHOTOSCAPE, PICASA, GIMP, etc. Owners from these companies will live a long healthy life. There's a reason why someone sitting on top of crappy apple is getting kanker. If he stops making everyone pay and pay for things that should already come free for the price of the phone, maybe he's kanker will recover. I called up apple to ask why is it so difficult to transfer my own files/photos from iphone to pc & vice versa and guess what? apple says I've gotta PAY for their aftersales service (SEE? PAY AGAIN), even though I bought it original and NOT jailbroken- I can't even transfer files from my crappy iphone to pc and vice versa! So, just get your darn iphones jailbroken to remove the limitations, just remember to respect the copyright property of the owners. Better still, BOYCOTT crappy apple- GET ANDROID. Save yourself the headache and heartache that you WILL get from apple.

so, does that mean it is also legal to have a custom firmware in PSP? but not having the ISO games.. haha...

The phone so ex the app more ex den buy the phone for wad all so ex

In Singapore, such a small country, if everything we do must follow International Standard, then, our election process must also follow World Standard! No more GRC, no more only PAP. Such a ironical situation for Singaporeans. On the one hand tell us all illegal and enforce the law for the sake of the MNCs, then, they themselves do not practive fair practice! Still have GRC for voting, no democracy, only PAP people paid well, HDB upgrading only for people who voted them, etc etc...

Its actually very easy to restore your phone even if you cant switch on the phone. At most you will receive an error known as Error 1013. As long as it can be connected to itunes and u have to do something in the system32, everything will work fine. I cant disclose too much in case i got sued!
haha.

Search in 'google search' for error and you shall reap.

Stamp & confirmed.!

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Do at your own risks thats what singaporeans will say.. =)

I have already jailbreaked my Iphone and customised it until it was really cool.

Stupid and useless laws. If apple really wants to stop people from jailbreaking the iphone, then they better improve their security software that could prevent people from downloading.

Unless the software engineer is weaker or more stupid than the hackers.?? Haha Rotten Apple!

overall - apple suck, go back to nokia model 009.

i jailbroke my iphone even before it was declared legal and downloaded so many paid apps from installous free! OH NO I HEAR THE POLICE BANGING ON MY DOOR! I'm going to be fined $20K! I'm SO scared!

ive jailbreak mine without knowing that warranty been void..o dear...

,"A 16-year-old Secondary 4 student, who has jailbroken his iPhone 4 and declined to be named, said that he will continue to download apps that may infringe on copyright laws even though he may face lawsuits. "It's just like downloading songs illegally from the Internet and torrenting games or movies. My friends are all doing it and I don't see any reason why I should obey the copyright laws," he proclaimed."
On the above quote, this is perhaps just a small minority.
The vast majority are still un-jailbroken iphones which is also evident from the appstore's revenue.
Quoting one bad apple does not represent the whole picture. Even vast majority of jailbreakers jailbreak their phone purely for performance tweaking (they are not free FYI) , which is also evident from cydia's apps revenue. Perhaps a fact that the writer does not know that, jailbreakers pay for well-designed themes and many other apps too, which are exclusive ONLY in cydia. There are also plenty of 3rd-party apps in cydia which cost a few bucks.. definitely not in the range of 99cents.
This article seems to paint a indirect picture that jailbreakers have a 'tendency' to install copyrighted apps illegally, to avoid paying for official apps... which is totally untrue.
So does it make sense to avoid paying official apps and yet pay for 3rd-party apps?

Hi to all those who are tech savvy on JAILBREAK and other modes of obtaining these so called TECHIE FREEBIES . . . . .

Always remember this fact , unless you are truly a pro undetectable hacker and know how to avoid any or all detection by APPLE software engineers - YOU ARE SAFE & STILL UNBEATABLE

BEWARE & do remember this JAILBREAK may just be a RED HERRING and quietly luring many unsuspecting iDevice users to a BIG HOLE IN YOUR LEGAL POCKETS , when all hell breaks loose - IF & WHEN APPLE DECIDES TO SUE (for abuse of its software & illegal downloads)

CHEERS :) & don't say you have not been warned . . . . . .

Have you guys ever thought about what will happened when they phone cannot be turn on one day after you have jailbreak? Where are you going to send your IPhone for repair? Apple? They won't do anything as the warranty will be void. If they were to turn it on and found those apps under copyrights, then you are in BIG @#$%! Please think about it!