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pwnage 2.1

One day after Apple released the 2.1 version of its iphone software, the awesome iphone dev team released the Pwnage Tool version 2.1. Sunday evening I downloaded the new update over bittorrent and installed it. I opted for the expert mode install because I am l337 and I don’t like the stock boot and restore mode images the tool installs. I also opted to not install Installer, since I hardly use it and the software seems to crash. Cydia is great for me, and I haven’t seen any Installer only apps that I was in dire need of using. I opted to pre-install Winterboard and a couple additional repositories since I would have to get them sooner or later anyway.

It probably took around 20 minutes for my lowly 12 inch powerbook to build the updated IPSW bundle, and then it was off to the races. I did a backup of the phone, then I forced the phone into restore mode to restore using the pwned IPSW. I find for some reason that iTunes doesn’t like to connect to my phone after doing the software restore, so I unplugged the phone while it did the baseband check after the upgrade. I restarted iTunes as the phone restarted, and then I plugged in the phone to restore from my previous backup.

I haven’t evaluated all the claims made in the release notes of the fix but the phone seems more responsive. They keyboard sucks a lot less than it has with the other 2.x releases. The only bad thing I’ve encountered is that Snapture won’t load. I tried using BossPrefs to fix the user permissions since that has done the trick before, but I was not so lucky this time. I’m going to see if I can manually clean out all the files and do a fresh install to see if that will remedy anything.

I saw yesterday that there is a new app to create an installation list of your Cydia apps so you don’t have to manually install them all after renewing the software. I should have used it, since it’s becoming a bit of a drag to manually install all the awesome software each time you upgrade the iPhone’s software.

All in all the upgrade process was easy, I’m still waiting for an update that stops Java from making my work computer totally unuseable for 5 minutes while it loads.

Tags: Apple, Iphone, Powerbook

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