Until a recently my phone was jailbroken, in order to run apps like Twinkle and Go. Earlier today I upgraded to the leaked 2.0 firmware. The upgrade itself went without a hitch, and everything seemed to be working. That is until I tried to start the Mail app. It immediately closed. It seemed like Mail was crashing due to permissions or settings. Here are the steps I tried that failed:


  • Disabling the account
  • Deleting the account
  • Re-upgrading the phone
  • Running Setting Reset on the phone
  • Running Full Reset on the phone
  • Attempting to downgrade to 1.1.4 (the downgrade failed every time)


Here’s what worked:


  • Re-upgrade the phone. don’t restore from a back up or select setup new, yet

  • open Terminal.app
    <pre> cd ~/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup cd &lt;<strong>newest folder here</strong>&gt; grep Accounts *|cut -d' ' -f |xargs rm </pre>

  • Reconnect the phone and restore the backup you just messed with

I am currently enjoying a fully working firmware 2.0 phone restored from that backup. I did loose my alarm clock and weather settings, but those aren’t very hard to fix at all. Hope that helps.



posted on July 10, 2008