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The Day I Un-Jailbroke My iPhone and Fell In Love With It All Over Again

Posted February 7, 2008 6:00 AM by Gregory Ng
Categories: Opinions 

After holding out through 3 updates and almost 5 months, I finally updated the firmware on my iPhone thus un-jailbreaking it and undoing everything that installer.app and the countless community sources had done to my phone. This meant clearing out all my third-party apps, all my custom icons, my custom desktop and dock background, and my beloved iPhysics application.

This was not intentional. I had not had a change of heart and a desire to go “legit”. I had not been convinced that the new features were so compelling that I had to sacrifice my Apollo IM and my NetFlix Management app. Nope, I did it by accident.

See, my iPhone was packed with applications. At last count, I had 89 icons to my home screen. It took 5 finger flicks on the screen to scroll through them all. Did I use all of them? No way. I maybe used a dozen or so regularly but I tried every one. I was obsessed with my growing collection of apps using them as a symbol of my rebellion against the locked iPhone from big bad Apple.

But when my vast number of apps started affecting the way my iPhone responded, I knew I had to do something. It got to the point where I would unlock my iPhone and have to wait up to 30 seconds before I could select a button. This was clearly a problem. So I decided to delete some of the unwanted applications through the Installer program.

This is where my problems started as I accidentally uninstalled the program that allows for home screen scrolling on my iPhone. So when I restarted my iPhone, although it loaded and responded quickly, my home screen could not scroll down to get to the Installer program.

I was stuck. Convincing myself it was meant to be, I reluctantly plugged my iPhone into my computer and installed the latest firmware. As the update was downloading and installing, I started surfing the web for the latest directions and updates on jailbreaking my iPhone running 1.1.3. I printed out the directions. They have never been read.

The reason is simple. After updating my iPhone, I feel in love with it all over again. It is so responsive! And the features are pretty darn cool! I had forgotten how quick the iPhone could be. And with the addition of scrolling menus, I can organize my icons the way I want to.

I’m here to say that I unintentionally un-jailbroke my iPhone and it is one of the best things I have ever done. And with official third-party apps on the horizon, I will be able to get everything I had and more.

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  1. Yeah, and pigs can fly, too.

    Posted by Name on February 7, 2008 11:15 AM

  2. What App was it that you deleted that disabled the home screen scrolling?  It’d be useful to know so we don’t do the samething =P

    Posted by bmap on February 7, 2008 12:00 PM

  3. I love my perfectly-responsive and jailbroken 1.1.3 phone as well…

    You might also consider writing an article called “I accidentally wiped out my entire computer and had to reinstall the OS and now it’s super fast.”

    Follow that up with:

    “I crashed my car and got a new car and its all nice and shiny and pretty.”

    Posted by BLite on February 7, 2008 12:41 PM

  4. Well, you could have sshd to the phone and run installer that way.
    And you could have installed the same version as before, no need to install 1.1.3

    Posted by sirdir on February 7, 2008 1:05 PM

  5. My jailbroken iPhone crashed all the time. It would stop receiving phone calls and sometimes I wouldn’t be able to make calls. Reformatting has made this issue go away completely. Then I jailbroke the phone again and the issue reoccurred, so I am back to a clean 1.1.3 and I am happy about it. As much as I want 3rd party apps, I want my iPhone to work perfectly.

    Posted by Jonathan Allen on February 7, 2008 2:19 PM

  6. This new update is really cool !!! I was a jail B and now i am free and its worth it.

    Posted by michael christian on February 7, 2008 3:45 PM

  7. Boring, thats what my unjailbroken 1.1.3 has become as I wait for an AppTapp installer that will work on 1.1.3. No HP 15C calculator, no units converter, no iRadio, No send pics, no Listen, no RSS feeder, no screenshot, etc.,Boring ,boring boring. I want my Apps back, and I will only wait another few weeks before I jailbreak again.

    Posted by ted johnson on February 7, 2008 6:26 PM

  8. Typical responses from the iPhone hacking community, and as sad as ever. They say they want the freedom to choose, but as soon as someone expresses happiness with the stock product, the hackers line up to tell him what a fool he is for now being exactly like them.

    They don’t care about freedom, individuality, or uniqueness. 99% of them are worse control freaks than Steve Jobs, but at least he doesn’t troll blogs looking to bash people.

    Posted by inkfreq on February 7, 2008 6:43 PM

  9. Un broke may be. But now broke because you’re paying for a contract.

    Posted by max Walker on February 8, 2008 2:01 PM

  10. Once you go hack, you cant go back.

    iphone downloads

    Posted by john on February 8, 2008 6:23 PM

  11. Can’t put the genie back in the bottle. Once the online community of techies figured out how to hack it there was really no turning back.

    Posted by Eric on February 21, 2008 9:41 PM

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