tech addict

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

  cd ~/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
  cd <newest folder here>
  grep Accounts *|cut -d' ' -f |xargs rm
  

• 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.

I've recently purchased a Motorola Razr v3xxx (did they really need all those x's?) in order to get access to 3g wireless. I'm coming from a Razr v3, so the interface is familiar, and the phone seems fine. Except of course for the crashing. Anything involving data transfer will eventually cause this thing to crash. Hard, as in the softkeys no longer respond to anything. The only resolution is to pull the battery. If that weren't enough, this has unearthed an issue with pppd on my macbook.

Apparently the osx is none too fond of bluetooth devices disappearing. The ppp daemon sits in a perpetual "Disconnecting" state. Killing the process results in a zombie. I'm not certain what the Internet Connection tool checks to find the current status of the bluetooth connection, but it is inextricably linked to the pppd process which is itself stuck. At this point this requires me to reboot the macbook in order to reconnect to the net.

I wonder if anyone else has run into this pair of issues, then again this may be one of those ultra niche things. How many people could there be using bluetooth to ride their phone's network connection?