Well, I'm still kind of holding my breath, but I decided to upgrade to iTunes 8 and my first-gen iPhone to firmware 2.1 last night. I had previously used the Pwnage Tool from the iPhone Dev Team to upgrade to the 2.0 firmware. That went fairly smoothly except for the fact that it didn't want to enter DFU mode right away, but eventually it did and things went well.

I started the upgrade and held my breath. First iTunes was upgraded to version 8 (more about that here) which went smoothly (as expected). I had already downloaded the 2.1 firmware so I located the place in my Library where the firmware was kept and copied it there. (I just looked for it again, but I can't find it. You're best bet is to just let iTunes update it for you.)

The upgrade went fine, my iPhone restarted and (holding my breath) ... it started syncing, finished (still holding my breath) and that's it. No questions asked, no Pwnage tool, no QuickPwn, it just worked, like some others I've read about.

One thing, though, I'm missing cydia and installer which is not a big loss, since I didn't use them very much anyway. I think that may be the key to upgrading smoothly. If you haven't done it yet and you've got a lot of 3rd party (i.e., non-official) apps installed, go in and un-install them all (you'll lose them anyway during upgrade). I suspect many of the errors are due to conflicts with certain non-official apps.

Still, I will kind of miss the application that allowed me to stream live video to Qik. Even though I hadn't used it very much, I had great plans for it.

Mostly, the reason I like having my iPhone pwned is that I am living in The Netherlands, and although they sell the new 3G version of the iPhone, they don't offer official service for the original version. So, it's either cough up the money for a relatively expensive voice and data plan for two years, or use my original iPhone which I already had anyway.

Posted by The Donkey at 10:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)