So I jailbroke my iPhone 4s for the first time last night. Let me begin by saying, I will never do it again. I followed all the directions step by step. First thing before I did anything was back up my phone. That was a success. Afterwards I clicked on the Absinthe app from my Mac desktop and clicked jailbreak. It did its thing. I read that it could take a while so I walked away. Came back and it said for me to unlock the device and tap on the Absinthe app on my iPhone. I did that. The app loaded a web page and then did absolutely nothing for 10 minutes. I tried again, and still nothing. I really wanted to jailbreak as my friend was showing me all the cool things one could do.
Well I figured that I would just restore and try again. I wanted to restore my phone to the backup I had made 20 minutes earlier. So I closed out of the Absinthe app on the computer and opened iTunes. iTunes automatically begins syncing my phone!!!!!!!!! Keep in mind all my pictures in camera roll were gone (which is normal for this jailbreak). I'm thinking to myself that iTunes is going to backup everything "currently" on the phone including my empty camera roll folder and Absinthe app. Well hold and behold it did exactly that.
My phone restored the exact same way. The Absinthe app remained. I then tried to re-jailbreak by attempting this again through my computer. It took 3 more times and it finally worked, of course no one said that I would have to disable my password lock. Once the cydia app loaded I played around with it. I was kind of shocked to see that the majority of the apps cost money. Then my messaging icon and phone icon turned white, yes white. I rebooted the phone and they were still white. That's when I said "bye bye Jailbreak" and restored my phone as new.
It took about an hour to reorganize all my folders and enter all my contacts in again. But this all could have been prevented if I could have chose that specific backup I had made before all of this. Fortunately, I didn't have any important pictures in camera roll. I learned my lesson the hard way. My device also lagged with the jailbreak which also made me get rid of it.
So my advice to anyone willing to do this is - know iTunes, and know EXACTLY what you are doing, and most of all BE CAREFUl!!!!
Well I figured that I would just restore and try again. I wanted to restore my phone to the backup I had made 20 minutes earlier. So I closed out of the Absinthe app on the computer and opened iTunes. iTunes automatically begins syncing my phone!!!!!!!!! Keep in mind all my pictures in camera roll were gone (which is normal for this jailbreak). I'm thinking to myself that iTunes is going to backup everything "currently" on the phone including my empty camera roll folder and Absinthe app. Well hold and behold it did exactly that.
My phone restored the exact same way. The Absinthe app remained. I then tried to re-jailbreak by attempting this again through my computer. It took 3 more times and it finally worked, of course no one said that I would have to disable my password lock. Once the cydia app loaded I played around with it. I was kind of shocked to see that the majority of the apps cost money. Then my messaging icon and phone icon turned white, yes white. I rebooted the phone and they were still white. That's when I said "bye bye Jailbreak" and restored my phone as new.
It took about an hour to reorganize all my folders and enter all my contacts in again. But this all could have been prevented if I could have chose that specific backup I had made before all of this. Fortunately, I didn't have any important pictures in camera roll. I learned my lesson the hard way. My device also lagged with the jailbreak which also made me get rid of it.
So my advice to anyone willing to do this is - know iTunes, and know EXACTLY what you are doing, and most of all BE CAREFUl!!!!
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