Comments on: Downgraded from 3.0 to 2.2.1 – Some Quick Thoughts

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:02:41 +0000

fiuza – I didn't stay JBed very long – jumped back on the 3.0 beta after just a short spell. Now using, and liking, the new 3.0 Beta 2 …

By: fiuza78

fiuza78 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:53:15 +0000

Hey Patrick, now you can install 'Categories' to organize your Apps in folders! 🙂

By: Come Back 3.0, All Is Forgiven | Just Another iPhone Blog

Come Back 3.0, All Is Forgiven | Just Another iPhone Blog — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:04:05 +0000

[…] lasting only 48 hours in resisting the temptation to try out the iPhone OS 3.0 beta. Then I downgraded that flip-flop – and believe it or not that downgrade also lasted all of 48 hours. Being on a jailbroken […]

By: patrickj

patrickj — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:24:53 +0000

No worries – I had noticed that – and thanks for the excerpt text in the comment above as well. I may go back and re-do things over the weekend and see if I can end up stock again. Debating though – may stay a spell jailbroken again – basically I am about as decisive as a very, very, indecisive thing just now 🙂

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:05:40 +0000

I guess I failed to mention that I am doing this on a PC and not a Mac…

Sorry about that.

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:39:53 +0000

Here is the main section from the Appdots article:

"Thanks to Jesse Miga’s comments on the Gizmodo article, I was able to get my iPhone back on 2.2.1 and activated without jailbreaking:

I have a correction for the last part of the tutorial using Windows. When you use QuickPwn the first time after getting the 1013 error, do not do a complete jailbreak or you will end up without an activation. Just go through the steps that come up in after loading quickpwn (Hold down power/home for 15 seconds, wait to reboot). Then you can set it up in iTunes as a new phone, then jailbreak. You’ll have to go through all those steps every time you restore."

Basically, I was able to do the 2.2.1 restore, then once the iPhone 3G was in restore mode, I launched QuickPwn, held in the power+home button, restarted, clicked OK on the QuickPwn message telling me to restart the phone. At that point, the phone restarted and had the graphic showing to plug it into iTunes. I closed QuickPwn and launched iTunes and it activated my phone and I had full service again without doing the actual jailbreak.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:32:56 +0000

Brett – that link doesn't work for me. I'm not sure if zi'm following what you're saying. Once Quickpwn gets to the stage where it reboots, you're jailbroken at that point. Do you mean after the reboot via iRecovery? If so, that's what I tried initially – and then found that on first attempted reboot of the iPhone, it was stuck in restore mode …

By: brettq

brettq — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:11:20 +0000

Patrick,

You can do it without Jailbreaking: http://tinyurl.com/c6mc8z

Once the iPhone reboots using QuickPwn, close that and re-open iTunes. It will activate it and you can go back to your non-jailbroken iPhone that is mostly vanilla other than that new baseband :)

By: Ragart

Ragart — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:10:56 +0000

Yeah, I'm not super keen on Cydia's layout either. Each time you want to do something it takes about ten mores teps than it should.

Uninstall an app:
go to manage
go to packages
go to program
press uninstall
once uninstall finished, CONFIRM uninstall.

It's a MASSIVE pain uninstalling a lot of themes you don't use any more, and it takes just about as long to acquire them anyway.