Another quick iPhone post.

This time, I want to discuss how to quickly hose your iPhone - requiring you to format and reinstall all your applications and hacks.

For me, it was as simple as installing TapTap Revolution (TTR.app) using Installer.app. For many people, TTR is a great, fun application. For me, upon finishing the install (about 20 seconds) my iPhone was damn near unusable (the springboard was caught in a constant restarting loop). I could still SSH into the device (which I did in order to copy my files off the device before restoring and using Ziphone to reinstall my hacks).

If you’re going to use third-party applications, please be aware that anything could have a bug or cause an error - therefore, please be sure you have a good backup of all your device information, files, and other data.

It only took about 15 minutes to backup my images and get the device back up and running, but adding the e-mail addresses, bookmarks and custom apps took a bit longer. A painful lesson, but not so bad as bricking the phone itself.

Lesson learned.

PS: The new Ziphone interface looks like garbage. I’m not big into flashy graphics for graphics sake, and the ‘mock-Zorro’ image looks like hackware.

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