Houdini or “no jail can hold me!”
After Thursday’s night marathon (last post), I decided to tackle it last night. Well, wada you know? After a scant 15 mins (maybe alittle less), I was unshackled from only Apple Store apps.
Another 45 mins of restoring my downloaded Apple Store apps and resyncing my data/info. Order was once again in my little iPhone world.
This is just another example of how technology issues can be either agonizingly long or quick and easy!
Well, my iPhone is once again in jail from 3rd party apps.
It all started with Categories. An app from Cydia to organize your apps in to folders instead or in addition (like me) to the pages. i forgot that it takes a few seconds to open a folder of apps verses just swiping pages back and forth. I decided to remove the app but forgot to empty out the various folders I created. Because of this oversight, I no longer had a “Settings” to change things. Plus my folders were still there after uninstall. One folder, the one that had the setting wouldn’t even open any more. So because of this, I decided to try the 2.21 update which looked to be able to jailbreaked. I’ve done it a few times before with little problem.
4:30PM, Thurs: I updated to 2.21 and attempted a QuickPWN (Mac). All seemed OK but it got hung up during DFU mode. Disconnected and oh-NO, it’s dead or bricked. Finally got back up. Did a normal Apple restore and tried to JB but same prob. Tried QuickPWN )PC), same issue. Tried PWNTool (Mac), still no luck. Various seemly bricks and restores later, I gave up at 1:30AM.
So far what I miss the apps I miss the most from being JBd are:
SB Settings: a fast toggling to switch services and other things. Now it takes me about 15sec & 7-8 taps to toggle both WiFi and BT where as with SBS, it took my just 3sec and requires 1 swipe and 2 taps!
Clippy: copy/paste app
QuickGold: predictive App, Contact, URL searcher. Would be perfect if it could search notes, calendar too!
Winterboard: themeing/moding the GUI.
Wide Sliders Concept: easier to unlock/answer with wider slider buttons.
