Ouch. One of our writers, Brandon S, learned the hard way that uninstalling the spoof 3.1.3 patch (which merely fools iTunes and apps into thinking you’re on 3.1.3) is a little more complicated than your usual tweak — and certainly more complicated than I had stated in my previous post (“just uninstall it”). My sincere apologies: I had actually read that part in the Cydia tweak description and simply shared the news here.
As it turns out, according to BigBoss himself, whether you installed the first Firmware 3.1.3 tweak (released March 9th) or the Firmware 3.1.3 app (released March 10th), the last thing you want to do is simply uninstall. First of all, to make sure the 3.1.3 tweak works, you have to reboot after you install it. A full reboot is likely required — not just a re-spring.
Secondly, if, for whatever reason, you would like to return to 3.1.2, you have to install the Firmware 3.1.3 app first. Then simply “…use this new app instead to select which firmware you want. Selecting 3.1.2 and rebooting is equivalent to uninstalling the old tweak [the one released on March 9th]“.
That should be all of the information you need to successfully install or uninstall the patch, but you can find the full notes on BigBoss’s site.
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I have to say, this is one type of tweak that I have always shied away from. Just my own gut feeling – but I think anything that fakes your firmware version is almost asking for trouble.
I was very into JBing a few months ago, but honestly, I think I am going to go back to the sandbox with the release of 4.0. I feel there are more and more of these kind of snakes, that sooner or later will bite you. Developers, I don't mean to make the analogy that sounds like your efforts aren't appreciated and I am very aware of buyer/user beware and don't use what you don't understand, but I feel that unless you install about 3 basic apps and then quit while you are ahead, you eventually will have problems. Off topic, but I logged into Cydia and found that Lock Calendar and a few other updates were available to me, it took several installs and reboots, but my reliability has improved since updating.
This has bricked my 3GS and I had to do a full restore through iTunes. Uninstalling BigBoss’s Firmware 3.1.3 by removing it in Cydia slowed the phone down to a crawl so I reinstalled it, then installed the App and unstalled that way. Tjis resulted in my phone being stuck on the Apple logo screen on every reboot.
In the end has to do a full restore through iTunes, now on 3.1.3 with no jailbreak. Luckily, O2 unlocked my 3GS officially so I haven't lost my network.
How much success have people had with the 3GS downgrade process to 3.1.2? I wnat my jailbreak back!
EJP
i have downgraded twice. its simple this should tell you how to do it step by step http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf9rd6wH3zU
make sure yu read the one in the description
the one under the 1015 error thing.
follow them step by step and yu will be back to 3.1.2
The idea was definitely sound in principle – but I ran into some issues with Xcode and decided to uninstall the app. Unfortunately I did this prior to Big Boss posting that story. Oh well. That's the risk we take!
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