@kira,
from what i understand, you've totally no idea on what you're talking about.
There's no problem with the firmware, its just your phone that is comin in with the new bootrom that is fooling around with you.

@kira
there are fw 3.1.2 coming without the new bootrom, if you are advising others not to JB if their phones are with the new bootrom, why didn't I spotted any bootrom keyword on your "wall of text" previously?

it was only when i look through your previous post only i noticed this.
get your facts straight, fw and bootrom is completely different.

@harmeet
oh well, bak pepatah kalao nak jadi pandai, kenalah belajar dulu~

masuk DFU, do a restore.

@finecut
use a mac if you've one around you.

try iphonebrowser or diskaid if you're on mac.

bro, no offense but i'm seriously having doubts on what you're high on when you're typing your piece of opinion. Let's just put your numbers into perspectives.

1 million write or erase cycles and have a ten-year data retention cycle, yes there's a lifespan for flashdrives I agree, however I would like to have the source where you pull those particular numbers from.

Furthermore, let's just assume that if you are going to run blackra1n every other day during a period of 365 days per year. How many years do you need to just render your iphone flashdrive useless if we are taking account the numbers you allegedly said on your previous statement.

Furthermore, with the new bootrom, every restart will force you into restore mode, which is well apple way of showing the finger to the jailbreaking community, if you do not want any difficulties from jailbreaking, just don't jailbreak your phone. It is as simple as that.

One last thing, the read and write thingy doesn't even apply to your blackra1n theory, as blackra1n is just a tool to inject a certain package which would be just a few hundred kb tops via the exploit geohot had discovered. It doesn't even need you to restore, hence making your argument pretty baseless I must say.

Fellow old timers could chip in from what I've missed, but these are just my two cents worth of opinion.

Heck, even my mbp advertises it have 1000 life cycle for its battery, but i'm still charging it everyday as 1000 life cycle equals to three years worth of good battery life. So what do you think if we are to be conservative and just set your number you alleged to 1,000,000, to put it simply, do you even think that the phone will last you that long? Let's just say 10 years?

Just look back and tell me the evolution of telecommunication devices for the past decade (2001-2010). I still remember fondly my days in seconday school days where nokia 3310 and 8250 are gadgets only the sons and daughters of elites have.

Sorry to say but what you are trying to throw here are just pure bollocks man.

how convenient to have a buddy and a friend around eh, this is when hearsay becomes no say.
I have a buddy, he claims he can produce carbon fiber car products in his own house, oh ya he's in the forums too, his name is johnkor. *insert sarcasm*

perhaps maybe your friend, uncle google could give us some numbers for a further debate.

I'm not making anyone look silly here, but you are making yourself sound silly.

it won't work.
Apple has stopped signing 3.1.2 firmware files on their server.

Once you go up, you can't come down.

@edoras
why don't you try restore your phone to 3.1.2 on a 3Gs and see, it won't work.

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This hack is useful only for those peoples who saved their SHSH to Cydia Server before the release of OS 3.1.3 via Cydia “make my life easier” button.

and the steps are definitely not that easy compared to what you are advocating just previously. Shift+Restore anyone?

just to state the obvious,
you need to modify the host files as well as having SHSH on cyida to successfully restore

its not and definitely not the same thing like what we can do previously by just entering into DFU mode and do the Shift+Restore thing. (which conveniently is what you were talking about just now.)

Wrong!
If its a picture with the cable and itunes, it is restore mode and not DFU.

and when you erase all contents and settings, it literally mean erasing everything including the firmware.

@Edoras, try that on your 3gs if you may.

and for David3850, your only way now is to upgrade it to 3.1.3 to turn it back into a working phone,
if it is a locked 3GS, i suggest its better not to mess with your phone until the next unlock comes out, as you might be able to retain your old baseband if the new pwnagetool comes out.

just here to provide a field report,
Pwnagetool 3.1.5 works flawlessly!

i'm on 3.1.3 now

right click on your iphone tab, click backup, as easy as 1,2,3

if its 3.1.2 la.

yes and the thing about 3.1.3 is that once u go up without jailbreaking, you can't do anymore jailbreaking even if you're with the older bootrom

he needs pwnagetool to unlock the phone, you use pwnagetool to make a custom firmware and restore it

@xjukie
if its a 3G, confirm you can restore and jailbreak
bootrom doesnt apply to you, i think ur steps might be incorrect, that's why

if line signal is not stable, i think its about time something relating to hardware issues that is triggering on the phone and not software

no point to search for the bootloader if you have updated to 3.1.3
you can't downgrade nor can you jailbreak it after upgrading to 3.1.3