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suprfusion
03-31-2009, 07:48 AM
Ok so MAYBE someone has ran into this problem but I can't seem to find any fixes online after a few hours of searching. Heres the FULL rundown. I jailbroke my phone about 2 weeks ago... EVERYTHING has worked fine except for a couple of buggy apps which I deleted immediately after realizing they were buggy. I had my phone pretty much filled up with apps witch only left room for about 8 third party apps... Last night I downloaded madvlock to test it and it seemed to work on the two apps I tried it on. Then when I went to make a phone call the NATIVE phone app crashes on launch. If I would double click the home button I could get to the favorites but anything else done would crash it...

I then figured it was madvlock so I opened the program, put everything back to normal, reset phone (home and power, and just power) and tried again.. still no go. I then deleted madvlock and repeated reset, still no go. I then found that the mail app would crash when trying to open an e-mail, the SMS would crash to home screen and contacts wouldn't open at all... AHHH!! After trying a few simple things... airplane mode, toggle 3g, reset, reset, reset... STILL NO GO.

I decided to do a full restore the phone, which I have done. IT IS COMPLETELY BACK TO STOCK ANNND STILL NO GO!!! All the native apps mentioned above still crash on opening, and I also noticed that the mail, calender, and contacts setting menu crashes to homescreen when trying to access. Everything else seems to work fine, and I can also receive phone calls and hang them up and everything.

If someone could try to help me figure this out that would be great... Maybe its a hardware problem but thats the last thing I want to do and I don't know if AT&T is going to be able to tell that my phone was jailbroken and not wanna help... THANKS IN ADVANCE!
macgirl
03-31-2009, 07:49 AM
Duplicate threads in other forums deleted - please create only one thread per topic.
impaler
03-31-2009, 10:45 AM
Yet another lesson. Play by the rules and you avoid these nightmares. Jailbreaking is stupid.
suprfusion
03-31-2009, 12:23 PM
Yet another lesson. Play by the rules and you avoid these nightmares. Jailbreaking is stupid.

I really only wanted cycorder and backgrounder but I got lured by the idea of locking certain apps. I had no problems at all if I would have stuck to that!!
shutter13
03-31-2009, 12:59 PM
Restore, setup as a new phone. Re-jailbreak and remember to research before you take the plunge.

Jailbreaking has more risk of this sort of thing happening, but it's far from stupid. I've been able to do most of what 3.0 can (or will be able to) do since a week after I got my phone.
suprfusion
03-31-2009, 02:44 PM
Restore, setup as a new phone. Re-jailbreak and remember to research before you take the plunge.

Jailbreaking has more risk of this sort of thing happening, but it's far from stupid. I've been able to do most of what 3.0 can (or will be able to) do since a week after I got my phone.

I agree, I just figured I would tread lightly until I felt comfortable with it. So if I restore it as a new phone and it fixes the problems will I then lose my pre-jailbreak backup or would i then be able to restore it from that backup so I don't lose all my stuff? Thanks again, just researchin before I do something I might regret...
shutter13
03-31-2009, 02:48 PM
Personally I wouldn't, it's a pain in the butt to set it all back up, but better in the long run, IMO.
kenneth
03-31-2009, 03:09 PM
I always restore as a new device. It doesn't take that long to set everything back up and it seems to have fewer issues. btw jailbreaking Is not stupid and have you even done it to make these claims? If you have then obviously you weren't smart enough to do some research before hand.
suprfusion
03-31-2009, 03:38 PM
Personally I wouldn't, it's a pain in the butt to set it all back up, but better in the long run, IMO.

So basically I don't have a choice but to restore it as a new phone because the restore from backup didn't fix the problem, am I right in saying that? Also, I made a backup of my backup and put it on my desktop, so if I restore to new phone and lose my initial backup in tunes, can't I import my desktop backup back into iTunes? And if I sound like an idiot, I'm not. I'm just trying to avoid trial by error here. Also, what if I take it to AT&T and have them do a restore then go home and re-sync?? Just a thought....
shutter13
03-31-2009, 03:47 PM
I don't see any choice but to restore it as new. Maybe someone else will have better news for you. You can resync once you set up, syncing does not restore a back up, so your safe there, I'm sure it is possible to import that back up into iTunes, unfortunately I don't know how.
acosmichippo
03-31-2009, 03:55 PM
you can try restoring from your backed-up backup. I would only do that if that was a PREjailbreak backup, though. Restoring from a backup made from a jailbroken iphone could cause issues like you're experiencing now.
suprfusion
03-31-2009, 04:17 PM
I don't see any choice but to restore it as new. Maybe someone else will have better news for you. You can resync once you set up, syncing does not restore a back up, so your safe there, I'm sure it is possible to import that back up into iTunes, unfortunately I don't know how.

Well thank you for the info, I'll give it a try...
suprfusion
03-31-2009, 04:44 PM
you can try restoring from your backed-up backup. I would only do that if that was a PREjailbreak backup, though. Restoring from a backup made from a jailbroken iphone could cause issues like you're experiencing now.

Both copies I have, the one in itunes and the one on my desktop are from PREjailbroken times.