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Re:IPhone auto-rotation: out of control by akirk on Monday October 12, 2009 @01:01PM (#877140)
I haven't jailbroken my iPhone yet, but SBSettings has a solution for autorotation, and brightness, and almost anything that annoys me with my iPhone on a daily basis.

Now that I have seen SBSettings, I am considering jailbreaking. Apple should do something like SBSettings.

http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/22/sbsettings-why-i-still-ja...

Re:IPhone auto-rotation: out of control by hyyypr on Monday October 12, 2009 @01:32PM (#877218)
I have a Jailbroken iPhone with SBSettings and the Rotation switch. First I find no problems with the rotation, I have a 1g iphone for more than a year now, and the only problem I had with rotation was when I was laying, with that SBsettings switch, it's solved. Second, I agree that SBsettings is the most useful iPhone App and Apple should really look into its features and make them builtin.
Re:IPhone auto-rotation: out of control by bensummers on Monday October 12, 2009 @01:17PM (#877181)
You're right, it's almost enough to push one into jailbreaking. But I think I'd prefer to run a supported configuration. Computers shouldn't be unnecessarily exciting.
Re:IPhone auto-rotation: out of control by aerique on Monday October 12, 2009 @05:36PM (#877717)
Jailbreaking made my iPhone twice as useful. I wouldn't be as enthousiastic about it as I am now if I wasn't able to install a lot of useful software that's only available outside of the Appstore.

I buy most of my software in the Appstore but I've also paid for software on Cydia.

Lookup SBSettings (has a button for quickly toggling WiFi on and off, awesome for battery life and my initial reason to jailbreak), RotationInhibitor, Lock Calendar and iDitDahText (brilliant!).

Re:IPhone auto-rotation: out of control by bshep on Monday October 12, 2009 @01:05PM (#877150)
Amen!