I decided to bite the bullet tonight and upgrade the software on my iPhone.
Doing that, of course, re-locks the phone and means that my SIM chip and phone number won’t work. Which is fine — I can unlock it / jailbreak it.
Why upgrade the software if it re-locks it and means I have to re-jailbreak it? Well, version 2.1 is said to impact battery life. Which is good. When the upgrades come out, I don’t do them immediately, but wait to read 1) what’s in the upgrade (and is it worth it), and 2) how many hours or (gasp!) days does it take the nerds to come up with a patch to allow jailbreaking. This time, it was almost instantly.
But there’s always risk. This time around, I downloaded the 2.1 software, applied it, and then fired up pwnagetool, what I have been using to jailbreak my iPhone. And I hit a snag. There’s always that risk — and why i started this at 2200 on a Saturday night, when I am in need of sleep and planning to go to Atlanta tomorrow, I will never understand.
But, lucky for me, the nerds behind pwnagetool have unleashed a new program — Quickpwn. Oh my God, it is amazingly simple. And it works. A chimp could do it. So, that little rush of adrenalin when I first ran into troubles, passed immediately when I fired up Quickpwn for the first time. It’s a neat little utility.
I’ll take my iPhone with me tomorrow, when we go to the store. I’ll wander off to a corner and use their free WiFi to load more bootleg stuff onto my renegade iPhoney, just because I can.
