Some people are morebatteryconscious than others, but some folks truly don’t mind letting their battery level get so low that it lurks in the danger zone — a state of inevitable automatic shutdown.
If you align with the latter camp and you’re using a jailbroken device, then this may pose problems for tweak reliability and usability because modern jailbreaks tend to be semi-tethered or semi-untethered. With that in mind, a newly released and freejailbreak tweakcalledPuckby iOS developerLittenmay be a handy addition to handsets that see deeper battery drain than others on a regular basis.
Puck is like free insurance, as it can give you the peace of mind of preventing your pwned iPhone from needing to be connected to a computer to be re-jailbroken in the event of an accidental low battery-triggered shutdown. It does this by putting your handset into a power-saving state when the battery level gets too low, which helps keep it afloat just a while longer.
If the idea sound familiar, that’s because a lot of jailbreak developers have tired their hands at creating a better power-saving mode than what iOS’ nativeLow Power Modecan offer out of the box.SafeShutdownwas one, and if you fancy more of a deep-sleep or truer hibernation mode, thenSentinelis probably a better option.
Puck is highly configurable. Users will find those options in the Settings app after installation:
Here, you can:
At first glance, it looks like the developer put a lot of thought into Puck when making it to ensure that an iPhone could still be operable in extreme situations. For example, you can still take a phone call or override the power-savings mode with a volume button press or by plugging it into a power source. Other than that, the ultra low power mode setting will help preserve your semi-tethered or semi-untethered jailbreak until you can get to a charger.
Those interested in trying the new Puck tweak candownload it for free from Litten’s repositoryvia their favorite package manager. Puck supportsjailbrokeniOS 13 devices.
If you aren’t already using Litten’s repository, then you can add it to your preferred package manager with the following URL:
Do you plan to give Puck a try? Let us know in the comments section below.
