Just upgraded my jailbroken iPhone to firmware 3.1.3...oops

[VXRTOM]

I have a jailbroken iPhone 3G. I rather stupidy went and upgraded to the latest firmware - 3.1.3 after being on 3.1.2). I did it properly by backing up first, then restoring the phone to normal, then upgraded to 3.1.3 - I then went to jailbreak again using purplera1n, and it will not jailbreak it .

It goes through the blackra1n process happily enough and even gets to the end and says "after reboot it will be jailbroken" , but then never comes to life, black screen but backlight on. The only thing that revives it is turning it off, then on, then luckily it returns to it's normal virgin state.

is there an easy way to downgrade to an earlier firmware, like 3.1.2? ( I should never have upgraded )

Thanks in advance

Tom

[spants]

Never upgrade without checking first.

From iPhone dev team blog:
3.1.3 and thee
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/


 
WARNING! At 10.30AM PST on February 2nd 2010 Apple released the 3.1.3 version (7E18) of the iPhoneOS.

If you care about your jailbreak and unlock, don’t update your device - 3G and 3G(S) owners should pay particular attention to this warning.

PwnageTool and redsn0w are not yet compatible with 3.1.3
There is no estimated release time for compatible tools (please don’t bug us about this).
Any information we have regarding this update will be posted here.
You can also follow us on twitter - @iphone_dev
Update 1:  [Don’t go near this if you have 3GS, newer ipt2G, or any ipt3G] Thanks to daring experimenters in the comments, we can confirm that yesterday’s redsn0w works for today’s 3.1.3 update for iPhone 2G.  Just point it at the 3.1.2 iPhone 2G IPSW after doing update or restore to 3.1.3.  So far we’ve only confirmed this for iPhone 2G.  (Note that if this does work for iPhone 3G too, you can *only* use it if you don’t care about the unlock.)

Update 2: [Don’t go near this if you have 3GS, newer ipt2G, or any ipt3G] Can confirm that this method works for iPhone 3G and iPod touch 1G too.  Don’t do it for iPhone 3G if you need an unlock though (really, don’t!). For older iPod touch 2G, we’ll need a small (1-character) change in redsn0w source.

Update 3: [Don’t go near this if you have 3GS, newer ipt2G, or any ipt3G] For those with older (non-MC) iPod touch 2G, we’ve compiled a special version of redsn0w meant just for you: Mac and Windows.  You guys can get in on the “3.1.2 loophole” too using this special version.  Don’t try this if you have a newer iPod Touch 2G or if you’re not completely sure what version you have.  And of course don’t try it for 3GS or ipt3G either.

That about does it for the 3.1.2 redsn0w loophole.  It can only be used by: those who don’t need the 3G/3GS unlock, and only owners of iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G (not unlockers!), iPod 1G, and iPod 2G older version.  Everyone else please wait for official support in the tools.

Edited by spants on Wednesday 3rd February 18:07

[VXRTOM]

Thanks for that!

Looks as though I had a lucky escape. Seems I'll just have to wait until someone breaks it.

As it's a seemingly small update to the firmware and also mostly for just 3GS's I thought I'd be fine. Lesson learnt I think

Thanks for the link to the info - much appreciated.