Continue reading »]]> I thought some people might be interested in what happens when you upgrade a jailbreak iphone to the 3.0 iphone firmware.

I had a 2.2 jailbreak iphone with cydia, irealsms, clearcam and a lot of cool addons such as calender lock screen, notifier, custom ringtones, apple and 02 logo’s. I have an O2 sim so network log isn’t a concern.

I love the iphone jailbreak but do think that all the winterboard apps did affect the reliability, I was seeing a number of apps inc tweetie and safari crashing so it was time to start afresh.

I removed some of the cydia/winterboard addons (but not all), then downloaded itunes and plugged in.

“you iphone can be upgraded to 3.0?, click yes, it downloads the firmware and installs. Some people have reported it taking a long time to backup their existing apps, but mine seemed pretty fast (prob all done in about 20 minutes).

New firmware installed, it rebooted. All the cydia/jailbreak apps (irealsms, clearcam) were gone. Not much of a surprise there. I will miss irealsms’s quick reply feature but the iphone default client will do. All the other gui modifications were gone, execpt the % battery indicator which strangly stays (others have reported this too).

I had a couple of  ipa’s not downloaded from the apple store. These stayed on the iphone but no won’t run (load then quickly quit). Not really much of a concern since I buy the apps I use often (not many really) but maybe a concern for others.

Overall it is a great upgrade experience, all settings (mail, ssl cert, bluetooth etc) all stay in place which is really smart.

I am sure jailbreak 3.0 will be out soon, and I like to jailbreak just on principle that I want to do whatever I want with my hardware, but for the moment I am glad to be on 3.0

If you have any specific questions feel free to comment or catch me on twitter @tomarbuthnot