Can I turn my iPhone into a high-powered Raspberry Pi of sorts?

December 1, 2015 10:21 AM

I have an iPhone 5S. I've broken the screen such that I have trouble getting sections of the screen to respond to touch. It's very expensive to replace the screen, so I'm considering bailing to another phone. But it seems such a waste of computing power to just abandon it. How can I turn it into a server?

I'd like to jailbreak it, then put some form of Linux on there so that I can run various processes on it, like bots or image processing processes.

posted by ignignokt to Technology (3 answers total)

Response by poster: Given the proprietary architecture of the iPhone, I'm also cool with running a virtual Linux on a jailbroken iOS.
posted by ignignokt at 10:22 AM on December 1, 2015

This still works

Then run whatever you want, at least iOS app wise.

I'm not aware of any virtualization solution for iOS, even jailbroken.
posted by emptythought at 12:24 PM on December 1, 2015

if you jailbreak it, you can upload a new firmware to it that is based on ångström or openembedded, but you're gonna be .. disappointed :/
posted by xcasex at 2:21 PM on March 25, 2016