just wait and see

So I recently got an iphone, I am not a big apple fan and actually prefer android in every way, however for many reasons I bought an old 3g off one of my mates.

The first noticeable thing was how slow it ran. But this isn’t a post to bitch about apple things.

I did manage to fix the slowness, it was because the old phone was trying to run new firmware which was too complex for it to handle. The solution was to downgrade the phone to IOS 3.1.3.

Anyway so I had this phone, downgraded and fast. But I needed my phone to be able to tether its internet, something that the old operating system didn’t do. To do this I needed to Jailbreak it and get one of the wi-fi hotspot apps.

So I set out to jailbreak this phone, in the process I had to do what is known as shaving the yak. I use Linux, which 90% of the jailbreak tools don’t like. I tried emulating windows, which itunes doesn’t like. My parents internet kept messing around with me, etc, etc.

Everything kept going wrong.

Normally when trying to solve a computer problem (Or any problem) it takes a few attempts. This is fine, you try a different angles until something works.

However to jailbreak this phone I literally had to try dozens of different tools and methods because nothing would work.

Then finally, after hours of pain I find a tool that recognised the phone easily (Which was in itself an achievement), and had a single button “Jailbreak”. 3 seconds after clicking this it pops up a message “Jailbreak successful”.

After so much pain, the problem was solved in 3 seconds.

This is why computing problems suck.