Comments on: Jailbreaking My iPhone 3G http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2009/08/21/jailbreaking-my-iphone-3g/ Blogging the web, technology, and more. Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:20:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jason http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2009/08/21/jailbreaking-my-iphone-3g/#comment-208 Jason Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:24:33 +0000 http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/?p=842#comment-208 Yep! iTunes backs up the phone to a directory on your computer. I think it only keeps 1 backup at a time, though. My backup was about 200MB, so it doesn't have all of the music and videos included. It's mostly just settings, text messages, bookmarks, etc. I found this backup in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. I copied this to another location since I *think* iTunes overwrites this every time it does the backup and it would eventually become a backup of my jailbroke phone. I haven't tried restoring from my backup yet, but I would expect it to put my phone back to normal. Also, I the IPSW file that you use to do the jailbreak is simply a copy of the original iPhone firmware. So, you can always do a traditional iPhone restore and put it back to the day you purchased it. Yep! iTunes backs up the phone to a directory on your computer. I think it only keeps 1 backup at a time, though. My backup was about 200MB, so it doesn’t have all of the music and videos included. It’s mostly just settings, text messages, bookmarks, etc. I found this backup in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. I copied this to another location since I *think* iTunes overwrites this every time it does the backup and it would eventually become a backup of my jailbroke phone.

I haven’t tried restoring from my backup yet, but I would expect it to put my phone back to normal. Also, I the IPSW file that you use to do the jailbreak is simply a copy of the original iPhone firmware. So, you can always do a traditional iPhone restore and put it back to the day you purchased it.

]]> By: Erik http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2009/08/21/jailbreaking-my-iphone-3g/#comment-207 Erik Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:05:10 +0000 http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/?p=842#comment-207 That does look pretty neat. Were you able to backup the original iPhone OS so that you could restore it anytime? I'd be a lot more willing to try this if I could easily get it back to normal. That does look pretty neat. Were you able to backup the original iPhone OS so that you could restore it anytime? I’d be a lot more willing to try this if I could easily get it back to normal.

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