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[perkiset]

I actually diverged from the PDANet thread to create a new one because this is important stuff.

I tried to Spirit jailbreak my iPhone 3 times and MAJORLY pooched the phone each time. So much so, that I even had real difficulty getting the firmware to restore. Obviously I was able to after a bit of dicking about, but it was pretty much a pain. The problem is the Spirit app itself, and how it interacts with a phone ... and the "quit" button. I deleted my backup, thinking that was the problem, tried all types of stuff. No dice. In each case I had to try to restore about 3 times before I'd get it to take. Also, a full restore at this point took almost 5 minutes before the progress bar even started showing that it worked. No hyperbole here, 5 minutes. I was willing to wait that long because at one of the Apple support sites they talk about phones in recovery not responding "after more than 10 minutes" - so this stuff takes a bit longer than you might think. Patience is important.

When Spirit launches it will find your plugged-in iPhone and give you the handy one-button Jailbreak feature. I did it. It said, "Jailbreak complete" and offered a quit button. I pressed it. The problem is right there: it looks like you quit, but it doesn't. It actually starts trying to write the JB code back out to the phone again and RFs it while the phone is still working on the JB.

Another issue: go to iTunes while your phone is plugged in BEFORE YOU TRY TO JAILBREAK and un-check Start iTunes when an iPhone is connected. That was another pooching. Spirit was working, iTunes came up when it saw the phone cycle and started trying to sync.

The answer: After you hit Jailbreak, just let Spirit sit until your phone has COMPLETELY come back up. Once it has, use the File/Quit option to exit Spirit and you'll be right as ra1n. You'll know if it works because literally, the "Phone Restoring" screen takes about 20 seconds, then the phone cycles, you get the pretty Spirit page with a progress bar that takes another 15 seconds and then it should blink and go to your home page. Much longer than that and something's up.

Jeez. Ah well, all set now.

[kurdt]

Spirit? Never heard of it.. I have always used iPhone dev-team's (cunning name...) tools like Pwnage or Ultrasn0w and never had big problems.

[perkiset]

Spirit is the new one-button jailbreaker, does both iPad and iPhones, latest versions. Getting the best reviews at the moment.

Check RockYourPhone.com downloads or look up spirit jailbreak.

[nutballs]

was about to call to see if you got it fixed. guess you did.

[perkiset]

It got into the Pissed Me Right Off zone, the problem had to die.

thanks for the assistance

[daviator]

So give it a couple of days and then report back:  any problems, apps that won't run, iTunes issues, etc?  I am thinking to do it, but you're my canary in the coal mine, Perk!   

[perkiset]

No worries DV8r, Got your 6.

Thus far the only weirdness was a LOT of restarts when first getting MyWi rolling. A lot. Like, so many and frequency that I could barely create an account with Rock to get the damn thing started. Then there was a hiccup where it didn't want to start the WiFi network ... I think it was all PEBCAK but still annoying.

I'll post back it a few, after I've used the stuff a bit. Expect Nuts will as well.