Datura
Captain Faptastic
I have a 3Gs on iOS 6.1.
I used evasi0n to jb my phone last month (untethered). Very simple, all went well. Cydia installed, a host of sources and apps acquired and a smile on my face. Until last night that is. I was messing around with something on Cydia and all hell broke loose on my phone. My screen was now covered in icons that were previously all neat and tidy in 3 folders (I use infini-folder and infini-board). I re-opened Cydia and it was on the infiniboard app details. I re-installed the app no problems. When I went back to Cydia to install infini-folder again Cydia would crash after a couple of seconds. I restarted my device and tried to use Safari to find a solution. Safari also crashed. As soon as I got to work I began experimenting with a number of things. I tried to restore to a backup previous to jailbreak and tried to jb again. Failed. It gave me an error saying that my phone is already semi-tethered broken. So, I downloaded redsn0w to do a tethered boot of my phone. Something went wrong an I ended up soft bricking my phone. Couldn't turn it on or anything. Panic and a quick google search later I managed to switch the phone back on. I went through the tethered reboot process again via redsn0w and received the following error: Missing Keys.plist data for this build Redsnow iOS 6.0.1. I then tried to erase everything on the phone (not via itunes ie from the option in settings) which just hung for over an hour. You cannot reset a jbroken phone. I then restored my phone to this morning's backup. So now I am at exactly the same point I was at this morning, a messy semi-tethered phone that won't open any of my cydia apps or cydia itself. All hope is not lost though, I am going to download the iOS 6 .ipsw to my laptop at home tonight. On redsn0w there is an option to manually select the ipsw and tether boot your 6.1 device. If this fails, I will have a new paper weight. I will update thread with any progress made.
I used evasi0n to jb my phone last month (untethered). Very simple, all went well. Cydia installed, a host of sources and apps acquired and a smile on my face. Until last night that is. I was messing around with something on Cydia and all hell broke loose on my phone. My screen was now covered in icons that were previously all neat and tidy in 3 folders (I use infini-folder and infini-board). I re-opened Cydia and it was on the infiniboard app details. I re-installed the app no problems. When I went back to Cydia to install infini-folder again Cydia would crash after a couple of seconds. I restarted my device and tried to use Safari to find a solution. Safari also crashed. As soon as I got to work I began experimenting with a number of things. I tried to restore to a backup previous to jailbreak and tried to jb again. Failed. It gave me an error saying that my phone is already semi-tethered broken. So, I downloaded redsn0w to do a tethered boot of my phone. Something went wrong an I ended up soft bricking my phone. Couldn't turn it on or anything. Panic and a quick google search later I managed to switch the phone back on. I went through the tethered reboot process again via redsn0w and received the following error: Missing Keys.plist data for this build Redsnow iOS 6.0.1. I then tried to erase everything on the phone (not via itunes ie from the option in settings) which just hung for over an hour. You cannot reset a jbroken phone. I then restored my phone to this morning's backup. So now I am at exactly the same point I was at this morning, a messy semi-tethered phone that won't open any of my cydia apps or cydia itself. All hope is not lost though, I am going to download the iOS 6 .ipsw to my laptop at home tonight. On redsn0w there is an option to manually select the ipsw and tether boot your 6.1 device. If this fails, I will have a new paper weight. I will update thread with any progress made.
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