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It’s almost been a week since my iPhone 3GS completely crashed. It would display the apple logo and go blank again. Apparently it was due to a RockApp/Cydia update and it seems like I’m not the only one:

http://modmyi.com/forums/general/709372-iphone-3gs-wont-boot-past-apple-logo-turns-off-itself.html

A person by the name of iBeej in the modmyi.com forums made a fix for it:

http://www.spacesparkstudios.com/

I personally didn’t follow this fix and therefore cannot fully endorse it.

I was careless and grew impatient not being able to use my iPhone. Therefore, I restored it to firmware 3.1.3 which is currently un-lockable and un-tetherable but was still able to jailbreak it with the spirit jailbreak. In the process, I lost about 10 months worth of photos and videos. I didn’t realized I had un-checked the photo sync until it was too late. I had no backup and I had erased my only copies on my phone.

I definitely learned from this experience and hope nobody ever goes through the same. I will certainly think about backing up data on my iPhone more often than 10 months. =P

The installation overall ran fairly smoothly on the two systems I installed it on. I do appreciate how all the questions are asked in the beginning of the installation and therefore do not have to babysit it, with one exception. When the installation is at 85%, it is trying to retrieve a language pack from an Ubuntu server. I assume it is their main server because it was completely slammed on the day Ubuntu 10.04 was released. Luckily they have a skip button but wouldn’t it be nice if they had a choose server button? Because some of us want a completed installation and also know the best server to download from. So far, I have not needed the language pack that I have skipped or anything after that.

The exit, minimize, maximize button are switched from the right side of the toolbar to the left side of the toolbar. This gives it a more Mac-like appearance. This can easily be changed by simply changing the desktop theme. System > Preferences > Appearance. I prefer the Ubuntu Studio Theme which can be installed by this command: “sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-look”