Ashley’s Trap Hootage

I wimped out of leaping onto the 2.1 bandwagon. My iPhone shipped with 2.0.2 and I wasn’t experiencing any of the call dropping/3G performance issues so why bother? And besides, I’d jailbroken the bastard anyway and I lost patience waiting for the hackers to catch up.
Then 2.2 pops up with some notable (but all-the-same useless features). Some reported fixes relating to problems that I wasn’t experiencing (again). So why bother?

I was spending my days starting at the WinPwn page waiting for those guys to catch up. There was no activity on their site [yes, I'd forgotten about QuickPWN].

My main concern was losing my beautiful and precious theme (a custom mash-up of icons from one, and a background from another).

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to take the plunge, and well, I’m happy.

Of course, as soon as I’d flashed the new 2.2 from iTunes, things went back to boring default iPhone L&F, but magically, as soon as I’d installed WinterBoard, my custom theme instantly returned! Subsequently reinstalling all of my old apps from Cydia showed that I needn’t have worried, everything retained it’s settings and after the flash, I was happily running on 2.2, with none of my customisations lost. The whole process took less than 30 minutes and was entirely painless.

And my homescreen looks like this: 

My Homescreen

Well vaguely anyway. The operator logo now says my name. The icon theme is ‘MacCiti’, and the background is nicked from one of the ‘Abstract Wallpapers *’ packs from Cydia.