Thread: The iPad's role in your car?

If you forget to close the app it keeps running until you run out of battery power. I've found the phone gets warm and that's a hint that it's running.

You can also tell Backgrounder which apps to allow to run in the background. If you don't enable them, then they won't run in the background, so you can control it. The apps that are running in the background will have a little badge displayed so you can tell what is or isn't running. Or you can manually set an app to run in the background by pressing and holding the home button. It will say "Backgrounding enabled" and off it goes. To stop running it on the background, switch to the app and hold the home button again and it will say "Backgrounding disabled" and quit.

There's nothing scary about running multi-tasking. If the phone gets overloaded, it will shut off apps that aren't in the foreground. So, if you run Pandora and then xGPS and then Google Earth and then Google Maps and then something else, it will shut off Pandora to free up resources automatically.

Originally Posted by blk02si

openSSH (connected from filezilla).

The first iPhone virus was against idiots who left an openSSH server open....so make sure you have it properly configured if you do install it.

Keep in mind this isnt really multithreading. It is more like intels old "hyperthreading", but even worse. Single core processor splitting CPU time over multiple programs. So the more that is running, the less time devoted per "thread".

^^^ Thanks guys, very useful info. I'll stick with mywi for now and the 3g unrestricter thing. Last think I want is to make it even slower. It actually feels quite fast now, after so many restorings I've done lately trying to jailbreak it, maybe I defragged the whole thing, I don't know.

Originally Posted by justchat_1

The first iPhone virus was against idiots who left an openSSH server open....so make sure you have it properly configured if you do install it.

I know lol, I am well aware of that. I changed my root and user PW before I even installed SSH. Also have the SBsettings to turn it off when not in use.

So far xGPS is the best GPS app I've seen running on the iPhone, much better than the garbage from at&t.

I'm going to check out the 3g unrestrictor and mywi

xGPS is good except getting it to find the initial address is a complete PITA. If it doesn't recognize what you typed, you have to retype it.

Call me old school, but I love the way Tom Tom does it. First, it asks for the city based on the last state you navigated to, so often you don't have to input the state. After city, it asks for street, then address. It uses predictive typing so you rarely have to enter the whole thing and you can drop down a list of similar names at any time to see how the TomTom classifies them.

Also, you can navigate to a city center, a cross street, or point of interest, so you don't always need to know the address to start the trip.

I've used Garmins a handful of times and they work in a similar fashion.

After you get the information into it, I agree that xGPS works pretty well. Small price to pay for FREE navigation. Google Nav looks better, though it seems increasingly unlikely they'll ever put that on an iPhone!

If I didn't have a dedicated TomTom, I'd probably spend the $70 for the TomTom iPhone app as long as it works pretty much like the TT PND's

Originally Posted by blk02si

I know lol, I am well aware of that. I changed my root and user PW before I even installed SSH. Also have the SBsettings to turn it off when not in use.

So far xGPS is the best GPS app I've seen running on the iPhone, much better than the garbage from at&t.

I'm going to check out the 3g unrestrictor and mywi

It was more a warning for other users then you...i figured you know what your doin.


@all:
So as an outside observer.....you need to jump through A LOT of hoops just to get functionality other phones ship with. I assume you already have an iPhone your just tryin to make the most of it. What I don't understand is knowing how (intentionally) crippled the devices are...why would you buy another bigger one??!