Jailbreak 1.1.3 -- Just Don't Do It

Over the last several days, I have used the "Nate True" soft upgrade to 1.1.3 and have attempted to upgrade using the "official dev team" upgrade. My experiences are as follows:

First, the Nate True soft upgrade worked as described. However, since I had a number of jailbreaked applications on my phone when I executed the upgrade, they all vanished from the summerboard. When I used installer, I could see the package logged as installed. Most of the packages could be uninstalled and then reinstalled and they appeared in the summerboard and worked as before the upgrade.

Unfortunately, there were several that would take a "script error" and would not delete (from memory, two were the Guitar and he HP21 Calculator). Since the installer thought they were installed, I would not reinstall them. It was for this reason that I decided to use the dev team's "official" upgrade.

Unfortunately, after a day of attempting to use the directions found on http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/01/27/guide-jailbreak-any-iphone-with-113-macwindows/, I did not succeed. On top of that, I have had to restore the phone and lost all contacts, calendar, stock, weather, and notes entries. While I can recover much of this information, I cannot recover all of it.

As a result, unless you simply want to hack the phone for the "fun" of it, I HIGHLY recommend that you leave the phone as Apple intended it. With each subsequent upgrade that Apple releases, the corresponding steps to jailbreak that phone become increasingly complicated and subject to numerous errors. My net out is that the effort is simply not worth it. If and until such time as a jailbreak method becomes MUCH simplified and provides the capability to recover previous data, I am sticking with what Apple has provided.

iPhone Bug: Time Change

Being a "24" type guy and a veteran, I have always preferred to have my time set to a 24-hour clock instead of the traditional 12-hour AM and PM format. The iPhone, like many other cell phones provides a setting that allows the user to switch between these two settings. It is found under "Settings," "General," "Date and Time," and the setting "24-Hour Time." That's the good news.

The bad news is that since the update 1.1.1, I've notice that the time on my iPhone will revert to the 12-hour format after syncing through iTunes. The odd thing is, it doesn't occur every time I sync, but rather intermittently. It seems that I can go two or three syncs, and then it resets. I also only notice it when I turn the phone on in the morning. Therefore it could be a combination of syncing and cycling through a battery charge when the phone is off.

Has anyone else noticed this irritating little bug?