sunday

I’ve just discovered why I’m finally single… still…

I mean, c’mon. Seriously guys…

What a week with my iPhone. It’s normally smooth sailing, but ever since I upgraded to firmware v1.1.3, I’ve been wishing I never did. I missed my custom wallpaper (what’s with the plain black background Steve?), my GAMES, mostly my games and Lights Out, and my games. So what did I decide to do? Jailbreak it of course. And here’s how it went.

Monday: I attempted to jailbreak it, found some instructions online but it failed me. In retrospect, I think I was doing it correctly but at the time I thought I wasn’t because I wasn’t getting the same results as the first set of instructions was showing. I spent nearly three hours jailbreaking and chronicling my frustration to Ori before I finally gave up for the night.

Tuesday: I spent the morning at work researching other methods of jailbreaking. I found the original instructions from Nate True on his website and bookmarked it. Went home that evening for attempt #27,529 and succeeded in 30 minutes. I managed to have a jailbroken iPhone running on firmware v1.1.3 with jiggles. Custom wallpapers, games, apps were all back on my phone. Glory.

Wednesday: Played Lights Out for the majority of the day at work–it was slow. And played it on the metro–didn’t have anything to read. Downloaded a couple of themes from summerboard but found out they weren’t installing on the iPhone; Customize kept crashing everytime you opened it; 3rd party devs need to fix their apps, sad face. Oh yeah, I got flowers from Ming :D.

Thursday: I’m listening to music on my iPhone at work and decide to look at some apps on Installer. First of all, Edge is fucking slow, especially when Installer is trying to refresh its sources. It tends to stall and sometimes if your phone goes into auto-lock, you’re fucked and have to do a hard restart. So that’s what I thought happened. Maybe I should have given Installer some more time to fix itself (as it sometimes does), but I was trying to pause my music and skip to the next song but nothing happened, so I *assumed* that my phone froze. I do a hard restart and when the phone reboots, there’s no music playing from my phone. Really, I couldn’t hear anything from the headset or the speakers. I tried calling my iPhone with my work phone, but no sound (I took it off vibrate too). No keyboard clicks, no ringtones, no music, no chirping, it was all gone. Strangely enough, if someone called me they could hear me talk, but I couldn’t hear them. My iPhone had become a glorified text machine. I even restarted the phone a couple of times to no avail. Last option was to restore to factory settings. And if that didn’t work, I had already made my appointment with the Genius Bar.

Restored to factory settings and everything is back to normal. Normal v1.1.3, normal sound, normal black wallpaper on home screen. So by now, you’d think I’d be a fucking pro at jailbreaking my phone, right? Right… Everything goes as planned until Step 5. At this point, you should have a jailbroken v1.1.1 iPhone and you’re ready to upgrade to v1.1.2. To do so, you have to install OktoPrep from Tweaks 1.1.1 menu in Installer. Except THIS time, there’s no Tweaks 1.1.1 menu in Installer. There’s no Tweaks 1.1.2 menu in Installer either. Only Tweaks 1.1.3, which does me no good.

Friday: I’m sitting at work still wondering ohmygodwhatthefuckbbq; however, to Installer’s credit, I probably did something wrong when I tried to multitask by having five different AIM conversations and sending text messages on my iPhone WHILE jailbreaking it. I think that’s where I fucked up. But I’m not entirely disheartened (jesus christ, I’ve spent a week trying to perfectly jailbreak it) because I see this Wired article, which essentially suggests that Apple is going to make you buy third-party apps. If anything, I think it solidifies my cause that much more. So with renewed hope, I go home and making another attempt at jailbreaking my iphone. But for the eleven-hundredth time, Tweaks 1.1.1 and ergo OktoPrep, is not located in Installer. I work on this for about two hours before giving up to play Halo (deja vu, non?). It wasn’t until 3 a.m. when I decided to try it one last time before taking a jailbreak hiatus. I managed to Google something about needing to download Community Sources first and then Tweaks 1.1.1 would appear (which it did), but it was counterintuitive because I didn’t have to do this the first time I performed the jailbreak. By the eleventh hour, I finally got a jailbroken version of 1.1.2 on my iPhone when I hear my iPhone make funny noises. Thinking it was the hard disk spinning or something, I put my ear to it to listen if it really was coming from the phone, only to discover that my head is ringing.

You can guarandamntee that once I get jailbroken 1.1.3 on my phone, I am passing out and not installing any apps until tomorrow. And by “tomorrow” I mean ten hours later.