I’m a bit worried about my iPhone. I didn’t pay for it, and that’s the only reason I have one, and I love it. However, I’m looking at cheaper Android phones just for giggles really as I can’t even afford these cheaper smartphones (still over £200 to buy outright). I’m a pay and go man, so buying outright is a must (unlocked preferred). Anyway, just thought it was interesting to see what else is out there. 

Jesus, my 2007 MacBook still has enough performance for me. 

This is great news, kind of.  I jailbreak because I inherited a US iPhone that was locked to AT&T, but I live in the UK. So, I’m no longer breaking the law. Of course, this doesn’t mean that Apple has to make it any easier to jailbreak or prevent them from making it harder, but I’m on iOS 3.1.2 and I don’t think I’ll be upgrading my hardware of software anytime soon. 

I upgraded my jailbroken iPhone 3G to iOS4 about a month ago, but I was not impressed.  Everything just felt a bit slower, and because I only had a 3G, there weren’t any wow! additions that made me think it was worth sticking around. 

I did some research, and was incorrectly led to believe that I needed SHSH blobs (essentially, bits that allow iTunes to verify your iPhone to Apple), to roll back the installation to iOS3.  However, yesterday I found out that it was not actually necessary to have these blobs for a 3G.  They are required for the 3GS, but not the 3G. 

So, after creating my custom IPSW file using PWNAGE Tool, I rolled back my iPhone. I got the expected error and used Firmware Umbrella to kick the phone out of recovery mode. Then, I used my custom IPSW to load iOS3 back on the iPhone using iTunes. It took a while, but went smoothly. 

So, step-by-step this is how to roll back your jailbroken iPhone 3G from iOS4 to iOS3

1. Download the software file you want to roll back to from The iPhone Wiki. 

2. Create the custom IPSW using PWNAGE Tool. I had to download PWNAGE tool 3.1.4 to work with the iOS 3.1.2 software. 

3. Enter recovery mode on your iPhone.

4. Try and restore using your custom IPSW. You will receive an error message.

5. Use FW Umbrella to kick out of Recovery mode. (I then had to restart my iPhone)

6. Restore again in iTunes using your custom IPSW. NOTE! I lost my SMS messages as when iTunes tries to recover from your backup, the backup isn’t compatible. But, it was only SMS, apps and everything worked fine. 

7. You’re Done.  

It’s a lot of money. Maybe we should spend some money on defensemen. Yeah, the Devils always need more defense. 

This brings back some memories. I’ve never been a talented artist, but I spent a lot of time using MacPaint when dad got our first computer back in 1986. I remember dad and my brother sitting next to the computer, listening to the audio tapes that came with the Mac to learn how to use it.  Brilliant.

Shut up slave. I have no idea why these sites were closed, but it seems like a rather blunt instrument that law enforcement used. We’ll probably never really know why these sites were closed because it’s terrorism related. Oh no, not terrorism. If it’s closed because of terrorists it’s fine by me. I know terrorists are keen on using public facing blogging sites and not encrypted, secure communication methods. I mean really, what the…

I’ve been out of the Price is Right Loop for a while, not living in the US, and I had no idea this had happened, but pretty interesting.  

If you use websites with passwords. you must try this! It’s brilliant. Highly secure and available everywhere, which is what it would have to be. 

The Security Now Podcast did a great review of LastPass, and if the host, Steve Gibson is impressed, so am I!. Both LastPass and the podcast are free and both well worth investigating.

Well, should have gone open source, or anybody else (NHS were thinking of SUN Java at the time). Your tax money, meant for health care, going to Microsoft. I feel so much better now.