jailbroke 2.1....help

[The Governor]

ok, I just jailbroke my 3g iphone

started messing around with some different themes and such....was working pretty well

then I downloaded an app within installer, called Kate? I believe that was it, not sure. It was a app for small customizations and what not. I found it by doing a search within installer, I think I searched for AT&T logo

ok so heres my problem

after downloading kate?

my phone shut off

I turned it back on, and now it stays on the start up screen with the pineapple

I am able to turn it back off, but when I try to turn it back on, the same thing happens...it stays on the pineapple screen

also, while on the pineapple screen, it has quickly shut off and then came right back on to the pineapple start up. it has done this twice now

how can I fix this? did i "brick" my iphone?

Thanks in advance for all advice

 

[The Governor]

will this do the trick, I found it on the sticky

Put your phone into DFU mode.

Restore to apple original firmware and you can start over again!

 

[jcde7ago]

ok, I just jailbroke my 3g iphone

started messing around with some different themes and such....was working pretty well

then I downloaded an app within installer, called Kate? I believe that was it, not sure. It was a app for small customizations and what not. I found it by doing a search within installer, I think I searched for AT&T logo

ok so heres my problem

after downloading kate?

my phone shut off

I turned it back on, and now it stays on the start up screen with the pineapple

I am able to turn it back off, but when I try to turn it back on, the same thing happens...it stays on the pineapple screen

also, while on the pineapple screen, it has quickly shut off and then came right back on to the pineapple start up. it has done this twice now

how can I fix this? did i "brick" my iphone?

Thanks in advance for all advice

The next time you pwn, my advice would be to stay away from Kate...matter of fact, stay away from Installer altogether, stick with just Cydia.

 

[iblastoff]

seriously, i dont know why everyone was all clammering for installer.app for 2.x fw. it clearly isn't even being developed anymore and no one even cares about it now. cydia all the way.

 

[The Governor]

The next time you pwn, my advice would be to stay away from Kate...matter of fact, stay away from Installer altogether, stick with just Cydia.

dually noted.

I was able to do a complete restore to factory settings. Does this type of thing happen a lot while jailbreaking? Constantly having to restore, jailbreak?

One last question, now that I did a restore. As of right now there is no way to see that I had a jailbroked phone? Right, or is there some other step needed

 

[Opie]

DFU retore and start over. Good Luck

 

[staccato83]

dually noted.

I was able to do a complete restore to factory settings. Does this type of thing happen a lot while jailbreaking? Constantly having to restore, jailbreak?

One last question, now that I did a restore. As of right now there is no way to see that I had a jailbroked phone? Right, or is there some other step needed

Once you jailbreak your phone you shouldn't have to restore it all the time. Restoring the phone is just a way to go back to factory firmware or incase you have some sort of issue with the jailbreak (as you did).

Now that you are back to factory firmware, they wont be able to tell if your phone was jailbroken unless you open your mouth

Just re-jailbreak, don't install Installer, and you will be good to go.

 

[jcde7ago]

dually noted.

I was able to do a complete restore to factory settings. Does this type of thing happen a lot while jailbreaking? Constantly having to restore, jailbreak?

One last question, now that I did a restore. As of right now there is no way to see that I had a jailbroked phone? Right, or is there some other step needed

Constantly having to restore and jailbreak only happens usually when people don't know what they're doing

As long as you do your research and whatnot, you should have no problems whatsoever. I've been jailbroken since the day 2.1 came out, and i've had no problems on my end whatsoever.

 

[The Governor]

Once you jailbreak your phone you shouldn't have to restore it all the time. Restoring the phone is just a way to go back to factory firmware or incase you have some sort of issue with the jailbreak (as you did).

Now that you are back to factory firmware, they wont be able to tell if your phone was jailbroken unless you open your mouth

Just re-jailbreak, don't install Installer, and you will be good to go.

how would I go about not installing Installer?

do you do that under expert mode?

I didn't see anywhere during the process that said anything like do you want to install installer. I followed iclarified and the sticky of jailbreaking on here

 

[The Governor]

Constantly having to restore and jailbreak only happens usually when people don't know what they're doing

Yea, that's me. But I'm getting it. The way I figure.... 2 more restores and I'll have

As long as you do your research and whatnot, you should have no problems whatsoever. I've been jailbroken since the day 2.1 came out, and i've had no problems on my end whatsoever.

That's promising news.

on the side note. can you quote 2 different people within the same reply? so I'm not always double posting

 

[Ivan P]

You can quote as many people as you want in a reply.

 

[The Governor]

You can quote as many people as you want in a reply.

rookie question here I know.....but how? all I ever see the option to reply once

 

[TheConfuzed1]

rookie question here I know.....but how? all I ever see the option to reply once

There are two ways:

1. Manually add the "quote" tag, and paste in the text

2. Hit 'Quote,' type your response, select all, copy, back out and go to the next message that you want to quote, hit 'Quote,' go to the beginning, paste, carriage return, go to the end, enter your next response.

Whatever floats your boat.

 

[The Governor]

don't install Installer, and you will be good to go.

how do you NOT install "installer"?

does anyone have a better jailbreak step by step than the sticky and or iclarified?

because I followed both of them and neither gave the option to not install installer.

may not be the best way here, but what if I just deleted it after the jailbreak was complete? would that work? well, can you even delete it once it's installed?

thanks again for everyones comments

 

[Stepper]

If your using quickpwn there will be an option to not instal insteller by un-ticking the tick box.

Or you could just download BossPrefs or Poof and just hid insteller once you've jailbroken...thats what I done lol