Purple Ra1n, Purple Ra1n
Well, I succumbed to temptation once again. I decided to jailbreak my iPhone 3GS tonight “ and just finished doing it a little while ago.
I literally just got through not very many minutes ago, but I thought I ‘d share some very quick impressions and observations on using the purplera1n jailbreak method.
This is one of “ or possibly the “ fastest jailbreak processes I ‘ve ever used. I started at 10:47pm and was done at 10:50pm, with iTunes recognizing the iPhone and all looking good “ and that ‘s with fussing around taking some notes during it. 3 minutes, maybe a touch less. Nice.
This jailbreak feels much more like an Update (as opposed to a restore) “ and is (thus far) silky smooth because of that. As in, all my iPhone ‘s installed apps are still there, as are my settings and so forth. Quick and painless.
After purplera1n finishes, you have one new app icon on one of your home screens “ Freeze. You run this to install Cydia, the current leading jailbreak App Store. Installing Cydia took around 2 minutes. After the install I did not have a Cydia icon though, and a Spotlight search failed to find it as well. A reboot fixed this and I had a Cydia icon.
On its first couple launches Cydia wanted to ‘reorganize ‘ and then apply essential updates. Both of these got done quite quickly.
Very little seems to have changed in terms of storage space following the jailbreak. Here ‘s how that looked prior to purplera1n:
And after the jailbreak:
Roughly 600MB more taken up by ‘Other ‘, and for some reason around 700MB less space for apps (despite all my apps still being installed at a quick check), after the jailbreak was completed.
OK, that ‘s it for my quick notes. I ‘m off to do some mission-critical post-jailbreak tasks “ ya know, finding a new theme and stuff. 
Bout damn time. :-p
LOL. Guess so.
uh, you might want to hit the App Store and update those 13 apps
LOL – I'll get right on that.
Does the jailbreak process breaks push notigication?
No – definitely not for me thus far. I'm pretty sure that's only been an issue for unlocked / hacktivated iPhones.
i tried to jailbreak mine and it's stuck!it has the purple rain picture on it and i can't go to the main menu or turn it off!what has happened to it?
Which iPhone firmware / OS version are you on? purplera1n does not work with 3.0.1 or beyond, and will not be made to work with those. Redsn0w is your friend for 3.0.1 – but check the Dev Team's blog for latest tools and which versions they work with.
See this post for details on purplera1n no longer working after 3.0.1:
http://isource.com/iphone…
Woo Hoo!! I can't believe it! PJ has joined the land of the living(and hacking)!! LOL Just messing with you, but I have to say I am definately glad to see you have done it. I've been a daily reader and rss follwer for about 10 months now, and I love your site. You always find the "little things" that I seem to have have missed, so i'm anxious to see what you'll discover and bring to light now, as we both share jailbroken 3GS'.
Man it really must be a while I guess – I used to be jailbroken all the time 'back in the day' and all that. Thanks vry much for the kind words – so glad to hear you're enjoying the site!
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Does it work on ipod touch? thx
my phow keeps going into recory mode with black rain any ideas