Mar 9, 2009
Jailbreak FAIL!
Shite. It worked but I didn’t understand that jailbreaking and unlocking are different. For some reason Mobile Safari kept on crashing and the whole phone felt slower.
So I thought I’d restore it from my previous iTunes backup. Easy. Nope. iTunes refuses to see my phone. The only option is to do a complete Erase All Data on the iPhone and then hope that the automatic iTunes backup gets it back to where it was.
The moral of this story kids is: if you’re short on messing around time, don’t do it.
UPDATE: I thought I bricked the phone! I tried to do a complete Erase All Data and then do an iTunes install but all I got was the Apple logo with a spinning wheel and constant reboots. Scary. I managed to get it to recover mode and iTunes is happily copying everything back. Quick tip: if you think your iPhone is bricked, power it off then hold down the Home button and plug it back into the USB port. iTunes should see it and start the recovery process. Phew!
