Been a couple of weeks now and I’m glad I skipped the 3G cuz this one’s fast. Everything’s quick! Boot up, app launches, less crashing (got a 100MB+ more on average on the pseudo RAM). Even figured out how to use the voice control!
Battery life is not very good though. In fact, very similar to my almost 2yr old 2G iPhone.
Aaaah, nothing’s perfect…
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.
This past 10 days actually as not been particularly good for me.
Solutons:
It’s got to get better right?
Oh, one thing did work though not perfectly smoothly. I got the iMac to talk to the Vista PC for network printing since they’re in separate rooms. The glitch was getting the PC IP address for the iMac. One digit off = 20mins of trouble-shooting.
While looking for updates on my JBd iPhone’s Cydia, I came across “Searcher“. I read that it can basically do a global search or spotlight search for you Mac users on your iPhone.
After install, I found that it can search in the following databases or modules as they call them:
You can choose how many results, reorder and disable modules too! Searches also do not have to be the entire word and searches go as far as into the body of text. And right now, it’s even Free !
Next up, copy/past!
After upgrading to 2.0.2, I began jailed again. Previous upgrades didn’t do this and thus I was in a quandary of leaving it or not. Of course, typically JBing the phone means that I have to reload notes and such back in to it. After a week of the chore of seven clicks four times a day to turn off WiFI and turn on BT when leaving the house to work. Reversing upon arrival. Repeating when leaving work and again when arriving home. For such a generally well designed UI, this part sucks.
First I tried the JBing on the Mac. Last time was pretty painless. Current version doesn’t work yet with 2.0.2.
Came across QuickPWn for Vista. Hmm, just got a Vista box, let’s try that. First few attempts didn’t work. Couldn’t build a new “ISPW” file. Tried my custom file, nope. Tried the original one from the Mac and that worked. 20mins or so later, it was free again but the best part was that everything was still THERE! Cool!
So these are the Apps I put back into it
Still wailing for others Apps to get updated to 2.o like
Once again, all modifications are done so at your own risk.
Well it’s been 72 hrs since I fired up my “new” (refurb) desktop with Vistra Home Premium and truthfully, it has been as bad as I thought. Of course, I thought the worst after finding virtually no one liking it and of course the clever and not that far off Apple commerical.
My new box is a HP Slimline S3300T (Intel Dual Core Intel 1.8Ghz/2GB RAM/500GB HD/Vista Home) for less than $300. Hard to beat that! I was prepared in the event the Vista was as bad as people say and I thought with a XP system disks standing by.
My core programs and current peripherals installed with little problems.
Files migrated fine as far as I can tell. They’re backed up onto an external drive regularly, so that wasn’t too difficult.
Visually, the GUI’s really nice looking (ala Mac) and with a new iMac in the house. Easy to compare.
So far the most annoying thing is the pop-up when you’re moving/deleting/whatever. Again made popuar by the below Apple commerical. XP did something similar but it was generally only one warning. Vista is 2-3 on most things. Haven’t decide yet to disable it or not just yet.
This morning I checked my email and found an email from Apple forums stating that a post I wrote had been removed.
The post had a person asking about a way to summarize upcoming events on the “home-screen” and I replied that that was something more standard on the Windows Mobile platform but could be done with a Jailbreak (I wrote “JB”) and a program called Intelliscreen.
Well, if didn’t go as smoothly as the 1.1.4 jailbreak with ZiPhone on a PC but I finally JBd my upgraded 2.0 iPhone.
Sure, instead of 15 mins or so it took 4-5hrs with no JB on the PC. Finally gave up and did it on a Mac. Took about 30mins in all.
So now, I have the “best of two worlds” with third party and the Apple App store.
Not too painful. Written on my iPhone.
My iPhone’s camera lens is clean again. After alittle reading, it’s seems to be a relatively common problem. I choose to repolishing the lens with toothpaste (gels aren’t abrasive enough).
As you can see below, it worked very well. The Apple store images are taken 2 days apart facing into the light at the same approximate time of day. I didn’t expect much from the iPhone’s camera but it’s now acceptable again.
