Comments on: xGPS Brings Turn-by-Turn Directions to iPhone Via Jailbreak

By: Dionte

Dionte — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:53:10 +0000

I wonder if they will release this in the app store when 3.0 comes out

By: MikeC

MikeC — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:18:32 +0000

I know I am late tu this thread but I can’t find it by searching cydia or under changes. Has it been removed?

By: pentatonic145

pentatonic145 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:45:30 +0000

Antenna melting? What a dirty lie! That is such a bunch of superstitious, undocumented bullcrap

By: pentatonic145

pentatonic145 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:44:47 +0000

@ SteveT – Hah – that’s funny – try to throw some FUD at people who may be hesitant about jailbreaking…Let me just say that the people who write the jailbreak software and develop the apps for Cydia know the iPhone better than Apple itself – power management improves…and you can gain more granular control over power management and every other aspect of the device. If I’m going to pay $500 for a piece of equipment, then I expect it to perform to it’s full potential and there is NO OTHER WAY to get the full iPhone experience than by jailbreaking. Apple is stupid – they can kiss my butt – I can’t believe they don’t offer a tbt GPS solution in the app store, or a wireless modem tether, or any other number of things you can only get via jailbreak. Oh well – doesn’t bother me – I have put my jailbroken phone through it’s paces again and again and I am SO glad I jailbroke it.

By: Dominic

Dominic — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:25:09 +0000

@SteveT: If your company wasn’t such a money hording evil bunch, I might be prepared to beleive you… but my phone has been jailbroken since I bought it, works fine… @Steve: At first I thought you worked for Apple, then I realised there is no way Apple would have someone as stupid as you in their employ. In fact I doubt you could even get a job in Mc Donalds… Then I realised, you probably don’t even have an iPhone, because if you did, there is no way that you would be happy with the way Apple limits its potential just coz they want even more of your money!

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:31:53 +0000

Woah, hold on. Sending more power to your antennae than it is designed to withstand can overheat it and cause it to melt?! YOU DON’T SAY!

By: Uncle Pauly

Uncle Pauly — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:12:13 +0000

Hey lame apple guy. I heard that this guy did a jailbreak on his iphone and it exploded in his pants pocket castrating him. Oh wait that is you with no balls.

By: SteveT

SteveT — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:44:51 +0000

For those of you who don’t know what your talking about, I work for apple as an iPhone tech support agent, and the jailbreak does much more than “add two apps to your home screen”. The thing that normally permanently wrecks your phone when it is jailbroken are things that change power management on the device. For example there are things you can download to your phone that claim to boost reception. They do this by routing more power to the antennae. Which can actually cause the antennae to overheat and melt. Yes, I said melt. This is why jailbreaking your phone voids your a warranty with apple.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:04:16 +0000

Same here. Can’t compute using your query. But, as the note originally said. Turn by turn expected feb 20th, so I’m not bothered by the fact that it’s not working yet. On another story I read about this, it was ver 1.2 beta that the story writer was testing which included it. The version loaded on Cydia now is 1.1. So, I think we just wait patiently folks. If this is a free app, that will give us TbT directions, I can wait. Heck, we already waited this long (no thanks to Apple).

By: Rman0712

Rman0712 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:31:09 +0000

@Chris: I also get the “No driving directions can be computed using your query” error. I have reinstalled xgps twice and still no dice. Maybe it will be fixed when the update comes, along with voice navigation.