A Tale of Two Jailbreaks

I successfully made the jump to 1.1.3 this past weekend. The road was a very bumpy one to say the least! Yes, it can be done and yes, it is stable if your able. There are many different methods available, too many. While no method seems to be "better" than the next in so far as "success" is concerned. What works for one may not work for another. My best advice, know your options and be prepared to embrace a little failure. If at first you don't upgrade....


Firstly, know your options: Nate True soft upgrade, The Dev Team Official, and The Dev Team Official via Installer app.
Second, Know your What each upgrade does for you, consider the options.
Third, and most important, be ready to make some room on your OS partition post jailbreak. Your stability and your post upgrade success may depend on it!

I used The Dev Team Official upgrade as oposed to Nate true's. I liked the fact the Dev Team's leaves "Nikita", apples digital key for recognizing Official Apple Homebrew Applications, intact post upgrade. Nate True's version, albeit serving many pleased upgraders, does not. However, Nate True's does leave the OS partition at a full 300 mb's. The Dev Team's left my root partition at a smaller 276 with a slim 15 mb's to spare. Not much room for applications, considering Installer.app, BSD subsystem and ssh are all necessary post-op.

One important note to pass on here, most applications run from var/mobile instead of var/root. In that same vein, most apps are not backwards compatabile. However, developers are working hard to change this and are making the transition happen very quickly. Warning: The information threads are full of a lot of sketchy advice on many topics. Be an independent thinker, read carefully and get creative! Always consider the option that you can install applications manually. There is more than one way to create a symlink! I've actually enjoyed hacking on my phone more this time than any other jailbreak to date.

FYI- For me the GUI "Official 1.1.3 upgrader" on Installer.app was a bust. it never worked, tried twice to no avail. I installed the Soft upgrade 1.1.3 files scp via terminal, sh install.sh, on my MAC. The whole process took about an hour and was rather painless. The real issue was safely creating space on my OS and getting apps over to my Media partition. But, yes, it can be done. And yes, you can be enjoying your 1.1.3 cake and eating it too!