@NickyColman
iPhone unlock - No thank you sir!
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, 31st January 2010 at 03:32 PM (2184 Views)
After months (probably even years now) of being intrigued by the hidden abilities of an unlocked iPhone, I decided to give it a try.
Downloading the 'BlackSn0w' app from my iMac straight down to my iPhone and then unpacking an app called 'Cydia' (the black-market App store if you will) was easy peasy!
But that was where the fun and games started!
After installing a few different apps and unlocks from the Cydia app my iPhone started behaving like a spoilt brat! Slowing, stuttering, tripping over itself whenever I asked it to do something. I constantly encountered the spinning data circle normal fixed in the top bar when you're accessing the web, this time it was centre of my screen - SPINNING ENDLESSLY.
iPhone eventually gave up and resorted to displaying the large Apple logo centre screen until i forced it into recovery mode.
I'm no technophobe - At 24 years old I'd like to think I'm quite technically minded and "down with those kids" but this takes the p*ss.
It was the experience I didn't want to have. It was the experience Apple doesn't want me to have either.
I have now slung my phone into recovery mode and iTunes is busy syncing over my precious content back into its pristine 16GB brains whilst I run back to the safety and comfort of the App Store.
Apple - I love you, will you take me back?