Upgraded to 5.0.1
Like most jailbreakers we play a game of Jenga with our phone. Each day I update Cydia and install the newest hack. BUT, adding that one might just mess up your phone and then slowly it starts lagging and the home button becomes unresponsive. You have to decide do you restore and start over or try to upgrade. I was hesitant to upgrade to 5.0 since there wasnt an untethered jailbreak available. Well, you can now jailbreak 5.0.1 in about 2 mins using Redsn0w. I upgraded the phone and well 5.0.1 adds things and well, it sucks. I was using quick reply and that stopped working and the notifications are horrible. Very hard to get stock NOTIFICATIONS to go away to use SMS+ Overall I hate that I upgraded. i used an old restore and that restore maintains settings that when you restore you dont actually need the package in cydia to work, like fake carrier. That will carry over. Well vibration stopped working long time ago and I wanted it back so I decided to start fresh. I restored and setup as a new phone. but, I used the backup of aps using openbackup and I think that brought over all the bad stuff. The phone is worse then it was with original restore. I will start over when I get home from the Texans game. I will post some new stuff I found that helped me merge old files to a new restore in case you manually saved your contacts and SMS. I would suggest manually backing up these items in case you want to do a fresh restore from scratch since you cant extract these from a backup unless you buy a program. I use Diskaid, itis not free, but there is a trial period and if you google it you can get use full version for free.
UPDATE: I have since restored 3 times trying to get a working phone. Tried as new and then restored a backup and then new phone with no data and then I couldnt even edit my contacts so restore 3 is going off now to restore to last working version.
UPDATE: OK so I used a backup of iphone form itunes and then manually re-added in cydia the apps I wanted and runs smoooooooth and great. I think once the phone is messed up it is the cydia files that are corrupt and uploading fresh files fixes the messed up files.
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