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[13 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]
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  As you may have read some posts below I had some bad stuff happening to my iPhone last time I tried to Jailbreak it (first the boot logo loop and then the phone part not activating – meaning I made a wonderful jailbroken iTouch out my iPhone).
Now today I did some digging for information because I really miss some apps:
– Clippy – Cycorder – Emoji – hClipboard – Notifier …

Rants, iPhone / iPod Touch »

[25 Feb 2009 | One Comment | ]
unhappyIPhone

As a follow-up of my last articled:
So I did Jailbreak again and restored the backup. At first sight everything was OK, except that in the car when heading home, I saw that the phone reception was bricked (baseband ?). So I had no phone for 12 hours (the time to get back to my PC which I left at work) and had to restore again.
For the time being I’m not jailbreaking and am running with the basic (Apple approved) applications.
And you know what: the phone is way snappier and I …

Rants, iPhone / iPod Touch »

[20 Feb 2009 | No Comment | ]
unhappyIPhone

Naive as I am I wanted to update my perfectly working, jailbroken 2.2 iPhone to 2.2.1. which by the way corrects only some minor stuff (but we geeks just have to do stupid stuff like this, don’t we).
Now first try, directly update to 2.2.1 and re-jailbreak results in an infinite boot loop where the phone reboots every 5 minutes or so. This was somewhat foreseeable but you never know you could be lucky…
Second try, restore the phone firmware, then restore the backup then jailbreak. boot loop again. Now that is …