Moving to 3.1.2 Firmware
I had a bit of a fiasco with jailbreaking to 3.1.2 last night. For the first time ever, my iPhone would not activate after the jailbreak. At first I didn’t notice it, since it was connected through Wi-Fi, but about an hour in to getting everything set back up, I noticed that I had no signal. I verified it was not a problem with AT&T, placed the SIM card in my old iPhone, and started the whole process over again.
I’ve never had it not activate during a jailbreak before, so I decided to not use Expert Mode in Pwnage 3.1.4 and give it another try. I’m not sure if this is a bug in the new tool, or just something I inadvertently clicked clicked while making my custom firmware. Like I said, I’ve never had that problem before while creating custom firmwares, so it seems a bit odd.
Things I’ve taken away from this: simple mode kind of sucks. You can’t adjust the size of root partition. You can’t pre-install Cydia packages. You can’t unselect installing Icy! I may go ahead and redo the install tonight, and pay closer attention to what I select under the general settings and bootloader. For now, I’m jailbroken and 3.1.2, and everything seems to be running just fine.